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Derby Station layout has always struck me as odd as the lines from Birmingham and Nottingham meet coming down to a single up down pair. They then split up again to the platforms. This means effectively the junction is south of the station. I would of thought it would be better to move...

Because this is not an everyday event! It is happening for a couple of weeks and has been known about 6 years in advance! It is easy to make a couple of extra units available with pre-planning by ensuring none are out for scheduled maintenance during that period by doing it early. Also I...

Really? Really? Your really suggesting that someone who has for over a decade been the best on the planet at a sport is not worthy of some respect? Really? You don't regard this as just a little bit more impressive than driving a steam train which although no doubt has a knack is hardly having...

Why don't all rail depots get their fuel delivered by rail? They are by definition all rail connected! Was it all delivered by rail in BR days? How does the railway get away with going round trying to convince other companies to transport their supplies by rail when they were using road...

Surely organising train crew (notice in the crew room offering overtime?), organising paths with network rail etc is the sort of thing that the people running rail companies do all the time. This surely shouldn't take more than a week to organise and SWFC have presumably known their fixture list...

I wondered this. My theory and it is only my theory is that if you take 0600 and 2200 as the limits of blocks of two hours then that is 7 blocks with one train in the same position in each. i.e first train could be 0730 and last train 2130 or alternatively first train 06:30 last train 20:30...

Unless someone has a source not posted on thread I see no evidence that Bombardier are making a legal challenge. Why would they? Firstly you don't annoy your customer if you are trying to get more work from them. Second they have no need to because the union are suing. Bombardier can just shug...

There will be lots of design work required to turn a concept into an actual build-able design. I can well belive that Derby doesn't have the facilities for steel bodies anymore as Bombardier were aprrantly wanting to make Derby its "world centre for aluminium train bodies" see link I...

Once the current round of electrification has been completed there will be hopefully a set of experienced overhead wire erectors and all the required equipment looking for something to do. The MML is I believe a favourite because it is relatively self contained. They could wire the whole...

I think this will happen. Although this has been mentioned before I believe it has always been up to this point Bombardier saying "we've had this idea would you like to buy some" and this time it is the government asking "we are interested in this, how much will it cost?". It makes sense...