Yes, as specified for passenger operation it's two units and 312 m - twelve vehicles. Given the unit lengths in existence that means only trains that actually operate now.

For ECS and rescue modes, twice that is allowed. That means any train operating now can rescue any other, but it does no have to haul anything longer than it is. Thus some theoretical possibilities such as 5+5+5+9 might be allowed as ECS, but not for rescue (i.e. with passengers on board the rescued train).

 
https://youtu.be/wVdbl-tE8CA?si=1reOGALFSlAeYIA8

 
... and that, M'Lud, concludes the case for the defence ...

 

 
How high can you go? 

 
 Over on the YouTube channel GWR have released footage from the entire six and a bit hours of the record-breaking journey, haven't watched all of it as I do have a life but it's interesting in parts.

 
I have no local knowledge, but the bus appears to be in the middle of the carriageway, and as such, the driver would have assumed they were in the correct positioning for the arch. The pavement on the right appears to be much wider than that on the left, but the photo angle distorts the difference, so it may not be that great a difference, but presumably enough to lead to this outcome. In which case, I'm surprised that double deckers are allowed to go under the bridge.

 
So much for the High Life !.

 

Not from me. If you can afford to go shooting with your royal cousins, and Lord Ivar was a cousin on both sides, you can at the very least afford a taxi from Uffculme to Dunkeswell for your matched Purdys, and a local pilot will be happy to fly them to Aberdeen in his PA28 or Cessna 172 for cost plus a few beers.

Although his Lordship no longer owns Bridwell Park, it remains a very pleasant place to visit, with the Orangery providing suitable refreshment.



Lord Ivar (left) with husband James in an apparent photoshop job, in front of the house at Bridwell Park.

 
Thanks, grahame. 

That is, if anything, even more embarrassing. 

CfN. 

 

If the Coffee Shop were not virtual but a physical station, we would be in to be winners in the "World Cup of Stations" based on the positive difference it has brought to many of our lives.

P.S. - You have also started over 2,600 threads!

 
It's not a competition, and indeed it's rather inadvertent - but I have now apparently posted over 20,000 items here on this Coffee Shop forum. 

May I offer my thanks to all of my readers for your continuing support and encouragement.

Chris. 

 
His / Her line manager will no doubt be having that discussion. 

 
Reminded me of the 23-car lash up through Tonbridge :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jta4c9FMmCA

Is there a theoretical maximum of IETs that can be coupled together?

 
It's a funny old argument from the railway, that. Is the practice of operating trains on a system with high fixed costs and then, as your trains are leased, you need to pitch provision at a level that on a daily basis is capacity constrained... is that an an approach that's laced with unintended consequences?

Mark

 

Back then there was mainly an hourly service from Paignton to Exmouth. The half hour service to Exmouth by a Barnstaple- Exmouth train. There were extra trains in the rush hour. Oddly the Torre return school traffic was served by a Paignton-London HST stopping there

The big change for Paignton was when an additional shuttle was added between Paignton and Newton Abbot funded by the European Union and marked as such in the timetable to make a half hour service between peak.

These trains were taken over by GWR as passenger numbers increased to make a half hour Paignton-Exmouth service viable by stopping the Barnstaple train at Exeter St James then running to the reversing siding. This didn't last long (3 months?) as it was not a safe to terminate a train there and Exeter Central became the tipping out point, then empty to Exmouth Junction siding (now called East siding).

 

HISTORIC - but thinking back and to inform discussion, this was the logic:

If it costs £100,000 to hire a carriage for a year and it's only needed (was the case in 2006) for the 12 minutes from Keynsham into Temple Meads on 240 days per annum, it has to generete an extra income of £416 per day. At the fares of the time that worked out as over 100 extra fares to be collected from people who would not otherwise have travelled. FGW as it was believed that whilst they would lose some passengers due to overcrowding, it was far short of 100 every day.

 

Wikipedia (the Kenilworth Station page) tells us:


The Coventry to Nuneaton section also has its passenger services withdrawn and later re-instated - again, WikiPedia, this time on Bedworth

 

Thank you for posting that - it made my day! 

 

Does that still apply, as nowadays if can't get on, can claim delay repay if delayed (or do they not take the cost of delays into account).

I have seen 2coach 158s on Portsmouth-Cardiff lose 20 minutes by Bath or Bristol, due to extended dwell at stations, and as most of the local tickets wouldn't be advances (with auto delay repay) that is an awful lot of manual accounting needed to reallocate the delay repay cost back into that short formation.

I suspect it is based on selective inclusion of costs

 
Yes, looking at Streetview, possibly from the station car park approach road at Berkswell - that's the second track of the double track WCML spur to Birmingham sort of making itself not very obvious, behind the train.

Other stand-out features of Berkswell Station: beside it, a 7 foot headroom road bridge.

Nearby to be seen - a great length of HS2 construction a more advanced stage is now covered on Google satellite view.

The Leamington to Coventry line... I'm trying to recall if it went out of use completely before being brought into use for crosscountry services needing Birmingham International.

Mark

 

And, I see, electrified too. Must be somewhere to our north. Do we have *any* electrified single lines in the South West yet??

[edit] - from a reverse image search:

 
Looks like it's going to happen.......

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bus-strikes-bristol-cause-chaos-10447277

 
Newquay, of old journeys?

 
You can nominate Taunton right now if you wish!

Voting starts in October half-term week

 
On a slightly more serious note: where was this picture (as used in the BBC News item) originally taken?



Cross Country, single track. I really don't know.