Recent content by The Ham

I would suggest it depends on if that's on a fixed tariff. I pay 3.8p per kWh off peak, day rate is 27.8p whilst the current price cap is 26.32p. I used abot 366kWh off peak of which 68kWh was home and 121kWh peak of which 113kWh was home. As such (ignoring my EV use) my average kWh rate as...

Possibly down to fact that they are only running a limited number of services. I often argue that for the UK rail network we need to look at places where there's limited frequencies but could do marginally better than break even on running an extra and run that train. The reason being, is...

I think that it may even be worse than that, Burnham has said they we should work towards being closer to the EU and whist the most recent poll has Labour lower than the week before, they are still up from where they were when that was announced. Reform on the other hand are down over the week...

What I would say as a Christian is that a lot of those who claim to be religious clearly in such a context are following some skewed version of what I believe. Whilst they may feel they have the "Love the Lord you God" bit, they clearly haven't got the "love your neighbour" bit at all...

Indeed, the point i was making was around a winter long distance journey, and that for that sort of car that would be unusual and so would be ideal for a lot of people. Especially given that it's not uncommon for people to stick to about 15 journeys of over 50 miles a year.

I agree. Now imagine just the cost difference for a family of 4 (£140 to £260) or a family of 5 (£175 to £325), or £1,200/£1,500 for travel at £300 a ticket. Even if those premium tickets were £180 that's a sightly more manageable £720/£900 and if that could be (say) £135 return then that's...

That's likely to mean a circa 2 hour trip should be doable without charging (in the winter, rough ballpark of usable milage being 55% of quoted range) and you'll then need 20 minutes to do circa 3.25 hours of driving. However, as I highlight, typically most people would be best to stop for a...

Really? Whilst there's a lot of end to end users, I'm not sure cutting the frequency for the smaller stations is a great idea. Especially given that there's been other options discussed to create such a service, yes "only' at 0.5tph, however for a new service that's not a terrible starting...

Depends on if that's a fall by (say) 20% in real terms (i.e. allowing for inflation) or cash terms. For example if by 2035 inflation would have inflated prices from £150 to £180 a fall of 20% would mean £144. However, if we're thinking that rather than £150 it'll be £120 (so 20% fall from...

I was watching a TikTok by a Londoner who confirmed that there are definitely no go areas in London. After hearing the list, I fully agree. The list included: - swimming in the Thames - between the tracks on the Central Line And as few other tongue in cheek comments, but yes, places you...

A valid question to ask, so what rail use in the area. For just passengers it's: 2tph Newbury 2tph Basingstoke 1tph Plymouth/Cornwall 1tph XC Bournemouth 1tph Exeter semi fast/ former XC Southampton That's 7tph in each direction before you consider freight and the junctions. As such it's not...

I believe that (including the 220's) there's 44 diagrams which need to be run. I believe that you need to have a minimum of 3 coaches in a set, so it "could" be possible to split that 4 coach unit to retain a couple of end units to create 2 sets with 3 coaches so XC could strengthen a few extra...

Likewise was unaware, of this, hence my previous comment, it's easy to overlook the entrance symbol on the National Rail layout. Every day is a school day. As such adding 500m to a journey for those using platform 1 will have some impact. Given I got it wrong before, whilst it looks like...

You can do lots of things to listed structures, it just takes more effort to get approvals. As I said, probably 3 track first, so only looking at 1 portal, and on one of those bridges the impact is likely to less significant than the other three portals. Where did I say that we only needed 4m...

As someone who charged entirely away from home for a week and doing significant milage (90 minute journey each way) unless you can't do something else and charge at 50w then even a shortish supermarket visit of 10 minutes at 50w can add 20 miles of usable range (Google suggests 25 to 30 miles)...