Re: Strickland Junction again


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Posted by Robert Hill on March 24, 2008 at 00:57:37 from 91.107.128.124 user eclrh.

In Reply to: Re: Strickland Junction again posted by Alan Hakim on March 23, 2008 at 18:33:03:

I was pretty sure that authorisation to electrify Weaver Junction to Glasgow did not come until around 1970, because I have some memory of what seemed to the then teenage me an unbelievably long wait after completion of the Liverpool and Manchester lines. I wasn't really a signed-up railway enthusuiast but I was a railway electification enthusiast, and lived near Manchester.

So I have done some web searching. Unfortunately I have never taken the trouble to learn how to put more than one clickable link in a post, so these require pasting into your browser, or manual copying.

http://www.railblue.com/timeline.htm#1970 (a railway timeline) says approval was given in February 1970.

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/rastro/topic_britishrailwaystimeline.htm (another railway timeline) says March 1970.

http://www.virgintrainsmediaroom.com/index.cfm?articleid=93 (Virgin Trains) says 1969/70.

http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docSummary.php?docID=162 (a report produced in April 1968) urges approval of the plan and says that if approved immediately it could be completed by 1972.

The cause of your bus replacement in May 1968 was probably resignalling and/or route rationalisation. These were carried out in the hope but not the knowledge that electification would soon follow.



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