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I swear that there are those that would only consider the article to be "complete" if it featured photos of both sides of every power car carrying every livery that it has ever had. There are also those whould demand every single carriage too. And for the encore, someone would demand every...

Thank you. When is the unit that was towed over to Cambridge expected to be out and about?

The banner on the building reading "Stevenage Turnback Facility " is pretty much conclusive

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The article does mention the "yellow toof" variant of Virgin XC

Getting away from infrastructure and timetabling- what's the latest on the units in testing?

Clearly the answer is extra tracks. Put Crossrail in a tunnel all the way to Shenfield, with a rebuild of Stratford to put CR and Central line in a bottom level. Then, from Shenfield all the way to Haughley Junction, two addtional tracks, built for 140mph running, but on the same alignment...

The lift picture shows the answer- those white and yellow cranes weren't the heavy lift ones!

is there a testing schedule for the unit at Cambridge?

isn't that basically disused these days, with services not timetabled to stop?

They could do with tidying up that collection of Platform 11 Stop markers! are there any other stop positions, in that direction, anywhere along the platform? If not, surely a "S ALL" marker would be appropriate? At the very least the Scotrail HST one seems to be superfluous if all other...

Diesel's orginal engines could even run on coal dust. The requirement for higher quality fuels comes from the (correct) desire for higher efficiency and lower particulate emissions

how many 37s and 20s are typically in use, over say a week?

A class 9F, one of the biggest, most powerful steam locos to be built and run on the British Network. Compartive figures are tricky for all sorts of reasons, but they have a listed tractive effort of 176.45kN. It weighs about 141t on six axles (plus a tender? Think this is weight minus tender)...

it really isn't very pretty- I'm guessing though it is optimised for a combination of capacity, speed, efficiency and sea handling. The new Brittany Ferries Honfluer is from the same yard and is a slightly smaller version of the same hull.. There's also four smaller truck-only versions on the...

Seems... ambitious? Which is good, obviously, but a 220km/h service is quite a thing. And especially given how long it took to finish off TF1 to its current end point- the road was basically abandoned part finished for years, used as a playground by cyclists!

you don't have to have a "disability" as such for opening a slam door from the inside to be hard. Simply being a bit shorter than average is enough

There's a fair chance we passed each other! Given the loco was on the south end on arrival, and by the time I saw it it had white lights on the north end of the loco with electric units on either side, the only explanation is that the 755 had shunted, under its own power, to the shed.

couldn't see the unit at Cambridge, I guess it had been shunted into the shed? There was an ROG class 37 in the reception sidings.

I'd cheerfully wire up every set of traffic lights with red light cameras and fine/points everyone stopping 30cm over. I was taught to stop with the line still visible. I'm also in favour of making 12 points be a hard limit. Yes, there would a spike in people getting fixed penalty notices, and...