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November 25, 2023

Main article: West Coast Main Line

The West Coast Main Line is a key strategic railway line in the United Kingdom. It links the cities of London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Lancaster and Carlisle. Virgin Trains took on the franchise to run train services on the routes in 1997 and as part of the agreement wanted an upgrade to the railway line to allow for faster more frequent trains to grow the business.[1] The upgrade started in 1998 and was completed in 2009.[2] It came under parliamentary and media scrutiny because of cost and schedule overruns.[3] Further improvements such as the Norton Bridge rail flyover were completed after these dates.[4] The project is sometimes given the acronym WCRM - West Coast Route Modernisation.[5]

West Coast Main Line

Previous modernisations edit

In the middle of the twentieth century the line was upgraded substantially as part of the 1955 Modernisation Plan.[6][7] Further electrification was discussed in 1968.[8] The line north of Crewe was modernised by further electrification from Weaver Junction to Glasgow in the 1970s.[9][10] Some innovative electrical engineering technology was used on the project including lighter catenary and extensive use of headspans.[11] Substantial new signaling also took place in this timeframe.[12] The Advanced Passenger Train concept was in effect a part of that upgrade. It relied on tilting trains to increase speed on the route rather than major civil engineering interventions.[13][14]

Post privatisation modernisation edit

The late 20th and early 21st century modernisation began without public sector involvement but with Railtrack. However, the Strategic Rail Authority was concerned about cost overruns. Railtrack asked the government for more money to complete the project but the Labour Party Secretary of State for Transport Stephen Byers put the company into liquidation. This and other problems with this project and its cost and time overruns, is usually considered the cause of the liquidation of Railtrack.[15][16] In 2002 Bechtel was invited to join the project.[17] The upgrade went substantially over budget.[18][19] Regular updates were then conducted by the UK Parliament accounts department.[20] The Strategic Rail Authority published a document in June 2003 which re-examined and clarified many of the assumptions and specified the direction and scope of the whole project.[21]

Technical aspects edit

The upgrade involved:[22]

  • Major remodeling of Rugby railway station[23]
  • Proof House Junction in Birmingham was also remodelled.
  • Many Level crossings were either removed or modernised - 77 in total.
  • Over 800 points, switches and crossings renewed, improved or removed
  • Overhead line renewals
  • Power supply upgrade to autotransformer system
  • Track renewals- 430 miles[24]
  • Over 2000 signals modified or renewed with better line of sight etc.[25]
  • Quadrupling the two track section in the Trent Valley including TAME viaduct[26][27][28]
 
Preston North WCML AT ready
 
Barton WCML AutoTransformer ready
 
WCML Broughton wicketkeeper electrification anchor

Benefits edit

The benefits of the project are claimed to be capacity improvements, journey time reductions of up to 28% in some cases and improved safety.[29] Although Virgin Trains were part of the driver for the project, the client is actually listed as the Department for Transport. The length of the project was just short of 11 years (110 months) and the final contract cost of approximately 9 billion pounds.[30] The Campaign for Better Transport (United Kingdom) has stated that the benefits are 1) Road congestion reduction. 2) Carbon emissions reduction. 3) Economic and 4) Passenger benefits. It is claimed it was part of the reason that the BBC decided to move its main operations from London to the north.[31]

Capacity enhancements edit

The Campaign for Better Transport (United Kingdom) in their paper entitled "Transformation of the West Coast Main Line" stated there are 40% more long distance services overall. There are 25% more between London and Scotland; 50% more between London and Birmingham and 150% more between London and Manchester.[32]

Safety edit

The removal and reduction of level crossings during the modernisation was one factor in improving the safety. A spokesperson for UK Railway Inspectorate made the statement in 2004 that "level crossings create the greatest potential for catastrophic risk on the railways".[33] Other crossings were also removed with subsequent reduction and modernisation of the overhead line. This also reduced maintenance costs.

