Recent content by slouch152

An eastern entrance plan would shirley involve building a second footbridge. Firstly because there's no landing site on the east side to which the existing bridge could be extended, but also because it's more buildable; the existing bridge can remain in use throughout any works. The obvious...

Your question led me to find this surprisingly comprehensive document from GWR: PDF GWR Facilities Guide - Great Western Railway It's 225 pages long so I'm not going to summarise it, but the relevant part is page 12 which shows the seating plan for a 9 carriage train. The first class end of...

Regarding the fuel issue, a wacky alternative would be to swap the East Anglian ends of the XC and EMR services, so XC runs Birmingham-Norwich while EMR/GA runs Nottingham-Stansted. Thus the 755s could use the wires between Ely and Stansted to extend their fuel range, not to mention being a net...

Update: apparently not... https://democracy.cambridge.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=147&MId=3511&Ver=4

(delurking) I'm intrigued by the choice to order bi-mode units instead of straight DMUs. Does it imply: that it's not possible to buy DMUs any more; that there's no price advantage in buying DMUs so you might as well have the flexibility; or that there's some strategic reason to buy...