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To be really honest, forget the trains, go to a restaurant in Grand Place, eat moules et frites, drink a large cold Belgian beer and watch the world go by. 2 hours later...checkin for Eurostar :-) Ian

I notice there's mention of an additional platform at Pontypridd, does this means reinstating the currently unused "long, through" platform or reinstating one of the south facing bays? NB: Haven't been to Pontypridd in a long time and the only reference I have at the moment for the layout of...

Gwili Railway, Isfield Railway...neither of those are connected afaik. What about teh Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway...ok, narrow guage but does it meet the standard gauge railway at any point? t, Ian

I don't think London-Barcelona would become a "regular" route for many like you say, however for travel times up to 5 hours this kind of highspeed rail is really the target. For example, Marseilles-Brussels is very well patronised despite the flying time being an hour or so, coupled with getting...

Everything is monitored via telemetry, CCTV and various other systems. The automation is actually quite simple and any condition outside of "normal" is handed over to a human operator. These systems are built in a very different way from, shall we say, "normal systems" in that everything is...

Wasn't there a BR advert at one time that claimed that you cruised at an altitude of 2 meters? t. Ian

To be honest I think you can forget about recovering the memory stick. A few salient points to consider: 1. what data was on the memory stick? Anything personal? 2. was it backed-up? 3. was it encrypted? (easy to do in all operating systems) Personally I tend to copy all data onto my...

Not hard to create a scenario, but a bit time consuming and fiddly on the complex routes such as London to Brighton. Getting the driver train in place and routing that initially is easy - adding all the AI traffic is basically a repeat but getting the timings right and all that business takes...

Birds...we get some serious stuff over here :-) http://vaunut.org/kuva/66862 Mind you, birds and other small animals make a hell of mess when they do hit...I remember picking bits of rabbit out of my car's radiator in the middle of the night somewhere in the middle of Wales and that was at a...

Not sure about Victoria, but there have been many services from Brighton (and Eastbourne too IIRC) that skirt around London via Kensingon Olympia. Not sure if any of these run any more but I regularly used these to avoid London to get to Reading onto the GWML. Sussex Scot to Edinburgh/Glasgow...

Hi, for various reasons which I too don't fully understand I can't even ask this over at UKTS :( Anyway, the IHH Gatwick Express pack complete with a DVT is my query. I understand that the 73 is electric only (no problem), but is the DVT drivable? Can you run and drive a consist DVT...

Not sure whether Finland holds that record - no recollection about that but I'll ask around. VR does run Pendolino trains at 220km/h between Kerava and Lahti on Finland's "high speed line" which has been built with the 300km/h geometry but nothing runs about 220. Curiously VR runs 200km/h...

I had a few random crashes (and a few repeatable ones too!) but pretty much all solved if you go to Steam and "validate the cached files" - might take some time; on mine it found 40 out of sync... Since then, worked like a charm. If you have Amstrong Powerhouse's class 142 you'll need to get...

Just wondering what are the longest combinations of DMU in common use (and what has been the longest in normal operation). For example, I've seen 3x 3 car 159, 2x2 car 150, 2x2 car 158 and 142/3/4 commonly but are there services where 3+ 150/142/3/4 or 158s are used? t. Ian

In terms of passport/immigration control, probably nothing at all. The terms of independence and the relationship between Scotland and the remainder of the UK will still have to be worked out. One possibility is that Scotland signs the Schengen Agreement in which case there would be passport...

Why not do as the Danes and couple diesel and electric trains together? I'm not sure of some of the specifics but certainly one could calibrate the control systems to each of the units is matched in terms of power output (to rail)...? Ok, so this is really useful when you have services...

But isn't that what the Voyager is...a UK version of the Regio Swinger., which itself is a tilting, diesel multiple unit, albeit 2 cars (and generally run as a 4). Reasonable trains to be on, quite comfortable and haven't really noticed any major differences between those and the Voyager from a...

Cwmbargoed has been rumoured for a while - I think it is in the plans certainly. Llantrisant-Beddau and St Fagans-Creigau are also possibilities too. Actually just running a train over those routes would pay for itself in terms of property price increases - except the economic model doesn't...

Might be a bit out of your way but Finnish railways have a real-time map of passenger workings: http://www.vr.fi/fi/index/aikataulut/junatkartalla.html and mobile app versions at http://www.vr.fi/fi/index/palvelut/mobiilipalvelut/junat_kartalla_mobiili.html for Symbian, WP7/8, Android and...

o Breston ... which /might/ sound worse ;-) If you're wondering, the other mutations are: P->Mh and P->Ph in Preston = ym Mhreston and Preston = a Phreston Actually I'm trying to think on which English station I heard the anouncements given in Welsh - this was back in the 90's ...