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As I understand it (and it was only a third hand rumour, which is why I asked the question as there are clearly some people here that are 'in the know') when the power pack (i.e. the module that comprises the engine, cooler group, transmission and auxiliaries) was offered up to the body...

Thanks. That was ten years ago. At that time, my house was worth £150k.... even taking into account the recent slump, it was recently valued at £425k. By that measure, a four-car unit now should cost £8.5M, or £2.125M per car. In reality, a current technology EMU vehicle costs about £1.2M...

All this fuss about names.... I think you'll find that Bombardier is pushing the name Aventra for it's new generation EMUs (including Thameslink) rather than Electrostar. I don't think that Bombardier has made any reference to a colloquial name for the NXEA units, although if they have, I'm sure...

Any news regarding these? Last I heard, Bombardier was having some difficulty fitting the power packs to the first unit, due to interface issues.

Do you mean a 375? Is that £3M per vehicle, or per 4-car dual voltage unit? If the latter, sounds a bit light, if the former, sounds a bit rich.

This is not quite right. GC is owned by Sula TOC, but Sovereign is owned by Sula ROSCO. A small, but important difference.

The primary reason it would seem for building HS2 is not that we would like to travel between London and the North faster, but that the WCML will be full by 2016 or 2017. During the original WCML electrification in the 1960s, many trains were diverted down the Midland Main Line through the...

My word, you're absolutely right. I stand corrected. So what's all this ****ocks from the ROSCOs, the SRA and then DfT about saving weight and penalising heavy trains then??

The problem is that everybody, including those that specify the trains these days, is obsessed with saving weight and reducing energy consumption. Those nasty private sector train builders get heavily penalised if the rolling stock is too heavy and the TOC gets hammered with a high track access...

Understand Old Oak Common is the preferred site.

180105 down to two motors and thus cancelled.

It may be me, but £6k per vehicle doesn't sound nearly enough for a proper PIS.

The PAN-TEN (Eastern Europe extension to the Trans European Network) routes in Bulgaria ("Corridor 8") have been equipped with ETCS (ERTMS) for some time, which includes OTMR. I assume that if the 87s are going to run on these routes, they will have the equipment fitted in BG.

The new R43 MTU engine won't fit in an HST power car.

The concept design for the Polaris train sets has been carried out by a UK team, mainly consisting of the teams at Transys Projects Limited in Birmingham and Schoenemann Design in Belper. It is intended that the majority of the design work for the trains will be carried out in the UK, with some...

Surely, it's more about the way the power is converted to tractive effort that indicates how good a loco is for heavy freight. The Class 67 is a Bo-Bo because it's designed for high speed passenger / light load work. I seem to remember that they were originally intended for mail traffic, which...