“
Calls are being made to re-open a railway line shut 60 years ago as concerns grow that transport links in Dumfries and Galloway have become a key cause of depopulation.
“
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Debate!
Rail latest
(760 posts)-
Posted 1 week ago #
-
“
Ms Dickie said: “The key thing is this a permanent change and that allows people to make long-term choices about their modes of transport.
“
Posted 1 week ago # -
“
Meet the Scottish woman who drives Freightliner trains nearly a mile long - taking 60 lorries off the road
“
Posted 1 week ago # -
Posted 6 days ago #
-
End of peak faresm is great news for commuters, not so great for my man maths to justify commuting bike. Now the difference between a single and a return is pennies, it will take 1425 weeks of train savings to pay for my new bike cycling home twice a week.
Of course for folks who like bikes the train money saving was never really a consideration when purchasing bike.
However if you're new and swithering on whether to buy a bike, and considering cost, I suspect 2 quid a week saving deems the bike uneconomical (unless you can cycle both ways often)?
Posted 6 days ago # -
It also enables bike commuting as well though, for people who're less fit or coming from further out - bike-on-train for commuters is now the same price as it is for anyone else, and if you were spending money on fuel or public transport at either end of a train journey as well then ride>train>ride could end up saving you a few quid a day.
Posted 6 days ago # -
“
More than £340 million is to be invested into the Fife and Borders railway as part of plans to upgrade trains and electrify the lines.
…
“Just as we are investing in our routes, so too are we committed to modernising our fleets, that is why I can also confirm that ScotRail has been authorised to initiate a procurement exercise for new battery-electric trains that will operate on the Borders Railway, Fife, and also for the replacement of some of those electric fleets currently operating in Glasgow.
“
Posted 2 days ago # -
Louise Shaw was the engineer tasked to develop the hybrid train options for the stages of best value balance for installing 'knitting' vs using batteries or other prime movers for the gaps where it is just too difficult or costly to electrify the railway
The new trains supplied by Stadler for several operators already have been operating with a central diesel or a battery module connected to outer modules which can operate as pure electric trains with the centre unit removed
The trains also have floor heights dropped to match platform heights (915mm), whilst other suppliers still build to the old standard (1100mm. The Hitachi bodyshell design also builds in a 2" step at every external door for the Class 80x (LNER, Lumo, TPE and now also Avanti) plus the Scotrail Class 385, there also remains the bogie yaw issue which saw the new trains having fractures in yaw damper brackets through an embedded resonant oscillation issue
The trains built for Liverpool also use a version of the cycle stowage (a design I first noted in 1988) which fits 3 bikes into the space released by removing a pair of fixed seats, plus cutting back the draught screen at the sliding doors. By neatly angling the front wheels 3 bikes fit in the same space as most trains allow for just 2
Hopefully we'll see the experience of Merseyrail and Greater Anglia's newest trains being used for the Scotrail ones, with the 'standard' that I pressed for with the Class 380 and Class 385 trans, that has also been retro-fitted on HST (Coach C) plus the Class 334 (refurbishment) with a cycle space at least 2.4 metres long (5 tip-up seats), which can easily accommodate tandems, long-tails, recumbents and trikes
I'll repost this on a 'new trains thread for follow-up & images
Posted 14 hours ago #
Reply
You must log in to post.
posts
