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William Barter

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William Barter

@WilliamBarter1

Independent rail planning consultant

Oswestry

Joined April 2011

William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Jul 30, 2024
OK, now imagine that HS2 is feeding passengers to Old Oak Common, wanting to go to central London. What happens to them ?
National Rail
@nationalrailenq
Jul 30, 2024
Replying to @nationalrailenq
‼️⚠️#Whitechapel - A broken down engineering train between London Paddington and Whitechapel means all lines are blocked As a result service is suspended between London Paddington and Stratford / Abbey Wood 🕛Major disruption is expected until 12:00
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Jan 27, 2023
Replying to @gregsmith_uk
A) no we wouldn’t save cash, in fact it would cost cash to cancel and make good again B) no it would not improve existing railway, that is its limit which is why we are building HS2 C) Do you actually know anything about anything let alone transport?
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Jul 26, 2024
Sabotage to French high speed rail routes caused by a multiplicity of men in vans targeting key points out on the network. Seems a lot of effort - @RishiSunak sabotaged ours without leaving his hotel room.
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Oct 17, 2024
This is the @mragilligan who thinks 400m trains can run from HS2 Phase 1 to the NPR station in Manchester. Rule of thumb: if he says something, do the opposite.
Andrew Gilligan
@mragilligan
Oct 17, 2024
If true, this is insane. With other rail projects being asked to find cuts, and this sucking up all the money, it means most of the North will now never get better local and regional services.
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Apr 17, 2024
She’s right, it’s the bloody think tanks like Policy Exchange, IEA, TPA who expect influence without election, job interview or procurement process we need to get out of government. Is that what she meant?
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Jul 21, 2023
If I buy a ticket at an office, don't use it, and return it to the office the same day for refund, there is no admin fee. If I buy it on an app, there is a fee charged immediately for cancellation. Why, when I have done all the admin myself?
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Dec 20, 2023
Replying to @HuwMerriman
When anyone who knows anything is telling you that you are wrong, does it not worry you even a little? Who exactly is telling you that growing rail freight is compatible with cancelling HS2 Phase 2a, and what do they know about railways?
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Nov 1, 2023
Replying to @HuwMerriman and @JohnGlenUK
You build it to Euston, six platforms with grade separation and scope to extend. Then you build Phase 2A to Crewe to avoid the Colwich Shugborough Stafford bottlenecks. What you do NOT do is sell land to make that impossible. That frankly is the bleedin’ obvious, less is nuts.
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Oct 31, 2023
Replying to @HuwMerriman and @Mark_J_Harper
I don’t understand how anyone with an ounce of self respect can tweet this tripe. Spin is one thing, blatantly claiming black is white is in a whole new league for a government.
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Feb 26, 2024
Just reading pathetic whingeing from @HuwMerriman in Modern Railways. Of course you don't know how reverting to Ph 1 will work as a railway - timetable, train length, frequency etc. But shouldn't you have thought of that before cancelling Ph 2A? Ph 2A worked, and we knew that.
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Oct 9, 2023
Replying to @Mark_J_Harper
Bollocks. For a start, £12bn is common to both NPR and HS2. Then, many of your Network North schemes will never see the light of day as they still need business cases and thus DfT sign-off. And your Network North does nothing for the key issue of Manchester Piccadilly capacity.
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Jul 31, 2024
Here’s another, picking out capacity constraints on the WCML and relating them to the stages of HS2 that would relieve them.
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William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Jun 29, 2022
Replying to @grantshapps
What Victorian 4-aspect signalling giving 3-minute headways at 125 mph are you referring to?
William Barter
@WilliamBarter1
Sep 18, 2024
Bizarre tweet from Andrew Gilligan, referring to the 'Two Mayors' report arguing for a new 'I can't believe it's not HS2' line from West Midlands for the sake of capacity, mainly by enabling use of 400m trains by bypassing the classic WCML.
Andrew Gilligan
@mragilligan
Sep 13, 2024
The report is dishonest in many ways. It claims a capacity crisis on the WCML because "beyond Birmingham....the WCML infrastructure is only able to accommodate 200m trains." Not true: the plan always was to run 400m trains on the classic line, both to Manc and Scotland.
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