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They're looking at 8 x 23m though. It will be interesting to see if that's just future proofing or if it's part of a rolling stock strategy which will see the newly electrified routes served by new or cascaded 4 car 23m vehicle units, perhaps as part of a larger order to replace maybe the 318s...

It's the execution of the concept I have a deep loathing for, in addition to Jeremy's existence. The use of an HST set in a premium configuration is completely solid, perfectly rational decision given the scarcity of lower speed paths on the network, and is likely to be something replicated...

I'm in complete agreement - it's an ugly, fake, tacky train (which shouldn't even be running during a pandemic). And it has all been paid for by the grubby Brexit supporting, disaster capitalism of Jeremy Hosking.

Or time to contract COVID.

It's OK though, that £300m quid is coming from starving illiterate schoolchildren with cancer...

What does this drivel have to do with infrastructure improvements ?

In addition to the reasons provided above - speeds, pathing, power demand, the Class 390 pantograph behaves rather differently to other pantographs, in that it moves opposite to the tilt of the carriage, to ensure the pantograph head remains correctly alligned with the contact wire, which...

There should be 1 x Class 390 with a full contact force measurement pantograph instrumentation system designed by DB ESG now in service, with the same (new) instrumentation as fitted to MENTOR. I thought there was another couple of units in service/coming into service with the same setup, but...

The position of the uplifted wire is an intrinsic part of the geometry of the entire OLE system though... And I should have said geometry data is now more frequently being recorded now by the use of instrumented pantographs on passenger vehicles running at line speed (and to service patterns)...

What sort of profit margin do you think there is on warm beer and cold pies ? There's an extreme outside possibility that an ultra-high end super-luxury train may make a marginal business case - but we're talking £10,000 tickets, waiter/butler service and food from Michelin starred chefs.

Again, for the hard of hearing. Safety case ? Type approval ? And are these the same preservation groups and charter companies that have almost killed a child by allowing them to fall through a missing toilet floor, who have killed a shunter or who have been banned from the national network for...

And given the power station attached to the smelter produces a surplus of electricity, it may even be feasible to use a fleet of electric HGVs for such a round trip.

I dunno, but it could be found out when the consultants are writing the entirely new and enormously expensive safety case for bodging a Class 442 into something devoid of electrics, with reworked suspension and bogies...

The merry-go-around of cash is an annoyance, but the underlying Time Delay Attribution mechanism dates from British Rail and their attempts to understand underlying causes of delays and failures. The process now is insane with fights on the size of birds or types of animals so money can be...

A timely point. Subsidy on the Caledonian Sleeper is the largest source of revenue, being marginally greater than their fares income (and that's for a normal year).

It's an updated OLE system so there's some additional testing to make sure the computer simulations and calculations are correct. The design specification (3 x pantographs at 110mph, 2 x pantographs at 125mph, plus upgrade potential) for the MML once upon a time, a long long time ago, would...

It is - remember the old Mk.3 OLE from Bedford south isn't suitably modifed (basically, read tensioned, as yet) for both speed or all possible pantograph configurations.

Not with their acceleration and haulage capabilities though - electric traction will run rings around diesel for freight haulage at both the same and at much higher trailing weights. When we return to a full railway, the pathing abilities gained by electric traction will increasingly become more...

I think you've all managed to get the key short sections that need covered. We do - problem is the shortage of electricity between Basingstoke and Southampton.

OLE plant which is track-mounted, other than that utterly self defeating HOPS, is typically a road vehicle with some modifications which makes it less good at doing its job than it otherwise could be if it was just a road vehicle. And you can park a road vehicle exactly where you want it when...