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What is the line speed at the point that this train derailed between Rayleigh and Wickford?

Does de-railing not damage the wheel-sets and bogies, if not more on the train? I would have thought that those and other potentially-damaged parts on the train would be quite expensive, so not worth re-using old, less-good rail in depots - especially if it prevents trains from leaving and...

Yes, Class 357s use the platform-side equipment on North Thameside (as it was called in BR days)/Essex Thameside/the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, rather than having train-mounted cameras and in-cab monitors.

The contract for mid-life corrosion repairs and re-liverying the Class 357s started under Trenitalia c2c doesn’t include any refurbishment done to the interior at all, not even a deep-clean of the interior, let alone replacing sagging seat cushions or moquette, or adding LCD screens or any...

So we now have a Doctor/Flying GBR, rather than a Doctor Yellow/Flying Banana, going over the LT&SR/Essex Thameside network and up to King’s Lynn! It’s good that Greater Anglia have enough spare Class 720s that it can be used across the GBR Anglia network for that purpose.

I personally use an expanded definition of East Anglia, not just Norfolk and Suffolk, but covering Essex, where I am from, as well (and Cambridgeshire). First Group might still own the name, from when they had First Great Eastern.

Thank you for the list - I think it would be informative if dates were added to it, though there are 2 possible dates - first seen (from “spy” photos/videos in depot - the Class 387 leaked early, and the Class 720s were seen while they were still partially undergoing vinyling), and first seen in...

The roof over the cab for the IET mock-up is black, and the rest of the roof, and the whole roof for the Desiro U.K., is dark grey. Wouldn’t light grey reflect heat more, and help keep the trains cooler, presuming that white wasn’t chosen to hide dirt?

Well, better late than never for the stored Class 221s to be put into use.

No. The Piccadilly stock is being built into next year, and a follow-on order as part of the framework agreement is likely for the Bakerloo because it’s necessary, but there’s no official announcement of that or of funding for that yet, or for funding for the rest of the framework agreement for...

1. They will be the same - when the livery was launched, it was shown mocked-up on both a Class 80x Intercity Express Train as Inter-City stock, and on a Desiro U.K. with front gangway as commuter stock:

The last 8 of the 10 CAF Class 897 Serenzas will be built at Newport, after the first 2 in Spain. Hitachi didn’t get that order because apparently they jacked their prices up because they have enough work at the moment.

Batteries could enable less pollution in stations and around urban areas. I suppose the Government are trying to hold off as long as possible and see if there will be any drop in interest rates before they make any orders.

The only thing which we know for certain will be coming in the future are the rest of the Class 357s which are still in National Express c2c livery, and Alstom has said that each of those takes 20 days to refurbish and paint into the new white-and-magenta c2c livery. Presuming that the new, more...

The Southeastern procurement process has finished in that they’ve decided who they want to award the contract to, but they’ve just submitted the business case to the Government for it to fund it. So it’s not funded yet, so it’s not absolutely certain that it’ll go ahead, and it’ll probably be a...

Alstom still design in Derby, for example the new Adessia UK, which seems to be based on the Bombardier Aventra which they acquired from Derby.

Yes, they apparently finished replacing the Mk1 OLE in February 2024.

They currently say the early 2030s, so that’s still quite a few years away.

Yes - the Cambridge Biomedical Campus web-site news article says that they’ll be in 2000, 3000, and 4000 Discovery Drive. The extant 1000 Discovery Drive was also developed by Prologis, who are doing this for GSK. I wonder what the future plans for Addenbrooke’s will be? It’s not the newest...

Alstom released a new rendering of the Adessia UK yesterday when the new Prime Minister visited them in Derby, which shows a train which looks like the Aventra (it has what looks like the same windscreen as Classes 345/710/720, and the same lip of the body of the top of the cab on either side of...