Railways of the World

New Projects – South Africa, Thailand, Iran

David — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:21:42 +0000

*Updated* It should come as any surprise that China is exporting it’s high speed rail building expertise to other parts of the world. The Bangkok post is reporting that government level meetings are taking place to discuss and outline high speed routes around Thailand. These projects will be joint Thailand-Chinese funded projects with ownership equally split between ...Read the Rest

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ICE3 to London

David — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:09:50 +0000

Reports are suggesting that Deutsche Bahn will, sometime later this year, be testing one of their ICE3 high speed trains through the channel tunnel. A successful test will probably mean that sometime in the near future DB will be offering high speed services to Germany from London. *Update – BBC reports that this will take ...Read the Rest

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British HSR

David — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:10:00 +0000

If, by some miracle, the UK gets a modest network of High Speed lines then surely it is about time the UK grabbed back some of the proud heritage it has lost over the last few decades when it comes to locomotive design and manufacture. Surely then a design for a sleek high speed trains ...Read the Rest

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Mathematical efficiency

David — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:16:03 +0000

There are a number of items floating around the web at the moment related to the European ARRIVAL project. The project’s aim is to create an algorithm that would help create more efficient timetables on public transport systems ultimately resulting in running more efficient and attractive public transportation systems to use. The problem sounds simple: ...Read the Rest

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New video uploads

David — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:05:28 +0000

I’ve been rather busy with processing the videos I took whilst visiting the UK a few weeks back. Number of these videos have been processed and uploaded and there are a few more waiting to be completed. The two below are parts one and two of four videos taken whilst visiting the Tal Y Llyn ...Read the Rest

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