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20th September 2015, 10:06
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Network Rail upgrade delayed by government.
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22nd September 2015, 15:25
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Another case of Party Manifesto being published before doing a reality check. The upgrade timetable required twice the number of workers than Network Rail employ, they can't be in two places at once. Rebuilding railways that are on track-beds 170 years old will throw up unexpected problems, the re-boring of Farnworth tunnel being a good example. These problems all add to additional time and cost.
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22nd September 2015, 15:42
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23rd September 2015, 20:07
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Great bit of PR film about the project but it was published a week before they hit an enormous problem when the TBM hit an unexpected area of sand. Work had to be stopped until a solution to the problem could be worked out.
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