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But do they have a north end and a south end?

I haven't watched it all but early on there's an announcement on the soundtrack "this is an Altrincham service" - perhaps a clue.

Has anything been heard in the last year or so about progress, or the lack of it, on the feeder stations at Currie, Portobello or Newton? They are three of the six contracted in summer 2022, and are the ones of which I have heard nothing.

Nice to have a bit of good news!

Not part of the current proposal announced in 2022, which is for partial electrification in a cross shape centred at Thornton North where an already-contracted feeder station will be. (Plus Haymarket to Dalmeny which they count as part of the Fife project.) The document I quoted above says...

I think the figures usually quoted for the cost of each Scottish electrification project exclude the feeder station costs. The passage on Fife which I quote in #415 says so explicitly. The contract for six new feeder stations, announced in July 1922, was for £120M, though that also includes...

There is a more recent version of that document, released December 2023, as I mentioned in another thread earlier this year, but in the financial (and perhaps political) environment that has applied in the last year or more, don't expect it to contain much detail on electrification. It's here...

To be very pedantic, you're both wrong! The simplest reasonably accurate description would be to say that platforms 1-12 are to the north and 13-14 to the south. In more detail, the tracks in 1-12 run something like ESE-WNW, with the buffer stops to the WNW. The tracks in 13-14 are curved...

What structure will carry HS2 over or under the existing railway in the vicinity of Viaduct Street, St James' Place and Northumberland Street? Is there any info about it?

That's decades away, isn't it?

I was unaware of the building collapse until now, but from the still picture (below the video) at this BBC link it seems fairly close to the railway but not immediately adjacent: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-68801774 I assume the SSC poster has inside knowledge of plans not in...

Two miles at Shugborough, between Colwich and Stafford. Also potential for conflicting moves between Handsacre and Colwich.

Just noticed that there's a pedestrian on Streetview and they don't even reach his shoulders. Any past raising was obviously not up to electrification standards, even as they were then.

Slab track is doubtless measured in single track km. #7868 said Stalybridge and Scout tunnels would require track lowering. They are double track. To get the length of slab track required for them, add their lengths and double the result. It comes to just under 1.6km but maybe the slab needs...

How long ago was not so long ago? On Google Streetview you can see them from the road at a range of dates from 2009 to June 2023. They look quite low and not changed in that time.