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HS2 to Crewe would allow more North Wales-to-London services... but I wouldn't consider that benefit equal to the several billion Wales would likely receive had it been an "England" project. ORR destination matrix has the total journeys, for 2024-2025, as: Origin Destination 2024-2025 Total...

I'd be surprised if Hitachi & the DfT had a particularly favourable relationship at the moment. IEP has been expensive & their reliability is hardly above average; the class 805s only running on 2 engines isn't uncommon.

We've done this before on a previous thread...

Indeed, his background is firmly in journalism, including working under Boris Johnson at The Spectator. When Boris became Mayor of London, he was appointed as Cycling Commissioner, with allegations of cronyism at the time. He was appointed as a transport advisor under Boris and later under...

Condolences to all those affected, especially the driver. I think it’s worth pointing out for the many new visitors here that the UK’s railways are still amongst the safest in the world, and significantly safer than travelling by car.

Switching your heating to a heat pump would likely resolve these issues and significantly reduce your bills. Given you don't already have (wet) radiators, I'd look at an air-to-air system and keep direct electric for hot water. You'd get the benefit of cooling in the summer, too. The government...

This is the existing approved (see figure title) 2 platform plan for Wixams. The design work for a 4 platform version isn’t finished (and unsure if it’s started). I wouldn’t be surprised if it outside of Universal’s remit, it’s funded by the government and not on Universal land. It may be...

HS2 talks about the selection of Old Oak Common as the "London Interchange" and the consideration of an HS2-Heathrow spur in HS2 Phase One information papers: route development (series A). From document (A1): Agreed. OOC's main purpose is to reduce the passenger load at Euston by diverting...

They're from 2013, so older than I thought, but far from the oldest in the Arriva fleet.

Yep, based on the planned Norwich-in-90 services, they required 9 units for service. Ordering 10 presumes a very ambitious 90% availability... Abellio's Greater Anglia bid was ambitious & often not particularly realistic. 720s were originally planned to go to Norwich as the 3rd tph, this would...

Indeed. Sainsbury's charges 72p/kWh; those without off-street parking are likely charging elsewhere. Sainsbury's chargers tend to be more popular with fleet drivers, since the company pays for charging & the driver pays for their lunch...

The Panther is now quite outdated; it's a design from 1999 with some facelifts, small changes, and adaptations for the changing Volvo chassis. The Leopard was doing better recently, likely due to increased PSVAR requirements. Plaxton's mid-2010s R&D was too focused on producing variants for...

Interesting, I'll have a read through that thread. While I agree that reducing massive single-phase loads is good, using Static Frequency Converters is a better solution than drawing from DNO feeds. Yes... but I was comparing against battery EMUs. AC electrification is a great technology, but...

Exactly. If you exclude coaches, ADL did very well... Brand Single Deck Double Deck TOTAL Yutong 21 38 59 ADL 69 54 123 Wright 10 20 30 Repowers 15* 15 *Unknown if double-deck, but there isn't a single-deck repower product yet... ADL...

I'm not convinced that optimizing 3rd rail is extensions though. You'll need to back up the scientific side... So far, for 3rd rail: - higher transmission losses due to the lower voltage - requires frequent substations - limited to 100mph max - limited ability for regenerative breaking -...