The Future of Railways.

[Aidan Brosnan]

:eek:

[Dave]

Would this make the WRC viable :D

[Nigel Fitzgricer]

For us losers without broadband what is the video about?

[sean]

basically its a car-to-railway adapter - you put your car onto this railcar type thing, hit the acceleator and the car wheel powers a rail axle.

[constellation]

Don't let Sean Barrett see this. Might give him ideas of double decker buses on the railways...

[Nigel Fitzgricer]

Then do not let Sean Barrett see this either.

http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/diesel/dmu/670/db670004.jpg

Can't you just see the Skangers smoking in the upper deck.

[Nigel Fitzgricer]

Then do not let Sean Barrett see this either.

http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/diesel/dmu/670/db670004.jpg

Can't you just see the Skangers smoking in the upper deck.

or

"I don't know what a tracker mortage is!"

[Oisin88]

This would be more WRC
http://thumb9.webshots.net/t/53/753/1/76/62/2122176620078137449LgwLGq_th.jpg (http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2122176620078137449LgwLGq)

While the bus being chased by the lada is more Sean Barret:
http://thumb9.webshots.net/t/59/159/0/5/63/2300005630078137449BIvQyJ_th.jpg (http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2300005630078137449BIvQyJ)

I'll stop now before my membership is revoked and I get sent to IRN or somewhere....

[Derek Wheeler]

Your safe Oisin. The photos won't load.

[packetswitch]

I hopped around on double-deck trains in Toronto a wee bit when I lived there. They were custom-built locally for the Government of Ontario public transit enterprise in the 70s. They look like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Go_Train_046.jpg

these are primarily suburban trains - i.e. about 90% of the stops are outside the area served by the TTC subway - connecting between a limited range of Greater Toronto destinations and Union Station (city-centre terminus). Really fun and comfortable to travel in, apart from at the worst of commuter peak, of course.

Before I came back to Ireland, I did the North American version of the inter-rail thing. Occasionally I would spot other examples of the double-deck and exclaim that they had stolen the Toronto trains. They're now made by Bombadier. I don't think we'd ever get them without some serious surgery...although it still gets mentioned in the UK occasionally. One of the tricks is bringing the bottom floor much closer to the track...but even at that, it would be quite a stretch!

[Oisin88]

Spain and Sydney Australia have double decker trains. I also remember seeing them around Europe back in 1992 when I was inter-railing. I think the what is being laughed at above is when you have a single carriage of a double decker.

[Navan Junction]

Flicking through that You Tube link I came across this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kCzhu99DZY

Something else..

[packetswitch]

Think that's good? Let's go back...to the future.

Try this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTrxY0m00F8

(high quality version here - http://creative.bfi.org.uk/titles/409874)

[Navan Junction]

God almighty....!

One thing that strikes me is the number of junctions in that clip - they must have (or had) some rail network in England.

[Thomas J Stamp]

Isnt this rail **** by another name?

Cut it out or this thread gets locked.

[packetswitch]

Aww, you're just jealous ;)

[sean]

we're just having a bit of fun.