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  1. Gostav

    Ayr Station Hotel Fire 28/05/2023 and now on fire again 25/09/2023

    Over the years, there is one situation that may partially explain why such buildings end up being destroyed due to long-term neglect. There are some dodgy intermediaries who specialize in selling similar old buildings to overseas buyers, who are the newly affluent class and have less overseas...
  2. Gostav

    Lineside yellow cylinder???

    How to monitor if they are empty?
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    Simplified overhead electrification

    What is the top speed of such simple tramway style overhead electric line in realistic? 25mph?
  4. Gostav

    Glasgow Subway new stock

    Emm, I was almost looking forward to being able to take the front view viedo but looks the trains in service have a opaque partition to the cab.
  5. Gostav

    Manchester Metrolink

    I found an old Metrolink plan in an old book Metro Maps of the World, published in 2003. In the plan the Manchester Airport stop should be a through platform to make a interesting loop route, and there are show the extension planned to Stockport.
  6. Gostav

    New Rail line near Newport

    It seems typical that some people use their "professional fields" to commit corruption, usually by consulting firms.
  7. Gostav

    List - Heritage Railways Operation Railcars

    Ah, l will add it on my list, so the line would be extend to Junction Road Halt right?
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    List - Heritage Railways Operation Railcars

    For the past year I have been looking for heritage rail systems in the UK that offers a forward view through cab partitions. Now l have a incomplete list and l haven't visited any of small heritage lines such as Isle of Wight Steam Railway. I wonder if I missed other heritage railcar trip on...
  9. Gostav

    People Power in Spain - reopen an old north-south line

    For Japan's experience - that need localities to pay (most of) funding for rebuild/maintain such branch railway operations, no money - no railways. Localities will own the lines and have the option of A. operating their own trains. B. Give operating to large railway companies. If the opening of...
  10. Gostav

    Headbolt Lane progress updates

    Yes, and with physical token.
  11. Gostav

    Heritage railway financial problems.

    There are obvious example in Isle of Man, full electric fleets on Manx Electric Railway but still attracted a large number of tourists.
  12. Gostav

    Southampton Cruise Railway Terminals - When were they last used?

    From Google Maps and Railway Track Digrams Southern & TfL I noticed that both cruise terminals in Southampton - P&O Terminal and QEII Terminal have rail connections but l never hear any boat trains serviced to them in recent years. When were they last used (I can found the last boat train video...
  13. Gostav

    Single points of failure: are the UK's railways less resistant than they used to be?

    This fresh video is a good example about how easy those graffiti groups trespassed the infrastructures.
  14. Gostav

    England's late 20th century good old days - reality or rose-tinted?

    Or, the question in the non-western countries has always existed but due to lack of way of the information in the past may not be known to ordinary people. Relative economic advantages between The iron curtain fell and 2000s and lack of information from outside the West have given Westerners a...
  15. Gostav

    Longest trip that you can see front through the cab in UK

    i did that at easter, it is a good trip and got a cab view record about 40 minutes long.
  16. Gostav

    Which city in the UK is most likely to get a Tram/Light Rail system next?

    Or, tramway / light rail company responsible for the development of housing along the line, and construction of commercial facilities own by the tram / rail company in the new town.
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    Which city in the UK is most likely to get a Tram/Light Rail system next?

    But isn't there a project called "Coventry Very Light Rail"?
  18. Gostav

    11 May, Fatal Taichung MRT crash, automatic train hit failed crane 1 dead 10 injured

    English news from Focus Taiwan https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202305110019 Cannot believe that "though Taichung Metro carriages do have emergency buttons...these only stop the train after it reaches the next station." "...the emergency door release handle does not work when the train is...
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    Have railways became too expensive to build/improve?

    A major factor promoting China's metro construction process is the availability of cheap shield machines made in China. At the beginning of the century, metro plans emerged in various parts of China, but almost all of them were rejected by the central government because "imported shield machines...
  20. Gostav

    Narrow Gauge Trams

    For really narrow gauge - 762mm, there was an extreme example in Japan: 花巻電鉄 Hanamaki Electric Railway, which operated narrow-body trams: 1620mm width of the body! This was due to the fact that the tramway was on narrow roads. Such extreme example will greatly restrict the transportation...

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