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[email protected] · March 31st 17, 03:23 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , d () wrote:

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:30:04 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\03\31 15:09, d wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:04:22 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\03\31 12:49, Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote:

Regarding the Overground, you should experience the peculiar DMU on
the GOBLIN before it dissapears.

There's nothing peculiar about the Goblin trains. There are quite a
few other diesel trains in London: in particular, the Uckfield trains
to and from London Bridge, which are not going to be got rid of any
time soon,

Why on earth don't they just electrify that branch and be done with it.
What on earth is the logic for still running diesel to a london
commuter town?

New electrification for passenger trains is close to dead. Fuel cells or
batteries are the future.

You mean apart from the Goblin and great western schemes happening
right now?

I think he's interpreting the recent outcomes with the GWEP scheme and the
knock-on effects on what are supposed to be following schemes. We're back to
the days when the DfT thought the answer was bionic duckweed but they'll
eventually realise the laws of physics apply so it will have to be
electrification or else lower power and speeds. Fuels cells and batteries
can in no way deliver that quantity of KW.

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Colin Rosenstiel