Road congestion edit

Road congestion reduction has been harder to quantify but modeling that has been done suggests 26,000 less car journeys on the M1 and M40 motorways as a direct result along with as many as 7 million less car journeys between the cities of London and Manchester.[34]

Carbon emissions edit

On the London to Manchester route alone between 2009 and 2017, the modernisation resulted in a 77% increase in rail passengers; 23,000 tonnes of carbon saving and a 27% reduction in air passengers. The air passenger reduction was between Manchester and Heathrow, Gatwick, Stanstead and London City Airports. The number of flights between cities served by the WCML declined 67% since 2004 pre-COVID.[35]

Passenger benefits edit

In addition to journey time reductions, another result of the modernisation was an increase in capacity such that a 20 minute frequency of trains (3 per hour) between London and Manchester and London and Birmingham at key hours resulted.[36]

Issues - future work still needed edit

During modernisation, much of the signaling was renewed and concentrated in Rugby. However, money ran out and so the south end of the line still uses Wembley which controls assets that fail frequently.[37] This point of failure will need to be addressed in the future. Other upgrades are continuing.[38]

2020 onwards ongoing improvements edit

Carstairs has long being considered a bottleneck on the WCML and improvements including signaling, track renewal and other work finished in October 2022. Further work continued in 2023 and included work on the drains and also embankments.[39] The work also included substantial realligning of tracks and platforms to give line speed increases[40] and needed a 12-week closure but was completed on time.[41][42][43]

More power-hungry trains and further electric freight means at many times there is an overload of the power supply on the WCML. Parts of the route, including Preston- Carlisle is sometimes called congested infrastructure due to power supply constraints. Future upgrades will be planned to enhance these.[44]

Timeline edit

Timeline
Date Event
1998 Agreement between Railtrack and Virgin Trains to upgrade the line.
October 2001 Railtrack goes into liquidation.[45][46]
January 2002 Secretary of State for Transport Stephen Byers ask SRA to intervene and get project back on track.
May 2002 Estimate of programme cost increases from £2.5 billion to £14.5 billion.
December 2005 High-speed tilting trains introduced.[47]
October 2007 First section of Trent Valley four-tracking scheme opened.[48]
December 2008 Work mainly completed.[49]
2014 Works start on the Norton Bridge project.
April 2015 Work to replace bridge at Watford completed to enable line speed increase from 90 mph to 125 mph.[50]
March 2016 First trains use the Norton Bridge rail flyover completed on budget and 18 months ahead of schedule.[51][52]
October 2022 Major track renewal, signaling and simplification of track layout at Carstairs completed.
March 2023 Further simplification of Carstairs and passing loop installed.[53]
May 30 2023 Carstairs station reopens after a 12 week closure and blockade.[54]
July 2023 9 day closure of the route in the Trent Valley-Colwich Junction area for upgrades, resignalling, new track etc.[55]

See also edit

References edit

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  4. ^ "First trains use Norton Bridge rail flyover". A Little Bit of Stone. 29 March 2016. from the original on 9 September 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  5. ^ "West Coast Main Line - Railway Technology". Railway Technology. from the original on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  6. ^ Evans, Andrew W. (1969). "Intercity Travel and the London Midland Electrification". Journal of Transport Economics and Policy. 3 (1): 69–95. ISSN 0022-5258. JSTOR 20052126.
  7. ^ Nock, O.S. (1965). Britain's new railway: Electrification of the London-Midland main lines from Euston to Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Crewe, Liverpool and Manchester. London: Ian Allan. OCLC 59003738.
  8. ^ "Route Improvements Weaver Junction to Glasgow" (PDF). Railway Archives. April 1968.
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  11. ^ "BR electrifies West-Coast extension". Electronics and Power. 20 (11): 469. 1974. doi:10.1049/ep.1974.0354.
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  13. ^ Jones, S. (1975). "The Advanced Passenger Train: An economic alternative to the construction of new track for High Speed". Rail International (7). from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
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  15. ^ "Blood on the tracks". The Economist. 11 October 2001. ISSN 0013-0613. from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
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  17. ^ "West Coast Main Line". Bechtel Corporate. from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
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  19. ^ "The Modernisation of the West Coast Main Line" (PDF). National Audit Organisation. 22 November 2006. (PDF) from the original on 26 November 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  20. ^ "The Modernisation of the West Coast Main Line" (PDF). UK Parliament. 4 June 2007. (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  21. ^ "West Coast Main Line Strategy" (PDF). Railways archive. (PDF) from the original on 2 December 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  22. ^ "West Coast Route Modernisation". www.networkrailconsulting.com. from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  23. ^ "MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS FOR RUGBY STATION GIVEN APPROVAL". Network Rail Media Centre. from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  24. ^ Spoors, Richard; Martin, James (2005). "Modernising the UK's west coast main line railway". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering. 158 (3): 112–119. doi:10.1680/cien.2005.158.3.112. ISSN 0965-089X.
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Further reading edit

