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While reading some of the discussion of the Salisbury collision, I saw a post describing how early WSP algorithms were limited in their effectiveness, as the application rate of the brakes had to be limited so as not to exhaust the air supply of the train. This got me thinking, if there is any...

I’ve read a lot of threads recently where the topic of the pros and cons of gangways have been discussed, atleast with regards to drivers and guards etc. Units with gangways tend to have cramped cabs for drivers, even if they are built with a partition that can be kept open ala Sprinters...

I was reading about the Voyager Project Thor (the failed plan to add a pantograph to Voyagers) on these forums, and it got me thinking about DEMUs in general. All the way from Sprinters to today, there seem to be way more mechanical DMUs over electric DMUs, but I was wondering why? Electric...

First of, I apologise if this has been asked before. I did search both the forums, and the internet generally, but nothing really came up. I recently saw a map of all railway lines in the U.K., and while I knew that the U.K. network was mostly non-electrified, I had no idea that Glasgow was a...