I got reported by a passenger at Birmingham who got on my train at Wolverhampton back in the 80s for driving at a dangerous speed in thick mist she said she would never allow her husband to drive his car more than 20mph and she stated i was going way over that 🤣
Britain's least scenic route. But it has been a daily commute for several years. Not now, but ironically I did the journey from New Street to Dudley Port this morning. Thanks for posting!
These tracks make my house shake, and I live about a mile away. I live by the Netherton canal tunnel, and the vibration gets transferred through the water of the canal which is next to the track, the vibration echo in the tunnel one mile or so away which runs at 90° to the tracks on an off shoot of the canal system which goes from Tipton under a hill to Netherton, and I can feel the house shake, more the floor, and hear the sound of a train if I listen with a glass to a downstairs door frame. That's bonkers, isn't it, but true.
You are correct. But it still needs to be showing a proceed aspect because if it was showing a stop aspect with where it is positioned it would mean the main route would also need to be stopped. Its all down to the position of the signal
Great route. Again though, it points out the importance of HS2. Both to help open up slots on this busy stretch, but also to create a true high speed railway designed to go from London to Birmingham and Manchester. The more I watch of the so called West Coast mainline, I just see trains capable of running at well over 100mph restricted to trundling along track with a speed limit way below that. Even the class 350 can’t get over 75mph along this stretch.
the billions spent on HS2 if you invested into the WCML you could have what BR were aiming to do until government interference stopped them from achieving 140mph on the mainline.... the Pendos were designed and built for 140mph because it was promised from BR then Railtrack but never happened due to our government ministers getting involved... Look at what kind of railway we could of have... Brinklow which is North of Rugby towards Coventry and the trent valley via Tamworth is a known bottle neck because four lines goes into three and routinely causes jams.... instead of fixing the problem they want to waste our taxpayers money on a heap of junk.... It's like a person having issues with a house but instead of fixing the problem building a new house.... It's bizarre until you realise who are their real paymasters
I grew up in Wolverhampton, in the 1950s. We had a High-level station (LMS) and a Low-level station (GWR). Wolverhampton was a lovely ramshackle higgledy-piggledy kind of a place. What ruined Wolverhampton was third-world immigration. Nobody wanted it ... ... ... yet it happened.
