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Megawatt charging stations are being built. Hydrogen filling stations are not.

There is still a TGV Interconexion service from Le Havre to Marseille.

It was a special, but I did just that in reverse as part of a mainline charter. We had a loco change, but kept our Ffestiniog coaching stock throughout.

Tokyo and Osaka weren't mentioned in the same exclusion as London and Paris, but they each have many convergent points. While Shinkansen services converge on Tokyo station, JR East limited express services terminating in Tokyo also do so at Shinjuku station on the West side of the city and a...

Indeed the tender will not pigeonhole the exclusive use of the AT300, as that would be seen as uncompetitive. Depending on the unit length and whether the DfT make the mistake of including multiple working into the fleet requirements, Hitachi may choose to offer the 24m variant over the 26m...

Is the 06:00-07:00 departure really that lucrative? It seems to early for travellers coming from most parts of London and beyond.

That would require finding someone who wants to pay for it.

Jon Worth thinks an additional passenger door will be required at the front and back in order to put it close enough to evacuation points.

It will not be. We will be lucky if even the current projects are complete before then.

Pre-covid, this was common and confusing. Automated platform alteration announcements would overlap, with passengers not always clear on which platform the train their particular advance ticket was valid on would occupy. This was obviously even worse in the up direction.

If it allows a scheduled call at Stevenage to have its dwell reduced from 2 minutes 30 (per the current working timetable) to only 1 minute, then that turns out to be quite a saving.

I know this is a joke, but in the interest of clarity I had a £55 advance fare. This was also refunded, making my personal compensation almost £1000. Coaches were provided from King's Cross to Peterborough until just after midnight to swallow up passengers who didn't abandon their journey. The...

I was on 1D31, which was dropped into the slow line platform at Biggleswade during the disruption. We were ultimately turned back to King's Cross where taxis and hotels were put on. My taxi all the way up the M1 ran the meter up to more than £900, and arrived at about 04:30.

Difficult to say unless Beckton depot is open again - it was closed all weekend I believe.

It would be nice if a future XC (ideally as part of GBR) could move away from such a strong dependency on Central Rivers.