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Title: A new road-railer from Toyota Post by: grahame on June 06, 2008, 06:33:59 Have a look at this ...
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/japrail.jpg) As I understand it, this is a 25 seater vehicle that's being evaluated at the moment by JR, Hokkaido. Make by Toyota, it's a Road / Rail vehicle; that the huge bonnet is a crumple zone, and also houses he rail wheel when it's on the road. It will be demonstrated at an international summit in July. If we have a member who reads Japanese, please have a look at the article on this and tell us if there are any more key points revealed that I have overlooked. - Thanks! http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/atmoney/news/20080602-OYT1T00914.htm?from=nwlb And please - anyone - feel free to speculate whether or not such vehicles might be useful on any services in our part of the world. Title: Re: A new road-railer from Toyota Post by: eightf48544 on June 06, 2008, 09:45:02 Portishead?
But it's still diesel and will be subject to congestion in town centres. Tram/Trains are the real answer. Using existing heavy rail lines (with mixed traffic freight, HSTs) into centre and dedicated tracks in centre. Title: Re: A new road-railer from Toyota Post by: Chris from Nailsea on June 06, 2008, 20:56:25 I agree, they'd be better than nothing on the Portishead line (!), but at just 25 seats each, you'd need a fair few of them to deal with commuter traffic - and yes, they'd just get clogged up in the existing road traffic mayhem between BTM and the city centre, for example.
Melksham, though, possibly, grahame? :P ::) ;D This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |