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	West Coast Main Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The WCML is remarkable for the diversity of branches served from the London to Edinburgh and Glasgow Main Line.
		West Midlands Main Line to Coventry, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stafford
		West Midlands Main Line from Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Coast_Main_Line (2461 words)

	Smethwick - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In 1966, Smethwick was merged with the boroughs of Oldbury and Rowley Regis to form the new County Borough of Warley.
		This in turn was merged with West Bromwich in 1974 to form the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands county.
		Smethwick is served by trains on both the "Jewellery Line" and the West Coast Main Line.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Smethwick (1136 words)

	Corus - much more than rail - West coast main line upgrade
		WCML W10 Gauge Clearance Study on the West Coast Main Line
		Clearance of this section of the WCML is a significant step towards achieving Network Rail's aspiration of providing W10 gauge routes to mirror the country's motorway network.
		Corus were heavily involved in the final clearance of the southern section of the WCML for the end of 1999 (Willesden to Daventry) which now forms part of the complete route from London to Glasgow cleared for 9' 6" container traffic.
	www.corusrail.com /en/design_and_innovation/case_studies/casestudy-westcoastmainlineupgrade (255 words)

	Bechtel Briefs—August 2003—West Coast Main Line
		The West Coast Main Line is the major transportation artery in the United Kingdom.
		In recent years, however, much of the romance and shine have drained out of the venerable West Coast Main Line, replaced by the wear and tear of time and the enormous problem of maintaining one of the world’s busiest railways.
		The West Coast Route Modernization is so big, in fact, that it requires an entire 10-story building at Euston Station in north London to house its headquarters.
	www.bechtel.com /Briefs/0803/Back_on_Track.htm (1093 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Q&A: West Coast Main Line delays
		It is one of the biggest closures on the West Coast Main Line for 40 years.
		A: A 120 mile stretch of the West Coast Main Line between Watford Junction and the Coventry and Stafford section will be closed from 29 May until 6 June.
		A: The West Coast Main Line was built in the 1840s and runs between Glasgow/Edinburgh and London's Euston station.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/3759775.stm (451 words)

	CULG - Hammersmith & City Line
		Initially the line ran into the two westernmost platforms of the GER mainline station (then numbered 12 and 11, but now 1 and 2), but it was diverted on to its present route as part of the continuing drive to complete the Inner Circle (see the Circle Line page).
		The lines were extended westwards by the LSWR on 1848-08-22, and the station was replaced by a new one on the through lines (at the present location) during 1849-09.
		Hammersmith (2) is on the District Line and Piccadilly Line.
	www.davros.org /rail/culg/hammersmith.html (3072 words)

	SRA - West Coast Main Line Strategy, Properly Delivered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The SRA today published a progress report on the delivery of the West Coast Main Line Strategy (June 2003).
		Progress since the West Coast Main Line Strategy was published by the SRA in June 2003 includes:
		The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is the most important trunk route on Britain's rail network.
	www.sra.gov.uk /news/2004/Folder.2004-03-29.7340788589/west_coast (501 words)

	Guardian \| The misery line
		Running high-speed Italian-designed trains on Britain's west coast main line is akin to driving a formula one car on a dirt track.
		That compares to £1.5m per mile in the 1980s for British Rail's upgrade of the east coast main line from London to Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh.
		The west coast main line saga underlines the need to shake up engineering work on the railways.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4494028-103674,00.html (907 words)

	Railway Technology - Willesden Infrastructure Renewal Project on the West Coast Main Line, United Kingdom
		The project is part of Railtrack's £5.4 billion ($7.8 billion) West Coast Route Modernisation (WCRM), which aims to replace some 130 life-expired main line signalling systems, which date back to the 1960s, on a 10 mile section of track in north west London.
		It required the two main contractors, Balfour Beatty and Westinghouse Signals Ltd, to install solid state interlocking (SSI) signalling on the West Coast Main Line between Queens Park and Hatch End.
		The project has made it easier for trains using the West London Line to access the West Coast slow lines by diving under the main lines rather than being held by signals waiting for a path to the slow lines.
	www.railway-technology.com /projects/willesden (738 words)

