Recent content by Nick Ashwell

Normally I'd be a pedant and state the Saracen was an APC, apart from that llooking like it's the South African armoured car variant? I'm being little super nerd over here

Whilst in this instance it makes more sense to use the diesel engine moniker, ICE has become the go to method of referring to the drivetrain component as we now talk about drive trains rather than individual motive effort, rightly or wrongly.

DfT is a government department, that's the meaning of attached to the government, it's a part of the government with a Minister making policy decisions and able to overrule department decisions. I wonder what you suggest ministerial responsibility is? Is it responsibility for the local town...

There seem to be some issues with the new validators that TfW really need to get sorted. For example one works at Caldicot but not the other, lots of half price returns being given out due to people like myself only having to pay one way

I don't know if it's the Adver's poor writing or Go-Op overegging in their materials but it sounds like they're saying they'll be linking to London New Wiltshire train operator Goop needs £2.6m to get started Prewarning: As a Newsquest paper you may get pay walled, you may not

Only because Ryanair has the economies of scale no other airline in Europe has with the 737. When they're operating smaller numbers of an airframe they lease, see their Lauda A320s. It would make sense if we were placing £30bn orders to buy rolling stock, but it makes less sense with smaller...

Access to ducts and providing the fibre are two separately different things though. Most ISPs using Openrech are using their exchanges. You're comparing apples and oranges here The second one is fair

Ogi was my thought as well, they've had a mass rollout recently which seems to have kicked Openreach into a faster rollout. Can any ISPs dig up the infrastructure provider's cables? Most ISPs use Openreach infrastructure which they most definitely aren't allowed to dig up the infrastructure of...

Don't think this has been posted, TfW have decided to use the spare fibre capacity on the Core Valley Lines for a commercial wholesale business. https://tfw.wales/fibre Seems like a good way to generate extra revenue, increase access to an essential resource, and integrate different types of...

Well that does make complete sense now it's been explained. It's just worrying that a 153 pair is currently escaping to Manchester when TfW are having to cover for XC

A four car working the Cheltenham-Maesteg today (I'm currently on it) Seems like a hell of a capacity waste

It's not the railway, it's modern standards more generally, for good or bad. Without seeing maintenance figures it's hard to actually give your conclusions any credence. As a example with no financial bearing: If it costs £10m for something cheap now but £1m a year to maintain, or £20m now...

It can be argued that operation efficiency provisions in the EA2010 allow them to get round it with older stock, before considering PRM etx

I'm amazed it got that far with it being a discrimination issue. Telling a disabled person they can't buy something a service due to their disability, be it on board or a 1st class ticket, is discrimination.

So the terms mainly come from aviation. The railway is going to be slightly different but wet is where the supplier supplies nearly everything and dry is where the operations are done by the operator not the supplier. More and more the manufacturer of consortium supplying the trains does the...