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This one again! It almost reminds of around 2004 or 2005, when Stalybridge Celtic, Hyde United, Ashton United and Droylsden were all in the same division (NPL or Conference North, I can't remember). Now that's local derbies! Next season in the NPL Premier we have three of those (not Droylsden) and F.C. United.

Southport/Wigan Athletic, in about 1978? I believe Wigan still hold the crowd record in the Northern Premier League (when that league was immediately below Football League level) - 11,000 plus, at the old Springfield Park ground. I've heard another where the rep. for a FL club voted for the wrong club at the AGM, and a league club was relegated.

Looking at that lot, South Shields will be cursing!

Are the Mid-Norfolk getting any rental income, or demurrage charges, or anything, for this?

Read that many years ago; it is indeed a good book.

Cecil J. Allen has pointed out in a book (The London and North-Eastern Railway, about 1969) that the cylinders and valve chests of the Raven pacifics were manufactured as a single casting, and that after the advantages of long-lap, long-travel valves had been shown after the 1925 exchange between GWR "Castles" and LNER A1s, that similar modifications to them were too costly to modify. Clay and Cliffe (The LNER 4-6-0 Classes) have pointed out the difficulties of fitting a decent-sized ashpan to a large-wheeled, large-boilered 4-6-0. I know the GWR managed it, but they seem to have been the exception. It may account for the indifferent steaming of some of the early express passenger 4-6-0s, as they reached the end of a trip.

And Barnsley, of course! I can remember going there (the one where the lights went out at half-time and Roger Palmer scored the winner in the gloom), as I recall, the police were deployed in depth at the away end. I think that was one of the occasions dad was driving and it seemed to take forever to get there. But yes, South Yorks Police were good at crowd control.......especially after 1984

Would MSE not do all the parts for this?

How does Stevie Wonder get on with control?

That's because sailing ships aren't generally as manouevrable as mechanically powered ships.

He was quite correct! Shinguards are mandatory kit under the Laws of the Game. The ref. could send you from the field to correct the lack of them.

I would say, on that point, did any of their political masters not pull them up on their interpretation? Was the interpretation scrutinised in Parliament? Not wanting to spread the blame around, but it's not just the civil service. Doubtless, the EU was blamed, though.

Adolph Galland had a model railway at his base in France. After Douglas Bader was shot down, he was allowed to visit, and part of it was that they spent some time playing trains.

Yes, same rule for everyone; it's how each state's civil service interprets the rules. Our MP said he'd heard of EU directive documents arriving in Whitehall 3 pages long, and leaving 25 pages long. The UK civil service had (?) a tendency to "Goldplate" EU directives.

For the pax? Dinnertime on the ships I sailed on was 1700. Just enough time for the 12-4 to get mopped and stoned, and have a couple of cool scoops beforehand. You still shouldn't be smoking like that on what I assume was a motorship

A bit smoky!

The motorway system was being planned in the mid-1950s. The first section of the M1 opened in 1959, didn't it? The Preston bypass certainly opened very early. That's not to say that Marples wasn't a bit dodgy.

How many all-English teams have there ever been? Even in the "old days", English clubs imported players from Scotland, Wales and both Irelands; indeed, the first professional players, in the 19th century were Scottish.

Motorways, smart or not, go from nowhere in particular to nowhere else in particular; or skirt around somewhere. The problem isn't so much the traffic on the motorway as what happens to it when it leaves and gets to its destination. The almost continuous traffic jams on roads leading to and from motorways, or from those roads is a case in point.

I think I made that point further up the thread. It isn't a vanity project; it's vital infrastructure.

No, they'd fallen out of use by the time I started there (mid-January 1985). I saw pictures in the archive of them in use, but when I was there, the end nearest the storage area was being used for the electrical and mechanical contractors' offices and workshops. After the sidings being actually active, some tank wagons were parked there for a time, for use as static storage.

Hillmorton J6562; quite an eclectic collection of carriages!

I can remember trains going down Mellors Road to Steve Norton's scrapyard. Usually about 4.30 - 5 p.m a couple of days a week.

On the first paragraph, I think the second case. Since Metrolink in Oldham was diverted from the rail route to run along Union Street, the tracks across the road junction at Mumps Bridge have not been removed. I suppose another reason might be that closing the roads in question to take the tracks up could cause traffic problems. On another note, I can remember the track across Tenax Road being refurbished and all the new signage being put up, IIRC in the late 80s/early 90s, when I was working at Ciba-Geigy, also the footbridge across the road when it was widened - I drew the outline plan for it.