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My car reported outside temp of 33C as I drove past Lewes on the A27 at around 1730 on Wednesday, which dropped to 28C as I approached Seaford. With all the hills in the area dramatically affecting the breeze I can imagine that the site of the derailment could have been much higher than the...

Sorry, rude of me to not reply! Yes the swiping method is fine for removing the widgets, thank you. The obscured delay column is indeed on chrome in android, or the search app which I believe is also chrome under the hood. For the Kent maps; for the Victoria to Charing and Sole St I...

Hi Takno. May I suggest a couple of tweaks. On android, when clicking on a train id no, can you put an x box to close it again on the collapsed menu at the top rather than having to click on the 3 dots to get the x box. The desktop version has the x at the top. On the desktop version, can you...

Actually eurostar did have proper paths. Their journey times from Waterloo to the Channel Tunnel was basically as fast as the eurostar could go, adhering to speed limits. There was no regulation for pathing through other local train paths, except for a couple of peaks trains diverted via...

As I left Swindon at 1411 on Friday on a London bound HST a westbound Cardiff train arrived with its pan up, which most surprised me! http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C40083/2018/11/16/advanced

Brilliant, thanks!

I know there have been millions of threads about loading gauges in the UK, and apologies if this has already been provided, but does anybody know where actual dimensions for all the UK loading gauges can be found? On the interwebs there are various dimensionless drawings provided by NR...

^^ Re the drag question, yes any vehicle one would expect to have 8 times the drag at 250mph than at 125mph. However you wouldn't expect a train designed for 250mph to have 8 times the drag as one designed for 125mph precisely because of that - it will be mitigated for to some extent in the...

The N700, E5 and E6 series shinkansen tilt, as well as the Talgo previously mentioned. http://www.jreast.co.jp/e5/hayabusa.html#no7

Possible, easily yes, practical, rarely. There is a tendency towards rationalisation for electrified routes, meaning the number of trains that would be required for leaving an electrified area is likely to be low and/or widely distributed. The result is that a diesel powered EMU design would...

I also tried this a few years ago and did not find that the GCR alignment was suitable for such speeds. The corners that do exist would still need straightening out, I was working on an assumed 300km/h route at the time which I found necessitating the realignment of about a third of the route...

The route is predominantly 45/70 linespeed (don't know what the RA is for the two linespeeds, I assume the EMUs are ok for the higher speed). Exceptions; Faffing at Strood 45/60 through New Hythe 40 southbound and variously 20/40 and 30/40 northbound through Aylesford. 30 through Maidstone...

Could use a classic compatible and go to Birmingham New Street and then onto Manchester, once per night maybe around 0230. Hell it could even go into Heathrow and reverse back out again, people late at nght aren't too fussed about speed, they are mostly just happy to be moving and warm. Once the...

The reason why SouthEastern have a few 3-car 375s is because one or more of the platforms at Charing Cross can only handle 11-car 375s. In the rush hours most CX 375s are 11-cars, most Cannon St ones are 12-cars. 465s are only allowed to be 10-cars at CX as the end cars are slightly longer...

^^ Well I'd agree with that. Hopefully this ticketing review and lengthening TOC concessions will go some way to rationalising the system.