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Nottingham59 replied to the thread Global Warming - Time to Crack on with Electrification?.Yes, if you measure cost effectiveness in terms of pounds per kilometre of electrified route. But for recharging battery trains, the... -
Nottingham59 replied to the thread Global Warming - Time to Crack on with Electrification?.Battery sections could now be hundreds of kilometres long. And as current improvements in battery technology are deployed in EVs, range...
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Nottingham59 replied to the thread Leicester - London Bridge Day Return.I don't know about Leicester, but in the past I've found that from Nottingham the best option to London Bridge and back is either a...
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Nottingham59 replied to the thread Class 810 for East Midlands Railway Construction/Introduction Updates.Well, the whole point of the 80x design is that you can convert them to EMU by removing the diesel gensets, or to BEMU by replacing them...
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Nottingham59 replied to the thread Class 810 for East Midlands Railway Construction/Introduction Updates.Indeed. The best choice for the country would have been all 9-car 80x (or a mix of 5-car and 9-car 80x). But those options would have...
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Nottingham59 replied to the thread Class 810 for East Midlands Railway Construction/Introduction Updates.Standard practice seems to require 20m spare to split and join at a terminus (hence HS2 specified 420m platforms for 400m trains)...