Planned engineering works

👷‍♀️ We regularly carry out planned engineering works - to give you a better railway in the long term. 🛤️
❓ But what are these planned works, typically? And how do they ultimately benefit you? 🤔
Find out:
➡️ www.networkrail.co.uk/stories...
#BankHolidayTravel #MayRailWorks

[@The_Untitled]

I'd rather a delay than a bridge collapsing under me

[@abzzeus]

Switches are American English, Points (Set of Points) are UK English

[@orangeable.]

Nice

[@gwrydd]

does engineering works- people complain
trains delayed/run slow or accidents happen due to lack of maintenance - people complain

[@paulburton9386]

I think the point is if the railways had been run properly and invested in properly over the years there amount of work and inconvenience needed now wouldn't be so great.

[@HuggyBob62]

Prevention is better than cure.

[@chuntohk]

In the Far East, planned engineering works happen at night when there are no trains running. I used to work on road tunnel E&M projects in Hong Kong. E&M and electronic service systems could most usually be replaced in the middle of the night over several years. Additional nights maybe needed but daytime suspension was a big no-no. I can understand if the planned engineering works are for new projects, where you genuinely cannot run trains because you need to remove the rails and reroute the line somewhere else. I can also understand maintaining civil structures. But if it's just planned E&M or rail maintenance works, I believe you should be doing it at night, not during the day and certainly not during long holiday weekends. For weekend suspensions just for the purpose of maintenance or equipment upgrade, I'd call it planned engineering doesn't work.

[@DavidShepheard]

The only way to get big railway projects done is closures.
The UK has large areas that have not had overhead electrification installed. That means that diesel trains can not be swapped out for more environmentally friendly electrified trains until that work is pushed through. The faster electrification gets in, the sooner the public benefits from the improvement.
However, the actual stupid thing is doing all the works over Bank Holidays. That means that a lot of engineering equipment sits around unused and then massive workforces are needed to do lots of things all at once. A better way to do things would be to have some engineering works every day of the year (including work days) so that expensive bits of equipment that finish being used for one task can be doing the next task a few days later.

[@paulburton9386]

If it's not strikes, it's bloody engineering work!

[@MinegateTransport]

So you’d rather an accident take place than you being inconvenienced? It can and has happened…

[@558vulcanxh]

Pretty unbalanced remark tory boy.probably never done a practical job in your life 😏

[@JamesBrown-zu8iv]

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[@gwrydd]

whats sponsorship lmao