  • Nock, O.S. (1965). Britain's new railway: Electrification of the London-Midland main lines from Euston to Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Crewe, Liverpool and Manchester. London: Ian Allan. OCLC 59003738.
  • Nock, O.S. (1974). Electric Euston to Glasgow. Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0711005303.
  • Wickens, Alan (Summer 1988). "APT - With Hindsight". Newsletter of the Friends of the National Railway Museum.
  • "On board with electrification". Permanent Way Institution Journal. 139 (1). January 2021. ISSN 2057-2425 – via PWI.
  • Wolmar, Christian (2005). On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways (rev. ed.). London: Aurum Press. ISBN 1-85410-998-7.
  • WOLMAR, CHRISTIAN (2022). BRITISH RAIL-A new History. [S.l.]: MICHAEL JOSEPH. ISBN 978-0-241-45620-0. OCLC 1246353492.
  • Keenor, Garry. Overhead Line Electrification for Railways - 6th edition.
  • "Network Rail A Guide to Overhead Electrification Revision 10" (PDF). Network Rail. February 2015.
  • Buck, Martin; Rawlinson, Mark (2000). Line By Line: The West Coast Main Line, London Euston to Glasgow Central. Swindon: Freightmaster Publishing. ISBN 0-9537540-0-6.
  • "EUSTON MAIN LINE ELECTRIFICATION, A Technical Conference sponsored jointly by the British Railways Board and the Institutions of Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Locomotive, and Railway Signal Engineers, 25–26th October 1966". Conference Proceedings. Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMECH). 181 (6 (Part 3F)). 1966–67.
  • Brentnall, E. G. (1966). "Paper 2: Signalling and Telecommunications Works on the Euston Main Line Electrification". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Conference Proceedings. 181 (36): 65–86. doi:10.1243/PIME_CONF_1966_181_108_02.
  • Butland, A. N. (1966). "Paper 3: Civil Engineering Works of the Euston Main Line Electrification Scheme". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Conference Proceedings. 181 (36): 51–64. doi:10.1243/PIME_CONF_1966_181_107_02.
  • Emerson, A. H. (1966). "Paper 4: Electrification of the London Midland Main Line from Euston". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Conference Proceedings. 181 (36): 17–50. doi:10.1243/PIME_CONF_1966_181_105_02.

External websites edit

  • Electric All The Way – 1974 British Rail information booklet about the completion of electrification to Glasgow.
  • Rail Industry Web page monitoring progress of the project
  • Department of Transport – 2006 – West Coast Main Line – Update Report

