I did one of those but only for a really short journey - Oakville to Toronto Union station. I'm sure the staff must've been puzzled as to why I wasn't travelling on the much more frequent GO Transit trains! But was comfortable enough. Hope you're enjoying the rest of your visit!
I saw that this video was recorded on 12th April! I was there in Liverpool the exact same day for the exact same reason… to spot 507s while I had the chance. I took 507029 to New Brighton too, as did I take 507007 to Ellesmere Port and back, but my main goal was to see 507001! The fact that 507001 was there and I never saw it just saddens me, as it was my main goal. Hopefully I will be back to see 507001 soon… that is if they’re still here.
They will be soon, but first the 3 Coach 730/0 trains (meant for the Cross City line) will go onto the Euston lines in order to replace the Class 319s.
From what I heard it's so that if two trains are approaching one another at the same time, it's so the headlights don't dazzle the opposing driver. More of a potential issue now with the LEDs on the 777s.
@@EdwardMason9000 : People always underestimate the brightness of LED lightbulbs, & it's leading to a world that is intolerably bright. The shower room in my flat has 4 lightbulbs & if I get up to go to the loo in the middle of the night it hurts my eyes.
That's true, however the Guided Busway in Cambridge was built on top of an old railway line alignment. In terms of passenger count it depends on which system you're talking about. the Metro carries more, the service frequency is almost the same and you can get almost double the amount of people on a tram as on a double decker bus. If we're talking about the Stourbridge shuttle, then yes, a guided Busway would take more people, but then you wouldn't need the Busway at all. The railway line has been there for years, why replace it when it functions perfectly well?
@@EdwardMason9000 indeed. There's a lady who manages the industrial estate I work on & she wants to reopen a now overgrown disused railway through it, just for these things. In the local paper it actually provided a photo of a 139 to show people what she wanted. It begs the question: who would run it? Moreover, a 139 wouldn't provide enough capacity at shift times so it needs to be a double deck bus! I'm fairly certain the Stourbridge route used to be a cravens DMU before sprinters arrived on the Kidderminster line. I'm still wandering why it wasn't paved & turned into a bus route. Cheers!
Reminds me of the experimental 4-wheel AC Cars three or two coach railbuses tried out on the Watford-St,Albans branch in the 1950s, They did not ride well.
There is one of the blue prototype versions of these railcars sitting in the maintenance department siding at Highley Station on the Severn Valley Railway. I don't know if it has been purchased as a permanent way gang vehicle or is there to be restored (has a few smashed windows) and go on display in the museum there.
I think it would be classed as a Railcar, it's not a Diesel Multiple Unit as such. It uses a flywheel to produce movement but also has a small LPG engine on board too.
I didn't know about that. Agreed, it is a shame, but not surprising. Nobody bought them except Pre Metro Operations (they run the shuttle on behalf of LM/WMR), and that was for a very specific service that worked with the concept. There would be very few other places in the UK where it would work, especially when you consider the incline on the Stourbridge branch allows for regenerative charging of the flywheel so the 139 uses very little LPG.
@@EdwardMason9000 there was a suggestion about 20 years ago for them to be installed for a park and ride at King’s Lynn, it came to nothing. They would be great for places without infrastructure like parts of Africa etc
Tbh I think what tfl coukd with charing cross to have the julbliee line use it again reconnect it to the line then extend that section and rejoin it to the line further down building new stations or reconnect old stations
Whilst useful, I think TfL get more money from letting folks film down there! It has been proposed, but there isn't really an alignment that would make sense and if the Northern Line proves anything, the last thing TfL wants to do is create another line with two central branches.
@@EdwardMason9000 How much does it cost to film down there? Surely it couldn't be more than a lot more people using TLF services compared to a small number of people filming (not too sure on their profit margins though - couldn't imagine them being significant). Edit: thought you meant filming from enthusiasts not studios
@@AlchemistOfNirnroot Well I don't know how much it would cost, but there isn't the justification of running a train service down that spur as the station is already served by two other lines, and Westminster station is less than a 10 minutes walk away where you can connect onto the Jubilee line.
Don't want to disappoint but aventras tend to sound really quiet from the inside, as in , you barely hear the motors from inside..I'd argue however, these do seem to sound louder than the current aventras, so who knows how loud they will actually be inside hopefully they can be heard.
@WCML 730 from outside yeah, aventras generally are really quiet on the inside to a boring extend . Motor sounds imo are just the trains soul . But from the outside, these motors sound a bit louder than the rest so far
This system has been advertised by the manufacturer for years, as being able to operate like a railway in the region and like a tramway through the city. So, how many more decades should probably go by, to extend the line these ridiculous few meters into the centre of Sturbridge, so that passengers do not have to interchange before ? It's a shame in traffic policy for councillors and operator equally, being responsible and incompetent !
