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I'm sure I heard someone recently state that the reason the government is able to say passenger numbers are only back to 80% of pre-Covid levels is because they have included strike days and bank holidays in their calculations and possibly something about ignoring those passengers on...

Concorde beats the lot I'm afraid. Most beautiful (man-made) thing to take to the skies, ever. However, honourable mentions to the VC-10 and Comet-I (I found the less fally-out-of-the-sky Comet IV not quite so graceful). Not a fan of the Electra and I'd put a vote in for the Constellation being...

I was driving my dad's car a few years ago and pretty much without warning* one of the springs snapped. We were less than a mile away from the garage I normally use (central Cardiff), but it was evening so he wasn't open. However, the breakdown service were quite happy to put the car on a...

Thanks. Very short on actual detail I note, but good that someone is having a go...

No, you absolutely wouldn't want the caravan to propel the car - that way lies all sorts of problems. I suggested a motor might be fitted to the caravan - apart from the on-site independent movements - which could just "lighten the load" and also be used when braking. Might even be limited to...

Any chance you could post a link? I'd love to see how it works.

It looks to me as if the cheapest new caravans are around the £20,000 mark with some models reaching £50,000 or more. You could offer several battery options but I'm sure adding £5,000 - £10,000 for the sorts of benefits you could get would be worth it to some people. As for the "sitting idle"...

I had this fantastic idea a while back when the only EV which was actually rated for towing was one of the Teslas (all the others on the market at the time said "Towing capacity: 0kg"). Surprised no-one's tried it already, though there are "issues". However, here's the big idea... ...why not...

Coal has seen pretty regular (if low level) use over the last year, probably averaging 2% over the year with peaks no higher than 5%. This is all by-eye from these graphs but the data is there to download if you know where to look. Combined cycle gas has continued to be by far the largest single...

Firstly, I'm not from the area though I did visit quite a lot in the 1970s and 1980s because relatives lived nearby. To a casual observer, the Ironbridge branch looks like an ideal starting point for a light rail system - it passes near quite a lot of high-population areas and right next to one...

But it isn't, is it? Many websites still don't have https versions and at a very, very basic level DNS queries and IP headers are completely "plain text", so anyone who can sniff packets on your network at the very least knows where your data is going and where it is coming from, even if they...

This is also one of the reasons I'm holding back (though not the only one). I really don't want half my car functions to be accessible only via an app on my phone (and what happens when someone else drives it?). I don't want a bright LCD display which destroys my night vision (displays on...

Having travelled on one for the first time today (Queen Street to Caerphilly), noticeable that the "dim ond i Rhymni" thing does grate a bit as does the apparently modern usage of not mutating placenames. On the screens someone had forgotten to add a space after the "i" so the boards actually...

Watching a 2014 programme about BBC2 "design" programmes through the decades, The Home That 2 Built, at one point there was a version of the wonderful Take 5 played with a reggae beat and guitars. Utterly odd. It's at 32 minutes exactly into the episode covering the 1960s.

"yn unig" could be translated (in this context) as "solely"*, as in "this train is solely going to Penarth". They have perfectly good existing translations which are used on the current trains and on the platforms so it's odd that they've chosen to start again for the new trains. It only needs...

Literally: "only to Penarth" According to someone I know the same happens the other end - "dim ond i Rymni" (officially it should be "i Benarth" too). Yes it's wrong as this implies a non-stopping service.

Thanks both, so the take-home I get from this (and for the later discussion of all-Diesel versus bi-mode running - I dunno about the rest of the required equipment, but TfW 769s don't actually have pantographs anyway) is that while TfW's 150s aren't the most reliable things on the network, they...

That's a bit unfair. I'm merely an interested bystander, but I do know someone who spends quite a lot of time on the Core Valley Lines and it really does seem as if most times they mention another hold-up (that isn't due to the engineering work), it's a 769 at the heart of it. They are - by an...

And yet they are constantly failing. Often two sets fail on the same day and cause knock-on delays. The Rhymney line is steep I suppose and trains fail both towards Rhymney (engines?) and towards Cardiff (brakes?). They are obviously not suited for the task.

I came here to post the same thing. Here's the link. The story is actually quite a detailed account of the whole situation with some interesting analysis as well. Tryweryn: The man who bombed a dam to save a village From the article: