Recent content by edwin_m

As i posted on another thread, 222s have a high weight per seat and large engines that are probably running below their most efficient output for most of the time, so are likely to be amongst the highest emitting trains per passenger-mile. The discussion suggested that it would be in the same...

Unfortunately most of the media is much less critical of a Tory government than a Labour one.

Many of the air-braked wagon types were first introduced in bauxite and I believe had the BR logo and "Railfreight" in boxes like the later "Speedlink" livery did. I think air braked wagons carried a yellow circle at some stage. There are several sites with photos of wagons. Probably the...

That was quite significant in the days of unfitted freights where only the locomotive and brake van had brakes that could be applied while on the move. Rather less so these days when all wheels of the train are braked, and as mentioned above light engines are speed restricted as their brakes...

The flipside of that is that single occupancy EVs almost certainly win out on emissions over some diesel trains that are above the average. Voyagers and 222s will be close to the worst case, because their weight per seat is high and they also have high installed power to achieve good...

And because Skegness trains are often strengthened at holiday periods, and they don't want the extra units wandering off elsewhere or to have to do more splitting and joining at Nottingham.

I believe that's basically correct, but the charger in the video is at West Ealing. I don't think there is one at Greenford.

Perhaps it's a use for some of those HS2 classic compatibles that won't have much else to do?

Which is also a major reason why they don't have cheap Advance fares.

From 1988 to 1994, anyone who spoke on behalf of Sinn Fein couldn't be broadcast, whatever they wanted to say.

Why would two plans in the name of different companies have the same date? Could it be that the L&Y plan was after the actual alignment was agreed, so it didn't need to concern itself with limits of deviation?

Shome mistake shurely?

I was thinking it would probably avoid Derby via the Stenson to Sheet Stores line, but I agree it would need padding at Nottingham.

Longer low cost flights such as Hurghada or even Jeddah are unlikely to be more than a handful in a day, unlikely to make DSA viable without continuing subsidy, and they would probably want to fly from the London area where there is more population. If anything needed a longer runway in the...

I'd say Lincoln would be a much better destination if it can be made to work (it could replace the faster EMR service). Grantham isn't really much of a place in itself and anyone railheading towards Birmingham could do so from Peterborough or Newark instead. It also needs a local out of...