If Manchester Victoria And Birmingham New Street Were The First Two Courses, Is Carlisle The Third?
Manchester Victoria and Birmingham New Street stations have one thing in common with the Eden Project – They all have roofs made of a plastic called ETFE.
According to this article on Network Rail’s web site, which is entitled £14.7m upgrade planned for Carlisle station, Network Rail are going to fit a third station with an ETFE roof. This is said.
Eight of the platforms will be rebuilt, and an updated roof will also help to make the station much brighter.
The work will significantly extend the life of the station’s roof structure, which dates back to 1847, as well as reducing the amount of maintenance it will need. The existing roof covering will be replaced with one made from ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene), the same material used for the roofs of the new Manchester Victoria and Birmingham New Street stations.
There’s also a computer visualisation of how Carlisle station will look.
New Roof At Carlisle Station
This Google Map shows the station.
Carlisle Station
Note there are three through platforms, two bay platforms to the North and three to the South. I don’t think too many of the bay platforms are electrified.
I just wonder, if whilst they are rebuilding the platforms, they will electrify some of the bay platforms. Or at least do the preparation work!
This would enable IPEMUs to be able to be recharged, if they were serving routes out of Carlisle, like the Tyne Valley Line, Settle to Carlisle and possibly an extended Borders Railway.
Incidentally, I think that by the time Carlisle station is updated in 2019, IPEMUs or battery trains, would have enough range to reach Edinburgh. You can see the headlines in the Sun!
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All the bay platforms are already electrified.
Comment by Barbara Hammond | January 2, 2016 |
Tanks for that!
So that probably means they can run IPEMUs on routes out of Carlisle.
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