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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.

Also, The Kings Head on the other side of the station steps. Further along towards Manchester, over the road from Greenfield station is The Railway. There is, or used to be, a reasonably decent one on Dewsbury station, whose name I can't remember. Another nomination for the Left Luggage Room on Monkseaton Metro station

On the first; closer than you think, as the recent work from Manchester to Stalybridge, and the work just started between Huddersfield and Dewsbury shows. That leaves three fairly small gaps in electrifying the entire line between Liverpool and York; unfortunately, two of them are probably the most difficult on the whole route. On the second, can you point to a major engineering project, private or public, and particularly a railway one, that has ever come in at its original estimate. We've alraedy had the original GWR; several of Brunel's other projects (all three of his ships, for instance) came in way over cost; the original estimate for the Great Northern Railway was £3 million; it turned out at double that, and never reached its prime target, York. And so on, and son....

Some of us have been pointing this out for a while, now; one of regular contributors pointed it out yesterday.

The age of cheap energy came to an end between October and December 1973, when the price of crude oil increased from $3 per barrel to $11 per barrel. As you may recall, that and the OPEC embargo had a cataclysmic effect on the world economy

C4254 just oozes cold!