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Main article West Coast Main Line The West Coast Main Line is a key strategic railway line in the United Kingdom It links the cities of London Glasgow Birmingham Liverpool Manchester Preston Lancaster and Carlisle Virgin Trains took on the franchise to run train services on the routes in 1997 and as part of the agreement wanted an upgrade to the railway line to allow for faster more frequent trains to grow the business 1 The upgrade started in 1998 and was completed in 2009 2 It came under parliamentary and media scrutiny because of cost and schedule overruns 3 Further improvements such as the Norton Bridge rail flyover were completed after these dates 4 The project is sometimes given the acronym WCRM West Coast Route Modernisation 5 West Coast Main LineContents 1 Previous modernisations 2 Post privatisation modernisation 3 Technical aspects 4 Benefits 4 1 Capacity enhancements 4 2 Safety 4 3 Road congestion 4 4 Carbon emissions 4 5 Passenger benefits 5 Issues future work still needed 6 2020 onwards ongoing improvements 7 Timeline 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External websitesPrevious modernisations editIn the middle of the twentieth century the line was upgraded substantially as part of the 1955 Modernisation Plan 6 7 Further electrification was discussed in 1968 8 The line north of Crewe was modernised by further electrification from Weaver Junction to Glasgow in the 1970s 9 10 Some innovative electrical engineering technology was used on the project including lighter catenary and extensive use of headspans 11 Substantial new signaling also took place in this timeframe 12 The Advanced Passenger Train concept was in effect a part of that upgrade It relied on tilting trains to increase speed on the route rather than major civil engineering interventions 13 14 Post privatisation modernisation editThe late 20th and early 21st century modernisation began without public sector involvement but with Railtrack However the Strategic Rail Authority was concerned about cost overruns Railtrack asked the government for more money to complete the project but the Labour Party Secretary of State for Transport Stephen Byers put the company into liquidation This and other problems with this project and its cost and time overruns is usually considered the cause of the liquidation of Railtrack 15 16 In 2002 Bechtel was invited to join the project 17 The upgrade went substantially over budget 18 19 Regular updates were then conducted by the UK Parliament accounts department 20 The Strategic Rail Authority published a document in June 2003 which re examined and clarified many of the assumptions and specified the direction and scope of the whole project 21 Technical aspects editThe upgrade involved 22 Major remodeling of Rugby railway station 23 Proof House Junction in Birmingham was also remodelled Many Level crossings were either removed or modernised 77 in total Over 800 points switches and crossings renewed improved or removed Overhead line renewals Power supply upgrade to autotransformer system Track renewals 430 miles 24 Over 2000 signals modified or renewed with better line of sight etc 25 Quadrupling the two track section in the Trent Valley including TAME viaduct 26 27 28 nbsp Preston North WCML AT ready nbsp Barton WCML AutoTransformer ready nbsp WCML Broughton wicketkeeper electrification anchorBenefits editThe benefits of the project are claimed to be capacity improvements journey time reductions of up to 28 in some cases and improved safety 29 Although Virgin Trains were part of the driver for the project the client is actually listed as the Department for Transport The length of the project was just short of 11 years 110 months and the final contract cost of approximately 9 billion pounds 30 The Campaign for Better Transport United Kingdom has stated that the benefits are 1 Road congestion reduction 2 Carbon emissions reduction 3 Economic and 4 Passenger benefits It is claimed it was part of the reason that the BBC decided to move its main operations from London to the north 31 Capacity enhancements edit The Campaign for Better Transport United Kingdom in their paper entitled Transformation of the West Coast Main Line stated there are 40 more long distance services overall There are 25 more between London and Scotland 50 more between London and Birmingham and 150 more between London and Manchester 32 Safety edit The removal and reduction of level crossings during the modernisation was one factor in improving the safety A spokesperson for UK Railway Inspectorate made the statement in 2004 that level crossings create the greatest potential for catastrophic risk on the railways 33 Other crossings were also removed with subsequent reduction and modernisation of the overhead line This also reduced maintenance costs Road congestion edit Road congestion reduction has been harder to quantify but modeling that has been done suggests 26 000 less car journeys on the M1 and M40 motorways as a direct result along with as many as 7 million less car journeys between the cities of London and Manchester 34 Carbon emissions edit On the London to Manchester route alone between 2009 and 2017 the modernisation resulted in a 77 increase in rail passengers 23 000 tonnes of carbon saving and a 27 reduction in air passengers The air passenger reduction was between Manchester and Heathrow Gatwick Stanstead and London City Airports The number of flights between cities served by the WCML declined 67 since 2004 pre COVID 35 Passenger benefits edit In addition to journey time reductions another result of the modernisation was an increase in capacity such that a 20 minute frequency