Search results

Shows how the lack of 175s is causing stock chaos, with a 2car 150 and a 9car IET substituting. Also having effect on services that should by now have had displaced 158s eg 1F09 09:18 Cardiff - Portsmouth (just a 2car 158) with following train 1F11 being 5car class 165

That applies to Labour in the Commons. Lords is split : 247 Conservative, 232 Labour, 157 Independent (cross bench), 80 Liberal Democrat, 43 non-affiliated, 25 Spiritual (Bishops), 6 Democratic unionists, and handful of others Roughly 30% Conservative, 30% Labour, 40% others...

Alstom has won the order for 313 Adessia derived coaches to go with these locos, on the LDRR (Long Distance, Regional, Remote) services (basically anything but metro & commuter type services)...

Presumably the 35 new Yutong that were driven off the ship at Portbury few days ago, allow some sort of cascade around the fleet These are some of the former Olympic shuttle buses, now over 14 years old. There were hundreds of buses built for First in 2011 and 2012 ahead of the Olympics, so...

The best solution for the approx remains 15-20 years of life would be to halve the 4car fleet. Reform them as 6car sets, scrap the end cars (keeping parts as spares), use the bogies from the end cars as replacements for the much heavier tilt (but tilt disabled) bogies on some 221s. Never going...

It is also worth noting that Flix are heavily expanding into trains too, especially in Germany. They have new trains on order, Siemens Vectron 230km/h (143mph) locomotives and 65 Talgo 230 sets, and their press releases talk of expanding into other European countries...

The Railways Bill has its first of 7 scheduled committee days in House of Lords this week. This is where they go through the clauses one by one and decide what amendments (if any) should be taken forward Days scheduled are 8th, 10th, 16th Sept, 12th, 19th, 21st, 26th October Including link...

I think there is a slight misunderstanding here. Some of the speed limit changes are more the whim of London mayor than based on any logic, or scientific speed. TfL choose to quote accidents with serious injury (or fatalities) as justification. This is just a subset of all road accidents...

There aren't really any hard rocks in South East or Central Southern England, so both LBSCR and South Eastern Railway often used ash mixture as lower ballast. It was only in Southern Railway days that more suitable material (generally from Meldon Quarry, Dartmoor) became common. Cannot just...

I think it is TfLs obsession with 20mph even on the A roads that SL7 route uses. And the new buses have Intelligent speed limiters, so have to potter along at the new lower speed limits. They have changed the timetabled running times to reflect that parts of its route have been dropped from...

I wonder if we are all making an assumption that it will only be useful for containers from the docks (if trains actually serve it, rather than rail line added to get significant Infrastructure status for planning permission). As an example there is currently a 90km section near Tarragona...

It wasn't really a modular design, the equipment was designed for a 26m vehicle, and optimised for its design length. Why Hitachi ever agreed to bodge a shorter version is beyond me (presumably money talks, along with potential future orders, rather than engineering led common sense). As...

Falcon (based in Byfleet) has taken over its first London tendered route today, first new Operator in London for few years. It is now operating the 2 bus route 467 (Hook to Epsom) Initially seems to be using ex Stagecoach E400s LX12DDF and LX12DGF, but has new ADL E400ev on order. Falcon...

There are 12 new B23 (from memory) delivered, each one back in service replaces 2 or 3 older trains (depending on if replacing a 2 unit or 3 unit service) If 3 go back in service initially (and let's hope soon climbs to 4 or 5) then covers the gaps, A few will need to do staff...

Not sure about the engines, but cooling fans certainly became noisier, so more of a roar than a background hum. I think it was a mixture of things that led to it : tighter emissions rules, so additional exhaust equipment added better turbocharging, so exhaust gases hotter to improve emissions...

If there are two of you travelling, and you have 2 different types of tickets, then no one would know which ticket belongs to each person. So if only one person is a gold card holder, why not give them the gold card ticket. Unless one has a photocard, or is issued with specific railcard...

There is new photo on this link of Bristol Brabazon station The colour pallet seems to be black and various shades of grey The platforms look fairly short for a station due to serve an arena, no chance of 3+3car units (or longer) to clear post event crowds It is advertising a drop in event...

Yes August figures are always low volume before the September reg plate change, and September figures will better show trend BEV battery electric 28,063 ( 29.8% ) PHEV plug in hybrid 13,707 ( 14.5% ) HEV hybrid 11,940 ( 12.7% ) Petrol 36,048 ( 38.3% ) Diesel 4478 ( 4.8% ) Think it first time...

Yes Truck Act of 1831 said payment has to be in cash, prior to that some businesses paid in tokens etc, which could only be used in the firms shop etc, so completely tied to unscrupulous employer. There was a Payment of Wages Act 1960, that allowed payment by cheque rather than cash. Tend to...

Weren't the first few drivers trained on both 5car and 10car, they only did a few before it was decided to shorten the initial training and just do the 10car version. I think it is in this thread somewhere (around late 2024), but not scanning through thousands of posts.