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it's definitely not so simple- class 345 are 22.5m intermediate vehicles, with a nine car set clocking in at 204m. class 720s meanwhile come in at 122m for a five vehicle set

are the parts with different job titles formerly part of different TOCs?

Donostia is well worth visiting itself though,

Although not massively- 25 imperial tons is 25.4 tonnes (and 28 US tons)

because the idea is to use cardinal directions- which are all single words

The Tories often bring up Labour's links to the unions as somehow being a hidden and secretive thing when Labour are a party that was founded by the union movement to better represent the workers- though the RMT haven't been affiliated for many years.

It wasn't safe, ever, people were regularly killed and more frequently injured. 1655627825 the dutch have lower per person/per km cycle casualty rates than (eg) the UK because they separate people cycling from the danger to people cycling- very much a "health & safety" culture approach, just...

OK, fair enough. Google maps shows a bus stop within the ferry terminal area but looking this seems to no longer be served?

Honestly, the OP missing this key bit does show how weak the rest of the argument is. In my "ideal" world yes, all public transit (which domestic ferries very much are) would be nationalised, with a coordinating body to ensure that all modes worked together with seamless ticketing. It's wildly...

Got it in one! They had a single rake that were repainted but not converted, they were used for a while on services to Banbury I think

the original plan was to have the bulk of the fleet (working both west anglia and great eastern as 89 5 car 720/5, with 22 10 car 720/1 that would have worked on appropriate diagrams on the great eastern. But for various operational reasons it was later decided to make the 720/1 44 units but...

cycling over the Carter bridge at Cambridge this evening there was a 720 parked next to coupled pair of 317s. Really brought home how much longer the coaches are, demonstrated that they really are effectively "six cars" long compared to the old stock

yeah good luck with that, why would ASLEF anglia undermine their comrades at SWR like that?

Some part of the explanation has been given; but there's also the issue that I would have thought this has come from the local ASLEF representatives rather than head office. THus, it is entirely possible for ASLEF at GA to be OK with something that ASLEF at SWR are not OK with

good for the union I say, no-one should advocate a race to the bottom and the misery that ensues.

for coal wagons, one issue was axle load. One of the benefits with re-opening the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine was that coal trains to Longannet could switch to bogie wagons, which due to axle weight were banned from the Forth Bridge. On the capacity/empty weight/axle weight optimisation four wheel...

remember it isn't a test of skill, aptitude or knowledge, it's test of (if anything) genetics. If you can easily get any sample cards right, then you're fine

there's a number of 20s that are tripcock fitted, and there's even apparently been (no idea if still are) three class 66s fitted, allowing them access to the Metropolitan lines and western Central line. I guess in your time there might still have been a connection at Leyton allowing Stratford...

Re Darlington, I've checked at least the December 2019 timetable (pre-Covid) but I'm pretty sure that before Lumo the only service that avoided it was the up flying Scotsman (0540 off of Edinburgh) that did Newcastle-London non-stop, and that prior to the introduction of that there had been a...

ooh, not quite. The American ones are Avelia Liberty, the TGV M is Avelia Horizon . Very similar power cars, quite different trailer sets- as well as being single deck, the Liberty trailers are tilting, as compared to the non-ti;ting duplex Horizon trailers.