Recent content by The Nomad

No. Extinction Rebellion used the pressure washer to clean up, not the council. If they'd cared so much it should have been a bucket of water from the canal they were over and a brush. And no, you're wrong on drawing attention at whatever cost. What it did was draw attention to how mindless...

Extinction Rebellion aren't that bright. After their protest in Leeds city centre I watched them cleaning up what they'd written on the road with a pressure washer powered by a 2-stroke petrol engine. Now there's something that's "hugely environmentally destructive".

Nice of the BBC to use a picture of Nova 2s about a Nova 3 issue. They're all the same right?!

It's a shame as internally I really like them, and much more than cl.321s, but they're like a BMW I had once with runflat tyres. Changed them to normal tyres and it was much improved. I wonder if they'll bother to come up with a fix?

The ride just seems less floaty. Is it pneumatic suspension like on lots of other stock? It just seems physically connected to the rails and you feel every rivet.

Sorry, I thought everyone was being facetious?! Must find that irony punctuation mark on my keyboard...

Two (possibly three) more magical words: double-decker trains.

And you know that HS2 will transplant all that soil to a suitable site as near as possible, plant news trees in it and then plant 4ha of new trees for each 1ha of trees removed?

So you're saying that they can't build on new bits of land so that it takes the straightest path, but it's okay to build on land where a previous line once was? The argument gymnastics is impressive. It's the same argument as NIMBYs at the edge of a town are opposed to new houses being built...

Well okay, if you want to get into it. The Chuo Shinkansen is indeed under construction and roughly parallels the original Tōkaidō Line which was built about 60 years ago. It's now at full capacity with 16-car trains. They're building the Chuo Shinkansen basically through the Japanese Alps in a...

I fully intend to be alive in 2030 and would like the benefits of a HSR. There is no magical new technology that is feasible in the next 20, 30, 50 years. With the exception of one experimental MagLev line in Japan and the LoopyHype concept, all HSR is on rails. Look at China that experimented...

I think they're trying to put too many trains through the Huddersfield corridor - is it 5tph plus 1 for Northern? As soon as anything gets delayed, the ones behind start backing up and there's a lack of overtaking spots. Possibly this thought should be in the Speculative Ideas bit, but could...

But, but, but your fellows are obsessed that HS2 fares will be higher than non-HS2 fares. Now you're saying we shouldn't build HS2 and just make all fares higher. That'll be popular. Hmm, does Aberdeen Bypass count then? Originally priced at £300-400m, possibly cost about £750m, might end up...

You're not making any sense. Moving block will not increase capacity whilst there is such a range of speed and stopping patterns on the WCML. The trains will still catch each other up. The only way to seriously increase capacity is to build more line. Your talk of "put[ting] Britain in its...

Love LNER's euphemistic use of amended instead of removed. Now cancelling a service is a good thing. Lovely stuff!