Harborough Rail Users
  • Home
  • Who We Are
  • Get In Touch
  • Library
  • Links
  • New Page
  • Home
  • Who We Are
  • Get In Touch
  • Library
  • Links
  • New Page

Harborough  rail  users

Improving the quality of Market Harborough's rail service

Electrification progress

15/3/2022

 
Good progress continues with the electrification of the line from Kettering to Market Harborough.  On 15th March, several overhead support posts were installed behind Platform 1, and other work continues around the station.  The picture below shows one of the masts being lifted into position.
(Photo: Steve Jones)
Picture

Work starts on new toilets and waiting room at Market Harborough

26/1/2022

 
Network Rail will soon be starting work on the new toilet block and waiting room at Market Harborough station.  This is long awaited, and further information can be found here:
https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/better-facilities-at-market-harborough-station-this-may
Picture
Early site preparation under way behind the south end of Platform 1 at Market Harborough as contractors assemble the site compound on 26th January. In the left foreground can be seen two of the bases for the overhead line masts for the forthcoming electrification.
​Photo: Steve Jones

Electrification progress

15/1/2022

 
Users of Market Harborough station will have noticed evidence of electrification really getting under way.  At the time of writing, overhead line masts have been installed just north of the platforms, and through Little Bowden.  Lengthy stretches of the line through Braybrooke and most of the way to Kettering now have at least some evidence of electrification, whether that be the mast support bases, masts themselves and, in many cases, the gantry brackets that will carry the wires.  The power supply substation at Braybrooke is also very much under construction.  
The Government’s Integrated Rail Plan promises electrification of the entire Midland Main Line, right through to Nottingham, Derby and Sheffield.  We now trust that once the electrification has reached Market Harborough, it can swiftly continue towards Leicester.   
Picture
It’s coming.  On a sunny 13th January 2022, an EMR Meridian train passes the first electrification masts at Market Harborough station as it arrives with the 15:03 to Nottingham.  Most of the line through to Kettering now has some evidence of electrification equipment by the lineside.
Photo: Steve Jones

Start of work on Electrification

11/12/2021

 
Work on the long-awaited electrification of the main line from Kettering to Market Harborough officially started on Saturday 11th December.  Much preparatory work had already taken place, including cutting back of lineside vegetation that might interfere with the overhead lines, plus a start on the power supply substation at Braybrooke, just outside Market Harborough.  The first job for the electrification teams, who are operating out of site compounds at Rushton, Braybrooke and behind Platform 1 at Market Harborough, is to install the tubular steel piles in the ground to support the overhead line masts.  Several of these were already in place at Braybrooke on 11th December.  Work continues on this operation, mostly overnight plus some weekend working, until January.
Once complete, the electrification and power supply upgrade will enable the new Aurora trains to operate on electric power south from Market Harborough when they are introduced into service in 2023.  By then, we hope the decision to continue beyond Market Harborough will have been made, in accordance with the Government’s promise in its Integrated Rail Plan, published on 18th November 2021, to electrify the whole Midland Main Line. 
Picture
Early sign of progress:  an electrification contractor’s road-rail vehicle heads south past the former level crossing at Glebe Road, Little Bowden, on Saturday 11th December, the day electrification work officially started. 
​Photo: Steve Jones

Picture
Getting ready: the electrification site compound at Braybrooke on 11th December.  Overhead line supports can be seen on the left, stored ready for installation.  In the middle foreground is one of the first mast support piles, freshly installed, while in the middle distance is a temporary ramp for road-rail vehicles to gain access to the track.
Pictures: Steve Jones

Preliminary work under way on electrification to Market Harborough

8/4/2021

 
The electrification of the railway between Bedford and Corby is due to come into service with the new timetable on 15th May.  There has long been a desire to see the electrification of the whole Midland Main Line, and the first stage of that, from Kettering to Market Harborough, is now in the early stages of implementation.  Vegetation clearance along the lineside from Kettering is well under way, with trees being either felled or trimmed back where they are too close to the line and the future overhead wires.  Work on the new substation that will feed the electrification has also started.  This is near Braybrooke, where the National Grid high-voltage power line crosses the railway. The substation is due to be completed by autumn 2022, in time for the electrification itself to be installed.
Picture
Clearing the way.  Contractors trimming back the lineside vegetation south of Market
​Harborough station in preparation for the extension of electrification from Kettering.
Photo: Steve Jones
<<Previous

    Categories

    All
    Abellio EMR
    Accessibility
    Buses
    Car Parking
    Consultations
    Covid 19
    Cycling
    Department For Transport
    Electrification
    EMR Meetings
    EMT Meetings
    Engineering Works
    England's Economic Heartland
    Fares
    Franchising
    Harborough DC
    HRU Meetings
    HS2
    Market Harborough In Bloom
    MHR Station Usage
    MH Station Upgrade
    Midlands Connect
    Network Rail
    Northampton & Lamport Rly
    Northampton Line
    Rail Replacement Buses
    Rolling Stock
    Timetables
    VIP Visits

    Archives

    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    March 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    February 2015
    November 2014
    August 2014
    May 2014
    February 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013

    ​

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.