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So just to clarify, I understand that 3rd rail is not compatible with overhead AC because of issues with return currents and difference of grounding method. Except were significant infrastructure is used to mitigate this problem making it unsuitable for wide scale deployment. However I am...

Replacing a double 158 with a combined 158-159 would give increased capacity would fit inside the 5 coach limit and allow for more frequent trains.

I wonder if the apparent lack of the expected large crowds isnt partly due to the fact that some of the people going to events would have otherwise been going to work, reducing the net effect.

I am interested in the running more trains in the Exeter area. As a regular user of the avocet line on the past I was wondering how they could increase frequency. looking at the timetable the current journeys seem a little padded to what I remember. But not enough to add any extra trains so...

How much do passengers weigh? Well according to wikipedia the average UK citizen is 84.0 kg so if we look at the weight of an engine quoted as 1.2 tonnes in another thread. That equals 14.3 passengers. It would have to be a very terrible train if it could not stick to a diagram because there...

I wonder if this isn't because as things get older they become a little less reliable, and therefore more likely to fail. The consequence of failure for a plane is a little more serious than a train. Its a little harder to want to keep using the old if the result isn't delay. Bring on the new...

I spent a lot of time standing at the barriers at brimsdown and Enfield lock. Do you use the underpass or wait for the barrier. I think between stations along the line there is room for 4 tracks but you would have to move all the stations. It might be better to do the other route but I think...

The way I would do it would be to extend any Paddington-heathrow service through to reading on the western link therfore becoming a shuttle from reading and Paddington to heathrow. Secondly I would send 1 tph from long distance services that way maybe alternating southwest/Wales services. At...

How about locomotive hauling off the line towards Exeter. Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

No, at the time these looked like they didnt have a future. However in the future maybe we find that we do need more harbors and at that point we safeguard them so that at some point we can reinstate them. This is the position the railways are currently in. The technology that looked like it...

With SWML being partially converted to overhead AC that would suggest increase in line speed would be possible as the current limit is due to electric pickup being difficult at elevated speeds with shoe gear. So would Southampton be able to then benefit from reduced journey times to London. No...

I live in the real world, most people in the real world however are not reading the fine print of the condition of carriage, carrying on how they have always done things and not necessarily knowing that what they are doing is wrong. The real world also contains those people who ride with no...

Given that ignorance is no defense to the law it does not seem onerous for the party responsible for the law from disseminating information to help others not break it. A full understanding would quite clearly help many of those who come on here seeking help. Some are quite clearly trying it...

I hope you had a first class ticket in your possession when you took those picture as quite clearly you were in the first class section when you took them. I do not believe" I just want to take some pics" is listed on the condition of carridge as an acceptable reason to be their on a std class...

Well the responses on this forum prove the results of the survey. You negative bunch you.

Because it gives us something to do. I also learn something by it. Sometimes its about how the railway operates sometimes its how some peoples minds work which infirms me how I sjould view their other posts. We clearly won't know till the official report comes out what actually happened but...

Speed would be more important factor for sighting than damage potential especially due to the optical effect of looming. Some people will defeat any system you put in place if they are determined enough like the idiot I saw nearly creamed at brimsdown, there is a subway right there! But we...

A more direct route would involve crossing dartmoor, and the way the devon banks are described as the difficult way up K2, when confronted by an iep, moving the line further north isn't much of a solution either.

Take 20 quids worth of change with you and offer it to the guard. I believr there is some strange rule about notes only being legal tender when the item is at least 10% of the value of the proffered note. Similarly there is an upper limit for legal tender for the use of coins I think it is 5...

How dare someone attempt to maximise the use of a ticket, while remaining with in its validity from now on I will only buy anytime singles for my journeys as the others are to cheap.