of trains 3 per hour between London and Manchester and London and Birmingham at key hours resulted 36 Issues future work still needed editDuring modernisation much of the signaling was renewed and concentrated in Rugby However money ran out and so the south end of the line still uses Wembley which controls assets that fail frequently 37 This point of failure will need to be addressed in the future Other upgrades are continuing 38 2020 onwards ongoing improvements editCarstairs has long being considered a bottleneck on the WCML and improvements including signaling track renewal and other work finished in October 2022 Further work continued in 2023 and included work on the drains and also embankments 39 The work also included substantial realligning of tracks and platforms to give line speed increases 40 and needed a 12 week closure but was completed on time 41 42 43 More power hungry trains and further electric freight means at many times there is an overload of the power supply on the WCML Parts of the route including Preston Carlisle is sometimes called congested infrastructure due to power supply constraints Future upgrades will be planned to enhance these 44 Timeline editTimeline Date Event1998 Agreement between Railtrack and Virgin Trains to upgrade the line October 2001 Railtrack goes into liquidation 45 46 January 2002 Secretary of State for Transport Stephen Byers ask SRA to intervene and get project back on track May 2002 Estimate of programme cost increases from 2 5 billion to 14 5 billion December 2005 High speed tilting trains introduced 47 October 2007 First section of Trent Valley four tracking scheme opened 48 December 2008 Work mainly completed 49 2014 Works start on the Norton Bridge project April 2015 Work to replace bridge at Watford completed to enable line speed increase from 90 mph to 125 mph 50 March 2016 First trains use the Norton Bridge rail flyover completed on budget and 18 months ahead of schedule 51 52 October 2022 Major track renewal signaling and simplification of track layout at Carstairs completed March 2023 Further simplification of Carstairs and passing loop installed 53 May 30 2023 Carstairs station reopens after a 12 week closure and blockade 54 July 2023 9 day closure of the route in the Trent Valley Colwich Junction area for upgrades resignalling new track etc 55 See also edit21st century modernisation of the Great Western Main Line Felixstowe Nuneaton railway upgrade High Speed 2 History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date Midland Main Line railway upgrade North West England electrification schemes Overhead line Railway electrification in Scotland Transpennine north railway upgradeReferences edit UK West Coast Route Modernisation Project SEBoK www sebokwiki org Archived from the original on 21 July 2021 Retrieved 21 July 2021 Transformation of the West Coast Mainline PDF Campaign for better transport Archived PDF from the original on 4 July 2021 Retrieved 21 July 2021 The Modernisation of the West Coast Main Line National Audit Office NAO Report National Audit Office 22 November 2006 Archived from the original on 21 July 2021 Retrieved 21 July 2021 First trains use Norton Bridge rail flyover A Little Bit of Stone 29 March 2016 Archived from the original on 9 September 2019 Retrieved 30 July 2021 West 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Manchester London Ian Allan OCLC 59003738 Nock O S 1974 Electric Euston to Glasgow Ian Allan ISBN 978 0711005303 Wickens Alan Summer 1988 APT With Hindsight Newsletter of the Friends of the National Railway Museum On board with electrification Permanent Way Institution Journal 139 1 January 2021 ISSN 2057 2425 via PWI Wolmar Christian 2005 On the Wrong Line How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain s Railways rev ed London Aurum Press ISBN 1 85410 998 7 WOLMAR CHRISTIAN 2022 BRITISH RAIL A new History S l MICHAEL JOSEPH ISBN 978 0 241 45620 0 OCLC 1246353492 Keenor Garry Overhead Line Electrification for Railways 6th edition Network Rail A Guide to Overhead Electrification Revision 10 PDF Network Rail February 2015 Buck Martin Rawlinson Mark 2000 Line By Line The West Coast Main Line London Euston to Glasgow Central Swindon Freightmaster Publishing ISBN 0 9537540 0 6 EUSTON MAIN LINE ELECTRIFICATION A Technical Conference sponsored jointly by the British Railways Board and the Institutions of Civil Mechanical Electrical Locomotive and Railway Signal Engineers 25 26th October 1966 Conference Proceedings Institution of Mechanical Engineers IMECH 181 6 Part 3F 1966 67 Brentnall E G 1966 Paper 2 Signalling and Telecommunications Works on the Euston Main Line Electrification Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Conference Proceedings 181 36 65 86 doi 10 1243 PIME CONF 1966 181 108 02 Butland A N 1966 Paper 3 Civil Engineering Works of the Euston Main Line Electrification Scheme Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Conference Proceedings 181 36 51 64 doi 10 1243 PIME CONF 1966 181 107 02 Emerson A H 1966 Paper 4 Electrification of the London Midland Main Line from Euston Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Conference Proceedings 181 36 17 50 doi 10 1243 PIME CONF 1966 181 105 02 External websites editElectric All The Way 1974 British Rail information booklet about the completion of electrification to Glasgow Rail Industry Web page monitoring progress of the project Department of Transport 2006 West Coast Main Line Update Report Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title West Coast Main Line route modernisation amp oldid 1182985246, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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