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HSTEd
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The best way to electrify the Chiltern Network and the Snow Hill Lines
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What would the advantage of using 25kV north of Amersham be in such a scenario? It just imposes dual voltage trains on London...
Today at 11:10
HSTEd
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The best way to electrify the Chiltern Network and the Snow Hill Lines
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Oops! But yes, the ORR.
Yesterday at 16:07
HSTEd
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The best way to electrify the Chiltern Network and the Snow Hill Lines
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Ultimately the person who pays the piper calls the tune, and TfL does not pay the piper. In the end, Westminster does. If Westminster...
Yesterday at 13:30
HSTEd
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HS2 Scrapped Legs - Referendum
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Well it doesn't help that HS2 has nothing to offer but vague promises that they will benefit. And the public has learned, through long...
Yesterday at 10:53
HSTEd
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Eurostar E300 replacements?
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A ~360m rake of TGV-M trailers probably isn't going to be much heavier than the rake of trailers on a first-generation Eurostar set. Its...
Yesterday at 10:36
HSTEd
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The best way to electrify the Chiltern Network and the Snow Hill Lines
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But are we really talking about the Chiltern Line? We are talking about a branch line that happens to operate into Marylebone, it's...
Yesterday at 01:07
HSTEd
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Eurostar E300 replacements?
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Eurostar did order 400m units last time though, even though they could have ordered 200m units if they had wanted to. So I think there...
Yesterday at 00:45
HSTEd
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Eurostar E300 replacements?
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.... I wasn't referring to any sort of safety requirement? I was merely suggesting that they might want 400m units to continue the...
Wednesday at 22:53
HSTEd
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Eurostar E300 replacements?
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I'd guess the major determinant of TGV M or not is whether or not they are capable of building a 400m set with no intermediate power...
Wednesday at 21:28
HSTEd
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Winning friends and influencing people Network Rail style. Using other people's property/causing prolonged disruption, legal threats, no agreed compo
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This project isn't really of national importance in any meaningful sense.
Wednesday at 19:58
HSTEd
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Locomotive haulage vs. multiple units
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A GP60 weighs ~273,000lb, which is 124 tonnes. It's the weight of a UK Co-Co locomotive!
Wednesday at 18:23
HSTEd
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The best way to electrify the Chiltern Network and the Snow Hill Lines
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I don't see why this solution is preferable to simply extending the Met. It just forces an additional change at Harrow or wherever to...
Wednesday at 16:06
HSTEd
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Locomotive haulage vs. multiple units
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If any serious attempt was to be made on reviving locomotive hauled stock, we would first have to define a cast iron compatibility...
Wednesday at 15:40
HSTEd
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What are your first impressions of the new TGV-M.
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JR East was always far more bullish on double deckers than the rest of JR and they've been suffering from declining passenger numbers...
Wednesday at 11:51
HSTEd
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HS2 Scrapped Legs - Referendum
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Not a chance. The project has acquired such a toxic reputation with the public that it would probably be as crushing a result as the AV...
Wednesday at 01:51
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