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Re: Kings Norton Terminating Trains

On 1 Nov, 20:56, David Hansen <SENDdavidNOhS...@spidacom.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:33:58 -0000 someone who may be "Jonathan
> Morton" <jonathan.mortonbutignorethisp...@btinternet.com> wrote
> this:-
>
[...]
> >Worse, on the section south of
> >Longbridge the masts for the headspans were plonked right where the slow
> >line should be
>
> That was an example of the kamikaze (or scorched earth) approach BR
> was all too keen on, particularly in its latter years.

Don't blame BR for that one. The original XCity electrification
project saw the slow lines reinstated through to Barnt Green and wired
up, unless my memory is very faulty.

As with so much of the rest of the project (Camp Hill electrification,
wiring round to Tyseley, EMU depot at Tyseley), the lovely people at
HM Treasury insisted on it all being cut out - and they really did go
down to the level of pennies (at the time we were told by the project
team that extra guards door control panels in the centre cars were
removed from the class 323 spec at HM Treasury's insistence because
doing so "saved" 50p per panel, GBP1 per unit!).

So we ended up with a very cheap and nasty mini-project.
It's surprising it's all worked as well as it has over these past 15
years...

R.

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