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Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/battery-powered-electrostars-for-southern.192809/ I think that Southern will get then they would be 387/1s from Great Northern and the 379s from GA would go to great Northern. If it were my decision, then southern would get all 26...

Anybody know what will happen to the 5, 5 coach class 360/2s currently in service with Tfl Rail on the heathrow route? They are going to be replaced with class 345s and I know the 21, 4 coach class 360/1s are going to EMR to operate the half-hourly "EMR Electrics" service to Corby from London...

Is Warwick Parkway the only National Rail railway station owned by a franchised TOC? I know some London Overground stations are owned by TfL (not franchised) and some other National Rail stations are owned privately (like Fishguard Harbour) - but I know Warwick Parkway is owned by Chiltern...

If HS2 where cancelled then I think most of the building work should continue.... (what..?) I mean 4 new platforms at Manchester Picc? 8 new long platforms at Euston?? After supporting HS2 for a long time, I've now come to the decision that £100bn would be better spent "injecting" it into the...

When the new Class 777 fleet for Merseyrail enters service there will be a perfectly good fleet of 59 third rail 3 car EMUs... I propose cascading some of them to southeastern to use for branch line work until any new stock is ordered... (with minor refurbishment, of course) so they could run...

So I've had this idea for a while to replace some GWR trains with new stock... Please can someone tell me if it works? These new trains would be of the CAF Civity family and all look the same... I envision that they would ALL look similar to the northern 195s and 331s. I envision that they...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/wcml-new-rolling-stock-discussion.188847/page-15 Is there a way of operating 80x "non-tilting" units at 125mph on the WCML?

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/wcml-new-rolling-stock-discussion.188847/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Rail#Future_fleet Who will make the new trains for the operator?

Moderators note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/shortest-section-of-single-track.193303/ They have doubled it On google earth, they seem to have doubled it...

Will the new tram-trains for the Rhondda line, Merthyr line, Cardiff City Line and the Cardiff Bay Line (as part of the South Wales Metro) be low-floor? Will the "smart-electrification" be out-of-sync with the rest of the National Rail network? Street-running? What I'm trying to say is, will...