What Have The Train Leasing Companies Done For Us?
I found this page on the web site of one of the train leasing compabies; Eversholt Rail Group.
It shows how they and one of the train refurbishment companies; Wabtec, are creating a demonstrator for an upgrade of the Class 321 trains which are a mainstay of services to East Anglia.
GreaterAnglia will then run the train in service and actively canvas the opinion of the travelling public.
Isn’t this a sensible way to provide better rolling stock for train services, at a more affordable price.
Passengers won’t get new trains, but they will look and feel like them!
In some ways this story is a tribute to the legendary Mark 3 Coach, on which the Class 321 is based.
But then the bit we sit in, on a train, isn’t the sexy bit.
Logging In In France
On my recent trip to Bilbao and back, I spent three days in France and on the two mornings in Biarritz, I checked some of my Internet accounts, from a computer in the hotel’s Business Centre.
My major accounts have a system of logins and passwords that are stored in my Mark One brain, which means it is a system that is unbreakable without my being present. Nothing is written down, on or in anything I carry.
However, France with its bizarre keyboard layout, made some of the logins difficult. For instance to login to many accounts, you need to type an e-mail address, but that is not easy, as typing the @ sign is not a simple shift, but a control-alt keystroke.
Sometimes, France can get very annoying in the simplest of things, by going its own sweet way.
The Anonymous Widower 