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A solution I have rarely seen to the (self-imposed) ideological 'problem' of keeping govt debt below forty per cent. of G.D.P. is by using a 'Statutory Company' to keep the borrowing off the public-sector balance sheets. This company can then borrow on the open market. Or is this too simple?

Sorry to bump this thread so crudely, but is there any news on the date of @Karhedron 's Wild Swan book's publication, please?

As an ideological fool, can I just ask why a suitably composed law can not prohibit challenges? If a theoretical govt wished to make freight go on a monopolistic railway (and was able to pass a law thus - a big caveat), why can it not pass a law to do this? Sorry to open a can of worms, but I have often wondered why govts are made out to be impotent with things like this. Thanks.

One dialled your exchange operator, and said, "I would like to place a Trunk Call to [X] exchange, number [1234]." Last used at my hospital switch-board in the 1990's, which caused much reminiscence with the operator. It was only a call to another library, so not urgent.

Did they ever carry the T.O.P.S. code "VFV" as described by Colin Marsden in his Rolling Stock Recognition book on wagons, please? I can find no trace of this on @hmrspaul 's photo web-site.

I quite agree - the Librarian's nightmare. We need someone to compose an 'Authority File'! 😀 Just look at the disparate 'tags' for pictures on Flikr, for example, for the same subjects. O well, I will keep the thread here, and watch the cobwebs grow on it...

I agree an Index would be useful. I was thinking readers could do a search on the RMweb web-site 'search box', which would detect the key-words. E.g., the photos and P.D.F.s of the 'hot core' PXX wagon come up on a search, but without a thread related to the subject of each file, I thought a 'dump' like this might work. Bother.

I thought it might be useful to have a 'library' for RMweb of all those random P.D.F. files people might find of interest. If you have a scan of something you think others might need, please post here with a suitable description in the message, so others can locate it with a quick subject key-word search. Let me start it with a brochure for B.R. (or BR) staff about their new uniforms from April 1968, called "Your new uniform". Hope this is of interest to all. Best wishes. Your new uniform 1966.pdf

Thanks, @Rivercider . This sounds good, and an excuse to have a rare brake-van. There is a picture in one of Paul Shannon's books, I think, perhaps of this branch, with the shunter and guard leaning indolently on the back of the brake-van's verandah, 'watching the world go by'. Their poses looked perfect for whether arriving or departing. Look forward to seeing how the speed controls work/look. Best wishes.

Just a quick note to say, for those of us who have not seen every episode of The Sweeney, it is starting again on I.T.V. 4, Monday, 22d April: https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-fyec17/the-sweeney/ Queenstown Road Battersea station makes an appearance, I believe... This is part of the 'eternal loop' alternating with The Professionals.

Just one thought: won't it look a little strange the Freights being propelled such a long way out 'off stage' upon departure? Ditto, any loco-hauled peak-time service E.C.S.

Sorry to ask a daft question, but please could there be a way of storing P.D.F.s in one's 'Gallery' (or another suitable tool)? It would be useful - I thought - to save scans of old documents thus, which takes less space than photos I assume. Thanks.

Put me down for that one, please!!

Just for completeness's sake, the number is 01182302227, and is cited, e.g., thus: https://who-called.co.uk/Number/01182302227 I have discovered my Panasonic KX-TGB610EB 'phone has a call-blocking function, if I can work out how to use it...

<Sharp intake of breath.> Note you have only half the no. of platforms now. Might a relocation of the station be called for, or a 'change in time' to a more run-down era of B.R. (S)?