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I'd have thought railtours are unlikely due to the use of CBTC and decommissioning of traditional signalling.

You forgot the bit where the company 90% owned by the businessmen has an option to buy remediated (at public expense) land for £1/acre once a tenant has been found. Then they immediately lease it back to the council, who then sublease it for a slightly higher rent to the tenant. Council makes a...

Indeed, EB can be very strong. I fly light aeroplanes from time to time. I remember talking to my local airfield, made a slightly abridged approach from a local landmark due to approaching rain. Called final. As I'm coming down the approach, I think it looks a bit different to usual. Oh no...

I think in the next few years once battery recycling becomes commercially widespread, the financial hit from a failed battery will be much lower than it is now, and you'll effectively get a new battery for your old battery plus a much lower amount of cash than you would pay today. Battery prices...

Indeed, isn't the issue the junction signal being someway before the junction, and the 80x being very quick to accelerate?

A second hand Leaf would probably be affordable for your eldest - you can easily get a decent one for less than £15k. For you, a Kia Niro, MG5, MG4 would absolutely manage the commute you describe with ease, even in the depths of winter. We have a Niro and went on a family trip to Wales (from...

Selling for scrap IS recycling, and arguably better than making it into some kind of street furniture of little or no practical value.

The Niro is a great car, we have one of the new model EVs. If you're looking at a first gen Niro, make sure it's the larger battery version. They did a 50kWh (ish) version too. Hardly anybody bought one which is why they dropped it for the new model, but there will be a few floating around on...

I would say go into John Lewis or something and see them. The picture quality on some even high end TVs is absolutely shocking when they upscale stuff to the native resolution. Really bad pixellation and/or fuzziness whereas a very similar model next to it lovely and pin-sharp.

The bonnet pings up with smoke billowing, then the wheels and doors fall off like a circus clown car. I'm looking forward to it.

Teslas certainly do have fluids. Brake fluid of course. And there's a lot of lubricating oil (in fact the motor is oil-cooled, as well as it lubricating the gearbox), and battery coolant. Granted the oil and battery coolant are sealed systems (there is a top-up point for hte battery coolant...

Current.

Don't get me started. Stop in tunnel. 2 seconds later "We are being held at a red signal and should be on the move shortly. We apologise for the delay". 2 seconds later we set off again. Repeat ad nauseam when the service is bunched up. Really? The signalling system has stopped us? Well blow me...

"Closing date for applications is (to be inserted)" Hardly going to attract the best talent is it?

I guess the pre recorded phrases are one per line, so multiple lines just plays multiple prerecorded phrases. I don't get why you have to announce all that rubbish on the train anyway - there are display boards and announcements at the stations regarding disruption on other lines anyway. We...

I think probably debris. I'd be surprised if pads were down to the metal on a 28,000 mile EV and there's none of that grinding noise you get from worn out brakes on the odd occasion I've actually needed to use the friction brakes.

Well even the brakes are barely used in an EV. In fact the discs on mine are quite badly scored and I expect I shall have to replace them for first MOT

Victoria would be great if it wasn't for the incessant auto-announcer. Is it really necessary to tell us between every station and at every station that "This is a Victoria line service to Brixton. Brixton has no step-free access" sometimes accompanied by "The Circle line is operating with...

Crikey, are the engines worn out already of is there some design/build flaw being addressed? Wouldn't be the first time Deutz have produced a duff batch of engines (familiar with an issue from another sector).

I bought one a couple of months ago. 2 years old, 28k miles. I've now out nearly 10k miles on it and absolutely fine so far. They can accelerate very fast, but there's no clutch etc and no engine to wear out/damage through being "ragged". Very little to worry about and 120k mile or 8 year...