We're at a stage on the ECML (and elsewhere) that there's no real point in faster trains because the trains are going are fast as the track will allow. Interestingly, on the WCML, HS2 train… (View Post)

Ha, yes, I'd heard that too! In Russia it is permanently associated with excellent stations; here we associate it with fifth tier football. (View Post)

To be fair, some of the liveries were quite nice. So there is that. (View Post)

That doesn't match my memory of BR. My memory of it is that it was at least as unreliable as today, dirty, and with far fewer services. Though maybe services would have been added to meet demand… (View Post)

A pedant with tongue wedged in cheek notes: How do you pluralise DeSantis and/or Cruz? Not with an apostrophe, at any rate. I would suggest the plural of DeSantis is Desantes. Cruz, I guess, would ju… (View Post)