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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2021, 09:33:54 » |
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That colour scheme would take some getting used to
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I think it's a cool colour scheme. Are there any plans to electrify or make them accept hydrogen?
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« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2021, 11:42:32 » |
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I've read the article 3 times and still can't work out what they are going to use them for!
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Insofar as I understand the article, it looks like a pair of power cars will haul a "multiple unit" - what type? An old Wessex Electric unit?
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Why no yellow front?
I was under the impression that Crossrail trains don't need it because of the powerful light above the cab but these HST▸ trains don't have that do they?
I am guessing that my understanding is incorrect.
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« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2021, 19:19:18 » |
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Retrofitting different lights is a relatively minor mater.
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU▸ is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2021, 19:20:17 » |
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Why no yellow front?
I was under the impression that Crossrail trains don't need it because of the powerful light above the cab but these HST▸ trains don't have that do they?
I am guessing that my understanding is incorrect.
The headlights on Class 43 are powerful enough. The yellow ends are next to useless when you are stood trackside, but the headlights even in the brightest of days you can see quite a long way off |
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2021, 19:41:55 » |
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I think it's a cool colour scheme. Are there any plans to electrify or make them accept hydrogen?
Never mind hydrogen, given the Old Faithful in the title, I was expecting geothermal steam! |
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Waiting at Pilning for the midnight sleeper to Prague.
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« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2021, 19:56:11 » |
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Insofar as I understand the article, it looks like a pair of power cars will haul a "multiple unit" - what type? An old Wessex Electric unit?
While it does look rather machine-translated, the text includes "test and transfer runs for the railway industry" and "coupling adapter and brake wagons". So their bread and butter business is dragging new stock from factory to new owners, often internationally, and perhaps in several stages. I'm less sure about the "tests" - I suspect they would be individual requirements and you'd need to be told about them. But no doubt there's some demand for hauling prototypes of new non-powered vehicles around one of those test ovals. |
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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2021, 22:46:37 » |
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I think it's a cool colour scheme. Are there any plans to electrify or make them accept hydrogen?
I understand there's a mechanism inside like the one I posted a month or so back, but obviously sheltered against the weather: http://www.passenger.chat/patrick/spd06.png |
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