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    Running round at Cowes

    This is why hand brakes should be applied whenever a freight train is unattended, and failure to apply enough of them was the cause of a disaster a few years ago when much of the small community of Lac Megantic on the US-Canada border was obliterated by a runaway oil train. Modern passenger...
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    Discontinuous Electrification - RUK's thoughts?

    I recall reading that heating was one of the issues prompting the power supply upgrade when the slam-door stock was replaced by the Desiro and Electrostar fleets with much more current draw. I'm not sure if the upgrades have re-created a significant headroom on the supply or whether some of it...
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    Metrolink tram extensions

    Interesting. So there would have to be crossovers between Navigation Road and Altrincham to get the tram-trains on and off the Hale route, or the terminating platforms at Altrincham would have to burst through the buffer stops and join the route onward as they presumably did in pre-Metrolink...
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    Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Bus News

    Other than for the first couple of stops over the Trent, NCT's competition for the Keyworth is only the 5 and to a limited extent the 8 and 9, all of which take less direct routes and are less frequent. I'd guess all the other TB routes radiating from Nottingham (leaving aside Red Arrow as a...
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    Discontinuous Electrification - RUK's thoughts?

    The train will take more power unless charging is suspended while it's accelerating. Which sounds possible but obviously increases the on-network time needed to complete a particular duty. The other issue is that heating of the substation equipment is one of the limiting factors for traction...
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    3 month old 737-9 Max depressurisation incident

    I think the point here is that on a 25-year-old aircraft it's unlikely to be an issue arising from construction.
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    Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Bus News

    There's even a TfL-like contactless system in Nottingham, but unfortunately TrentBarton don't participate. Not sure if this is because they have to have touching out or for some other reason. Nottingham has generally made the best of the deregulated bus environment. Obviously it helps that...
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    Brexit matters

    I don't think that holds true particularly for Scotland (quite a few different laws and a different attitude to many things, not least EU membership in 2016) and Northern Ireland (you can't even vote for a GB party and its history is tied up with inter-community tension and the relationship with...
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    Metrolink tram extensions

    I agree Ashton line and also the outer parts of the Eccles line have significant street running, and this choice may have been regretted since. The street running on the Airport line is on rather less busy roads so may not be significant. It depends on your point of view. Someone with plenty...
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    All barriers have optical readers or will have within a few years (subject to TfL sorting their situation) The bog roll tickets have barcodes now I believe. The credit card sized tickets could carry a barcode, or could be replaced by bog roll. Once that has happened, and season tickets are...
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    No. An e-ticket is uniquely identifiable against a central database, and therefore much more secure against fraud. It also allows those who are content to have their ticket on their phone, and print at home/office if they want to, to receive their tickets at their leisure without having to...
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    Metrolink tram extensions

    The "Bee Network" also creates the opportunity for buses to be run as feeders to the tram rather than in competition. This won't always be the best answer, but potentially a short bus journey and an easy change onto a tram might suit people better than a long and unreliable bus journey along...
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    Discontinuous Electrification - RUK's thoughts?

    However, in doing so, they will draw more current from the supply to maintain the power level they need to sustain the necessary charge rate. That will increase voltage drop, dragging down an already low voltage still further, and unless the supply is reinforced there may be a runaway effect...
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    Brexit matters

    Driving down wages is one reason why we have had a lot of immigration from Eastern Europe. For a lot of jobs the only people willing to do them for the pay on offer were people moving from countries where the cost of living was much lower, willing to live in squalid conditions to amass some...
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    ECML Power Supply Upgrade

    It shouldn't be too difficult to synchronise them - just use one phase of the Grid as a reference and make sure everyone picks the same one. This should be reliable provided the Grid doesn't get split into smaller parts, and if that happened I suspect not being able to run trains would be the...
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    Metrolink tram extensions

    Indeed. A single vehicle of the same length as the existing doubles would immediately give a capacity uplift on those routes where doubles already operate at the maximum practicable frequency, by creating passenger space to replace two cabs and a coupler. This in turn allows more M5000s to be...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Any new leader may give a bit of a boost in the polls because some people will give them a chance or think they may be able to sort out some of the mess. Mordaunt being relatively moderate and not having conspicuously messed anything up recently (and she can hold a sword) would probably do that...
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    Brexit matters

    That is your viewpoint. But ever since autumn 2018 opinion polls have shown majorities against Brexit, so most people either don't see it as a problem or are prepared to put up with it to enjoy the benefits of being a member.
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    Discontinuous Electrification - RUK's thoughts?

    Battery versus diesel is more a question of the distance to be travelled away from wires or other charging opportunities, rather than the frequency of service operated.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    My theory is the left and the right hand. While Cameron was hoping for LibDems to solve his problem, Osborne was working on destroying them (as well as imposing austerity that annoyed people enough to vote for Brexit simply because Cameron opposed it). I'm sure I read Osborne was opposed to...

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