Recent content by Martin222002

Think this line from Will Rogers in Transport UKs press lease on his resignation is key. Full press release below. https://www.transport-uk.com/latest/statement-from-transport-uk-y9wpa-4t569-74lz2

Off topic I know but Stadler did bid for the EMR contract with a version of the SMILE, but that's as much as is known about it.

To me the seat base looks no bigger than that of the existing Azuma Fainsa Sophia seats. Whether the seats will prove to be better comfort wise time will tell, but for LNERs sake they better be or their will be egg on face if they are worse than those fitted on the Avanti 805s/807s and those...

I think the answer to that is pretty obvious. Send them all off to the job centre. We've seen Hitachi change its production location commitments before. Most significantly with the 805/807 build, where it was stated that 56 body shells will be fully welded at Newton Aycilffe and in the end none...

Not just that. It's Hitachi that are the ones 'delivering' this woful 222 fleet reliability as their current maintainer. Hitachi have form of delivering poor reliability of fleets they inherit maintenance of. Compare with the state of the LNER HSTs when EMR had to use them. Also wouldn't...

Today's Railways have posted a selection of interior photo's on Bsky. https://bsky.app/profile/todaysrailwaysuk.bsky.social/post/3lupebbltfs2x

Thank you for that!

Cheers for the replies. That was my assumption from what I'd read, so thank you for confirming that. Having used Eurostar before I know what you mean about crowding in the departure lounge. I have aimed to be at St Pancras and ready to go through security an hour before, but once I've been...

I've been looking at ideas for doing my first Interrail Global Pass. I'm aware that you can use a Global Pass for your outbound and inbound journeys, but I'm also under the impression this includes your travel on Eurostar out of and into London. I am also under the impression that your journey...

Here is the letter in question from Peter Hendy to the MD of Gareth Dennis' former employer, curtesy of Jon Stone on 'X' obtained by POLITICO via freedom of information laws. https://x.com/joncstone/status/1829045186980094162

Exactly this. In the longer term, when a 400m platforms can be delivered at Manchester Piccadilly, said 10 car 250m HS2 trains can then be used on services like Birmingham-Manchester and Birmingham-Edinburgh/Glasgow via whatever new line is built north of Handsacre.

It was actually the DfT that mandated the 26m vehicle lengthen as part of the IEP procurement, so not Hitachi changing the 'rule book' on it's own.

Exactly that! People have been for too long fouled by Litchurch Lanes shear size that they did 'everything' there. No. It's just a Victorian scale assembly site, which is why they were able to pump out as many Aventra's as they did, by having 6 (if I'm remembering right) production lines going...

Worth saying this isn't the case as there's been a cab mock up at Etches Park for quite some time. Here is Modern Railways 'Pan Up' columnist Ian Walmsley sitting in the cab mock up in July 2021. Sadly the link the the article this is from is behind a subscriber paywall...

Indeed! Dare I say it, very Virgin Trains...