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International passenger trains to and from Spain (whether towards France or towards Portugal) are, unfortunately, a very sorry matter.

Useful for commuters and much less so for tourists, which certainly is the point. It used to be the same in Vienna but the system got changed and you can now buy weekly tickets with validity starting any day of the week.

In addition, there are routes in many countries where double-deck stock is not allowed. In Austria, the Semmering e.g. On some others subject to restrictions (e.g. one track only on a double-track line).

Is that even the case here? Coming from Nimes, the route to Avignon is the divergent one, so with lower speed. But running on towards Lyon, where the tracks from Avignon and Nimes join, the Nimes route will - I suppose - have the slower speed. So it might very well be that the train would have...

One instance of this happening was on the first regular Zürich- Munich electric train, which at Hergatz was routed on a catenary-less track. The driver was partly blamed, since he should have known that the signaled speed would mean a wrong route setting. 1664973437 Thanks a lot!

How so? (Really interested). Sure. There is no real issue with it - the driver is responsible for adhering to the signaled speed, which will be right for both routes.

Le Locle - Le Brenet is closing. Switzerland will always be a narrow-gauge paradise, but some lines will certainly close in time, usually when major investment comes up. Altstätten - Gais is now a rack island on an adhesion-run railway.

From what I know, bustitution is a regular occurrence on the line since it only has one „E(M)U“ (it’s not multiple..). So if problems in the trial occur, no big deal. This project might actually prevent closure of the line, since it would be so easy to replace it by bus and the current unit is...

I wrote it before: I am convinced that the purpose of this project is not this short railway line itself, but as a testbed for future projects. It’s just that this line - being short and with only one passenger vehicle- is an economic way to do a trial.

Vienna (line U6) should not be included in that list. It has no street running and is a pure metro line. (The vehicles themselves do run „ECS“ over tram lines to the Vienna main workshop, but not as full-length four-car sets).

It is primarily a testbed to test and develop the technology.

The Üstra in Hannover runs 75m-tram consists (three units, coupled). As to the longest vehicles, according the German Wikipedia (which of course is not 100% reliable) it’s the 56m-long CAF Urbos in Budapest (the Budapest Combinos are 54m).

Well, two more or less parallel services in the morning (dep Paris 6:47 and 7:26) and the afternoon (dep Paris 14:43 and 15:18) cannot reasonably be described as a well laid-out service, can it? Nor is it an efficient use of rolling stock.

Not surprising, since there are two public holidays in Austria (26 October and 1 November) during that time, as well as the fall school vacations.

How much more useful would it be for everybody if, instead of running more or less parallel services, SNCF and TI teamed up to run a two-hourly Paris - Lyon PD - Torino - (HSL) - Milano service… there is enough competition from airlines as it is to make sure they could not operate as a monopoly.

You also have to have stations able to deal with large passenger flows changing platforms within a short time. The Swiss, for instance, at major stations have more than just one passenger underpass, otherwise short changes from and to 400 meter trains could not possibly work. Also, the Swiss...

I suppose the cancellations of Hull and Lincoln services and Harrogate extensions mentioned in the press release are because the bi-modes are needed for the Tyne valley?

I think it’s my fault, I edited the quote, did something wrong and was unable to correct it. Sorry!

But (almost) no Swiss actually pays the full price… the actually paid price is only double the Belgian one, so compares well to income.

Switzerland is a very expensive country not only for railways, but salaries and income in general are much higher as well…