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And the Mirlees engines in the Brush type 2s as well. They were great in trawlers, apparently. For reasons already discussed. Weren't the Deltic engines removed in one piece? At least they weren't Paxmans😬

One of the problems was to do with load changes on the boiler. There was apparently a lot of expansion and contraction, which led to tubes leaking (where they were fixed to the drums?). Marine boilers will do best in steady load conditions, after all they would steam at maximum capacity for weeks at a time. It was the same with diesel generator engines; they weren't adequately tuned to the duty cycle they were expected to perform. No problem with low cylinder power diesels; just multiply them up (double heading, etc.). One remembers seeing that m.v. Georgic and Britannic, built for White Star Lines in the late 1920s, had 2 - off 10 - cylinder double - acting diesels, for 20,000 bh.p. 10 years later q.s.m.v. Dominion Monarch (Shaw Savill & Albion) had four 5 - cylinder Doxfords. I'm just trying to remember the name of the one which post - war suffered multiple crankcase explosions while on trials after her post - war refit which had four 8 - cylinder trunk piston engines. Wouldn't Melbourne Star have been twin - screw in order to reach the required power to drive her at 16 knots?

Not really. The rules are there, and have been for at least 20 years. They apply allthe way down the non - league pyramid. The real villains are South Tyneside MBC who own the ground and won't grant them the lease. As for The Moors, yes they should have a bye. Aldershot failed to qualify (how far down do you want to go?) and again the rules have been in place all the way down the non - league pyramid for many years now. Of far more import is the disgraceful stitch - up between the FA and Premier League to remove replays from the FA Cup from round 1 onwards.

Beeching didn't have anything to do with ending steam; that was the 1955 modernisation plan

Well, Sir Thomas Fairfax (junior) was the first G.O.C. of the New Model Army. Cromwell was the commander of the cavalry.

And on BP menus as well!

Sounds like a good idea to me!😁

IKEA mannequins?

Had one of them on the Hadfield line a few weeks back.

Too many cars on the road delaying public transport, then.

Jvol 6153; what's the provenance of that 4 - plank wagon behind the loco?

Agreed! And the proportion of central government grant making up local government finance has been falling quite steeply since before 2010, while the means local councils have to make up the shortfall has been limited. hence liesure centres, libraries, etc., being closed or privatised, and local roads falling apart.

But you implied that it was used exclusively for roads maintenance and construction, which it isn't. I'm happy paying £3 - odd a week just to let my car rust away on the road (if that's what I wanted to do!)

If you mean by "taxpayer" that exclusive group paying income tax (as if there are no other taxes, which everyone pays some of, somewhere), then those skipping meals won't be paying much of that, since they will be in low - income groups; that includes large numbers of people on minimum wage, or pensions, or state benefits. YE Gods! There is NO such thing as "Road Tax"; there hasn't been since 1937. What we have is Vehicle Excise Duty, which goes into the general revenue pool, some of which will be spent on roads.

That's been the UK employment strategy for at least the last 30 years; and if employers can't find UK citizens who will do the advertised work for the pay provided, they are poached from abroad.

Which what I was saying. Marsden doesn't look right brilliant, either, come to think of it

Anyone up for the challenge? A pure mechanical system is non - starter, I think. I'm thinking about something that works directly off the brake cylinder actuating a solenoid, with an electricomagnetic lock. Against such a system might be; why operate it off the vacuum cylinder when you can operate the lock without it anyway; and, what would happen when the vacuum is destroyed when braking?

Why do you think anyone would want WCRC to go away? There might be some who are sick and tired of all the shenanigans of dealing with them, but force them out?

A bit like the two 32,000 dwt tankers built for BP in the 1950s, which were built with sufficient speed to operate with the RN.

Which accounts for the way some of the earliest wander all around the countryside (around hills, rather than through them, and so on). You only had cuttings, embankments, viadusts and tunnels, as well as lock flights, when there was no other way of doing things.

I would imagine that, just as with tunnelling, cutting and embanking, there would have been a fairly large pool of surveying experience from the canal builders.. Weren't some of the engineers from a military engineering background as well?

Are these on the building on the island platform which is going to be "carefully dismantled and rebuilt" on the island platform?

And, note, newton not newtons.

Nope! Units are only capitalised if they are named after a person, e.g. Volt, Amp, Watt, Joule, Newton and so on. I've never heard of anyone called kilo. Among the multipliers, the only ones I know of are Mega, Giga and Tera.