Recent content by RailWonderer

Dan Strauss or a sound-alike should be on all Northern trains and be done with this. He was one of the best on board voices. Janine Cooper Marshall gets an honourable mention. For Northern accents Neil Rudd wins for me. This is why a general Northern (if that exists) should be chosen or...

Commuter: 442s and 444s. Regional: 158 and 755. IC: Pendolinos and the 745. If a Stadler Giruno was ordered we may have a winner. I'm judging solely about ride quaity as configurations can vary greatly i.e. 158 original vs Fainsa seating. The Lumo and new Pendolino seating is approaching IET...

What nobody has mentioned yet is that even if TfL were mad enough to want the liability of having to serve the middle of Buckinghamshire (in a time they are cash strapped) they would have to order a load more S stock. Already the Northern line is suffering stock shortages just for a small...

? The 350/1 are dual voltage as are the 387s which both used it daily hassle free and currently the 700s use it day in day out with no issues at all.

That doesn't change the fact as mentioned above, dual voltage or bi-mode is the best solution for the route. For the sake of consistency, the Tube's reach out of London should be limited and anything further afield should be for mainline trains only, or Purple tube branding and run by TfL.

Partial electrification and bi-modes are the most realistic solution and for Chiltern to continue operating to Aylesbury services. They are S-bahn style routes where it would be absurd to send the Met line to given the Tube's main purpose is to serve London and its immediate areas, not plod...

I think people get too hung up on early technical and mechanical issues of trains in their first few weeks and months of service. The disruption is only temporary when you consider a 35-40 year service life. It's issues like the yaw damper cracks on the IETs and Class 180 fires that are most...

https://news.sky.com/story/electric-car-uk-market-share-shrinks-figures-suggest-13107632 It's stagnant in the UK and demand is falling due to high interest rates and a tough economy. The same goes for car sales in general, IC included. Lack of public charging and expense of public charging plus...

Better keep the legislation there in case a ToC decides to install new ones or carry on maintaining the few that are remaining.

Sweden also, and to a lesser extent, Denmark keeps its trains and lineside mostly clear of it.

With the cost of motoring soaring including higher insurance for EVs I don't see myself owning one for many years. Plus you really need to own your own property to charge one or regularly drive to a place that has an available charger. There are high fees to charge at many stations and as demand...

Sure, for the right price they will sell a lot more, but infrastructure is still lacking not in the UK as much as in parts of Europe and the US though.

No, family and friends know a few car dealers, and the market does not want them. Remeber all the pro-diesel propaganda until we discovered they were dirtier than petrol. I'm always skeptical of these fleeting trends because before you know it, they're out. And why is this thread obsesed with...

A single petrol station has at least two pumps, most have four or six. When you queye behind another car in the petrol station, they will be gone in 5 mins or less. Waiting for an EV to charge, plus charging yours and you've wasted an hour doing nothing. Google images and pretty much every...

I don't want to see it either, removing a few peak extras is all they need to do to allow increased reliability, resilience, fewer delays and more slack in the fleet. I don't want to see a spiral of decline but I only refer to cost saving because the UK will never be like Europe which subsidies...