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They're very much high short hood locos. They'd look good in SP Black Widow, because that paint scheme looks good on everything.

I don't know, if that hadn't happened then we wouldn't have the large and successful heritage sector that we do now. Which is not really much of a justification, I admit.

The Walthers Catalogue?

They're probably the same height, but the lack of track and ballast makes it seem that the other one is higher.

Branding. The Trainline has a strong enough brand that people will use it and not know that they could buy a ticket from anywhere to anywhere using any of the TOC sites.

I was talking to someone on another forum about how they couldn't find anything but advance tickets for the journey they were making, so clearly they can be bought. Depends on your journey and time I guess.

Okehampton is an end in itself, being a reasonable sized town with a useable (with a little work) station and existing railway. Getting through Tavistock on the old alignment is going to need a lot of demolition, never mind the various other places en route, and Meldon viaduct reputedly isn't up to much, both of which make any future reconnection pretty far off.

It's not always cheap to get the train, especially if you're buying anytime fares. But that is a result of the demand as much as anything else. At least before the plague hit they had no trouble filling the morning and evening trains between Waterloo and Winchester, even at those prices (though many would have been traveling on season tickets). Everyone has their own circumstances, and yours are different to mine, which are different to everyone else's. Which doesn't have much to do with MML electrification.

It's never been about pandering to those going to London though. The current HS2 scheme is an extra pair of tracks on the WCML, which creates lots of extra capacity on the existing lines by getting the people traveling between the big cities out of the way of those who aren't. There's a time spent traveling to New Street/ Euston for the existing routes in any case. That's just a fact of train travel, you have to get to the station wherever it is.

Whilst they are the "standard" and are coming to the MML, there are alternatives out there which have been procured recently. The 397s from CAF for example, or the FLIRT units as on the GE area can be supplied with a 200km/h top speed. Hitachi of course have an assembly plant in Newton Aycliffe, so there's political considerations to keeping it in business when choosing a type of train to build.

Renewables may not be cheap, but not doing anything about emissions will be much more expensive in the long run.

Or for Visa to reduce theirs to reclaim their lost market share.

My bank have just switched from visa credit and debit cards to MasterCard. I'm imagining there's a link there. Strange that they take Amex, that always used to be the "to expensive so we don't take it" card.

Do they ever change anything retrospectively? Whatever the rights and wrongs, it isn't a clever look for any team to be moaning about the refereeing after the event, particularly after they won anyway.

Looks like it would need a lot of demolition in every settlement of any size in the route, expect possibly Beverly. A new railway between York and Beverly might well be useful, but as with all these things, being a slave to the old alignment is unhelpful. It's possible that some of it could be reused, but that shouldn't be what drives a project. I also wouldn't rule out having stations on the edge of town (if it's expected to be more of a source then a destination, which those places mostly will be). Even if it were in the centre most people wouldn't walk there, so put it a little way outside with decent car parking and a bus stop and it'll probably do just as well as if it were central. I doubt that driving into York or Hull is huge fun, so having what would essentially be a park & ride isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I see the up slow is reversible, so if there's capacity there it won't get in the way of the main line and it'll depend which platform they're aiming for. You'd think that a few trains would go from 6/7 for route knowledge purposes even if they normally use 1.

I think that broadly speaking, leisure travel has bounced back pretty well. It's commuting which is slower to come back. And now many people have worked out how to work effectively from home it could be a long time before it does get back to where it was.

Will the passenger service not switch over too?

True, though they could be taking the approach of using a higher output mode than they normally would, knowing it'll compromise longevity, with the idea that at high output they'll have enough of a pace advantage to overcome the penalties that replacements will bring. It's high risk and not really within the spirit of what the limitation on power units was supposed to achieve, but also within the rules and a tactic that anyone else could use. A 5 place penalty is nothing much if you've got more power and Lewis Hamilton, as we saw this weekend.

If it's a permitted thing then all the teams could do it if they saw an advantage. Presumably RB can see some kind of advantage so they're making the changes. It's not like it's some big secret that they're doing it, and all parts are available to be scrutineered. Another question could be where did MB get all that extra speed from? I doubt a 0.2mm violation on part of the DRS flap could account for it (and that wasn't relevant in the actual race), so the logical conclusion is that they've found some other kind of change they could make to improve performance. It might be that they're running the engine in super mode and taking the penalties knowing they'll be that critical bit faster. A legitimate tactic that the other teams could use if they so wished.

They're both under immense pressure. RB have to be slight favourites because they're ahead, but right now all Lewis has to do is win the rest of the races and he's champion, so in that sense it's in his hands. There's been nothing much to choose between them all year and you'd be an idiot to bet more than 50p on either of them at this stage.

Isn't it the same as the car touching thing? So long as they enforce that rule from now on, a relatively small fine is appropriate at this stage. It's like saying that "I shouldn't be prosecuted for that robbery because I got away with 5 others". If Leclerc broke the rules he should have been dealt with, it was that weekend when the stewarding was bad (on this issue), not this one.

It seems that sending Lewis to the back is like when you swipe at a wasp and merely annoy it. And that is why he has seven titles. Should make for an interesting end to the season.

It's also who's saying it and whether your rooting for or against them. They're all trying to play mind games in their own way with what they say. Lewis constantly saying how fast RB are super fast, Max not talking about the championship, the constant sniping between Wolff and Horner. They're all trying to get a mental advantage, and everything all of them says can pretty much be ignored.

If it were the other way round, and it was Horner saying that then he'd be "whinging", wouldn't he?