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While you might have a few metropolitan areas in France they do not correspond in its entirety to the fullness of the territory (may I remind you about the French Diagonal?). While the regions might have some control over their big metropolitan areas, the rest of the territory needs to be...

I stand corrected! Thank you! 1786401154 I missed that post. Thank you

Ouigo and Iryo have been accused of dumping.. Regarding regions exercising devolved powers, I don't agree with that on railways, except on big metropolitan areas to a certain extent, as you have a region with very specific needs, huge numbers of passengers and an absolute need to move people...

Flixbus is a low-profit line killer... In Portugal I envisage that in a few years many small towns and villages will lose their express links to Lisbon or Oporto

As does Madrid, which has a narrow gauge line to Los Cotos, currently closed for refurbishment, the C9 line. No narrow gauges around for hundreds of miles :D 1786313337 And what about this one in the middle of the Atlantic in Brunnel Gauge? (please use a page translator from Portuguese to...

That is an opinion I respect but I do not agree. In any case I only pointed to a paper that reflects on that: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221053952500032X? Moyano, A. & Dobruszkes, F. (2025). Privatising profits and socialising losses: The effects of liberalisation...

Academic investigation has thoroughly pointed out that fragmentation and open access passenger services has led to higher costs to the public purse and deterioration of service in rural area. The fact is that rail operators do not pay the full economic costs of the infrastructure use but while...

Literally, in an emergency anything goes.

However trains will end earlier Anyways, the OHL will become officially available on the 18th by 5pm on both sides, with train positioning for the new wtt expected to take place after that time.

One of the obstacles for the introduction of widespread bidirectional signalling in the UK seems to be the route based signalling requiring detailed route knowledge by the drivers (with the consequent need for route refreshment if not used regularly). On my network, having speed based...

It is a possibility...especially with concrete sleepers acting as heat batteries

Desert temperatures at night can go down to 0 in the winter...

I can tell you it is awful with a gastly AI translation on the fly. In the case of Portuguese this especially bad because in my case it translates to Brazilian Portuguese which is somewhat different from European Portuguese... The messe is enough to drive me away from the site, especially...

In Portugal we may get a few speed estrictions here and there but we keep running!

A few bits and bobs there... The distant (which is the british designation for the advanced signal)will usually be at around 1000 meters from the station but it will vary according to the line speed (Rede, however, indeed has both distants at exactly 1000 meters but in Ermida is 844 meters from...