Miss Prism

The basic equations: Southgate + waistcoat = England win Southgate - waistcoat = England lose

The basic equations: Southgate + waistcoat = England win, Southgate - waistcoat = England lose

The Bristol section of the board, consisting, for the most part, of mercantile men, has, it is notorious, almost ceased to exercise any control over the proceedings of the Company.

The broad gauge is not the only peculiarity of the Great Western Railway Company. The whole of its management is peculiar. In no railway is there so little of the mercantile element, and so much of the political element, as in the Great Western Railway.

THE great railway question of the day is undoubtedly that of the Gauges — a question in respect of which there can be no neutrality on the part either of established or of embryo companies; for to all of them the final settlement of the matter at issue is fraught with consequences, prospective as well as present, of no slight importance.

The Great Western is a very solid line, and makes its progress in a solid style: doing some great things and many small, but all alike with the immovability of love.

The Great Western is the line. So smooth. So polite. West Country politeness. So fast. (Arnold Bennett, 1924)

The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force: With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.

The problem with Swindon standardisation is that the standardisation changed every day

The trouble was due to the large lap and increased travel of valve. It had come about through the increased throw and the angularity of the quadrant link. In the Walschaert gear the more lap obtained, the more work the combining lever had to do, and only a small percentage of the work was taken by the quadrant. In that particular case the angularity of the link was rather excessive, and it would be an advantage to decrease the angularity of the link and increase the angularity of the radius r...

The usual RMweb software 'upgrade' - it's 500% slower than before

The voting on the RMweb images thread is getting a bit like the Eurovision Song Contest...

There was for many years a deep-rooted idea in Paddington minds that it was utterly impossible for a standard gauge train to run as fast as a broad gauge train, and the authorities could not for a long time be bought to reduce the 95 or 97 minute allowance for the Paddington-Swindon runs. There may have been another reason lurking in the Paddington mind. All trains except the "Dutchman" and "Zulu" conveyed third class passengers, and this type of being was not persona grata wi...

There was for many years a deep-rooted idea in Paddington minds that it was utterly impossible for a standard gauge train to run as fast as a broad gauge train, and the authorities could not for a long time be bought to reduce the 95 or 97 minute allowance for the Paddington-Swindon runs.

Treating myself to a bit of Mikkel viewing at last

Trying to find a thread or blog with a good pic of the Bewdley (or Bridgnorth?) footbridges, show the paint scheme

Trying to find an old thread...

Trying to find an RMweb discussion about water columns and the twin filler saga on King tenders - anyone remember where it is?

Ugh - 45 pages of VNC...

Until the turn of the twentieth century the Great Western looked forward. Thereafter it looked Churchward.

Virgin stopped delivering my e-mail on the basis that my password 'was not recognised'. But it didn't tell me that it expected me to have updated the password, nor how to do it.

We would like to reassure viewers that no drawings were used or consulted in the production of this model

We've got provisions and lots of beer, the key word is survival on the new frontier

What an incredible body of work King Crimson produced. Respect to Sir Fripp.

What is it with manufacturers who are obsessed with liveries and not at all bothered about structural authenticity?