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« Reply #570 on: June 21, 2019, 23:24:20 »

While you and Finn have been touring the frozen wastes, Virgin have switched to battery power. (8,5 million AAA cells, changed at each stop.)
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« Reply #571 on: June 22, 2019, 13:31:12 »

Perhaps Wabtec have been bolting diesel engines and generators on them (inspired by the success of Hitatchi's IETs (Intercity Express Train)?) when they should have been doing the 319/769s?
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« Reply #572 on: June 22, 2019, 22:22:04 »

That Pendolino shot doesn't look like the North Wales Coast Line, but they used to work along there even though there are no wires (answer: they were hauled by class 57s). Is that a real location (with OHLE painted out) or is it a model with a shot of a train superimposed (going by the still frame shown the train is very good CGI (Computer-generated imagery), if that's what it is, compared to what you see when new stations are proposed)?
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« Reply #573 on: June 23, 2019, 20:00:53 »

While you and Finn have been touring the frozen wastes, Virgin have switched to battery power. (8,5 million AAA cells, changed at each stop.)

Sorry, but Mercedes beat Virgin to it !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEjTwsfqHOY
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« Reply #574 on: June 24, 2019, 19:41:24 »

And I thought I had had an original idea for once!
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« Reply #575 on: September 29, 2019, 18:39:46 »

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After fat cats made millions from the Trainline float... Could YOU ride the private equity gravy train?

Trainline was one of the most successful flotations of a private company this year

With an illustration of a steam engine ... I suspect backing onto its train at Bishop's Lydeard.  Does Trainline sell any tickets at all for steam trains?
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« Reply #576 on: September 29, 2019, 23:02:47 »

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After fat cats made millions from the Trainline float... Could YOU ride the private equity gravy train?

Trainline was one of the most successful flotations of a private company this year

With an illustration of a steam engine ... I suspect backing onto its train at Bishop's Lydeard.  Does Trainline sell any tickets at all for steam trains?

Today's Sunday Times has the Eurostar/Thalys story with a picture of a set on third rail.
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« Reply #577 on: September 30, 2019, 18:54:36 »

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Trainline was one of the most successful flotations of a private company this year


An alternative headline could have been "Useful* service for buying train tickets proves popular"

*I don't. They charge money, for goodness sake!
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« Reply #578 on: October 08, 2019, 12:08:10 »

I suppose this is not completely irrelevant when you read the article, but first impressions..........

https://www.lep.co.uk/news/traffic-and-travel/stagecoach-confirms-legal-action-over-rail-contracts-row-1-10036378?fbclid=IwAR1TK1wL042aqrYcB7B6jU8UFQnHBdc84g3SxJs4qHVVSfA_hGtALCxvl_U

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Stagecoach confirms legal action over rail contracts row



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« Reply #579 on: November 26, 2019, 14:29:44 »

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How many Routemaster bus seats would it take to fill Wembley Stadium?


A bus that is neither red nor a Routemaster, just to annoy pedants
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« Reply #580 on: December 28, 2019, 13:22:02 »

I see that 180s have made a return to GWR (Great Western Railway), and on the Henley branch no less. Curiously they're in Grand Central livery...

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18125827.police-quiz-man-inappropriate-touching-henley-train/
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« Reply #581 on: April 14, 2020, 10:45:33 »

This is a classic, a Virgin liveried HST (High Speed Train) seen at York used to illustrate an article about a potential Virgin California to Las Vegas service.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/bus-train/virgin-train-between-california-las-vegas
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« Reply #582 on: June 15, 2020, 20:08:51 »

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Don't think so

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« Reply #583 on: June 15, 2020, 20:33:22 »

Nice though the Viva Rail trains may be, I don't think I would fancy 3 hours in an underground train. However ponced up it might be.
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« Reply #584 on: June 15, 2020, 22:46:19 »

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Don't think so



I had no idea that Dtrain had been upgraded so massively.  Could Vivarail have a future in upgrading Vauxhall Astras for F1 teams?
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