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Carlyle will IHMO be looking at Arriva as a revenue business rather than anything particularly strategic probably dispose of the bits that aren't profitable enough as trade sales or when franchised not rebidding the franchise. They've owned transport assets before notably W&G which was sold for...

I'd be curious how you've arrived at a BCR of 1.5 for Cirencester as certainly the last last Gloucester railway study was very critical of the viability of Cirencester. I quote "Whilst there have been proposals to re-open the former spur to Cirencester, the costs of provision will be prohibitive...

The Oxford mail and various protest groups have run surveys where most popular choice had been do nothing, then again various groups are opposed to EWR as well. TBH any proposal to introduce new transport infrastructure in this country results in protests from some group of interested or...

The disabled rail card was a product introduced in an era when trains where not intended to be accessible, so logically providing access to the least dense widest pitch seats made sense also the lack of peak time restrictions made sense to help disabled travel for work and for some classes of...

CAF promised an earlier delivery date for the 397's 's than Hitachi would commit to early '19 vs autumn '19. The more interesting question is why considering the promised delivery dates did TPE order any 802's and with the wisdom on hindsight on how the mk5a where delayed would a single large...

There is a trade show on currently for digital / additive manufacturing and the machine vendor Stratasys obviously wants to highlight that they have the only rail vehicle interior approved resin... DB ESG are the producer of the parts as per this press release from 2018...

It depends on the industry but non shift based industries have very much moved away from the concept of paid overtime, indeed with hour banking schemes based on semi flexible principles automotive and much of the traditional manufacturing industries are now providing far less opportunity for...

I'd expect the issue to have been a controls / sensitivity one which will be down to design decisions taken by the builder. The efficiency of the transformer is a separate matter to that of the protection controls, which are probably software based and how they have been programmed to shutdown...

Reading the conditions around 28.2 I'd say that the text is just poor wording the intent is that the TOC for the ticket you hold should provide alternative transport and if required due to no services accommodation overnight until transport can be arranged. The breach if by any party here is CS...

The £500k stkm figure was the figure used to justify the original business case for GWML and subsequent electrification projects. The RIA report Edwin has linked shows that actually the GWML route is coming in at £2.2m stkm and MML at £1.8m stkm, so on this basis you would get less than a km per...

Hydrogen Cell requires commercial scale hydrogen production to become viable, currently it isn't as the electricity costs involved in separating hydrogen from water are more prohibitive than diesel or electric battery charging. To solve this requires a step change in the cost of electricity...

Current bi-modes are diesel and electric in the the future electric and battery bi-modes may appear. The second type of bi-mode still needs enough OLE to charge the battery between unelectrified portions, the higher the line speed the greater the battery capacity that would be required for...

The highways agency use marker posts every 100m on the trunk road network to plan and confirm maintenance works (and recoveries / incident response), I'm surprised that NR don't operate a similar system of confirming ingress/egress at each access point back to control and confirming arrival at...

GWR plan for 30 minute turnarounds at Paddington which allows time for disembarkation, cleaning, restocking and boarding, in the event of disruption 15 minute turn around can be done but cleaning & restocking doesn't happen. Grand Union from the application appear to be proposing a 15 minute...

I don't believe that NR are planning to wire Canton as part of the GW works or wire from Central to Canton and TfW are having Taff's Well built for metro services. The units to be based out of Canton are all diesel, bimode or trimode. The metro services between Queen St and Central are proposed...

The initial timetable would need stabling to be somewhere in Wales to provide stock for the 0635 first service from Cardiff, the pattern finishes with the last service arriving Cardiff 2220, I'd have thought Canton but not sure if any roads are to be electrified and if spare capacity exists to...

Temple meads is more complex than just the original Brunel building and the midland shed as the current station is actually three combined buildings. 1. Brunel original station now known as "the engine shed" & "Brunel's old Station". 2. The Digby Watt GWR / Bristol & Gloucester railway / Midland...

A modern bimode or actually a modern post privation train for the matter will be pressure sealed with air-conditioning throughout so the fumes shouldn't get into the passenger compartment if the filters work correctly. Pacers and the Sprinters certainly are not sealed, so poor quality air as...

It's less complex that's the advantage of electromechanical door systems. Generally pneumatic doors are the lowest initial cost as the components required are inexpensive, however you need more of them and they need maintaining more often this includes maintenance on the air regulator and...

One of things the premium airlines have long since cottoned on to is how to treat "premium" e.g. first and business class customers in the event of disruption. Hotels, transfers, alternate carriers all offered as matter of course, doing just the statutory minimum not. But it's train I hear the...