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This is the exact reason I have never used it. 1791990224 That's not true. Another (simplified and hypothetical) scenario is where Eurostar can make 20% by running 10 trains full of £200 tickets, or 15% profit by running 20 trains of £150 tickets. So they choose the former. This all changes...

I'm not sure that's a fair example because those two ramps will have been built according to different standards and there may be good reasons standards have changed over time. I expect the new one will be safer for wheelchair users and also allow for scenarios where a wheelchair and pushchair...

I live in London and have a friend who lives in Brussels, that I might well visit a couple of times a year if they lived somewhere at a similar distance but in the UK. I don't want to book that kind of weekend trip 2 or 3 months in advance though (which generally is the only way you can get...

It's not just the time element that pushes people to fly though. There are various destinations that a lot of people would consider doable by rail but the price ends up too high, and it's usually the Eurostar leg that causes that. London to Cologne for example - near enough 4 hours, 2 of them...

Unless you buy from here, in which case you can just buy one month. There's an additional booking fee though: https://seat61.tranzer.com/ticket-product/248

Thanks for this - having asked the same question elsewhere, there seems to be a strong consensus that "pilaster" is the correct term - at least according to current-day usage. This diagram confirms this. 1791794497 I took the photo above last week - this is the site of the Lewes derailment...

Certainly "capital" can be used to describe the top of a column or pilaster but I'd expect there to be something sitting on top of it. "Crown" might be a better term here.

Would you use that to describe specifically that top part, or would it include the bit below them, down to ground level?

Outlined in the images below is a feature that's almost always present in Victorian bridges - most specifically girder type bridges transitioning to a viaduct either side. It's the top part of what is usually a slightly projecting pier/pilaster built onto the side of the bridge abutment. It's...

I don't think there's much point thinking too much about the details of that image, which someone probably made in about 15 minutes with chatGPT.

Yes!

Here's a gantry near Denmark Hill. I think this is one of the older style ones - but has been fitted with the new LED type signal. I wondered if part of the explanation for the structure of the new one at tulse hill was the access platforms, behind the lamps, which project outwards from the...

I can see this makes sense for some things like OHLE stuff but I'm not convinced that this applies in this case - I keep an eye out for other structures (and there are quite a few new signal structures around south london from the Victoria resignalling programme) but don't see a great deal of...

The earlier much slimmer design (as shown in posts 15 and 29) also catered for people on top of it. The need to support a person or two can't explain the amount of structure used on these recent examples.

Can confirm all the above to be accurate having spent a couple of weeks in Italy in September. Sadly nearly all Regionale trains now modern low-floor type units. I did encounter some loco hauled ones running on the line between Perugia and Foligno, with an E464 loco on each end. Hopes for an...