Have a look at this ...



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.

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?