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Interesting interview here: Notable points mentioned include the potential for the Irish X'trapolis order to have been built at Derby in return for a UK 'baseload', if it had been committed about 6 or 7 months ago.

As an aside I've found German TVMs to be confusing and often inconsistent in what is and isn't presented in English. Getting multi lingual functions to work properly does need a fair bit of thought put into it.

Ahh that's very interesting, thanks for sharing that. Is it for thermal management of the batteries or is just simply for 'redundancy' so to speak?

I presume DMA BR1, DMA BR2 etc are the battery units in the 'A' unit Driving Motor. Likewise for DMB. Its interesting the state of charge is so varied across the battery modules though.

We don't live in a country that is going to throw ridiculous money on HSR that sits unused most of the time. Spain is unique in the level of infrastructure and its lack of use by the State run operator.

Gartcosh

Sorry, the thumbnail is completely different to the video. The train shown as soon as the video starts is the one I'm thinking of. It even looks like it might be debranded Freightliner Green.

I thought in the spirit of this thread I'd just add this video I came across which appears to use a Class 66 (or continental equivalent) as the Locomotive of Kim Jong Un's personal train.

Loxdale (West Midland Metro)

The Scotsman article at least suggests that the Glasgow Terminus to be used is not yet decided, theoretically a 5 car AT300 would fit in Queen Street. I wonder if potentially a Falkirk call might be useful, if likely to fail on the Primarily Extractive test.

I recall reading about the use of redundant boat train/early 80s reduction in service rolling stock to bolster the business case for electrification on the Southern in the 1980s. Even without the integration and state owned rolling stock of that era, one would think these surpluses would...

Given they're already going to be built in Poland, I think that's unlikely.

13 x 4 car trains apparently: https://www.railway.supply/en/unmanned-monorail-train-innovia-300-by-alstom/

In some places, such as Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, there were agreements that engines would only burn coke when passing through particularly sensitive locations like this. These tended to end up being ignored however.

ISTR it was said that by the time the DfT pulled the plug on the 769/9s, they'd essentially ironed out all the issues with them, and it was just crew training left to sort out. No clue how accurate these sentiments were though.

Seems a difficult number for any one existing diesel fleet to match. 'Converted' is also a slightly curious word to use, given the document was going on about 'refurbishing' Voyagers and Pendolinos prior to that; no clue what if anything that might imply though. More generally, with the message...

Silver doors as reported upthread suggest it is a scotrail livery. The Orion units having always used body coloured doors.

At the time IIIRC it was said ROG didn't think it was profitable running trains with 4 coaches, they reckoned they needed 8 car trains to make it profitable. Obviously Varmis have operated with just a single 321 for most of this time, so perhaps we can suggest they have either lower operating...

If it's used 45%, then surely it's 55% remaining after 70 miles. Either way very impressive. Though I wonder if like most car batteries it's preferred to keep the SOC between 10 and 80% in normal use.

The article can be viewed behind it's paywall at this link if anyone's interested. https://archive.li/zO1CU