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The Hitachi 803 units that Lumo East Coast run are of a significantly higher quality than the current West Coast 222 are/will be, even post refurb. The 803s have better passenger accommodation and seating, ability to use the OHLE, and of course better crash safety given they are 20 years newer ...

I saw a bit of rail which caught my eye the other day, which was a bit of rail that looked like it had previously been (designed atleast to be) held together with fishplates, but was now welded together. What would be the reason for changing how the rails were attached, without replacing the...

I was passing through Stafford today, and noticed an old siding just north of the station, which looked as if the track had been lifted, but the OHLE above was all still in place. I’ve seen old gantries before above abandoned bits of railway land, but to still have the wires there stuck out to...

I saw a tweet from Scotrail this morning, announcing that: https://x.com/ScotRail/status/1855535031696920997 A wonderful Gesture for those who “ Lest We Forget”. But it made me think that, given that Scotrail mentions that the entire railway will be observing the silence, how feasible would it...

While reading some of the discussion of the Salisbury collision, I saw a post describing how early WSP algorithms were limited in their effectiveness, as the application rate of the brakes had to be limited so as not to exhaust the air supply of the train. This got me thinking, if there is any...

I’ve read a lot of threads recently where the topic of the pros and cons of gangways have been discussed, atleast with regards to drivers and guards etc. Units with gangways tend to have cramped cabs for drivers, even if they are built with a partition that can be kept open ala Sprinters...

I was reading about the Voyager Project Thor (the failed plan to add a pantograph to Voyagers) on these forums, and it got me thinking about DEMUs in general. All the way from Sprinters to today, there seem to be way more mechanical DMUs over electric DMUs, but I was wondering why? Electric...

First of, I apologise if this has been asked before. I did search both the forums, and the internet generally, but nothing really came up. I recently saw a map of all railway lines in the U.K., and while I knew that the U.K. network was mostly non-electrified, I had no idea that Glasgow was a...