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Again, correlation is not causation. In the 1860s and 1870s, the railways were downright dangerous. There was a gradual implementation of safety measures down the years; are you saying that if BR had not been privatised, TPWS wouldn't have been developed and installed? Both would probably have happened, but quite likely at a slower pace.

We keep on hearing this, but traffic was already growing under BR (from 1992, when the economy was picking up after the Big Bang recession). Correlation is NOT causation. Is it worth pointing out that traffic had been declining since before The Great War, and that nationalisation wasn't the culprit?

Some wires up on the Guide Bridge line, between the B6170 bridge (telephone exchange roundabout) and towrds ASDA; not more than 200 - 300 metres. Still a gap in the gantries between there and the Guide Bridge Yard side of Cavendish Street bridge. The old gantry and terminating post from the original 1.5kV electrification are still in situ. There were three booms on the ground between platforms 3 and 4 at Stalybridge Station last Saturday, which leads me to think they may be the missing gantry on the lines towards the tunnel

The GC named one of their 4-6-0s David Lloyd George, which name was removed after his various parliamentary misdemeanours came to light

Quite a lot to remember there; it shows the simplicity of the system in the UK. It also looks similar to the "speed signalling" on the Heaton Lodge Junction - Thornhill Junction section of line in the West Riding

Love the wheel trim on the smokebox door of 997232 - 4!

Also, if a player accumulates five cautions (yellow cards) in a season, they will serve a one - match ban (or 7 days under county FA disciplinary rules, which extend up to tier 9 of the NLS), and 2 matches or 14 days for 10, and so on. Clubs can also accumulate "disciplinary points"; if they exceed a certain total, a fine will be levied on the club. I'll try and dig out one of my county F.A. handbooks.

Rephrasing this; the Ordsall Curve was a part of the "Northern Hub"; a project to increase rail capacity around Mancheaster and to make accessiblity from North - East England to Manchester Airport easier. As well as the curve, there was the 4 - tracking between Piccadilly and Oxford Road, as well as, as I understand it, a grade separation scheme at Ardwick, to avoid trains having to cross the Piccadilly station throat on the flat. There were other parts to the project as well. Proceeding with the curve while binning all the rest looks like absolute stupidity from where I'm sat. It also seems to highlight the problems of upgrading existing rail infrastructure in crowded cities (see, ad nauseam, HS2, and the current furore in Bedford over the demolition of 65 homes for East - West Rail)

Wasn't it the users of The Star and Garter who were objecting to its demolition? I raised this a few years ago, and another reason for not going anead would have been disruption to London Road while the approach structures were built. Something needs to be done about the congestion along the Oxford Road corridor; it's been known about for at least 15 years; the Ordsall Curve made it worse

Well, we at Stalybridge have new majority shareholders, the previous MS having sold out. New manager as well, formerly at Wythemshawe Town. Let's hope the tale of the last 20 years of steady decline can be reversed! On another note, another local club has revealed its matchday prices for next season; they will be charging £14 for adults and £9 for concessions. This is at tier 7; they are citing rising costs, for energy and stuff. It will be interesting to see where their attendances go. Just over 30 years ago, my wife and I (and Peanuts, of this forum😁) stood on the Chaddy End at Latics and watched Oldham beat Sheffield Wednesday to win the 2nd division for £4.50 each

It's the units that are named for someone (Volt, Ampere, Joule, Watt, Newton, Farad(ay),etc) that have capitalised symbols, I was told.

Are you sure C2949 was a Newcastle - Liverpool? Late mark 2s were a rarity on these trains , even after the timetable recast in the later 1970s. The following picture looks more like the normal consist of that period

I'd say Royal Sovereign is in post - WW2 apple green, but whether 2614 retained that at that time, I don't know. Certainly seems to have the post - WW2 lettering style. Edit: according to the RCTS green book, 2614 had been rebuilt to the style shown in December 1939 (the only D16/2 to D16/3 conversion to be so treated) after an accident. After WW2 she was in green until at least 1950, including renumbering by BR with the cycling lion emblem. There are photos of her as 2614 and 62614 showing this in the book.

What does £26 million get you, railway - wise, these days? There was a plan (as an add - on to the Northern Hub?) to route the container trains westward from the container terminal, and from the new "Port Salford" project, which also seems to have stalled, a few years ago. I can remember discussing the last at work, and I've been retired seven years now!

Royal Soveriegn and 2614 were at this time the engines reserved for Royal Train duties for when the King was travelling to/from Sandringham.

Saw this one a few times through March, and the 'orange' one as well.

I'm pretty sure JVol4031 appeared recently on Facebook, in one of the "Memories of Steam" groups. Your father was acknowledged as the photographer in the comments following, but not in the header

That seems to be fairly common in accidents, particularly derailments; "I wasn't usually routed that way", or "I didn't expect that signal to be at danger" comes up in quite a few accident reports. These remind me a bit of the Bourne End crash, just after WW2, where a train was due to be re - routed over a double junction, due to p.w. work in Watford Tunnels; although in that case, there seems to have been some confusion about what a particular signal indication meant, and whether the driver actually saw the signal because of the lighting conditions.

I take it the main propulsion machinery is in the forward part?

They're the ones I was on about. Look like the Cover of the Hall and Oates album Abandoned Luncheonette

Shortened. There are a few on the A1 around Newark. Whether of the traditional type. I'm not sure, but they're branded as "American Diners"

It depends what you mean by "Drawings", I suppose. If you mean concept drawings, when someone in authority has come up with an idea or a possible project, then you're right. I would say, however that the vast majority of drawings are actually issued; think about all the detail drawings required for anything that actually gets built; there can be considerable numbers of them.

In May 1977 I was aboard a ship in drydock in Europoort; we watched the FA Cup Final on a direct BBC feed on Belgian TV, with a Belgian commentary (although you could hear Barry Davis, or whoever, underneath). I think we also watched the European Cup Final on the same ship, from Rome (Liverpool - Roma) direct from the BBC

The smell from Boddies Brewery on the wind.....it's said that even that close to the brewery, the Boddies in the refreshment rooms could be off....not that I'd know, mind!

There were a couple of semaphore home/3 - aspect YGY colour light signals on the same post, in the vicinity of Philips park Junction, on the line from Stalybridge to to Miles Platting. This was before the whole area was rationalised and resignalled in the 1990s. I think they were 3 - aspect because of the closeness of the Philips Park Junctions to Miles Platting, so that with the semaphore home off and a green aspect, you were clear right the way through; double yellow meant clear to MP, and single yellow to Philips Park. That's only a guess! On the westbound approach to Stalybridge, before the tunnel, there was another 3 - aspect YGY signal which I suppose was acting as a distant (there was a signal with a theatre - type route indicator on the exit from the tunnel, in the same direction). That went in the previous resignalling, replaced by a 4 - aspect with a feather