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A diesel locomotive has been officially named to celebrate the 50th anniversary of west coast main line (WCML) train travel coming up to speed in north Cumbria and beyond. Carlisle Power Signal Box (PSB) is celebrating half a century of operation after being created as a central hub to control all rail movements during modernisation of the WCMLs northern section in the 1970s.
(Permalink) Carlisle Power Signal Box Electrification West Coast Main Line |
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Network Rail has completed a range of essential upgrades to the railway on the West Coast Mainline.
(Permalink) Carlisle Lancaster West Coast Main Line |
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Work to install a new railway bridge at Ravenscraig, on the West Coast Mainline (WCML), has been completed on-time over the Easter weekend.
(Permalink) Flemington Motherwell Ravenscraig West Coast Main Line Windmillhill |
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The Ravenscraig rail bridge will allow a dual carriageway to be constructed under the West Coast main line.
(Permalink) Flemington Motherwell Ravenscraig West Coast Main Line Windmillhill |
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Network Rail will be carrying out tree and vegetation management along a 9-mile stretch of the West Coast Mainline between Gretna and Lockerbie.
(Permalink) Gretna Lockerbie Vegetation removal West Coast Main Line |
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Network Rail has awarded Siemens Mobility a £41.4m contract to undertake the Kingmoor resignalling scheme covering a section of the West Coast Main Line to the north of Carlisle.
(Permalink) Kingmoor Resignalling Siemens Mobility West Coast Main Line |
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Significant work at Carstairs and bridge installation in Motherwell will be carried out during the holiday period.
(Permalink) Carstairs Flemington Motherwell Ravenscraig West Coast Main Line Windmillhill |
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The £16.9 million structure will carry the existing railway over the planned new dual carriageway at Ravenscraig. [See also item of the 20th, 4th Oct etc. -RS]
(Permalink) Flemington Motherwell Ravenscraig West Coast Main Line Windmillhill |
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The Met Office earlier said that the spell of strong winds would affect transport, with the warning in place from 4am until 1pm.
(Permalink) Corran Ferry Weather West Coast Main Line West Highland Line |
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Scotland's Railway is preparing for an intense 10-day programme to install a 5000-tonne bridge on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) at Ravenscraig in North Lanarkshire.
(Permalink) Flemington Motherwell Ravenscraig West Coast Main Line Windmillhill |
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The RMT action will have a reduced impact as services are already disrupted due to maintenance work on the West Coast Main Line with buses replacing trains.
(Permalink) Lockerbie RMT West Coast Main Line |
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Engineering works on both major routes between Scotland and London will be closed by Network Rail.
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West Coast Main Line passengers are being urged to plan their journeys ahead of four weekends of essential railway improvements at Preston station. The complexity of upgrading switches and crossings means the railway will need to close completely between Wigan North Western and Lancaster.
(Permalink) Preston Track renewal West Coast Main Line |
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Emergency engineering works to fix flood-damage to the West Coast Mainline near Carstairs have now been completed.
(Permalink) West Coast Main Line  Thankerton: Emergency engineering works to fix flood-damage to the West Coast Mainline near Carstairs have now been completed.
The line will reopen for passenger trains on Friday, January 6, but customers are ...  Thankerton: Emergency engineering works are now under way on the West Coast Mainline near Carstairs, between Carlisle and Glasgow, to repair flood damage.
An embankment beneath the railway was significantly da ... |
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Emergency engineering works are now under way on the West Coast Mainline near Carstairs, between Carlisle and Glasgow, to repair flood damage. [The damage is between Leggatfoot and Thankerton. -RS]
(Permalink) Flood damage Thankerton West Coast Main Line Thankerton: Emergency engineering works are now under way on the West Coast Mainline near Carstairs, between Carlisle and Glasgow, to repair flood damage.
An embankment beneath the railway was significantly da ... |
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Due to extreme weather conditions, a train disruption will affect services departing from Oxenholme Lake District station.
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A range of Avanti West Coast rail services will be axed throughout Saturday amid strike action by train managers.
Only one train per hour will run from London to Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow, the firm said. (Permalink) Avanti West Coast Strike West Coast Main Line |
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Damaged overhead wires near Lockerbie mean that services between England and Glasgow have been disrupted. The incident is disrupting passenger and freight services heading in both directions.
