Bus-Train

[sallylillian]

I wonder if they will develop a motorhome/train?

Bus Train

 

[Phill D]

That is how some of the rail maintenance trucks work road wheels and rail rims.

Huge infrastructure change to be practical.

 

[L' Hobo]

There is already a tracked guided busway running between Cambridge and St Neots that uses the buses road tyres and the BR maintenance cranes use a similar track wheel method as shown in video.

 

[Davb]

We have just got rid of the last of the Pacer trains, which was a stop-gap coach conversion that had a terrible reputation for being uncomfortable, I think this would take it to another level.

 

[canopus]

List of guided busways and BRT systems in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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[emjaiuk]

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[emjaiuk]

1931

 

[L' Hobo]

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1931

More details please if you have them?

 

[mpdcymru]

Yes, I remember a similar guided system at Kesgrave, just outside Ipswich. Don't know if it is still there.

 

[mpdcymru]

Yes, I remember one at Kesgrave (just outside Ipswich. I don't know if it is still there.

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[emjaiuk]

More details please if you have them?

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[Ian Bosman]

As the BW picture shows these things have been around for many years so not revolutionary as such but may have built in better technology re the conversion between road and rail.

 

[pappajohn]

Scarborough used to have a tram network.
One day, at the bottom of the steep Vernon road, a tram broke freeand derailed on the tight corner at the bottom on Valley Road.
Can't remember if it resulted in any deaths but the council withdrew it for good.
Just occasionally the old tracks near the top of the hill can be seen when the tarmac wears and crumbles over the tracks .

Got some dates wrong but here's a link.

https://storiesfromscarborough.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/the-scarborough-aquarium-tram-disaster/

 

[Jamesh]

We have just got rid of the last of the Pacer trains, which was a stop-gap coach conversion that had a terrible reputation for being uncomfortable, I think this would take it to another level.

They were bad - with poor suspension, no biggies so screeched as you went round a bend, and ran on poorly maintained bolted track between Skipton and Morcambe.

 

[Eggs]

Yes, I remember a similar guided system at Kesgrave, just outside Ipswich. Don't know if it is still there.

It's been gone a long time.

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[The Wino]

There was a guided bus system in Bradford. I would have thought the last they'd want would be clogging up the system with motorhomes. I suppose when we all get driverless vehicles they'll be able to do the same thing without any infrastructure

 

[Ian Bosman]

It's been gone a long time.

Trams, which are completely different from the bus trains are designed for urban streets running on decent track, which of course need to be maintained. The bus trains seem to fulfil a need like neither bus nor train can fulfil which is to enable buses to go wherever the driver takes it and then transition to the fixed route of a train network.. Of course the train network and road network need to meet in a suitable way too enable the transition. That i would have liked to have seen in the video