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I agree I do find it rather odd when people still laud German railways as if they were some pinnacle of reliability and efficiency. I find myself at times taking an (often unjustifiably) positive view of British railways merely as a point of balance.
Saw this on Facebook of the second batch of Mexican HST stock arriving late last month. Unloading was at least partly at night and they have been sent off for repair and repaint so seem to have slipped away from most cameras so far.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/oSLGffSDTYwRw2zq/
Does look a little odd when you've got mk.3s behind a kettle though:
I wonder if LSL's more premium market position makes it actually harder rather than more straightforward to transition customers to accepting more modern rolling stock.
The MD suggested - in the Green Signals interview I've linked above - that going forwards it would (have) been scaled back to '3 or 4' production lines instead.
Class 345s are 9 Car sets, 11 car passive provision has been made in the core section station boxes, but none of the other...
Interesting interview here:
Notable points mentioned include the potential for the Irish X'trapolis order to have been built at Derby in return for a UK 'baseload', if it had been committed about 6 or 7 months ago.
As an aside I've found German TVMs to be confusing and often inconsistent in what is and isn't presented in English. Getting multi lingual functions to work properly does need a fair bit of thought put into it.
I presume DMA BR1, DMA BR2 etc are the battery units in the 'A' unit Driving Motor. Likewise for DMB. Its interesting the state of charge is so varied across the battery modules though.
We don't live in a country that is going to throw ridiculous money on HSR that sits unused most of the time. Spain is unique in the level of infrastructure and its lack of use by the State run operator.
Sorry, the thumbnail is completely different to the video. The train shown as soon as the video starts is the one I'm thinking of. It even looks like it might be debranded Freightliner Green.
I thought in the spirit of this thread I'd just add this video I came across which appears to use a Class 66 (or continental equivalent) as the
Locomotive of Kim Jong Un's personal train.
The Scotsman article at least suggests that the Glasgow Terminus to be used is not yet decided, theoretically a 5 car AT300 would fit in Queen Street. I wonder if potentially a Falkirk call might be useful, if likely to fail on the Primarily Extractive test.