johnofwessex

There is of course a question of the sorts of vehicles we allow on the roads and their top speeds

I remember the look on a drivers face as he hit the planter on a chicane in Norton St Phillip having tried to push in front of my car

I might suggest that the opportunity to take a pot shot at the offending vehicles might best be done at slower speeds to minimise the danger to those not involved but there are no doubt things that might stop these vehicles beyond what is currently in use. Possibly some sort of 'fixed' installation at strategic points like crocodile teeth you see on some private roads https://www.entryparkingposts.com/index.php/2/

What was the dispute with Bachmann?

Richard Davies said that the Hattons Management could not find a way to make any bits of the business profitable. I would assume that they would have looked at the option of simplifying the offer/overseas services/website as part of this

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/04/west-midlands-police-fight-rise-of-frightening-100mph-street-car-racing Now what I dont understand, and clearly its a different sort of risk and of course there is the impact on the officers concerned as well as the potential risk to them of drivers using their cars as a weapon. BUT this week Police shot & killed a man with a crossbow who had broken into a London home. So given the risks that these prats pose both to the public and the Police why dont they get dealt with by armed officers and shot if they dont stop?

It seems to me that the obvious losers are going to be British outline modellers abroad which in turn suggests that there is a business opportunity somewhere. Given that many UK suppliers are either owned abroad = Bachmann or have European brands - Hornby setting up a EU based shop may be quite straightforward

Did any other classes of locos in Green have double arrows?

I dont like hanging around alongside a lorry. I would have thought though that as a Garrick member you would have a chauffeur

The Driver was quite right to be upset Yu do have a Right of Review for Anti Social Behaviour issues https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/report/asb-case-review/

Could the fact that the loco is being run static contributing? Clearly if its moving there will be some airflow to cool it, even if its only over the body

The problem I suppose is that the loco hadn't passed a signal..............

Q more livery froth

Is it limited to 75mph?

Oh dear...........

Any idea whats happened, I cant find it on Real Time Trains

What I find bizarre is that a British Army was literally wiped out in Afghanistan in 1842, we had decades of fun in the North West Frontier, but left Afghanistan itself well alone, watched the USSR get into a right mess then marched merrily in ourselves. You can't make it up

My father worked for The Midland Bank Executor & Trustee Company. When rail privatisation was announced he had the hump as he had had to spend ages working out the conversion of all these different railway stocks & shares to BTC stock in 1947

Thinking out loud........ The LNWR clearly had a lot of Anglo Scottish traffic. If you want to get to Glasgow/Edinburgh at a half way sensible time pre WW1 thats going to mean a morning departure from London, and probably not much later from Birmingham. Whereas if I wanted to get to Sheffield from St Pancras I would get in at a sensible time even if I left in late afternoon. Might this have meant that the LNWR had rather more 'tidal' traffic than the Midland with heavily loaded Anglo Scottish expresses leaving Glasgow/Edinburgh and London in the mornings?

So why exactly did they buy MB Klein at such a late date?

Interesting to speculate what might have happened if Lord Stamp hadnt been killed in 1941

What is interesting is the drop in passenger numbers in the early 1920's largley as a result of bus competition. I have Colin Maggs book on the Wrington Vale Light Railway and its fascinating to see how passenger numbers plummeted from about 1922, basicalls the buses went to Bristol wghich is where people wanted to go and not round the houses via Congresbury & Yatton. What is clear I think is that Railways seemed to lack both the capital and management insight to change in the inter war and even post war period

At one stage the Cumbrian Coast Express offered a trip round what was then Winscale behind the steam shunter

At one stage teh Cumbrian Coast Express offered a trip round what was then Winscale behind the steam shunter

AFAIK Football Clubs in days past were valueable not because they were profitable - they were not but because of the profits to be made from catering. In the same was P&A Campbell (White Funnel Fleet) basically survived because its shareholders were also its suppliers and then it was bought up for its unused tax allowances