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Not really, this isn't like a traditional heritage railway type do, they're not rail enthusiasts most of them, they want to get a steam train over the viaduct like in the films, a lot of them won't even know that you could hear a steam train if the carriages had openable windows or what the...

When I was at school in the North West, I learnt a lot of imperial, moved down south, suddenly those measurements are 'archaic and we don't teach or use them' That was 2001 so not 'that' long ago, I still struggle with a bunch of conversions, we're rather off the topic of why some of the trams...

I know the ones you're talking about, been past them many times and yes they're CDL fitted, they're all in a right state though(one's fully burnt out) but they haven't been sold just yet so it is possible I suppose that they could have pulled them back off the market and refurbished a couple.

Sheffield, like Manchester uses mph. I think their use of mph is probably a historical artifact of being the first 'modern' street running light rail in the UK, everything that was segregated before then(DLR, tyne and wear) uses kmph, and everything built after them also, segregated or...

The coast has absolutely no chance for electrification for ages, Bizzare It almost reads like he's got confused about and mixed up the lines involved, as in they'll do Barrow to Carnforth, a relatively easy project to announce in an election year, that removes a lot of diesel under wires...

I can't find an actual list of exactly what coaches they have that breaks it down easily however from what I have seen I think that's quite likely.

The powerpack vehicles are really rather short so I'm going to say yes.

Having used a 221 and a 745 on the same day the difference is quite clear, you can see it. The every toilet is an accessible toilet and the then standards of crumple zone design leading to massive vestibules on a voyager is part of it, I assume there's some more space 'lost' by putting tilt...

The invoking of Purdah as a reason why things like operational aspects of the railway can't be announced is to me an incredibly new concept and seems to be a mistaken one. https://www.modernrailways.com/article/ecml-december-2024-timetable-deferred

I don't think there's really any spare capacity at Paddington to have more services on a regular basis.

Looking back on it, it really was a massive mistake giving Arriva the franchise in 2007, or at the very least not mandating a fresh order as I believe virgin were proposing, of both more voyager trains and carriages, the fleet was but about 6 years old then, indeed perhaps 'Project Thor' might...

I noticed how absent they where visiting yesterday, given the expansion of the network in recent years it's a bit surprising they still only have one depot that can be cut off like that, doesn't seem like they have any sidings or bays either to run a skeleton service if there's plans like this...

Piccadilly has level access, good visibility and a bridge(complete with a waiting concourse area for 13-14) at the other end. It also had a significant rebuild in 2000 to remove its former tiny Euston-like main concourse to enable that. New Street was possibly another, although at least there...

The problem is, Euston isn't like any of those stations, its platforms are hidden from view, grouped into single chokepoints points of entry and exit that lead to a comparatively tiny concourse only at one end of the station. It was designed for a world of rail travel vastly different to the...

If you place that collander in a bowl or a sink, or some of the holes are blocked and the water is too fast and it's left unchecked it will fill. I notice some in this thread have brought up the example of Hillsborough, whilst it's not directly comparable(lack of pens) there are some aspects...

What's wrong with double deckers on the 125?

I do like the novelty of a guided busway but, they require building and maintaining infrastructure like some kind of railway, but exclusively for buses, that generally involve feeding buses from congested roads back into congested roads. It's often simpler to just segregate and modify existing...

It's been mentioned in other threads elsewhere but yes, the stock using the line is now all heavier and longer with services being more intensive. (I recall seeing a statistic recently that the total weight on that section over a year has gone up 40% compared to 2018 or so) The Electric...

St Pancras MML is almost entirely seperate from the other side of it so there aren't security or signalling concerns, regardless the dudding hill line is far, far too slow and the capacity of the 4 MML platforms is already too full so it's not worth considering over Euston

Blimey that's a blast from the (fairly) recent past, it's preferrable to a cancellation I guess but I'd be needing significant refreshment at the end of having to be doing that again As an incredibly regular user of the line the 166 seemed perfectly acceptable about 20 odd years ago (it was...