This document is mentioned on Dizzy's blog site today, it is dated last 
year but could have been missed.

Rail Technical Strategy



http://dizzythinks.net/

http://www.dft.gov.uk/about/strategy/whitepapers/whitepapercm7176/railwhitepapertechnicalstrategy/pdfrailtechstrategyrts1

http://tinyurl.com/268dmj

On 1 Jul, 12:45, "MB" <m...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> This document is mentioned on Dizzy's blog site today, it is dated last
> year but could have been missed.
>
> Rail Technical Strategy
>
> http://dizzythinks.net/
>
> http://www.dft.gov.uk/about/strategy/whitepapers/whitepapercm7176/rai...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/268dmj

That is the least of the problems with the Rail (non) Technical (Non)
Strategy.

In article ,
Capt. Deltic  wrote:
>On 1 Jul, 12:45, "MB" <m...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> This document is mentioned on Dizzy's blog site today, it is dated last
>> year but could have been missed.
>>
>> Rail Technical Strategy
>>
>> http://dizzythinks.net/
>>
>> http://www.dft.gov.uk/about/strategy/whitepapers/whitepapercm7176/rai...
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/268dmj
>
>That is the least of the problems with the Rail (non) Technical (Non)
>Strategy.

It's rather motherhood and apple pie, isn't it?

OTOH, a small glimmer of common sense has flickered in the section on IEP:
"The use of best-practice design to deliver trains with substantially
lower mass without compromising safety, combining light body
shells, like that of the Pendolino, with light bogies, like those of the
Voyager, and with interior equipment and furnishings designed within
an overall weight target;"


-- 
Andy Breen ~ 	Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
		Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
		 money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

On 1 Jul, 13:36, a...@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Robert Breen) wrote:
> In article ,
>
> Capt. Deltic  wrote:
> >On 1 Jul, 12:45, "MB" <m...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >> This document is mentioned on Dizzy's blog site today, it is dated last> >> year but could have been missed.
>
> >> Rail Technical Strategy
>
> >>http://dizzythinks.net/
>
> >>http://www.dft.gov.uk/about/strategy/whitepapers/whitepapercm7176/rai...> >>http://tinyurl.com/268dmj
>
> >That is the least of the problems with the Rail (non) Technical (Non)
> >Strategy.
>
> It's rather motherhood and apple pie, isn't it?
>
> OTOH, a small glimmer of common sense has flickered in the section on IEP:> "The use of best-practice design to deliver trains with substantially
> lower mass without compromising safety, combining light body
> shells, like that of the Pendolino, with light bogies, like those of the
> Voyager, and with interior equipment and furnishings designed within
> an overall weight target;"
>
> --
> Andy Breen ~    Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
>                 Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
>                  money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

It's an appalling document,which launched the bionic duckweed
conspiracy and, when translated into numbers, made the IEP spec a
joke.

In article ,
Capt. Deltic  wrote:
>On 1 Jul, 13:36, a...@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Robert Breen) wrote:
>> In article
>,
>>
>> Capt. Deltic  wrote:
>> >On 1 Jul, 12:45, "MB" <m...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> >> This document is mentioned on Dizzy's blog site today, it is dated last
>>
>> It's rather motherhood and apple pie, isn't it?
>>
>> OTOH, a small glimmer of common sense has flickered in the section on IEP:

>It's an appalling document,which launched the bionic duckweed
>conspiracy and, when translated into numbers, made the IEP spec a
>joke.

kindly ignore my interjection. Memo to self: do not attempt to 
post comments on long documents (or, indeed, post at all) whilst
whacked out on pain-killers and sundry other potions :(

-- 
Andy Breen ~ 	Speaking for myself, not the University of Wales
		"your suggestion rates at four monkeys for six weeks"
						(Peter D. Rieden)