Trans-Pennine route gauging

Does anyone know if the 2 Transpennine routes have been gauged yet?
or is everything larger than a Jub/Black 5 still banned?

any one in the know?

regards

Neil

 

185s still ok.....

 

shame

 

I'll throw in a Class 142... Or whatever other type of bus on wheels Northern sometimes uses over the route. Seriously, is this due to a change of gauging software or what ? I don't remember the back-story to this issue.

 

142, Sometimes use???? Hell, they infest the routes round these parts, whoever owns Northern Rail (Serco I think) sure as hell intend to run those damn things into the ground. It's "interesting" exiting Morley tunnel for the gallop down the hill to Batley and Dewsbury, those drivers have no fear whatsoever.

 

I think there is thoughts on using them until 2020.......

 

The people who are behind the thinking of 2020 should buy a ticket and try them on the 15:05 service Carlisle to Leeds, regularly 2 cars, damn disgrace.

 

However, I've been led to understand that unless they are made more wheelchair friendly, they will effectively be illegal from 2019.

 

any more info on gauging?

 

New surveys are available for

ELR Structure Type Structure SubType Structure Description Structure Identifier Line Number Structure Start Mileage Survey ID Survey Method Survey Creation Date
MVL3 Platform Platform Mossley Station Up Platform 1100 010,39,00 539651 Platform Gauge 12/11/2014 10:16
MVN2 Platform Platform Brighouse Station Down Platform 2100 034,29,02 539346 Platform Gauge 10/11/2014 13:16
MVN2 Platform Platform Brighouse Station Up Platform 1100 034,28,21 538291 Platform Gauge 31/10/2014 13:55
MVN2 Platform Platform Castleton Station Down Platform 2100 008,64,21 536289 Platform Gauge 08/10/2014 16:05
MVN2 Platform Platform Hebden Bridge Station Down Platform 2100 023,47,06 539921 Platform Gauge 14/11/2014 09:51
MVN2 Platform Platform Hebden Bridge Station Up Platform 1100 023,45,09 539920 Platform Gauge 14/11/2014 09:49
MVN2 Platform Platform Mills Hill Station Up Platform 1100 005,71,16 536325 Platform Gauge 13/10/2014 10:35
MVN2 Platform Platform Moston Station Up Platform 1100 003,76,08 539681 Platform Gauge 12/11/2014 13:48
MVN2 Platform Platform Mytholmroyd Station Down Platform 2100 024,65,21 539919 Platform Gauge 14/11/2014 09:46
MVN2 Platform Platform Mytholmroyd Station Up Platform 1100 024,65,21 539918 Platform Gauge 14/11/2014 09:43
MVN2 Platform Platform Rochdale Station Down Platform 1 2100 010,34,09 540053 Platform Gauge 17/11/2014 09:01
MVN2 Platform Platform Rochdale Station Platform 2 3600 010,37,17 536332 Platform Gauge 13/10/2014 11:25
MVN2 Platform Platform Rochdale Station Up Platform 4 1100 010,34,11 536333 Platform Gauge 13/10/2014 11:30
MVN2 Platform Platform Smithy Bridge Station Down Platform 2100 012,57,03 536283 Platform Gauge 08/10/2014 15:49
MVN2 Platform Platform Smithy Bridge Station Up Platform 1100 012,58,08 536282 Platform Gauge 08/10/2014 15:44
MVN2 Platform Platform Sowerby Bridge Station Down Platform 2100 028,44,19 538292 Platform Gauge 31/10/2014 13:55
MVN2 Platform Platform Sowerby Bridge Station Up Platform 1100 028,44,19 538289 Platform Gauge 31/10/2014 13:40
MVN2 Platform Platform Walsden Station Down Platform 2100 017,65,11 537286 Platform Gauge 23/10/2014 09:26

 

so how do you translate that to a locomotive?

 

Well, the platform is your round hole & your locomotive is your square peg.
You get a bit of software and you try and jam the one into the other.
As long as the difference is more than 41mm you get a railtour, otherwise you get a day doing something else.

The answer your really after, is unless someone's slewed the track in Dean Royd or Weasel Hall Tunnel's away from the wall, then no, nothing has changed on the Manchester to Todmorden route (AFAIK) and your average Duchess/A4 won't be going that way anytime soon.

I can't remember what was up with Stalybridge route, other than capacity limitations.

 

as far as I can remember, it was the line under a bridge at Mossley that had moved slightly

 

Huddersfield to Heaton Lodge Jct is the bit that matters....

 

There's a couple of tights spots on that route but the worst by far is
2100 Dn Mossley Station Footbridge Bridge No.14 (footbridge)
Track is on a cant, so yes looks like it's moved.