To be fair, anything would be better than the Pacers.
And presumably this
◊ is what it's going to look like.
edited 27th Apr '16 7:49:50 AM by Deadbeatloser22
"Yup. That tasted purple."Yeah, CAF is making the Mark 5 coaching stock for the Caledonian Sleeper
. Not sure about the Riviera Mark 3 stock though.
edited 27th Apr '16 9:07:21 AM by Deadbeatloser22
"Yup. That tasted purple."Well, SPT are throwing lots of money at the upgrading of the Subway system.
http://www.spt.co.uk/subway/modernisation/
About time too. Those trains were ancient when I was using them and I still had hair then.
A lot of the stations have been completely redone. Hillhead, Partick, Buchanan Street, and Kelvinhall are all renovated. Of course, St George's Cross remains a hole.
To be honest, I worry the Subway isn't long for this world. The route is tiny, so are the trains (and the stations are designed such that this can't be fixed without massively disruptive digging works), and it's prohibitively expensive to expand because of all the medieval mining works and old infrastructure under the city.
Glasgow crossrail would make a lot more sense, coupled with surface rail expansion. Some kind of suburban zoning for Glasgow would be pretty good too.
edited 27th Apr '16 2:02:39 PM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiOn a smaller scale note, I watched (finally) James May's Toy Stories episode on model trains, where he and a German team took trains from Barnstaple to Bideford via Fremington. I've lots of happy memories of that part of the world so it was nice to see it on screen, and having model trains run the equivalent of 700 miles is quite an achievement.
I've kind of been pipe-dream planning a model railway layout recently. Sadly there is a distinct lack of rolling stock for making a layout based on the South Western division of Network South East in the 1980s.
Main issues are no 455 and no 4VEP.
edited 27th Apr '16 3:27:32 PM by Deadbeatloser22
"Yup. That tasted purple."The units have different couplers — the Class 165
has a BSI coupler, while the Class 180
has a Scharfenberg coupler
.
The problem is often solved here by the use of a Barrier vehicle
, often an old passenger coach.
edited 28th Apr '16 11:35:10 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling OnOh, I have to share this one, even though it's humiliating. Got on a train at Paisley, heading to Irvine for a day out. Unfortunately I didn't read the timetable properly and didn't therefore get off at Kilwinning. Ended up in Largs, which is MILES away from where I wanted to be. Big red face. Fortunately, the conductor didn't hit me with an extra charge for the extended journey, and I was able to stay on the train as it was single-track running, got off at Kilwinning and carried on my merry way to Irvine via the Ayr train.
What I found VERY interesting was not only was there free Wi Fi, but free charging ports as well.
Sounds like new stock. Which it is — sounds like a Class 380
, another of the Siemens Desiro family.
edited 29th Apr '16 11:39:09 PM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling On

Maybe that line will show up in Fallout 5? Got to be better than exploring those bloody subway tunnels.