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4 hours ago, Bigal1 said:

Could not even find somewhere to tie up my horse at the weekend when trying to visit the Market

Horse!

We had sixteen of us on a donkey and still couldn't find anywhere.

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20 hours ago, Hopman said:

Horse!

We had sixteen of us on a donkey and still couldn't find anywhere.

there is room at the inn I believe but unfortunately the road is closed to donkeys and only open to cyclists

 

I wonder however if we are moving off topic a little and are about to get an admonishment from on high

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On 12/12/2020 at 14:53, Annie Bynnol said:

Purely a crayon doodle -none of this is happening unless it includes Manchester ie Manchester Leeds electrification, Manchester HS2 and Manchester Piccadilly 15&16. There will be no such thing as HS3. 

Early this year I saw detailed options plans for the West Yorkshire elements of NPR and discussed them with the teams who were designing it. Looked considerably more than a "crayon doodle".

 

 

On 12/12/2020 at 14:53, Annie Bynnol said:

Who will mop up the money? Manchester and Leeds.

 

Yes, because they are bigger and more vibrant than Sheffield

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On 13/12/2020 at 11:44, Bigal1 said:

Goodness me have the Star only just realised that Sheffield is the biggest city without an electrified network

 

As for the line not reaching Sheffield well I will join Tinfoilhat

 

Cyclecar: bi modes are readily available today and current thinking is electric with battery for non electrified sections

 

It is all very well talking about upgrading cross pennine routes but there ain't going to be much spare cash for Sheffield by the time they have done the line from Leeds to Manchester

Sheffield may never end up getting electrified, especially if HS2, in some form doesn't go ahead. 

GWR and Hitachi are looking at running tri-mode trains for the remainder of the Dawlish route, where electrification is non-existent, and a mix of diesel and battery is to be used. Apparently, the battery will reduce 20% emissions, and by 2040 they expect to be able to use a fully battery powered train.
 

Other uses of non diesel power are being trialled with solar on South West Trains in a small section and hydrogen.

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17 minutes ago, S1 1DJ said:

Sheffield may never end up getting electrified, especially if HS2, in some form doesn't go ahead. 

GWR and Hitachi are looking at running tri-mode trains for the remainder of the Dawlish route, where electrification is non-existent, and a mix of diesel and battery is to be used. Apparently, the battery will reduce 20% emissions, and by 2040 they expect to be able to use a fully battery powered train.
 

Other uses of non diesel power are being trialled with solar on South West Trains in a small section and hydrogen.

I would be skeptical about the idea of battery trains being able to power the non electrified route(s) to the South West by 2040 it is just too far and I wonder with all that weight of the batteries on top of the diesel engine and fuel if a 20% saving is achievable on the IETs

 

assuming the govt. still  want to go carbon free then electrification of Sheffield is the only sensible option. However I did say sensible although if it was possible for batteries to power to Penzance then that would make it possible to reach Sheffield

 

A you say much work is going on both with batteries and hydrogen development and I am sure that we will see far greater use of batteries for the shorter non electrified routes  and possibly on a few rural longer distance routes but I do not see it being viable on the InterCity  services any time soon -

 

 

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Sensible went out the window a long time ago.

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Pipe dreams, its never going to happen. The UK is effectively bankrupt. These HS2 trains ferrying people down to London, what happens on the London to Sheffield at 10.30am, is it going to run empty. Who the hell wants to travel up to the north at 10.30am? It is truly madness. The HS2 would have to keep stopping to alight passengers? All this would be a one way transport from Leeds to Kings Cross/Euston/St Pancras. Crazy plan.

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6 hours ago, Planner1 said:

Early this year I saw detailed options plans for the West Yorkshire elements of NPR and discussed them with the teams who were designing it. Looked considerably more than a "crayon doodle".

 

 

Yes, because they are bigger and more vibrant than Sheffield

And always will be while Sheffield is being denied the funding for significant development and improvement.

