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No you'd need a custom order compliant with tunnel standards, UIC-RIC carriage interoperability standards, UK NR standards and Spanish CAF-Talgo gauge variation standards. In short a prohibitively expensive coach that no-one else will have any use for and which will take more than 2 and a half...

Well there's another reason. Rang de Fliers is the end of 'the wires'.

They do sound like the snowplough markers - it's to avoid ploughs ploughing into things like crocodiles (basically the same as AWS magnets), KVB balises etc.

Essentially it says: 'You must not: Get on or off a moving train Get on a train while its departure is signalled as imminent by [multiple ways of showing 'this train is ready to depart]. To place objects obstructing the closure of the doors or to open the doors once the 'right away'/'ready to...

The cost of plastic, metal and paint are essentially marginal. It's like the cost of the salt in caviar, or the price of your sugar in a cup of coffee. The price comes down to the moulds and those things don't cost less than in OO. The fact that as we are orientated around operations more means...

The Gauge O Guild's virtual show is opening at www.gaugeoguild.com, this morning at 9:30 AM UTC (GMT) There will be a wide array of layouts and traders present with, additionally, multiple demonstrations throughout the day. Furthermore, there will be three major announcements - Dapol, Minerva...

Personally, I'd expect not to take it at least for a good while so that: 1] It can be established as actually 'doing what it says on the tin'. 2] So that any lasting side effects can be efficiently monitored and researched (e.g. risk of cancer, which develops over a long period of time). In the...

Well, to start with, how much space are we actually talking about? Regarding costs, among the smaller scales as people say N gauge, and more often than not British is likely to be cheaper. As you go even smaller prices start going up. With diesels and electrics the pricing gap between the UK...

You'd hope these things sold for about the price of a loco in the case of a 2-car or 1-car unit. Sadly that's not the case.

@Offluzz The word bourrelet can have lots of meanings. Judging by the drawing the one you're talking about is part of a piece of rail.The 'bourrlet' in this context refers to a piece of metal soldered onto the rail. Hopefully thisphoto helps a bit. The word bourrelet comes from 'bourre'. This...

In many cases no. The following are two main examples: Where there is very good rail infrastructure (i.e. HS lines) - Distances that are inconvenient to the passenger (e.g. Beijing to Shanghai in 6 hours by daytime HSR, 12 hours by conventional express sleeper, London Nice at 10 hours by day...

I'd have thought that with the latest resin 3d printers one could have cast/printed tiny pieces of detail at little to no cost and left it to the modeller to install as a cost-saving measure with intricate detail moulded on too: This is a one-piece moulding for instance. 3d printing can be...

Yes but the 'seeds' often need to be sown at a young age and/or over a long period of time. I would think that the following groups of people are far more likely to become modellers: Career railwaymen (and women) - retired or working Those who have had childhood experiences with the railways...

Well - A subsidy - does not exist if this train service does not run. A PSO - would exist anyway even if OBB didn't operate it, probably given to someone else. And as some others have said, PSO, is Public Service Obligation. The NHS costs billions a year. We don't say that 'The NHS posted a...

That may actually be a good idea - splittable multiple units with through corridors.

460 for a Velaro-D against 450 in a 374.

http://www.rail3d.info/download.aspx You can of course still download it here should you wish if you have a windows PC.

The problem is Eurotunnel restrictions which at present demand a 375m full corridor. This is, I believe is the stumbling block for many a cross-channel service.

I'm not too sure if there's a better place for this post but as far as I'm aware passenger transport has been hit far, far worse than freight. I do believe that passenger open access offerings are relatively marginal. Well assuming 5000kW/loco that would end up being 20 locos. Is the catenary...

Eurostar or perhaps its translation of Étoile d'Europe with the old yellow and white Eurostar branding might be a good idea. More likely judging by the context it will be something related to the environment or how trains are better than other modes of transport (the project is currently known...