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West Coast main line passengers are being urged to check National Rail Enquiries before they set off on their journey with no direct trains between London and Scotland.
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Story Contracting has been picked to build a £16.9m bridge to carry the West Coast Main Line as part of road improvements between Motherwell and Ravenscraig.
North Lanarkshire Council has agreed the project with Network Rail. A new dual carriageway will be built from a new signalised roundabout at the Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility and the bridge will be constructed to lift the railway line over the new road. [This location for this bridge is east of the Dalzell Steel Works by the site of the former Dellburn Works. A railway formerly passed under the WCML here serving Dalzell New Yard from Motherwell South Junction. -RS] (Permalink) Dellburn Flemington Motherwell Ravenscraig Story Contracting West Coast Main Line |
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The works on the West Coast Main Line will mean that services across Scotland will be delayed or cancelled over the next eight weeks as the major works get under way
(Permalink) Engineering works West Coast Main Line |
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Glasgwegians are being urged to check their West Coast Main Line journeys, as engineering works are set to disrupt rail services between London and Glasgow.
(Permalink) Edinburgh Engineering works Glasgow London Euston Milton Keynes West Coast Main Line |
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The train operator put out the warning this morning after the bad weather caused flooding and damage on the tracks throughout the West Coast Mainline. Customers are advised to check before leaving.
(Permalink) Flooding Storm Franklin Weather West Coast Main Line Wind |
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Network Rail workers in Cumbria joined forces with a local farmer to keep passengers and freight trains moving on the West Coast main line.
(Permalink) Floriston Storm Corrie Tree West Coast Main Line  Floriston: Network Rail workers in Cumbria joined forces with a local farmer to keep passengers and freight trains moving on the West Coast main line.
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Ricardo has completed the roll out of its PanMon pantograph condition monitoring system on selected electrified routes in Scotland, including the East and West Coast main lines, the North Clyde line and between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
(Permalink) East Coast Main Line Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway North Clyde Lines PanMon Pantograph Ricardo West Coast Main Line  Carstairs: Avanti West Coast 390124 runs through Carstairs with the 10.40 from Glasgow Central to Euston on 30th April 2021.
 Falkirk High: An Edinburgh to Glasgow Queen Street pulls into Falkirk High on 12 March 2020. These are the only two destinations this station offers (being situated between trailing junctions doesn’t help). ...  Dunbar: A LNER Azuma hurries through rebuilt Dunbar on 31st January 2020. Looks like they have done a good job here but as yet there is no access off the new platform to the streets behind, so one must come i ... |
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Sixty sustainably powered weather stations are now monitoring the railway between London Euston and Carlisle to keep passengers and freight moving safely.
(Permalink) Weather stations West Coast Main Line  Barton and Broughton: Sixty sustainably powered weather stations are now monitoring the railway between London Euston and Carlisle to keep passengers and freight moving safely.
Network Rail has installed the solar-power ... |
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Hundreds of people left stranded in London Euston after a fallen tree sparked rail chaos are finally set to get moving again.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast COP26 Weather West Coast Main Line |
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A helium balloon has caused delays to rail passengers after it got tangled in 25,000-volt overhead electric cables which power trains on the West Coast Mainline near Tamworth.
It's prompted Network Rail to issue a safety plea to the public to not let helium balloons loose near the railway. (Permalink) Helium balloon Tamworth West Coast Main Line |
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Major upgrades to the West Coast main line are due to be carried out during peak tourist times next year.
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A major restoration project on Preston stations glazed frontage is complete making it safe and reliable for passengers on the West Coast main line.
(Permalink) Preston West Coast Main Line  Preston: From the May 2018 timetable change bay platform 4C at Preston sees regular use with hourly trains from East Lancashire terminating here and then forming Ormskirk services. However, 19th June 2018 bein ...  Preston: E3137/86259 waits to restart the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express from Preston on 30 January 2016. The tour was on the London to Carlisle run this week with the Class 86 taking it as far as Carnforth ...  Preston: View of the Fishergate entrance to Preston station from the north. Two of the five 1879-80 built longitudinal pitched roofs can be seen on either side. |
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The West Coast Main Line will be closed for bridge renewal at Float, Lamington and Beattock.
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