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How tempting not to tell anyone what's happening.... But here it is: Soon 51 NSR train drivers will be trained to operate the TRAXX loco's on the HSL-Zuid while NSHispeed train drivers are trained to operate the new V250 sets. During November/December/January all train managers will receive...

Scrapped. Shinkansen train sets have an average lifetime of 15 years before they are replaced. This allows JR to operate the service without any big faults generated by ageing trains. Punctuality to the second has it's price. Secondly... A shinkansen set does more miles in 15 years then...

Because the fiml makers wanted quality and not dog poo rubbish like EastCoast. :wink:

SNP SWITCH PUTS TRAMS BACK ON CITY CENTRE TRACK EDINBURGH’s troubled tram project is back on track after SNP councillors vowed to vote in favour of extending the route into the city centre.... Entire article at...

And here is how to dismantle NS and split the rail system in 11 franchises... http://www.mobiliteitnederland.nl/pdf/201106/Het%20Nieuwe%20Spoorplan.pdf It has been consulted twice... By a normal consultant and SBB. Both concluded this could be the way forward.

And there it is... the entire UK rail system suffers badly due to Marsham street micro managing everything. You might as well just get rid of the entire franchise system and place everything under a Marsham street TOC... lets call it Directly Operated Railways.... :wink: But seriously the DafT...

True, there are many more trains these days compared to pre-privatisation era. Sorry, but those figures are really franchise specific. Where one franchise is reaching Swiss levels (C2C), the state run TOC is the worst, where punctuality often drops below 80%. Do they? Wow I must be...

Yeah and don't expect the frogs to work even if you pay double...

Do you want it with a Manchester or a Indian accent??? :lol:

Guys the video's don't work for me. Any idea where to find them (on youtube)

Not yet, but the first vIRM sets are due for their mid-life refurbishment in 5 years, and they will be fully equipped with the latest gadgets... Only at Schiphol airport there is a hard rule to announce Intercity services in Dutch and English. High speed services and international services are...

Okay, when you work for the railways there is a rule you learn pretty fast. "Passengers are dumb animals". So, to change the behaviour of the animal you need to tell it what to do. Clearly the above was a superb system, and if it works on the continent I see no reason why it shouldn't in the...

Doing all three days of the upcoming GCR Diesel gala

No, because you will still be able to operate local, semi-fast and InterCity trains on your network. You only need to re-timetable them so that at key points some trains can tke over. Like a local being taken over at Newton Abbot where it connects with the Intercity to/from London. No, you can...

First you have your normal electrical kit... You run on it till you reach the point where the wires end. Then you fire up your diesel kit and continue running.... And I believe it has enough diesel capacity for the whole day. The difference between this Loco and IEP is power. where this loco has...

Fares go up by 13%... well, blame the monkeys in Marsham street for that, not rail staff who do their up most to keep the system running. And guess what.. I work for NS and enjoy free staff travel in the UK as well. So, next Monday make sure not to travel between Manchester Airport and Leeds...

Not simple and not cheap indeed... nor has the Dutch system been. But if you don't spend the money you'll never get to the point we are. And we still continue to improve the rail system. Currently two large projects are carried out. - Lelystad to Zwolle (new line for 200 km'h running) -...

What constrains are you talking about? Last week I used the Lotschberg base tunnel 5 times and in just 25 minutes your from one end of the Alps to the other.... North/South travel in Switzerland has exploded since the tunnel opened with two intercity trains per hour of which one is a twelve...

Oy... don't expect the marsham street monkeys to have brains.... ---EDIT--- Traxx loco's can be leased for £40.000 per calendar month and now that Bombardier is actually developing their TRAXX UK loco with LMD (Last Mile Diesel) it could indeed be attractive to set up a new ROSCO and lease...

Apparently the money seems to be there somehow... how else do you want to pay for HS2... a line which is, in my opinion a true waste of money as long as your national network remains to be a total mess.