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That train in the Dulux ad is double decker - it looks like a Sydney CityRail M set to me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityRail_M_set .

Is that even a class 142? It doesn't look much like one, especially with the huge headlight on the roof.

Another which occurs to me - the Northern Spirit + First + Central Trains + Cross Country all on top of each other mess that some 158s wear.

WAGN "we've pretty much given up" all over purple with peeling patches exposing bare metal. Particularly annoyed me as the trains wearing this livery replaced the 365s and refurbished 317s that had previously been more common on the routes I used. Southeastern's current hotch-potch of liveries...

London Underground already put a huge amount of effort into user experience. Have you read their design standards pdfs, available to download here http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/12523.aspx from the the TfL website? The London Underground signs manual is particularly thorough in its...

Paddington to Oxford trains are always packed whenever I've been on them, weekday, Saturday, Sunday. Chiltern are on to a good thing with their planned services to Oxford from Marylebone.

This one... Image by Paul Burkitt-Gray, based on a photo by Wikimedia user Sunil060902, distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License. Would be great to see it happen for real, though CSRE entering the UK market would also be interesting to say the least. Paul

No, it's kind of like gravity, it happens whether you believe in it or not.

In Denmark IC3 DMUs and IR4 EMUs frequently run together on electrified lines, with the train splitting and the diesel part continuing to unwired destinations.

With regards to yellow panels, I think the best version was on Grand Central's original artist's impression.

What about East Coast and Virgin West Coast? I thought they mainly served fairly large stations, or are there some peripheral ones which are unstaffed? Eurostar and Heathrow Express definitely only serve staffed stations, but I don't suppose they count as proper TOCs.

Chappess, given the name. And she seems to be entirely absent from the internet other than this paper.

Your design sounds very interesting, I look forward to seeing it when it is released. Is it similar in any way to the concept developed by DCA show on page 13 of this PDF http://www.ukintpress-conferences.com/conf/rail06/pdfs/day1/rutter.pdf ? Paul

That's not quite correct. It's the first high speed order not awarded to Alstom, and the SNCF train order I know of not to be manufactured in France, but several previous regional train orders have gone to Bombardier's French division. Paul

Image by Paul Burkitt-Gray, based on a photo by Oxyman, published under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License. Rather than scrap the recently refurbished D78 stock in 2015, when it could have another decade and a half of life in it, why not send it to Southern? They could provide ten...