Hitchin Fly-over

i assume kings cross will continue to use the NX panel and simply swap tiles over to account for the new layout, and there is no plan to go to VDU for this area?

i assume kings cross will continue to use the NX panel and simply swap tiles over to account for the new layout, and there is no plan to go to VDU for this area?

In the long term, the most recent plan I heard was that Kings Cross would move into the new Route Operating Centre they are building in Three Bridges. This would be a VDU system of some kind.

Victoria will close in 2019 apparently, Matt.

As part of the installation of the Hertford National Integration Facility; in order to enable the provision of HNIF, conventional resignalling is required to renew the existing interlocking at Hertford North; the Gordon Hill interlocking will be recontrolled.

Both will be controlled via a new VDU control system located in Kings Cross PSB.

Provision of a new VDU workstation in Kings Cross PSB to control the Hertford Loop, with associated panel modifications made to the existing NX panel.

New West Cad workstation located on the operating floor at Kings Cross PSB. Controls the Hertford Loop from Bowes Park to Langley Junction.
Controls conventional and test signals.

Hertford Loop removed from Panels 4 and 5 of NX panel.
Local control available for the new Hertford interlocking via a new Westcad workstation located in Hitchin equipment room.

That was the intention in 2010.

Network Rail plans to use Eversholt Rail owned unit 313121 as a test vehicle for ERTMS on the Hertford Loop,where it hopes to have the facility running by 2014 or earlier. The plan involves resignalling a 5½ mile section of the double track route to allow existing services to use only one line, freeing the other for ERTMS tests.

HNIF will run from Watton-at-Stone to Stevenage on the Hertford Loop, or, to be precise, from 21 miles 30 chains to 26 miles 20 chains. It will also take over the carriage sidings at Hertford North.

To be even more precise, the Up Hertford will be bi-directional between Molewood Junction which is just north of Molewood Tunnel and Bragbury Junction which is not far from Langley South Junction which enables trains to depart Platform 4 at Stevenage and head towards Hertford North.

Between Molewood Junction and Bragbury Junction, the Down Hertford is intended to be used as the test track with the crossovers being 50mph ones.

A lot of the work is being done though out the week which is why Network Rail contractors can be seen at work both at weekends and also in the off peak Monday to Friday - I'm not sure of any completion date BUT the works regarding Hertford North HAVE to be commissioned and signed off by Dec 31st 2012.

And the Cambrian was supposed to go over to ERTMS in 2008.

Given the somewhat temporary nature of the signalbox structure in Machmumble, the signallers are also worried that their jobs are going to Cardiff.

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And the Cambrian was supposed to go over to ERTMS in 2008.

You have to remember that was the first UK installation of ERTMS so there were bound to be issues throughout - which there were. Everything from adapting UK rules and regulations to ERTMS and vice versa, to geographic issues, to the flat crossing at Cae Pawb, to the depot at Machmumble, to the massive cubicles in the 158s and the couple of locos, to the engineers' line references in miles and chains compared to km - the list goes on.

Given the somewhat temporary nature of the signalbox structure in Machmumble, the signallers are also worried that their jobs are going to Cardiff.

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Given the somewhat temporary nature of the signalbox structure in Machmumble, the signallers are also worried that their jobs are going to Cardiff.

Not quite my understanding Geoff; my partner's nephew has just gone in there &, from what he was saying t'other day, is looking forward to being there until he retires.

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Given the somewhat temporary nature of the signalbox structure in Machmumble, the signallers are also worried that their jobs are going to Cardiff.

Not quite my understanding Geoff; my partner's nephew has just gone in there &, from what he was saying t'other day, is looking forward to being there until he retires.

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Given the somewhat temporary nature of the signalbox structure in Machmumble, the signallers are also worried that their jobs are going to Cardiff.

Not quite my understanding Geoff; my partner's nephew has just gone in there &, from what he was saying t'other day, is looking forward to being there until he retires.

The structure is temporary in nature, though temporary in railway terms can be 25 years or more!

Are there any aerial maps showing the construction work underway? I could not find it on Google.

Barry