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6 hours ago, Planner1 said:

Early this year I saw detailed options plans for the West Yorkshire elements of NPR and discussed them with the teams who were designing it. Looked considerably more than a "crayon doodle".

 

 

Yes, because they are bigger and more vibrant than Sheffield

The latest NPR million pound report was superseded before it was published by Government decisions on HS2 north of the Trent and the withdrawal of £1billion of real and  allocated Government money. 

This completely change any proposals for Sheffield but of course even a cursory view of the "map" shows that Sheffield is not an integral part of the Doodle.

 

The Manchester centric"map" is a crayon doodle- what kind of engineer would draw route from Marsden to Leeds via Bradford and come up with a cost of £17billion and  no idea of where the station is in Bradford? Or a fast train route from Sheffield to Hull via Selby? 

 

You cannot move hills, valleys and you cannot move cities and you cannot have a high speed rail over the short distances that apply in our area. 

You cannot run freight, stopping and inter city services along the same route and expect efficiency and reliability.

But

Sheffield still needs good connections with London  Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham/Derby and Doncaster/York, Lincoln, Grimsby/Hull.

The original HS2 (particularly if focused at a Meadowhall station and junction with traditional rail) plans would mostly resolve these except Manchester which could be reduced to a 35 minutes and 3TPH using a current route within 5 years. It will be unattractive, it will be disruptive and will cost an awful lot. 

 

Every Government has been willing to release relatively small amounts of development money and groups of local authorities have been willing to  recreate the same solutions.  Failure to plan effectively leads to nightmares like Crossrail, Ordsall Curve and the WCML modernisation.

 

Like its many predecessors, NPR has a Manchester or Manchester/Leeds focus and is detrimental  to Sheffield's interests,

  

 

 

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Is there a recognition that Bradford is not a through station but a dead end so trains go in and out on the same rails?

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2 hours ago, DameClara said:

Is there a recognition that Bradford is not a through station but a dead end so trains go in and out on the same rails?

Bradford is a mess it has two terminus stations which are aligned north/south with both providing services to London  and Leeds.

One  "crayon" line  goes from  west/east and therefore the options are multiple and expensive. Bradford will share the same fate as Sheffield, they will be avoided and will have the slowest routes to London and other cities in the North and nationally.

 

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On 17/12/2020 at 20:24, Annie Bynnol said:

The latest NPR million pound report was superseded before it was published by Government decisions on HS2 north of the Trent and the withdrawal of £1billion of real and  allocated Government money. 

This completely change any proposals for Sheffield but of course even a cursory view of the "map" shows that Sheffield is not an integral part of the Doodle.

 

The Manchester centric"map" is a crayon doodle- what kind of engineer would draw route from Marsden to Leeds via Bradford and come up with a cost of £17billion and  no idea of where the station is in Bradford? Or a fast train route from Sheffield to Hull via Selby? 

 

You cannot move hills, valleys and you cannot move cities and you cannot have a high speed rail over the short distances that apply in our area. 

You cannot run freight, stopping and inter city services along the same route and expect efficiency and reliability.

But

Sheffield still needs good connections with London  Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham/Derby and Doncaster/York, Lincoln, Grimsby/Hull.

The original HS2 (particularly if focused at a Meadowhall station and junction with traditional rail) plans would mostly resolve these except Manchester which could be reduced to a 35 minutes and 3TPH using a current route within 5 years. It will be unattractive, it will be disruptive and will cost an awful lot. 

 

Every Government has been willing to release relatively small amounts of development money and groups of local authorities have been willing to  recreate the same solutions.  Failure to plan effectively leads to nightmares like Crossrail, Ordsall Curve and the WCML modernisation.

 

Like its many predecessors, NPR has a Manchester or Manchester/Leeds focus and is detrimental  to Sheffield's interests,

  

 

 

True to an extent, but South Yorkshire, and Sheffield in particular had the Meadowhall option on a plate until SCC decided to actively campaign against it.

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