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The 1960s and 70s were an era of grand projects from landing on the moon to Concorde and passenger hovercraft. It was a golden age of engineering when anything seemed possible, even if projects were over budget, technically ambitious and late to deliver. Long-time readers of GNC will remember I covered France's Aérotrain, a high-speed hovertrain using aero engines to propel
In the most recent GNC podcast, Todd talked about an article from BBC which asked if responding to corporate email during the daily commute counted as work. That reminded me of a company that I used to deal with which always encouraged its consultants to travel to customer sites by train and paid for first class travel too. I thought this
Last week I was on holiday in France. Driving down from Paris to Orléans on the D2020, I noticed a long raised structure to the east running for several kilometres. It was a few hundred metres from the road so all I could see was a raised platform or aquaduct on stilts. I initially assumed that it was related to the
My father is in China at the moment and he's on the high speed train between Shanghai and Hangzhou. Here's the train at the station in Shanghai. The speed is very impressive... 302 km/h or 188 mph. That's pretty quick.