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Nope - wrong part of the country unfortunately

How about this one, taken literally a few minutes ago?

Frankfurt Hbf?

As you've mentioned, it's been done in the Alps (and various other challenging environments). The Peak District shouldn't pose any significant engineering challenges (though there geology might need careful route planning, given the case of the Mam Tor road). The main challenge (like everything...

Somehow I doubt that the first digit of a class number is the only mechanism by which Network Rail is aware of power draw (or lack thereof)... Not least because class 802s regularly run on diesel under the wires (how do NR know about this*? Clearly must be something other than the 8 at the...

A proper Manchester Sheffield link would definitely count as a major project - except it would've been built 40 years ago in most other countries

I'll accept both of those, although arguably they're both a collection of small/medium projects under one umbrella. Can't believe I forgot about the A9, having driven most of it recently. Neither of those I would class as major projects under my personal road scheme classification system...

And, for traffic heading towards the M1, there will soon be the absolute car crash developer-funded "upgrade" of J10 of the M40 to deal with. Plans are linked in this post on the SABRE forum: https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1429263#p1429263 Perhaps controversially, I...

I went through Milan Malpensa yesterday evening. Non-EU arrivals directed to a bank of machines to register on the system. I did this whilst changing at Frankfurt earlier in the year, but the machine didn't seem to know this so I had to do right fingers (but not thumb) and picture. The first...

I'm thinking of doing a weekend challenge of how many flights I can fit in for as little money as possible around Europe. Leave Birmingham on a Friday evening, aim for 3-5 flights on Saturday then another 2-4 Sunday (in order to get back at a reasonable time). The route taken being based...

That is arguably true for the the roads that Highways England are responsible for...

Saw this in a Tesco car park earlier.

I'm told that one of the reasons for running diesel under the wires in this area is because the Network Rail modelling assumes all the freight trains are electrically-hauled (which obviously does not reflect reality). Is anyone able to shed some light on this?

The relatively recent collapse of the Morandi viaduct (built late 1960s) in Genoa shows what can happen. I believe the viaduct was undergoing refurbishment and strengthening works at the time, but unfortunately it seems to have been a case to "too little, too late". Notably, we have rather...

I wonder how much of an impact maintenance deferral (or just not bothering/no funding available) has had?

The M8 in Glasgow is an example of what might happen. The viaducts to the north of the city centre are not in a good condition and options are being explored for what to do. In the meantime, 4 lanes each way have been reduced to 2 with a 40mph limit for several years, and will remain that way...

I saw these disconnected transformers a few weeks ago just south of Stafford - presumably these are part of what you've described above?

Thanks very much, some useful advice

(Un)Fortunately I'll be arriving from Milan as I'm there at Malpensa for other reasons beforehand. Düsseldorf was pretty much the cheapest place to fly to at about the right time. 1779046771 I hadn't thought of that! Not sure I want to leave it that late though... (On the other hand, who knows...