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The MI 09 units on RER A are double decker, have 3 pairs of doors per carriage and are only 10 cm wider than most UK units. The problems here are the platforms and the restrictive loading gauge. The shape of the train tapers from the floor down to the wheels, and the platform overhangs...

The main purpose of Crossrail is to distribute passengers travelling in from the suburbs around central London rather than pushing them all through the tube at Paddington and Liverpool St. Therefore, Crossrail must stop as much as it can within the core. To have a pair of express tracks through...

The WHL stations can take 4x23m units over most of the line, and 6x23m units south from Crianlarich. Even if the 3-car 170s have suitable accleration for the line we'll still lose out on capacity on the Crianlarich-FW-Mallaig section compared to doubled up 156s, so the Sprinters are set to stay...

In that article, the first picture inside the article (not at the top) has 2 more pictures in its gallery. The last one shows the HOPS train with what I think is the fence for working on open lines.

Or just standing on top the train tying up the wires as other trains speed by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoGEBUAUe5M.

I'm not sure if there will be significant savings in cost from using headspans over portals - while there is some saving in using less materials and less deep foundations (since headspans are lighter), I'd have thought most of the cost in electrification will be project management, logistics...

It really doesn't help that EMT have 4 different types of trains for its IC services, with each used for a certain number of services, like only 7-car 222s and HSTs used for Sheffield fasts. Corby EMUs could be a good thing if it allows EMT to keep the shorter 222s coupled almost permanently...

Reuse of the GCR alignment in several places like between Leicester and Rugby, too. This is basically what an enthusiast's ideal railway looks like, with the usual disregard of the realities facing the railway network today! Notice how much of the west coast is left out, except for Manchester...

Google has a online spreadsheet editor with very similar functionality to Excel. You could import an Excel file into the editor if you wish. If you save it online you can choose to share it via a link - anyone who clicks that link will open up the spreadsheet even if they do not have an account...

The way the current railway network is organised - with NR, the TOCs, the ROSCOs, the DfT, the contractors, the local authorities and all the various charges and contracts between each of these organisations - makes BR actually look quite efficient. The key difference is that the current network...

That car park probably belongs to Moto, one of the motorway services companies. They love using their own circular signage. They got criticised recently for not using official signage standards, so what did they do? They replaced the symbols and font with the official versions on the same...

Press photos of the Class 700. The seating can also be in a 2x2 formation. So far we haven't seen any official seating plans, so we can't assume that it will be mostly 2x1.

With the high speed line between Glasgow and Edinburgh being planned there won't be any need for stock with end doors on the Falkirk High route - it'll just become a commuter link like the other three lines.

An eastern HS line connecting to Nottingham and beyond would be ideal for relieving capacity on phase 1, but I don't think that'll happen for a few decades at the least as the potential capacity on phase 1 is enormous - we can start using less classic compatibles as the HS network expands...

I am not sure if NR would be willing to use headspans (like around Brussels Midi and other European stations) especially as they are more fragile: if a wire is snagged it is likely the whole headspan will come down. With the fact that the majority of approach lines to Waterloo and Victoria are...