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Here is an extract from the Network Rail 'track access charges' spreadsheet.
(Full version available from http://www.networkrail.co.uk/using-our-network/cp5-access-charges/)
Track Usage Price List
2012/13 Prices
1. Variable Usage Charge
Passenger Variable Usage Charge default rates...
China is proposing five high-speed international railway networks that would ultimately connect the UK at one end, America at another and Singapore in the south, with China in the centre.
Recently posted on the South China Morning Post website was the following Infographic visualising these...
If it is gearing then can you explain why all the class 59 subclasses have the same gearing (62:15) and yet have different maximum speeds?
I would of thought the real reason is the software controlling the locos.