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There is also an open day at the Acton depot on the weekend of March 24-26th

Interrail has a 10% discount offer until 15 March. https://www.interrail.eu/en/interrail-passes/global-pass says: Travel in any of the 33 countries included in your Global Pass. Start traveling up to 11 months after purchase No need to choose a start date until you travel Free, instant...

A few miles from Toledo in Spain someone stole a steel railway bridge. https://twitter.com/i/status/1631000584445722636 has a video of a locomotive crossing the track in any case. Its near Algodor 39°54'01"N 3°53'54"W

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It makes a difference, just not a very big one. If your fuel tank holds 50L, and you fill it with at most 30L of fuel, then on average you are carrying 10L less fuel, which weighs 7.5kg for petrol or 8.4kg for diesel. Modern cars weigh a bit over 1000kg (~900kg for a basic Hyundai i10, 1200kg...

If you refill with microdoses of fuel, you save a little by driving around with less weight, but you spend more time stopping, queuing and paying. However, if you keep going until the filler clicks, its easier to track the fuel economy, and you are more likely to spot when there is a problem...

I had a MkI Ford Focus which nominally had a 55L fuel tank. However, if I filled it until the second click, I would only get at most 48L of fuel in it after running until the gauge said it was empty. Once I decided to work out exactly how it would go before running out, so I filled a petrol can...

If detachable battery packs were a thing, then you could just rent one for the times when you were using your caravan, and then only have to worry about the expensive battery getting nicked whilst you are actually planning to use it.

Jonathan Jones (the former Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary of the Government Legal Department) has commented https://twitter.com/SirJJKC/status/1630284145640218627

They don't hug the coast, but they are main lines and they both go near the respective coasts. This route is meanders around the midlands, connecting towns which don't seem to have much direct traffic. Northampton and Wellingborough would need significant amounts of demolition. Stamford has a...

The Emergency Brake is not a "veto", by the Northern Ireland Assembly. It is defined on page 23 of this document

There are 16 documents published here from the UK government https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-windsor-framework This from the EU has links to 5 documents https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_1268

Shouldn't an "East West" route go from East to West, rather than spending 19 miles going North West to South East (Northampton to Bletchley)? This seems to be "East Midlands West"

There was a similar thread a couple of years ago on this topic https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-abandoned-railway-lines-that-have-been-turned-into-cycle-footpaths.209196/

The Torpel Way has a nice section from Stamford to Uffington from the Stamford and Essendine railway.

I meant to write "changes in the aerodynamics from the ambient wind"

Wind resistance affects the fuel efficiency of cars. However, for road cars in the UK, there is practically no difference in the effects from wind between electric vehicles and ones with a diesel or petrol engine. If anything, electric cars are generally heavier, so they will be slightly less...

Work on moving Waterbeach station has “lawfully commenced” https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/waterbeach-station-relocation-works-have-begun-says-develope-9300117/ says:

Engineering is a balancing act, between performance, reliability, ease of manufacture. I would like a car where long term maintenance is one of the factors which has been given to the engineers to optimise. Fleet buyers that sell cars on when they are 3 years old not are not particularly...

As a potential purchaser of an electric car, I would feel a lot more reassured about buying a car, if there weren't just guarantees for the condition of the battery for a few years, but information about how the battery, charging hardware and software can be accessed, maintained and updated in...