Why is the Settle and Carlile closed?

"lemonjuice" <joe@somewhere.org> wrote
>
> Is it all dual track again now? I seem to remember is was singled at
> some point in the past.
>
AIUI the only bit that was singled (or was it gauntletted?) was over
Ribblehead Viaduct, which had a negligible effect on capacity.

Peter

> >I did pity the workforce. The weather was utterly horrid. Not what
> >would have been expected for July.
>
> In the days when the line was largely worked on by locals they were
> presumably used to the weather, which can be very variable.
> Presumably on the occasions when staff were brought in from other
> places for long jobs they got used to the weather.

I get the impression these days that there are certain windows of
opportunity (spring, early summer, mid-autumn) to do serious work on
the S&C- it's a little like the West Country in that it would be
unacceptable from an operational point of view to have closures in the
peak holiday season, but at the same time the conditions don't lend
themselves to working in the depths of winter either.

"Ianigsy" <ianrcragg@m> wrote in message
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>> >I did pity the workforce. The weather was utterly horrid. Not what
>> >would have been expected for July.
>>
>> In the days when the line was largely worked on by locals they were
>> presumably used to the weather, which can be very variable.
>> Presumably on the occasions when staff were brought in from other
>> places for long jobs they got used to the weather.
>
> I get the impression these days that there are certain windows of
> opportunity (spring, early summer, mid-autumn) to do serious work on
> the S&C- it's a little like the West Country in that it would be
> unacceptable from an operational point of view to have closures in the
> peak holiday season, but at the same time the conditions don't lend
> themselves to working in the depths of winter either.
It's probably as much because of reduced demand from the electricity
suppliers, so less disruption to supplies. When a closure had to be arranged
at relatively short notice outside of the summer a couple of years ago, EWS
were combining trains to allow them to run via Hexham and the ECML.
Brian