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The financial consequences of compensation payments are one reason the safety of our railway system has improved. If you reduce compensation levels to "give them the price of their ticket and sausage roll" there's no financial incentive to keep passengers reasonably safe. The threat of being...

The swap body concept might be worth a revisit, I guess. Gauging might possibly be less of an issue if the swap body is smaller and will be used for short distance trips, fitting with the limited range available from electric HGVs. I keep saying this, and I think someone said I was giving...

Again, indeed. I don't fully see the need, given the oil terminal Hawkshead won't be re-opening, though I guess with Scotland wanting to eliminate diesel traction, things like RHTT could well be electrically hauled in future so eliminating short routes with unusual OLE restrictions is probably...

Indeed, it may be that some electrification projects proceed with the route fully cleared for EMU stock, with a continuous 25kV AC OLE electrification, but that remote lockout options are used to enable freight, RHTT or other rolling stock which can't meet the reduced electrical clearance...

Six tonnes was the total weight of the battery pack included on the Class 379 - so roughly six tonnes per 4 car, 100mph EMU. It's unlikely but not impossible you would need to do it for several units coupled together in the consist, but that then means the electrical draw on the system, whether...

Hyperloop

Such a lack of ambition. Get those crayons swallowed.

Quite possible they'll be re-manufactured or refurbished in some way - the question about what to do with them at the end of their lives is already being researched. I came across an article (which now eludes me, of course) in something like Energy Voice about the project. There was GRP fishing...

Physically changing the battery raft on a train ? The battery pack on the Class 379 was 6 tonnes. It has to be charged in-situ (bolted underneath the unit). There would be a lot of wiring and plumbing potentially included in the pack too - there's thermal management of the battery which can...

The charging issue is most specific to IPEMUs which don't have much/any time charging on 25kV during other parts of their journey. If they can do battery charging whilst running under the wires, use that stored energy to cover the section of track which isn't electrified, and get back to the OLE...

It's not entirely clear how the electrical demand can be met through existing 11/33kV DNO grid connections which will already be coming under greater pressure from increased housing demand (both existing houses increasing circuit capacity, and new build). That will happen as a result of the...

Try again...

APCO already in use for IEP. Charging is fun though - all the electric you need for an hour of use, transferred into the battery pack in 5 minutes. Spot any problems with that ?

I wonder if we could fit the track sectioning equipment into the signal box...

No. We already know diesel traction is to be phased out - indeed, with bans on diesel engined road vehicles and changes coming in the HGV space, it's difficult to see whether there will be suitable diesel engines available in future years, even if the demand was there. Everything else goes...

It's gross negligence multiplied by incompetence, which is equal to HM Treasury plus Department for Transport. EWR would be an absolute dream, so simple and easy to electrify if the masts were fitted pre track laying. It'll be easy enough anyway, as all the clearances and immunisations etc...

I definitely like the Return of the JFDI.

There's always Hope...

The plan in this case is a series of electrification projects that will have a positive business case, not more rounded, integrated projects which lose some of the positive business case in return for enhanced social benefits. It's likely to be simple electrification, with little else added -...

Hydrogen production Still being worked upon, I believe. There's a degree of complication because some of the lines with the strong business cases need small infill projects which in isolation will not have a strong business case. This is particularly the case with some lines which will benefit...