Rockport Mass. bound MBTA Train, Saturday. by CaptainDisko, on Flickr
Very cool don't you think? Would be great to have a few more of these trains in the UK.
Rockport Mass. bound MBTA Train, Saturday.When the conductor approached me as I was walking my bike on the platform, I was braced. She told me the 'Head Car" was for bikes, this is what I found. Multi-modal! it does exist! I think that is 18 racks and room for 12 on the yellow tipped car rack style on the right and left.
If only!
This really is the way forward! So much more pleasant than being crammed into the a tiny space by the loo. I agree 'If only!'.....
Is that the transpennine express up to Edinburgh?
Seriously that looks blissful. UK train companies are reluctant to lay on extra carriages for human beings, so an extra bike wagon seems a distant prospect. Brompton are pretty happy, though.
i had a similar experience in Norway a year or two back.
having slept in the airport the night before, we were a little disorientated for our 6am train the next morning. what with a frankly ridiculous door/stair/platform system (and our bikes/luggage) at the a station, we managed to miss all 3 trains required to get us to our next long-distance train.
the train we managed to get was a pretty important seeming train - a commuter one in Oslo. we knew we were going to miss the connection, so asked the conductor if the next train was, by any chance, running late. it wasn't.
the conductor came back, and said that the train driver was going to miss out a couple of stops, to get us there earlier... and they asked the line management to change the arrival platform so that we would arrive next to our connecting train, which had been informed of our late arrival, and was waiting for us...
that train had an entire carriage dedicated to carrying bikes.
flipping awesome service (and the conductor was VERY pretty).
Looks good! Shame that the trains come twice annually, then arrive 5 hours late! Gimme the UK rail network over the US any day!
One person and one bike in the carriage and you call that eco! Be more eco if they'd driven and left the carriage in the sidings. 
Well eco in terms of if you build it they will come! You have to make something attractive for people to make a switch. I bet this would be more busy in the UK.
There is currently a bike powered train a velo rail be tested at Blaenau Festiniog, top Trawsfynydd on a now disused rail line to a now disused nuclear power station.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-15712312
It is nice having this kind of trains. It is customize for the bikers' benefits. It would be very nice seeing it in UK.
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