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To the nice special farm that's just a little too far to drive to.

Just think what the real cost of the direct spur would have been.

Turns out the Royal Navy are interested in actual threats to the country, not imagined ones.

That's a significant bit of engineering. If that's what's required to reopen the line then no wonder people question its feasibility.

So to reinstate the railway there you'd have to demolish the houses as there's no way they could be accessed. And to reinstate the level crossing you would have to demonstrate there was no reasonably practicable alternative; given there is space to divert the lane and bridge across the railway...

Looks like Sofia has started producing power: (taken from https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/, which is an excellent resource). 3 of the dogger bank wind farms now operational.

Monthly SMMT figures out this morning (https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/) which confirm 30% BEV market share for August. Tesla sales vary wildly from month to month which can skew the figures, and they were unusually low for August; in previous years this has meant higher...

From the little I've already seen it's pretty blatant. It may not be enough to sway the true believers but a lot, if not most, of Reform's appeal has been that they're different from the other parties and are going to shake things up. They're going to lose more of their media support - the right...

No need, the reality is a lot looser than the %ages on the chart anyway. But the key insight of the 'chasm' is important.

OK - I took it from the chart that early majority runs from 16% to 50% adoption.

Err, where exactly?

A good problem to have - better too much supply than too little. But I don't think it will come to that: We have started to see overall demand increase, since 2023 (at a rate of about 500MW average demand per year). This will accelerate as the electrification-of-everything gathers pace. And of...

We crossed that in the first half of 2024. The last few months have seen BEV % of new sales in the high 20s, 30% last month (https://newautomotive.org/ecc). It's now a question of how quickly we can get the majority to adopt.

Haven't heard a good Barbara Castle rant in a while - a nice reminder of happier times. Anyway name them. All these essential railways. Go on.

See the discussion upthread.

Indeed - but Evergreen 3 transformed it by connecting it to the Chiltern line. This is a prime example of why the platonic ideal of 'reopening a closed railway' exists more in the imagination than reality. While the length of track reopened to passenger traffic by Evergreen 3 was minimal, it...

We're talking about what was available to purchase. I don't think the Pendolino or Voyager/Meridian designs were still available when the IET programme came around.

How quickly we forget... other England reopenings in the last two decades include: - Oxford - Bicester (Evergreen 3) - Shoreditch-Dalston Jn (London Overground) - Corby branch And there are many more going further back. The 'reversing Beeching' reopenings were no different in terms of policy...

A first step would be to look at passenger levels on the No. 36 bus and work from there.

There are risks with monopolies; there are risks with competition. And there are advantages with both as well. For competition to win out over monopoly, the potential market needs to be of a sufficient size to be able to sustain more than one supplier and maintain economies of scale. I don't...