	SPT News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Councillor Bill Cameron, Chairman of West Coast Rail 250 said: "I am delighted to be coming to Glasgow, one of our northern areas of interest, for this next meeting of West Coast Rail 250.
		Councillor MacLellan commented: "The completion of the modernisation of the west coast main line will bring a reduction in journey times, thanks to the new trains and improved infrastructure, which will benefit any customer using the line for passenger or freight purposes.
		West Coast Rail 250's annual general meeting will be held in the Satinwood Suite in the City Chambers tomorrow (Friday 7th July) at 1.30pm
	www.spt.co.uk /news/story16.html (436 words)

	Railway Technology - West Coast Main Line Pendolino Tilting Trains operated by Virgin Trains, United Kingdom
		The main constraint of the West Coast line is the lack of capacity imposed by outdated track layouts and signalling systems.
		Based on an eight-year timescale, during which government subsidy to main operator Virgin was to fall from £68.4 million to a £126.6 million premium payment in 2006-07, the smooth continuation of services during the modernisation work is vital to the project's success.
		Quadrupling of the largely double-track Trent Valley line, which runs from Rugby, avoiding congested Birmingham, to Stafford, is still on the cards, and is hoped to be finished by 2009.
	www.railway-technology.com /projects/virgin (1142 words)

	Cumbrian Model Railways
		West Cumberland once boasted a dense network of standard gauge mineral lines linking coal mines, iron ore mines and limestone quarries to a vast Iron and Steel industry on the coast.
		The electrified London to Glasgow, West Coast Main line slices through the East of the county while considerable effort is being put into a campaign to link Penrith and Keswick by rail once more.
		The scenic Settle and Carlisle line, built by the Midland Railway is internationally recognised as one of the finest scenic railways in the world.
	www.trainweb.org /drs/cumbrian_model_railways.htm (363 words)

	Guardian \| Airlines seek to cash in on west coast rail delays
		Services on the line are already being disrupted every weekend until December 8, with passengers obliged to use buses between Milton Keynes and Hemel Hempstead.
		Closure of sections of the west coast main line in 2003 and 2004 will prepare the way for Virgin's new Pendolino tilting trains to run at 125mph - 15mph faster than the present maximum - in 2004 rather than 2006.
		But the rail line has to be upgraded and once it is, we will take on all comers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4502659-103690,00.html (554 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 6 Jan 2004 (pt 4)
		The upgrade of the west coast main line is making good progress and is expected to deliver significant improvements in journey times this year and next.
		I believe, though, that once the upgrade is completed and we have the new trains that Virgin is introducing—a number of which are now appearing on the west coast main line—there will be a qualitatively better service on the west coast than there has been for 30 years.
		That work will be progressed in line with the priorities that were identified, which provide for the earliest relief to the worst affected properties, subject to the availability of funding.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/vo040106/debtext/40106-04.htm (1410 words)

	East Coast Main Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a major railway line in the United Kingdom, linking London and Edinburgh on a 396 mile (637 km) route which runs via the East of England, Yorkshire, North East England and the Scottish Borders.
		In contrast, the West Coast Main Line has to traverse the Trent Valley and the mountains of Cumbria, which means more curves, and used to mean a lower speed of 110 mph (177 km/h).
		The ECML is one of the busiest lines on the rail network and there is currently insufficient capacity on parts of the line to satisfy all the requirements of both passenger and freight operators.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line (1475 words)

	Transport Blog Glossary: West Coast Main Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The West Coast Main Line runs from London’s Euston Station to Glasgow with branches diverting to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh.
		The WCML was originally an amalgamation of several vertically integrated operators between London and Glasgow.
		Since the completion of the electrification programme to the North West in 1966 and to Scotland in 1975, there have been no major upgrades of the infrastructure on the route.
	www.transportblog.com /glossary/archives/003247.html (121 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This impressive track relaying train will be used to replace and upgrade tracks along the West Coast Main Line as part of Railtrack's £2 billion modernisation programme.
		This includes the total replacement of the high speed line, some 200 route miles, which will be used by Virgin's new 140 mph tilting trains between London and Manchester.
		The programme is complex and made even more so by the fact that the line will continue to operate with over 2000 train movements every day.
	www.jarvisplant.com /uk_htm_files/newsrelease_three.htm (551 words)

