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ECML Power Supply Upgrade
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The video in #242 is transformative and makes much modern design and practice obsolete. Perhaps re-design is the reason for delays in...
Sunday at 13:38
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Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates
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But it did originally. My point is that modern alterations neglect the passenger - as your comment shows! WAO
Saturday at 09:26
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Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates
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It looks like the new Huddersfield platform awnings are tapered upwards like at Reading - modern chic architecturally but they direct...
19 Apr 2024
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WCML Power Supply & Auto Transformer Upgrade
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The approaches to Lime Street were supplied (for quite a short distance) from the small Speke Feeder Station, which is now rather more...
16 Apr 2024
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Class 503 disposal
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Point well made. Had the 503 been stabled nearer Merseyside, it, like the 502, might have found a viable sized group of working...
16 Apr 2024
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Class 503 disposal
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The 503 was in trouble from the start. While it was "preserved" at withdrawal, the Local Authority sponsoring it soon wearied and had...
13 Apr 2024
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What rolling stock could be deployed on the TransPennine Route; could we see tilting trains?
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This is a very good idea, generally. Not only would there be fewer types of stock with more standardisation but the trains would be...
9 Apr 2024
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Reopening the Ventnor Tunnel
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I wonder if an extension just to outer Wroxall, as far south as was possible, to a "Ventnor Parkway", might be worth a bid. It's about...
6 Apr 2024
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Reopening the Ventnor Tunnel
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IIRC, Ventnor has declined considerably relative to Sandown and Shanklin since losing the railway in 1966. It could have been saved if...
4 Apr 2024
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What other possibilities are there to improve capacity around Reading?
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The answer to this depends on whether you want to make rail operation easier or facilitate travel around Reading. The rebuilding of...
26 Mar 2024
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Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates
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....and the inspection and detailed testing both statically and under load has to satisfy the various stakeholders before being...
21 Mar 2024
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Rail Preservation for Peace - did it work in Ireland?
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The mention of the Palestine Railways is very timely. It was IIRC built the army (ours) as a standard gauge widening of the previous...
20 Mar 2024
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Class 503 disposal
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Your perspective. WAO
13 Mar 2024
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Class 503 disposal
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Electrification would only be applicable to a heritage railway for the same reasons as on the commercial railway; when there is the...
13 Mar 2024
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Could electrically-heated steam locos be a solution for preserved railways?
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I don't think that there's any mileage in immersion heaters in boilers and pantographs on tenders - the thermodynamics are all wrong...
25 Feb 2024
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