Asthmatic Camel's Nerdy Modelling Thread.

[asthmatic camel]

I wouldn't know. I participate in neither activity.

[Giz]

Passengers have drinks in the Jolly Tar, one of the so-called "tavern cars" that the British Rail introduced in the 1940s.

Those were the days. Many long distance trains still allow drinking and have buffet cars but if you fancy a tipple on London Transport, or on the way to a football game, you're bang out of luck.

That’s changed “fairly” recently. I remember having drinks while traveling around London in the days before moving stateside (so early 2000s)

[asthmatic camel]

Drinking in public's become very much frowned upon in recent years, Giz. Street drinking's banned altogether around here.

[Witness]

[Witness]

[asthmatic camel]

Now the builders' yard is finally open again, T3h Attic of Doom™ is all but complete: the fresh timber needs treating and then the lot's getting a final coat of paint.

It has been a massive, filthy pain in the arse to do.

And now, perhaps, we are to begin...

[Fid]

You know they detect grow rooms from the outside using thermal imaging right?

[Giz]

Drinking in public's become very much frowned upon in recent years, Giz. Street drinking's banned altogether around here.

That’s a shame. (From my selfish nostalgia perspective). Still, I imagine it may have made croydon a little less terrible for those who live there.

[asthmatic camel]

You know they detect grow rooms from the outside using thermal imaging right?

Yep but, seeing as I can't abide cannabis, (just the smell makes me heave), that's not going to be a problem!

[Witness]

↑ Keep an extinguisher at hand.

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Hydrogen trains could be on their way to Italy after major firms seal five-year agreement

• As concerns about air pollution grow, zero and low-emission forms of transport could have a big role to play.
• Alstom’s Coradia iLint is part of a small but growing cohort of hydrogen-powered transportation methods.

Transport manufacturer Alstom and energy infrastructure firm Snam are to collaborate on the development of hydrogen trains in Italy, the latest example of work being undertaken to integrate the technology into mass-transit systems.

In an announcement Thursday the firms said that the agreement between them, which is set to last five years, would see French company Alstom “manufacture and maintain newly built or converted hydrogen trains.”

Snam, which is headquartered in San Donato Milanese, Italy, will focus on the development of infrastructure related to refueling, transport and production.

“We believe in hydrogen,” Michele Viale, who is managing director of Alstom Italy and Switzerland, said in a statement. “This is the reason why we have signed a partnership with Snam,” Viale added.

“Coradia iLint, the first hydrogen powered train, is already in passenger service between the towns of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervörde and Buxtehudehe in Germany.”

The Coradia iLint referenced by Viale entered into service in 2018, uses a hydrogen fuel-cell and, according to Alstom, emits just “steam and condensed water.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/hydroge ... ement.html