How To Charge A Battery Train
There is a Twitter hashtag of #ipemu and this tweet has been posted, which describes something called a Railbaar from a well-known Swiss company called Furrer + Frey, who are very much involverd in transport electrification.
Railbaar
This could be the missing link in running IPEMU trains on branch lines, like those to Barrow, Lowestoft, Scarborough or Windermere. After pulling into the terminal, the battery is topped up to make sure the train gets all the way back.
As an example, current schedules at Windermere allow somewhere between six and fifteen minutes for the turnround, which is probably typical around the UK rail network
I Had To Look Twice!
When I picked up Monday’s copy of The Times, I had to ook twice at the picture on the front.
I Had To Look Twice!
I was asking myself, why they put an old picture on the front.
But then, I realised it was the daughter-in-law.
So do men, marry women, who look like their mother?
I didn’t as my mother was dark with brown eyes and C was a blue-eyed blond. But once when I visited her in hospital before we were married, everybody thought I was her brother!
The Anonymous Widower 