by BandA
F-line forgot to mention this time the rail-trail in ?sudbury? that CSX and the town(s) have been negotiating forever over.
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MBTA3247 wrote:New in what sense?That was my question too! New schedule? signals? track?
BandA wrote:What's next for this line? ADA platform for BBY would be dead simple; Start pouring concrete forms & adjust the elevator floor stop heights. And would help with dwell time & fare collection.This should be a no-brainer. What are they waiting for?
This should be a no-brainer. What are they waiting for?Funds presumably? There are previous discussions of rebuilding various stations to add high platforms (Natick for example).
BandA wrote:Wow, so that's the first time in about 55 years that you could do that.
harshaw wrote:to be very specific:About a year ago they did this some, as Dave Perry talked about in this blog post, which I found linked on page 17 of this thread. It was only from CP-11 in Weston to the now removed CP-4 because it was still single-track through Beacon Park to CP-3. Now, CP-11 to CP-3 is fully double-track, and the new crossovers will be at CP-6, but they have yet to be fully activated. If the schedule allows, they can now cross over and stay on that track all the way to Boston instead of getting "back in line" when it was only single-track.
For a long long time there was single track through beacon yard. There was no track 1 between the switch after yawkey and around the Boston Landing area. With the Boston Landing development track one was extended through beacon yard. And then a new switch was recently completed east of Boston Landing. Apologies that I can't tell you the CPXX number, I am yet a lowly train commuter.
MOST of the time on the worcester line, the rush hour trains tend to use track 2. This is for all kinds of reasons, but mostly because you have stops like West Natick that only really make sense to pick up and drop off on track 1 because otherwise you have to have people cross the track.
My comment was that on the 507, the inbound train switched onto track 1 in Weston instead of continuing it's normal run on track 2. I don't know why - it's just interesting.