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And there I was on Friday thinking three locos was overkill for a 4-TC...

Thomas went to an '80s disco. "Agachoo-choo-choo..."

The powers neccessary to build exist while the current Act remains in place. This does not mean that there is an obligation to use them (I haven't read this Act, but 'The Secretary of State may...' is the language normally used to confer powers on the government). Planning safeguarding has already been lifted (so in theory you could build something on the land), but, according to the minister, it could be restored if desired by his successor.

In an interview with Green Signals, Huw Merriman was asked whether HS2 would be built to Euston regardless of private sector funding, and whether the station would include 'adequate capacity and grade separated approach' and appeared to give a firm commitment on both counts. He also suggested that (assuming a change of government later this year) if Labour decided to build north of Handsacre, the decision to lift safeguarding could be reversed (how true is this?) and that the process for land sales is neccesarily slow enough that the land will not be sold by the time they enter office.

I managed to do it with the latest post, despite realising my error after the previous one!

5 car units have three engines (so 0.6 engines per car, 6 on a 10 car unit). 9 car units have 5 engines, which works out at 0.555... engines per car.

Benediction, about the life of Siegfried Sassoon, is on iPlayer at the moment. It has a few bits of black and white footage of railways, as well as a small number of scenes where Sassoon is travelling during WWI. They do seem to have made an effort, and probably couldn't have done much better given the era it's set in - he and his brother leave separately for war on an SECR coach and a GWR Toplight (chocolate and cream, but an older style with lining around the windows). This scene also features a loco pulling the SECR train, but the shot only shows it below the running plate, presumably concealing something innapropriate. Later, as Sassoon leaves Liverpool for Scotland, an LMS coach (Stanier?) is seen in the background. If it is it's too new, but still an awful lot better than the Mk1s that some productions would be happy with.

I think it's an alternative terminus on the ELL/Windrush Line for trains that would normally run to Clapham Junction. It only has a few trains per day and if I recall correctly these are mostly early mornings and late evenings. Is this just to avoid formal closure of the line?

Which of these is Uxbridge?

My notifications have been working for the past day or so. I hit 26 (i.e. filled a page) before this happened. Unlike @RobAllen, my previous pages are also working.

And while Waterloo was named after a bridge, I don't think the bridge (which was only 3 decades old at the time) was named independently of political considerations. Edit: Victoria (the queen, via the very new Victoria Street, and during her lifetime) also has a clear political hue. Maybe also Liverpool Street (the Prime Minister, via the admitedly slightly older Liverpool Street road).

Mine still doesn't work at all.

The same here, I now have 21 unread notifications. Clicking on the bell, and even trying to go through to the dedicated page, does not change this.

At Nailsea last year, I overheard a conversation between two gentlemen walking past a Croatian layout called Osjusko Stari with thick West Country accents to the effect of: "That there's some foreign stuff." "Crikey." In telling this story before somebody remarked to me that they may well have said the same about the LMS. One place I think would make a good model, and which will be familiar to some British people, is Aguas Calientes in Peru. Look around on Street View and I'm sure you'll see its potential: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.1551661,-72.5256983,2a,75y,58.25h,79.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAg8uy3S9EyNPekfl3JjMiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu If you are looking up the stream towards the footbridges, the rails leading round the curve on your right hand side lead to this junction at the edge of town: https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.1578695,-72.5235395,2a,75y,341.11h,76.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snC37LWipxdiMI5ugINkZRw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu The other line comes from this terminus, on a higher level than the first picture. https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.1569789,-72.5236113,2a,70.7y,328.67h,85.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sx2AZ-MUSCWCoWkUmISafvA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu Another thought would be the railways in the Llobregat valley near Barcelona, with metre, standard, Iberian, and mixed gauge lines running all sorts of passenger and freight trains.

I've tried logging out and also clearing RMweb cookies (while logged out), but exactly the same thing is still happening.