	Branson on line for plum rail franchise
		RICHARD Branson's Virgin Railways was selected last night to run Britain's West Coast Main Line, the biggest prize in the government's rail privatisation.
		West Coast, electrified during the 1960s, is the poor relation of the more modern East Coast line through York and Newcastle to Edinburgh.
		West Coast, which employs 3,880 staff, is the most intensively-used of Britain's 25 rail franchises.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/02/08/cbrans08.html (546 words)

	CILT - The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport - CILT - CILT News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The regulator's recommendation was criticised by Virgin Trains, the main inter-city operator on the West Coast route, by EWS — the main freight operator on the line — and by the Association of Train Operating Companies.
		"The West Coast project does not have the same efficiencies as the rest of the network, which is itself inefficient," said the Rail Regulator.
		The report by Booz Allen Hamilton said there was a "critical lack of knowledge about the condition of West Coast Main Line assets and poor definition of the work required for enhancement schemes," making it difficult to forecast costs accurately.
	www.cilt-international.com /news-display.asp?ID=147 (723 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Glasgow - West coast rail disruption to last longer under latest plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		PASSENGERS on the main Glasgow-London rail line face a longer period of disruption under revised plans to close the route north of the Border for upgrading work.
		Network Rail is considering shutting a Scottish stretch of the west coast main line at weekends only, rather than closing it for weeks at a time.
		Passengers would be advised to travel via the east coast main line instead, while buses would replace many trains between Preston and Glasgow.
	news.scotsman.com /glasgow.cfm?id=867362004 (766 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Transport - Passengers on west coast route suffer UK's worst delays
		PASSENGERS on the west coast main line between Scotland and London suffered the most delays in Britain last autumn - largely because of faulty new signalling equipment.
		Yesterday’s poor figures are the latest setback for the beleaguered line, the major upgrade of which has been hit with huge cost over-runs and delays.
		Virgin West Coast was one of only five of the 24 train operators whose performance deteriorated.
	business.scotsman.com /transport.cfm?id=291012005 (709 words)

	The West Coast Main Line - Pop Playground - Stylus Magazine
		If the West Coast Main Line corridor symbolises any particular streak in British culture, it's the concept of modernity-for-its-own-sake (Milton Keynes, the largest of the post-war new towns, lies on the line).
		The WCML cities have always looked towards America much more than the rest of the country has historically done, well beyond the fabled soul and R&B records which arrived at Liverpool docks and inspired the young Beatles.
		In the last 25 years, the values founded in the WCML cities have they tried their hardest to impose themselves on the rest of the country and strip aside everything that symbolised wariness of unbridled US capitalism—a victory symbolised by Dido and Coldplay in particular.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /articles/pop_playground/the-west-coast-main-line.htm (805 words)

	The Scotsman - Business - West coast line upgrade back on track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		THE long-awaited west coast main line upgrade is back on track, allowing train times from Glasgow to London to be slashed by more than 30 minutes by September.
		Virgin Trains, which operates the west coast line, welcomed the review report by announcing the return of The Royal Scot and The Caledonian services to the route.
		The west coast main line is the most important trunk route on Britain’s rail network, carrying 40 per cent of all UK freight traffic.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /business.cfm?id=478002004 (759 words)

	Six Sigma cuts West Coast Main Line bill: a management technique popular in manufacturing proved its value on Britain's ...
		Six Sigma cuts West Coast Main Line bill: a management technique popular in manufacturing proved its value on Britain's West Coast Route Modernisation project and could improve the quality of rail infrastructure and save costs elsewhere
		BRITAIN's West Coast Route Modernisation (WCRM) upgrade project was at one point expected to cost more than 10 billion [pounds sterling], five times the original forecast.
		Line speed was previously limited to 177km/h, but under WCRM, it is being raised to 200km/h.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BQQ/is_6_45/ai_n14707304 (781 words)

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