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According to the log, an axle was on fire on coach 33: This coach carries a transformer underneath, the transformer oil might have contributed to the intensity of the fire. There were 500 passengers on board, but nobody in a wheelchair, no prams either. Everyone made it out unharmed.

For those interested in the overall branding of Transport for Wales: I came across an article from Smörgåsbord, the agency which designed the brand identity for Visit Wales, which was done from 2015 onwards. http://www.smorgasbordstudio.com/projects/brand-wales/ It looks like the TfW branding...

The merger hasn't been cancelled yet, but various parties have voiced their concerns. These concerns are now being reviewed by the various market authorities.

Back in the nineties, when Eurostar started operating, there were plans to provide services from cities beyond London to the continent. Two dedicated fleets were built to support this: the North of London high speed trains, and a fleet of Nightstar sleepers for overnight services. Depot space...

Maybe a little, but with the TfW colour scheme (white, black, red and grey) and design language (simple shapes, focus on typography) you're bound to get a bland livery rather quickly. Not that that's a bad thing, per sé. If the style applied to that 175 is applied to everything within TfW's...

As far as I know, that's because the industry data model for TOC reference data doesn't have start and end dates. After the handover from ATW to TfW Rail, the reference data will have to be updated.

Yes, the 08:31 stops at Brussels. You can get off if you like, there's nothing preventing you from doing so. Brussel doesn't have gates, and while the Netherlands does the gates are not used for fare checking.

GWR needed the 802's to be able to cascade trains to other places and provide improvements or capacity enhancements there. Ordering anything other than more Hitachi EDMU's would have taken longer and would've made the entire operation more complex. As Clarence Yard stated before: the DfT...

Which makes sense, no driver is going to bring just a single vehicle of a set into service :) I think all railways operate like this. The Dutch railways at least do: all multiple units operated by NS have a 4 digit set number, of which the first two digits identify the class. The 4 digit set...

Eurostar trains have incorporated the TOPS set number into the EVN, and use a sequence number to indicate the vehicle within a set. The 6th vehicle of set 374 012 thus has this EVN number: 93 70 3740 126-5 374 = Eurostar e320 012 = Formation 12 6 = vehicle 6 As a Eurostar e320 train is...

The door bleep volume was just an example, many operators and train builders seem to go way above what the regulations require. Maybe it's wanting to overdo things? Here in the Netherlands, Arriva got a lot of criticism about the volume of the door bleeps after their new Stadler GTW was...

Well, at least it's not something like... 93 70 802 107-1 GB-ERG ;)

It might be worth to plan your journey up front, and then playing with the intermediate stops functionality on the Deutsche Bahn website to get the route and trains that you want. You're not bound to any specific trains (Zugbindung) if you use Regionalverkehr (S, RB, RE) for your journeys within...

You'll be traveling through 3 Verkehrsverbünde (VRS, VRR and AVV) if you want to visit all the cities you mentioned, so an NRW ticket is probably your best buy.

According to HT's service alterations page, these trains have now been cancelled as well.

One thing to note: if your phone has NFC turned on and you're traveling on an M-ticket, disable NFC before presenting your phone to the reader. The integrated readers prioritise NFC/RFID over barcodes, and will reject your phone as they doesn't recognise it. When that happens, they won't try to...

The gatelines in the Netherlands do not have separate scanners for mobile or printed tickets, they have been integrated with the chipcard readers. See this video: If you have a ticket or M-ticket which does not have a QR code somewhere, you should approach a member of staff or use the Info...

That service has been running since April 2018, so still needs to develop. As of April 2019 the service intensity to Amsterdam will increase from 2x to 3x a day.

That's easy to say in hindsight. The breakup of BR was an unprecedented privatisation. The UK were frontrunners of privatising the railway, nobody had dared to break up the system in such a thorough way. There were no best practices or standards to fall back on, which sadly has lead to the loss...

As everything is driven by software these days, computers must have full control over the brakes as well (known as drive-by-wire, analogous to fly-by-wire). In Train Simulator, the originally released version of the Bombardier TALENT 2 train had a similar issue. When driving in multiple, only...