Recent content by JonathanP

Yes, I see what you mean. Britain is now a completeley independent sovereign nation, arguably the greatest nation in the world, and everybody else can stick it where the sun don't shine. I mean, imagine if Britain was reliant on electricity imports from the EU to keep it's electricity grid from...

Why? Do you think not being in the EU has helped the UK's vaccine situation? How? What has not being in the EU enabled the UK to do regarding vaccines that it could not have done from within the EU?

I don't think the Vaccine situation has any relevance here. Britain could, and probably would have opted out of the all-EU purchasing scheme which seems to have caused most of the problems. They could also have issued their own emergency authorization before the European one. None of it makes...

On the face of it this sounds like a major reform. However, it's unclear from the press release how these "expectations" will be put into practice.

Perhaps not so useful if you don't speak German, but there's an interesting documentary about a Frankfurt - Paris ICE service here: It mentions a couple of amusing problems that had to be overcome to merge the two systems. For instance - French conductors wear a cap for easy identification...

To recap on the situation here: Two months ago, some "business leaders"(not Eurostar!) wrote a letter saying that it would be quite handy if Eurostar got some government support. Since then, absolutely nothing has happenned. The trains are still running, and neither side has said they will...

So what is your solution? Should we always ignore the 'experts'?

Strictly speaking you haven't contributed yourself.

I am quite tall, on some British "long distance" trains e.g. Eurostar and Pendelino, the seat pitch minus seat depth is literally less than the length of my thighs. So particularly on Eurostar, where its is forbidden to book a table seat when travelling alone, I am forced to book first...

According to the report this will not be a commercial service. Saxony will tender for an operator to run a subsidised service from Chemnitz to Dresden which continues directly to Berlin and Rostock. DB FV will obviously win because they are the only operator running between Dresden and Rostock...

I think the Dosto sets were 720 seats, wheras a double set Desiro HC is 800.

That that would either be desired or possible is highly unlikely.

Thanks, that's very interesting. Up until recently I was working on prototypes of this kind of system. The localization(where am I?) is mostly a solved problem and their approach sounds pretty standard. The bigger problem is the obstacle detection. Automotive use cases only need to look 80m...

Apparently they are being stored on behalf of the new owners Locomotive Services Limited. The SVR has also been used as a test track and a tour origin and destination point by LSL. The SVR does also have it's own mini-fleet of Mk3 sleepers for staff accomodation use.

There is no cascade. The article headline and photo is a bit misleading, but then it is just a headline. The KISS running the Dresden - Rostock services are 4-car units. These extra ones are a completely seperate fleet of 6-car units which just happen to have come from the same source - they...