re: "Pedant II" (and "It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry" )
Pedant II
sorry to be pedantic, but... you forgot your backslash..
<Pedant subtype="gricer">
blah.. blah
</Pedant>
and then...
"Surely they can't be using coal to heat the water. Shouldn't they be using a small nuclear reactor? I wonder if that would be more efficient than using a nuclear reactor to drive a turbine to produce electricity to drive the train, all on-board of course."
Though I'd read a bit recently about how environmentally clean new coal-powered plants could be in comparison to oil and gas (and ho wmuch of the stuff is still lying under the ground in the UK) ?