Trainbike46
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The situation @Bald Rick was referring to is the highland sleeper on the Edinburgh-Aberdeen (and to a lesser extend the Edinburgh-Fort William, and Edinburgh-Inverness portions). There is currently no overhead there, so an electric locomotive wouldn't work. Electric locomotives (class 92) are used from Edinburgh-London on the highland sleeper, however the amount of diesel burned on the Edinburgh-Aberdeen section is shocking, specifically given that it is the quietest section of the highland sleeperAnd as sleepers are usually locomotives and coaches why couldn't electric locos be used. Sleepers have an advantage over air travel of comfort as rather than having to be awake and alert for the journey you can be sleeping.
The lowland sleeper runs on electric the whole way, and using the sleeper to travel central belt-london is undeniably greener compared to flying.
The european sleepers have two advantages over the UK ones; Firstly, almost all of them run electric the full way; Secondly, their capacity is much more similar to that of a day train compared to sleepers here
I don't understand this point? Could you clarify? Isn't the whole point that people don't got to airports? Why would anyone prefer checked luggage?If sleepers are combined with checking in luggage and a luggage car connected to airports and the air travel directly it would get a good number of people using it.