Hydrogen Hopefully?
The company offers a passenger rail service between Bremerhaven and Hamburg via Bremervörde that carries one million passengers per year. It also operates seventeen bus lines with four million passengers per year as well as freight services between Bremerhaven, Bremen and Hamburg. Using rented Siemens Dispolok locomotives, it also operates freight trains to Southern Germany and has recently announced to acquire two new Eurorunner diesel locomotives. During the summer months, a heritage railway service between Bremervörde and Osterholz-Scharmbeck, called the Moorexpress, is in operation.
Running hydrogen trains without hydrogen is, indeed, a problem.
Maybe they need to go back to steam?
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… took a significant shareholding in the ailing Hornby.
Ot maybe the picture editor for this article merely searched for “Hornby Trains” and simply did not know the difference!
How about avoiding shipping delays and escalating shipping costs by making the stuff in the UK?
The above company IS now making stuff in the UK. Current output includes their range of budget advertising wagons; cheerful but cheap. They are so cheap that it would pay the average modeller to buy these and repaint them in a more conventional livery.
Nit quite as big a bargain in the larger scale, but still good value. Remember “O” trains are nearly four times as big in volume as the “OO” versions.
The fun of getting there is as enormous as the event you are viewing in the picture. And another clue?
But now carrying the precious cargo of players is big business …
… with big luxurious vehicles …
… costing big money!
The recipient of SEVEN “VIP” coaches and FIVE football team vehicles will make Grange Travel the largest such operator in the UK.
… if you have got the money.
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Below was Royal Blue in the 1950s
For a bus, this top deck takes a lot of beating for luxury!
It is Transdev Harrogate Buses service 36 between Ripon, Harrogate and Leeds.
It would be good to have some hard-nosed figures from Greater Manchester. Have passenger numbers actually exceeded pre-covid levels? And, if so, at what cost to the council taxpayers of Manchester and to the rest of the taxpayers of the UK?
OR – print edition also for October 2024.
The on-line cover design is a repro of a much older edition but NOT that of 75 years ago, which is shown below.
