"Paul Rigg" wrote in message

The Great Leader has announced plans for a massive increase in the
number of high speed passenger trains in the USA.

There's more about it here

http://us-state-policy.suite101.com/...railroad_plans

And if you look at it the accompanying picture is of a London Tube
train on what may be, by the colour of the old tiling, on the
Bakerloo line.

I think it's actually a Jubilee Line train.


Which proves if nothing else that their journalists are no better at
appropriate pictures than ours are

Of course, there's a good chance that a US journalist has never actually
travelled on a train, which is less likely with a London-based BBC
journo.

Recliner wrote on 29 January 2010 13:46:48 ...
"Paul Rigg" wrote in message

The Great Leader has announced plans for a massive increase in the
number of high speed passenger trains in the USA.

There's more about it here

http://us-state-policy.suite101.com/...railroad_plans

And if you look at it the accompanying picture is of a London Tube
train on what may be, by the colour of the old tiling, on the
Bakerloo line.

I think it's actually a Jubilee Line train.

It's either 95 or 96 stock, but I don't remember any Jubilee stations
with the rings of coloured tiles over the top of the tunnel, so I think
it must be a Northern Line station.
Enlarged image at http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/568159

--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

On 29/01/2010 13:46, Recliner wrote:
"Paul wrote in message

The Great Leader has announced plans for a massive increase in the
number of high speed passenger trains in the USA.

There's more about it here

http://us-state-policy.suite101.com/...railroad_plans

And if you look at it the accompanying picture is of a London Tube
train on what may be, by the colour of the old tiling, on the
Bakerloo line.

I think it's actually a Jubilee Line train.


Which proves if nothing else that their journalists are no better at
appropriate pictures than ours are

Though it looks like some kind of advert-supported self-publishing sort
of thing, rather than "conventional" media(?).

Of course, there's a good chance that a US journalist has never actually
travelled on a train, which is less likely with a London-based BBC
journo.

Presumably it's a bit hard to illustrate a US high speed train, unless
you can snap an Acela on right little bit of track.

USD8bn spread over loads of projects won't buy much per project, so
there must be a long way to go. And beware of the US use of "high speed"
- like "light rail", it might not be quite what Europeans think.


--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

In uk.railway Arthur Figgis wrote:
Presumably it's a bit hard to illustrate a US high speed train, unless
you can snap an Acela on right little bit of track.

Wired takes a different approach:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/0...asttrack/all/1

Theo

Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Theo
Markettos gently breathed:
In uk.railway Arthur Figgis wrote:
Presumably it's a bit hard to illustrate a US high speed train, unless
you can snap an Acela on right little bit of track.

Wired takes a different approach:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/0...asttrack/all/1

Interesting, but they manage to get their details just a tad wrong in
places (and fail to mention Mallard at all!):

Midland Railway, England (90 mph)
It took almost a decade for England to regain its dominance with a
record-breaking run aboard an 8-foot-long, eight-wheeled locomotive from
Melton Mowbray to Nottingham

I really don't want to think what the ride would be like on an
eight-foot long loco doing 90mph over the jointed track of 1897!
Presumably it was a single wheeler with 8' drivers? Or was it some
esoteric contraption fuelled entirely by finest pork pies? :-)

On 29.01.10 16:08, Richard J. wrote:
Recliner wrote on 29 January 2010 13:46:48 ...
"Paul Rigg" wrote in message

The Great Leader has announced plans for a massive increase in the
number of high speed passenger trains in the USA.

There's more about it here

http://us-state-policy.suite101.com/...railroad_plans


And if you look at it the accompanying picture is of a London Tube
train on what may be, by the colour of the old tiling, on the
Bakerloo line.

I think it's actually a Jubilee Line train.

It's either 95 or 96 stock, but I don't remember any Jubilee stations
with the rings of coloured tiles over the top of the tunnel, so I think
it must be a Northern Line station.
Enlarged image at http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/568159

It does indeed look like a Northern Line station -- perhaps Warren Street?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:25:15PM +0000, Pyromancer wrote:

Midland Railway, England (90 mph)
It took almost a decade for England to regain its dominance with a
record-breaking run aboard an 8-foot-long, eight-wheeled locomotive from
Melton Mowbray to Nottingham

I really don't want to think what the ride would be like on an
eight-foot long loco doing 90mph over the jointed track of 1897!
Presumably it was a single wheeler with 8' drivers? Or was it some
esoteric contraption fuelled entirely by finest pork pies? :-)

TGV, France (357 mph)
Journalists on the title run reported dizziness ... and difficulty
standing

Shades of the APT there :-)

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On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, David Cantrell wrote:

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:25:15PM +0000, Pyromancer wrote:

Midland Railway, England (90 mph)
It took almost a decade for England to regain its dominance with a
record-breaking run aboard an 8-foot-long, eight-wheeled locomotive from
Melton Mowbray to Nottingham

I really don't want to think what the ride would be like on an
eight-foot long loco doing 90mph over the jointed track of 1897!
Presumably it was a single wheeler with 8' drivers? Or was it some
esoteric contraption fuelled entirely by finest pork pies? :-)

TGV, France (357 mph)
Journalists on the title run reported dizziness ... and difficulty
standing

Shades of the APT there :-)

Shades of rush-hour Northern line - although there, it's dizziness and
difficulty doing anything at all except being crushed.

tom

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truth. -- Friedrich Kekule