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More likely that Woodhead would have been converted to 25kV a.c. if it had survived, as happened to the Hadfield 'stub', but a superb idea nonetheless! I'm trying to imagine catching a 323 stopper to Sheffield.

You could probably add, not too far away, Bootles Oriel Road and New Strand, Edge Hill, Seaforth &Litherland, and several others on Merseyrail to that list

Having driven through Stockport on the M60 not three hours ago, virtually nothing on that third last photo., of the goods going through the wreckage of the station, is still in existence.

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Thailand?

Not much better at the other end if you're going into Manchester; a traffic light-infested dual carriageway A57 as far as the Tameside /Manchester boundary. As explained on the Woodhead thread, the road was designed to join the Mancunian Way. Planning permission and the money have finally been found to extend the M67 by about half a mile, to Mottram Moor. We're still waiting, after 40 years, for it to be completed to the other side of Tintwistle.

O.K., tinfoil hats on, folks. Since Mike Storey has mentioned another bit of politics which might affect things, surely this is the sort of infrastructure-enhancing project that a dynamic, thrusting, forward-looking, post-Brexit U.K. ought to be pushing? No?

Wouldn't they be quin-arts from Liverpool Street? The Royal Docks were dying due to the way trade was changing, e.g., containerisation. In 1969, I went for an interview for an MN cadetship, aboard m.v. Akaroa in KG5 dock. It was becoming quite quiet even then

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Is this the Mail going with their agenda, and making 2+2=5? Seems to me that, as work has already started, it would be lunacy, and a waste of money already spent, to can it now

You are correct, but Peanuts' point still stands. It's the same reason that you don't get Final Score on the BBC on international break weeks. Only the Premier League,. I and the race to get into it, count for anything these days. I think the prize money for winning the F.A. Cup is about £2 million, which is less than the prize money for being relegated from the PL

The last three are in East London, looking at the style of the houses, and the Buckjumper in the background.

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I don't understand the first part of your comment: surely tractive effort is a theoretical figure, based on cylinder dimensions and boiler pressure, and inversely to driving wheel diameter, so the exhaust has nothing to do with that. What a correctly designed exhaust should do is enhance the free flow of steam from the cylinders, and allow the fire to "draw" properly, thus making for a freer-running locomotive. Sadly, even into the later stages of steam loco design, it could be got wrong.

More like an old matelot giving a silly answer to a silly question!

Saw the notices advising of the change last year; so no.

Always a good 'alarm' for when a train was coming from Huddersfield. The noise of the wire rubbing on the pipe, when the signal came 'off', was very distinctive.

Hammer-blow?

Fair enough, I stand corrected. A very interesting and in some ways poignant photo, all the same.

The NER monopoly was in Northumberland, Co. Durham, and most of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire. "North of York", and including the areas mentioned is a large part of England.

But they never objected to the monopoly that the NER had in the North-East, except at the fringes. If you wanted to travel from, say, Newcastle to Hull, there was only one real way of going. Having said that, I believe the Hull and Barnsley was promoted by certain coal interests in South Yorkshire and certain merchants in Hull, to break the monopoly the NER had in running services to that city.

In close-up, it looks more like a line spray-painted through the number.

The SER/LC&DR was more of a working arrangement rather than a full amalgamation, wasn't it? They'd just spent the the last 50 or so years engaged in 'Beggar thy neighbour' competition South of the Thames, with numerous duplicate routes and services. The GCR/GNR/GER failure in any case led to the first wagon pooling agreement, didn't it? To return to the O.P.: there is a paper in the Railways Archive, which I read last week, concerning the 1844 Regulation of the Railways Act, in which there was a clause that would have allowed the government to take over the running of a railway company; something to do with abuse of monopoly power. It will be remembered that a large number of amalgamations of the original small companies began at about this time, and there was concern among some in parliament that the resulting larger companies could abuse their positions.

Standard 4, another A4 and an A1 or A2 on the scrap line at the back. Is the A4 Lord Faringdon?