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HSTEd
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DHELM: Why are UK railways so bad?
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Beyond the myriad organisational issues that people have discussed, the UK is trapped by the oldest railway infrastructure. Tunnels...
Yesterday at 15:10
HSTEd
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it’s a fairly safe bet that standard class passengers and taxpayers will indeed be paying for 1st class refreshments.
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I am no longer convinced that the complication of first class provision on the railway is really justified by the extra income...
Yesterday at 14:15
HSTEd
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Where else in the UK could tramways/light rail be installed?
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The vast majority of the traffic on the corridor is contained on the corridor itself or gets dumped a single location in the city...
Monday at 23:37
HSTEd
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Where else in the UK could tramways/light rail be installed?
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Living near the corridor as I do I have spent an awful lot of time considering this problem. It's not an easy problem to solve, which...
Monday at 16:06
HSTEd
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Where else in the UK could tramways/light rail be installed?
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That is at the very least debatable. Manchester type tram infrastructure has proven capable of absorbing 30 trams per hour per...
Monday at 00:29
HSTEd
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Clearing the Air - RDG Report
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Perhaps you are right, although I am not entirely convinced given how tone deaf many of their publications are. I have amended the...
Sunday at 23:48
HSTEd
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Clearing the Air - RDG Report
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Well the RDG's position seems to be that noone needs to be convinced of the value of rail and unconditional public and political support...
Sunday at 23:10
HSTEd
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Why did we need HS1?
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Ultimately because the spectacle of a Eurostar rushing across france at 186mph before trundling through Kent was embarassing for the...
Sunday at 19:58
HSTEd
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ECML Power Supply Upgrade
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And, in the long term, they may even allow feeder stations to operate in parallel, flattening the load and allowing further increases in...
Sunday at 00:31
HSTEd
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The last coal train?
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Heritage railways would amount to a small number of trainloads per year for the entire country. There is unlikely to be sufficient...
Sunday at 00:26
HSTEd
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Where else in the UK could tramways/light rail be installed?
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Even there patronage has been falling since about 2014 (even ignoring coronavirus). THere was growth for a few years when the...
Sunday at 00:20
HSTEd
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Where else in the UK could tramways/light rail be installed?
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It might help but it won't save us from the UK obsession with double deckers with a single narrow staircase. I'm not convinced any road...
Saturday at 12:05
HSTEd
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Is green electricity subsidising rail freight?
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The problem is we don't have decades to sit around hoping battery electric HGVs with practical operational and economic characteristics...
Friday at 15:37
HSTEd
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Is green electricity subsidising rail freight?
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Why? The vast majority of motorways are not constructed in ultra rural environments, and the low load density from allowing lorries to...
Friday at 15:02
HSTEd
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Is green electricity subsidising rail freight?
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Well operation of the pantograph system, which is capable of moving around independently of the vehicle, is under the control of an...
Friday at 14:27
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