Electrification of lines is actually, old redundant technology anyway. If we're moving forward, lets embrace the new.
Today, the UK's newest station opened. Headbolt Lane in Kirkby. It's an extension to the Kirkby branch of the Northern Line of Merseyrail (owned by the people for the people )
They haven't bothered electrifying the track because they bought trains with rechargeable batteries in them It's currently a short distance but there are planes to further extend the range of Merseyrail trains using this new tech. First trains in the country to be capable
Yes they currently require an electrified track to charge them but its another step in the right direction.
Nope, it's read by idiots with a reading age of 5
The Scum has been training them well over the years to spot a bunch of right tits. Seems like its paid off finally
That would be insane, not only does it have the ill designed rolling stock issue but its also adding distance to the route. There's a reason Birmingham is only on a branch of the WCML and not the WCML proper
If they are doing that, what happens to the current Cross Country service between Manc and Brum? One of those routes becomes utterly pointless
Have you never heard of Chat GPT
Rewrite this "...Insert text..." so that it reads differently
Seriously, I use it all the time to rewrite my stuff in plain English
There is no Virgin Railways. It's Avanti West Coast but that does raise a completely different issue.
Also why would they have to run trains designed for HSR on non-HSR tracks? The trains won't be going to Manchester / Euston via Birmingham they'll continue to use the WCML as now and probably continue with the same rolling stock and replace with similar
The reason there is no Virgin is because the Virgin consortium lost the bid on renewal. The reason stated for Avanti winning was that Virgin had no experience of running a HSR network whereas the Avanti consortium did (Italian Railway Co).
Can't imagine Branson is happy
It is noticeable that talk of other small vessels appears to have been wiped from the collective Tory mind hive this week
Immigrants are apparently reduced to coming over in WWII British fighter aircraft, the absolute cheek of it
A few months back I nipped into the Southport one for a packet of ciggies. Bloke behind the till did something really odd,”hang on I'll just check the price for you first”, pause from him, slight bewilderment from me…. “£18….”. Nah you can keep them mate, you realise Bargain Booze is 100 yards away. “Yeah, sorry, we're just really expensive”