Peninsula Rail Task Force improvement plans

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[ChrisB]

Be interesting to see what/whether NR^» (Network Rail - home page) look & assess this report appropos their Route Study

[Red Squirrel]

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If the railway system had been built using the the GRIP^▸ (Guide to Railway Investment Projects - Network Rail's process for project management of schemes through development and implementation) process and Control Periods (or Five Year Plans, as Stalin used to call them), then by now we'd have just about got to the point where funding was being sought to launch a preliminary investigation into seeking funding partners for a study into the possibility of linking the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) to the B&E^▸ (Bristol & Exeter railway, or 'breaking & entering' (burglary) depending on context) at Bristol, perhaps using a curve. Obviously the scope of this would be value-engineered so as to disallow passive provision for the subsequent addition of through platforms...
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[Puffing Billy]

Of course, grammatically, "Pensisular" would be correct. It's an adjective, while "Pensisula" is a noun being used as an adjective. At least, that would have been the case in the past - as in the "Peninsular Steam Navigation Company" (and later the "Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company").

These days people seem happy to use the noun even when the adjective exists, and especially so if it is a name. Changing the form of a name seems to worry people, and not only to make an adjective. Plurals involving more than just adding "s" are getting rare to - remember "Germanys"?

Grammatically correct, but in terms of usage, ambivalent. The adjectival form, if it exists, is preferred when referring to a direct attribute of the related noun, but when it is an indirect attribute (in this case "peninsula" referring to an attribute of the geographic area with which the Peninsula Rail Task Force is concerned, rather than an attribue of either the rail or the task force itself), then the noun form is at least as common, if not preferred. I would say that the usage adopted by the above-mentioned P & O company is the exception rather than the rule; the company itself was certainly British rather than Oriental, although it ran Oriental cruises - for a contrary example, see the Orient Express.

[JayMac]

I'm still waiting for a definition of 'pensisular', introduced into this thread by stuving.

A derivation of the Spanish verb 'pensar'?

An oblique reference to Luxembourgish composer Henri Pensis?

[grahame]

The Peninsula Rail Task Force has just released its report "Closing the gap The South West Peninsula strategic rail blueprint". Mirror [here] - I will update that when I find the permanent online location {{see next post}} - appendix [here].

[trainbuff]

The full 'Closing the Gap' report and appendix can be found on the Task Force website Grahame here:

https://peninsularailtaskforce.co.uk/closing-the-gap-the-south-west-peninsula-strategic-rail-blueprint/

Was that what you were looking for?

 

[grahame]

The full 'Closing the Gap' report and appendix can be found on the Task Force website Grahame here:

https://peninsularailtaskforce.co.uk/closing-the-gap-the-south-west-peninsula-strategic-rail-blueprint/

Was that what you were looking for?

 

Indeed, thanks ... there are links from that page.

[chopper1944]

Both the Report and the Appendix make interesting reading. It will be interesting to see what transpires over the 10/20 years. Time for some proper infrastructure projects to happen in the SW when compared to the rest of the country.

[Noggin]

Both the Report and the Appendix make interesting reading. It will be interesting to see what transpires over the 10/20 years. Time for some proper infrastructure projects to happen in the SW when compared to the rest of the country.

Only skimmed it, but indeed, it seems that they've been quite canny to be, 1) very conciliatory, 2) not ask for an awful lot of money (compared with say, Welsh electrification), 3) working with the existing planning framework and tied it in with existing projects and work that's going on further east (well thought out, not rocking the boat), 4) dropped in a reference or two to Crossrail 2 (i.e. you can afford that, surely you can spare us the equivalent of CR2's stationery budget), and 5) point out that having reliable rail links to London might be quite important militarily if the Scottish devolved and the whole fleet had to decamp to Plymouth.

If you compare it to the Welsh Assembly that seems to have spent the last 5 years writing a rail strategy seemingly without any real idea of who would pay for it, whether Westminster would devolve the necessary powers and indeed whether much of it would be heavy or light rail, then it starts to look very sensible and hard to refuse.