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Recent content by popeter45

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    Gloucester to Worcester Parkway Closed this Weekend - As Is the M5 Passing Gloucester!

    travelling to Cheltenham today, weirdly seems they are not running any of the Pad-chelt trains to Gloucester (for people to take the 94 bus to Cheltenham), making the least changes route via Worcester annoyingly
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    New Fast Line in European Turkey Opens

    or extend it across the bosphorus/ back too Sirkeci? is the old line remaining open or will it be closed now?
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    Bus and train collide on French side of Channel Tunnel with at least 19 hurt

    fits what the BBC is reporting of the Bus in question being the one used to carry Lorry drivers too the seated coach at one end of the train
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    Proposed new Channel Tunnel services discussion

    depends what the cost of boosting capacity at st Pancras is also would allow you too run smaller but more frequent North of London trains (and enable choice of onwards connection, e.g. one Manchester train could carry Eurostar passengers to Brussels and Virgin passengers to Paris)
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    Proposed new Channel Tunnel services discussion

    tracks are not an issue at STP, only passenger processing so could a feeder service work? e.g. a few locations that can process channel tunnel passengers that then all have "airside" trains that head too st Pancras for transfer too Eurostar/Virgin/Trentalia? kind of like how there are feeder...
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    Virgin Trains granted track access for international services by ORR

    so any clue if Virgin or Eurostar will accept the passengers of the other during disruptions? at the moment its simple to put people on the next Eurostar if delayed (e.g. long security checks) but what happens of the next train is a Virgin train?
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    European Sleeper experience

    Especially when immediately following by a "look how great this Chinese trains most expensive ticket is"
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    Forum loading issues?

    yea this looked like some kind of external change google and such love too sneak in thanks for the quick fix!
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    you could get dual use out of a Generator car if you used a DVT for it like what Chiltern did with its Mk3 sets, removes one of the Class 92's needed for Euston and Glasgow Moves
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    Video of Jon Worth's "longest" European rail journey: Kemijärvi, Finland to Lagos, Portugal

    Video public again sounds like Jon is not happy with Simply railway over there edit with quite alot of stuff wrong according to him https://jonworth.eu/the-film-of-the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/ 1790363639 seems like its been fixed now, that blog did have a list of issues but since gone...
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    New night train start-up - Nox

    interesting route to begin with, when was the last Domestic only German sleeper route?
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    Main line balloon loops

    would the loop North of Basel Bad count?
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    DB ICE3M being brought back into service

    it makes sense when you realise ICE 4 wern't originally going to be ICE's and instead be IC's under the ICx project ICE 4's for the long distance 200km/h IC routes IC 2's for the slower Interregio routes IC's took over when IR was axed same story with ECx becoming ICE-L
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    Forum loading issues?

    seems to be happening again just saw 6000 guests
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    signal.eu.org down?

    Yea back up now, curious to know what happened

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