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    Brexit matters

    Yes, I see what you mean. Britain is now a completeley independent sovereign nation, arguably the greatest nation in the world, and everybody else can stick it where the sun don't shine. I mean, imagine if Britain was reliant on electricity imports from the EU to keep it's electricity grid from...
  2. J

    Brexit matters

    Why? Do you think not being in the EU has helped the UK's vaccine situation? How? What has not being in the EU enabled the UK to do regarding vaccines that it could not have done from within the EU?
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    Brexit matters

    I don't think the Vaccine situation has any relevance here. Britain could, and probably would have opted out of the all-EU purchasing scheme which seems to have caused most of the problems. They could also have issued their own emergency authorization before the European one. None of it makes...
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    New government bus funding

    On the face of it this sounds like a major reform. However, it's unclear from the press release how these "expectations" will be put into practice.
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    Information on Alleo Operations?

    Perhaps not so useful if you don't speak German, but there's an interesting documentary about a Frankfurt - Paris ICE service here: It mentions a couple of amusing problems that had to be overcome to merge the two systems. For instance - French conductors wear a cap for easy identification...
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    Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar

    To recap on the situation here: Two months ago, some "business leaders"(not Eurostar!) wrote a letter saying that it would be quite handy if Eurostar got some government support. Since then, absolutely nothing has happenned. The trains are still running, and neither side has said they will...
  7. J

    Why are stupid people increasingly gaining influence over others?

    So what is your solution? Should we always ignore the 'experts'?
  8. J

    Trivia: Thoughts / Questions about Japanese Rolling Stock and Railways

    Strictly speaking you haven't contributed yourself.
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    What do you value about First Class on long distance services?

    I am quite tall, on some British "long distance" trains e.g. Eurostar and Pendelino, the seat pitch minus seat depth is literally less than the length of my thighs. So particularly on Eurostar, where its is forbidden to book a table seat when travelling alone, I am forced to book first...
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    DB KISS to be upgraded for a new DB connection.

    According to the report this will not be a commercial service. Saxony will tender for an operator to run a subsidised service from Chemnitz to Dresden which continues directly to Berlin and Rostock. DB FV will obviously win because they are the only operator running between Dresden and Rostock...
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    Downsizing in germany

    I think the Dosto sets were 720 seats, wheras a double set Desiro HC is 800.
  12. J

    DB KISS to be upgraded for a new DB connection.

    That that would either be desired or possible is highly unlikely.
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    Russian Automated Train Trials

    Thanks, that's very interesting. Up until recently I was working on prototypes of this kind of system. The localization(where am I?) is mostly a solved problem and their approach sounds pretty standard. The bigger problem is the obstacle detection. Automotive use cases only need to look 80m...
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    Wensleydale Railway ‘clear out’

    Apparently they are being stored on behalf of the new owners Locomotive Services Limited. The SVR has also been used as a test track and a tour origin and destination point by LSL. The SVR does also have it's own mini-fleet of Mk3 sleepers for staff accomodation use.
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    DB KISS to be upgraded for a new DB connection.

    There is no cascade. The article headline and photo is a bit misleading, but then it is just a headline. The KISS running the Dresden - Rostock services are 4-car units. These extra ones are a completely seperate fleet of 6-car units which just happen to have come from the same source - they...
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    DB KISS to be upgraded for a new DB connection.

    It is. It seems that WESTBahn had a fleet of 4-Car KISS units which are already in use on the Dresden - Rostock services. DB will now take over the 6-Car KISS fleet too, which represents entire current WESTBahn fleet. In order that they can still operate a train service, they will buy... more...
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    Heritage railways - Work undertaken/services provided for TOCs and Network Rail

    The SVR has done various other testing of heritage and modern traction for Chiltern, Locomotive Services Limited etc., including high speed testing between Bewdley and Kidderminster. The fully signalled main line connection that was installed a few years ago has made main line movements a lot...
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    Another interrrail sale (9th Feb to 15th Feb 2021)

    Plenty of people took foreign holidays this summer so I don't see why it wouldn't be the same this summer. However, sadly, it seems to me that a country-hopping Interrail tour is probably the worst possible holiday choice in the circumstances, seeing as at anytime a country might impose...
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    Union connectivity review

    Well, one is partly under the control of Westminster, the other partly controlled Westminster. It doesn't seem unreasonable from their point of view, especially bearing mind that Westminster exceptionalism was a key, if unspoken theme of the Brexit debate.
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    German mechanical signalling

    Exactly. It's a misconception to think that mechanical signal = mechanical box(although that's not to say there aren't any of those left). Germany went through a phase of building electro-mechanical signalboxes(similar to the Westinghouse miniature power frames) in which the so-called...

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