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In 2010 I was working in Central London just off Millbank and there was some kind of Official Gathering of the Great and the Good from various embassies/consultates across the globe - almost without exception they were all ferried to the said location in black limos of various brands with every...

I have an August 2023 MY24 Polestar 2 Long Range Single Motor - I picked it specifically because at the time it had the longest range WLTP (406 miles) of any EV available in the UK - there are handful now that claim upto 5% further, but its still a good one - I would wince at the common sub-300...

WTF - whats the snobbery here? I was a die hard ICE fan until the opportunity came my way to I gave it a try. And it for me its working. My only negative comment related to the still ridiculous arguments touted by those who have a self-interest in sustaining ICE as a viable future. And this...

I'd be unhappy not giving myself 2 hours - but for facts, it'll will take you 10-15 minutes just to walk from the station to Terminal 1 Departures A - its at ground level close to T3 (unlike B which is at Level 5, same as the walkway tube from the station and nearer to it too)

Only the most stubborn ICE fan would argue that EV's are less environmentally friendly than gas guzzling ICE vehicles - it amazes me how the great unwashed continue to believe the anti-ev rhetoric spouted by those with a clear interest in Oil & Gas production. And guess what, there's nothing...

Terraced housing (and flats too) have an additional challenge in the 21st century - the new need to provide car charging points to their owners for their electric vehicles (as the Govt directs us to now) is now an issue - not only the simple problem of laying a cable across the pavement (or in...

In my simple survey of one my wife has no clue which tram to take or even which platform in the undercroft at Manchester Piccadilly - I always have to tell her - take the platform towards City Centre/Altrincham/Bury blah blah (NOT Ashton/Etihad platform) and then say (if we're headed towards...

Picking up this oldish thread - my list is short and all in Europe France-Belgium A16 - coach Belgium-Holland E19 - coach Belgium-Holland-Germany various - coach Germany-Luxembourg-Belgium various - coach France-Spain A9/AP7 - car Italy-Switzerland (Simplon Tunnel Train and return through...

exactly the same as the Madrid Metro and their terminal stop on their Pink Line 8 - caught a load of us out coming back from a CL game there in April - threw the cards away and then found out we had to pay the airport surchage for us all and for another card to load them on too!

Agreed - in my original SkyscraperCity discussion on this 12 years ago I mocked up some colour/number squares on station signage and also proposed a way the line number could be placed at the left hand end of the front destination board - I see they've sadly now gone from SSC but I found them...

Spot on. It is not the lines/tracks that matter, its the routes. Consider Munich MVV with its singular S-Bahn tunnel through the middle - there's about 6 or 7 routes/lines running through that single tunnel, and its the 6 or 7 options that matter NOT the piece of track. We have our own little...

The lines are effectively already named - Google Maps labels them by their colours (Blue, Red, Green, Yellow etc) - IMHO anyone unfamilar with Metrolink (and I believe their are lots of tourists in this position) would greatly appreciate some simple line naming/numbering rather than the odd...

Is there a simple map anywhere that shows current progress across the whole length of the TRU? Whats energised/active? What else is done? Whats coming next? Apologies if this a duplicate request or the location of said map is obvious.

Manchester, Blackpool, Great Orme, Paris, Munich, DLR, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Milan, Bern, Lisbon

Just looked through the last dozen or so shots on this thread and I am amazed at how good the latest Train Sim Offerings are these days - that 'is it a real photo' question is getting harder and harder to answer. So so much better than the original MSTS of 20 years ago which I worked with...

someone was suggesting that Marple Station was close enough to Romiley Station that their respective communities could be served by the other one

Romiley is a long way from Marple and there is the added inconvenience of the deep gorge containing the River Goyt between them bridged by the viaduct and famous aqueduct - it is also the ONLY convergence point of the two lines into Manchester so provides the interchange between the Piccadilly -...

thanks - thanks - makes sense, otherwise it would be no better than paired up voyagers (or even the old APT) with their need for two sets of train crew

which one is it? A or B? Or somewhere else?

I have a simple question about Class 755's - I notice they have a power pack carriage in the middle - does this form a barrier between the two halves of the train for passengers? Or is there a corridor through them?