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Is it more the light levels (ie whether the half light switch is operated) or the light colour temperature? I never noticed the difference until I moved house and the maniacs before me had put cold white bulbs in the master bedroom.

The ScotRail driver training HSTs are all four coaches, and anecdotally are easily outperforming the existing sprinters.

I thought the TGS had the magic box that linked the CDL to the buzzer in the cab? Although I guess you could move the box to another vehicle.

NMT was definitely in Glasgow Queen Street on Monday around 1pm.

Apparently the first HST bound for ScotRail left Bristol last night and arrived in Doncaster this morning.

I travel Edinburgh to Glasgow on a fairly regular basis, and that's more or less what I would estimate.

Going by the latest track access charges on the Network Rail website, a Class 185 costs 11.35 pence per vehicle mile, so 68.1 pence per mile for the 6 car. A class 68 isn't listed, but a class 67 is down as 58.47 pence per mile, and a mark 3 coach is 6.46 pence per mile (at least I think that's...

On the air braked trains I've dealt with, there's a control reservoir connected to the distributor. The control reservoir gets charged up to the same pressure as the brake pipe (5 bar) when the brakes are fully released, then when the brake pipe is dropped to apply the brakes, the brake cylinder...

Are the grammer seats on ATW and EMTs MK3 vehicles too? I quite like them on Great Western, but I've never travelled very far on one.