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Recent content by edwin_m

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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Now there is a loop, the long blocks on the remaining AB sections may be more of a constraint than they were before, as trains could otherwise be closer together when approaching the loop.
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    MML Electrification: progress updates

    Any re-modelling would probably encompass at least part of the east and west legs of Syston triangle, which suggests that electrification would probably start on the four-track section north of Syston North.
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    A chart with tracking is visible on this video at about 1:24. I think they are shown as the pink diamonds, whereas navigation buoys are shown like leaning chess pieces. The sequence of events now seems fairly clear. Accounts from the crew and pilots will be important in understanding why the...
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    Guided Busways

    They can work, particularly where a service can use uncongested roads for much of its journey, where a bus needs no more than a few priority measures but a tram would need expensive street track. Also where a trunk route feeds out into several branch routes, which would all need their own track...
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    Multiple Working

    Sometimes the only unit available has a lower speed. While EMT/EMR still had some 156s, they frequently attached one at Nottingham to the Norwich-Liverpool in place of the diagrammed 158. There is some 90mph track on the route but it didn't seem to make much difference to timings, at least as...
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    Madrid Metro Airport Supplement

    If you're going to Atocha the yellow bus from T1 is much easier than two changes on the Metro or going via T4. At 5€ last time I was there in 2022, it was the same as the Metro fare with airport supplement.
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    Not the same dolphins. There are two much smaller ones much closer to the bridge and two more on the other side. https://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=39.216593%7E-76.52883&lvl=17.0&style=h At about 9:47 in the video below it's clear that the impact wasn't head-on, so the bulbous bow possibly missed...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Rather to my surprise this is pretty much what I was about to post! I guess it would have to be a bit wider than the most egregious untruths (like footage of New York for London?) as these would be obvious to most people. The threshold for intervention by the Office for Statistics Regulation...
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    Is a grand coalition the way forward now?

    That applied to most of our governments under FPTP, as most parties recognised that the voters on their own side of the spectrum didn't have anywhere else to go and the voters that were theirs to gain or lose were in the centre. This is less true nowadays, possibly because party members have...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Good that this formal duty exists, but what is lacking is any sanction on politicians (or anyone else) who uses statistics in a misleading way. As far as I'm concerned they should be required to cease using any statistical claim found to be false or misleading, and issue a correction with equal...
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    The power lines crossing the estuary nearby have much more protection and the pylons are set back further from the channel. I assume they were built later. The Americans built the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate before any comparable suspension bridge appeared in the UK. Subsequently building...
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    What does this sign mean?

    A pictogram of a hand crossed out would indicate "do not touch", which would serve the same purpose and be much clearer. That pictogram is used on the saloon doors of 158s where there is a risk of trapping if someone has their hand against it when it opens.
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    Or the bulbous bow could itself push into the structure supporting the pier and assist in dislodging it. This bridge was opened in 1977, which I think is quite late for truss bridges of this type. Had it been a suspension or cable-stayed structure then it could have had a much longer span...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    The Office for National Statistics could have a role in monitoring when false claims are made or statistics used in a misleading way. Not that it did much good in 2016.
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    Rail services to be included as part of Bee Network

    Bringing local rail into the Bee Network will integrate it with Metrolink and bus fares, but I guess it remains to be seen if that also involves taking it out of the national ticketing system. Because most of the Bee Network rail routes will continue outside the network area, I would guess that...

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