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You can buy a Nissan Leaf for under £5k these days, a 41kWh Renault Zoe for under £10k(which is really the minimum battery size I could cope with personally). My own EV is a BMW i3 (33kWh battery plus range extender) which was £19k for a 6 year old model from a BMW dealership (so manufacturer...

As someone who only has an EV, and lives with on street parking and so no at home charging, living with an EV without home charging is already perfectly manageable. It does require some planning, but the only difference is we plan/rely on destination charging, rather than at home charging. It...

Going the other way (and sorry if this is too off topic), is there an argument for lowering WCML speeds (to say 110mph), once HS2 is fully operational, to lower the maintenance requirements for the new “slow” line, and focussing it on the high speed line?

After some quick Googling, my 2016 EV is estimated to have produced 9,714kg CO2e during production, and has now covered 53,000 miles. Average carbon produced by the electricity to charge it in my region was 44.6g in 2018 (and will almost certainly be lower now). Using that as a baseline, my car...

Thank you Can Terminus curve (I think that’s what it’s called. The single line branch west from the lines parallel Pollokshields East) not be used for such a move? Is the signalling not bi directional there or something?

I’m not sure if this is referring to a specific policy, but the overall cost of running Scotrail is the other way around. 25% of the cost is covered by revenue, the rest is funded by the government

What traffic(if any) uses the Larkfield curve? I’m assuming not even any passenger ECS workings go that way?

I’ve done both solo indie dev (only as a side project) and worked as part of dev teams at large companies. I’ve considered freelance a few times but never made the jump yet

318+320 workings were/are a near daily occurrence really. 318s and 320s are effectively interchangeable in terms of what diagrams they’re put on as far as I can tell

I’m sure it is completely unrealistic, but I would love if Network Rail and the council came to a “you scratch my back” deal, and the council offered to raise (and straighten) the bridge near Clarkston station, in return for NR widening the bridge under Busby station to help the road there too

While reading some of the discussion of the Salisbury collision, I saw a post describing how early WSP algorithms were limited in their effectiveness, as the application rate of the brakes had to be limited so as not to exhaust the air supply of the train. This got me thinking, if there is any...

I noticed the other day, that a tube of Pringles has gone from 200g to ~160g. They’ve lopped maybe 5cm off the height of the tube if you compare an old one to a new one

I’m surprise by the size of that step at a brand new station

The Subway smart card already (partially) works on Scotrail. You’ve been able to load Scotrail season tickets onto a subway card for years now. Although in my experience, most ticket inspectors were bemused when I produced a Subway card for them to scan rather than a Scotrail card (all pre covid...

Perfect thank you! Funny what was right and what was wrong from my memory of it

Is there not a photo of a 12 car formation of 156s, I think in Strathclyde Orange, possibly even going over Glenfinnan viaduct? I want to say it was part of the tour to the Netherlands that a Strathclyde 156 did, but that didn’t involve 6 of them. I’ve been trying to find the photo but no luck...

Wow! Really makes you appreciate that sometimes stringing wires up isn’t that simple, and the range of talents that can be needed.

It’s all died again https://twitter.com/ScotRail/status/1491806571327860736

Luckily, in the UK atleast, there is a requirement for an annual inspection, which specifically covers tyres among other things, which are the bits on an EV which are most subject to wear

Strictly speaking, you can have bill assist with a manual handbrake. My 2018 BMW was both manual gearbox and handbrake, and featured hill assist