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The book "Steam Album Volume Three Perthshire" by the Angus Railway Group has an image from the railway bridge. From the description it could very well be the one mentioned above as it clearly shows the station building (end and platform side), the goods yard and the signal box. There is also a good image on railscot here. Please share if you build this, it is somewhere i have though about modelling before so it would be very interesting to see someone do it.

Yep, burning coal is just burning the hydrogen and the carbon, in both cases the hydrogen and the carbon fuse with the oxygen in the air. Its counterintuitive as the coal has an obvious mass and the carbon dioxide doesn't. However,although we can't see it a cubic metre of carbon dioxide will have a mass of about 2kg. So all that is saying is 1kg of coal will create around 1.5-1.8 cubic metres of carbon dioxide going up the chimney.

In fairness to them they even though i do support the KESR extension Carbon Dioxide has a greater mass than carbon on its own as it takes oxygen in from the air. Carbon has an atomic mass of 12 with oxygen having an atmoic mass of 16 so carbon dioxide has a combined atomic mass of 44. So carbon dioxide has a mass around 3.6 times greater than pure carbon so there quoted value of 2.9kg co2 for 1 kg of coal seems resonable as coal is a mix of hydrogen and carbon.

Its worth remembering that Spacex has two autonomous ships it uses for rocket landings already.

If you look at they IEP specification they are specifically stated that they should be able to cope with salt water spray. From page 24 of https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/82840/tts-redacted.pdf So if they should be designed for it to not cause any problems and if it does Hitachi should have to resolve the issues.

Wouldn't be a problem, queen street tunnel is 1 in 42 and modern units have no problem with it so 1 in 58 wouldn't be an issue

Platfroms 5 and 6 which are the short bays normally holding the thunderbird/sleeper locomotives at the south end of the station are going to be extended up t through the old taxi rank in the station (next to the Virgin East Coast First Class Lounge and Platform 7) These will be capable of holding 10 coach IEPs and should hold most of the terminating East Coast services that currently use through platforms. Platform 12 will also be extended by demolishing the scotrail first class lounge to hold 8 carriage Edinburgh to Glasgow services.

And the A4s do also run up and down the ECML as well probably as often as Flying Scotsman will

The plan is to put two new platforms capable of taking terminating trains from London where the disused taxi rank is, I believe the planning application is in at the moment, (All so to extend a couple of west facing bays as well) This won't solve the problem of fist class being a long walk away but it should bring more of these trains into the station as london trains will uses these allowing use of the through platforms by the new longer Edinburgh to Glasgow trains and the HSTs when they get up here.

With regards to waverley at the moment there are aditional and longer trains to fife because of the forth bridge which may need to use the longer through platforms pushing east coast out to 8 and 9. In the long term Platforms 5and 6 Will be extended for terminating services from london and 12 will be extended for terminating services from glasgow and the north solving the problems

here comes the sun - the Beatles

The Bird and The worm - owl city

Your the one that i want - grease

so does that mean the footprint could be 6.5" x 40" then?

the prototypes definitly look goodand when are the prices and liveries going to be anounced in mr149 it said they'd be in mr150 but i can't see them