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Why the distant below S5? The distant further out would be surely be the one fixed. Apart from that, indications to platforms, and have sub with a route indicator for the remaining roads

What?

That's what I said!

I have, or had, a 1984 sectional appendix for the northern part of the WCML and associated lines which gave the line speed limit between Manchester Piccadilly and Crewe, and I think Cheadle Hulme and Colwich as 85mph. Can't remember if the same applied between Liverpool and Weaver Junction. There is still a severe restriction on the Crewe side of Sandbach station, due to possible salt mining subsidence. In the late 80s or early 90s, the speed limit on the WCMl main line south of Crewe IIRC was raised to 110mph. I think, but am not certain, that the limit from Manchester - WCML is still only 100 mph. I know someone I can check with.

A clear case for a government loan guarantee scheme as happened in the 1930s, or for the government to at least finance the job themselves. Private companies won't invest in projects, even those in the public interest like this one, unless they can see a decent return on that investment. Adam Smith recognised this in the 18th century.

Just because something is designed doesn't mean it will end up being produced, especially if circumstances change, e.g., nationalisation in this case. I've produced many a concept drawing down the years ("Can you do me a building layout showing the positiions of all the reactors, retorts, etc?")

Mr. negative strikes again. Many problems, no solutions. Should we then shut down the railway completely?

But if you watch the Green Signals podcast mentioned earlier you discover that, after the binned Golborne - Crewe leg, part 2A unlocked the most benefits in terms of increased capacity, because it bypasses the significant bottlenecks on the Colwich - Stafford - Basford Hall stretch of the WCML. It's 36 miles, over very easy terrain, and any normal government would have ensured that it was built. Their equation of HS2 doing for the railway what the motorway network has done for road travel was insightful

Ouch! a very good summary

That's why we started issuing drawings in .pdf format, complete with all the various title blocks! Much more difficult to substitute another title block in that case (it's happened on CAD!).

Cycled on there a couple of times - now the Sett Valley Trail

It wasn't there either. All local authorities have been subjected to massive cuts in their central government grant.

What about Mill Reef?

Hercules was a battleship, though; 10 x 12", 4" secondary armament. I think a single - ship class, the last before the Super Dreadnoughts appeared

Perhaps she thought it was a wind - up! I have heard of a referee called Richard Cockhead

C4243; Brrrrrrrr......!

Awful lot of stuff going round and round!

I seem to recall a photo of this train at Preston, in colour, in an around - the - turn - of - the - century issue of Backtrack. Certainly between about 1999 and 2005. The loco was the main subject, but and the leading coach was definitely blue/grey

As with ticket offices, provided the manual checkouts are manned in sufficient numbers for those of us who have problems with self serve every time we use it.

Are we talking about the changeover from 1.5kV d.c. to 25kV a.c.? The LNER started work on the Shenfield electrification in 1938 and because of the delays due to WW2, electric services started in 1949. BR wasn't even thinking of high - voltage a.c. until the mid - 1950s

That reads to me like inflation plus 3%, so 8 - 10%. £16.48 to £16.78 next year! Still a bargain, though.

One of the causes of the Tyne Dock accident in May 1915, about three weeks after the Quintinshill disaster, was the signalman forgetting he had a banker standing at one of his signals and accepting a passenger train on the same line

Which is daft IIRC; The UK is on an island, around which tidal flow is constant and predictable (and in some places with quite a tidal range). I suppose that "environmental issues" and cost have scuppered most of the proposals brought forward. On the latter, those that run our country seem to know the price of everything and the vaalue of nothing. Sorry for the diversion, but isn't power generation fundamental to running an electrified railway?

That's the rules in the UK for publically quoted companies at any rate. It is theur fiduciary duty to do so

To get the required depth of girder, they may have been plates with steel angles rivetted to the upper and lower edges; that would give something for the top and bottom plates to be attached to.