The cynical exploitation of many religions festivals for commercial purpose and then add in made up ones. As you get older you realise the Marx brothers were right there ain’t no sanity clause.
Similar quote about Paddington to Heathrow when Leeds Drives were getting handling time on 332's as the333's were late: 'we've got longer block sections' !
The whole idea of the National interest and an economic policy are things of the past, the short sight saga based on election cycles has doomed the country! The great Carbon Dioxide saga recently shows how out of touch ministers were
The biggest problem with the current way of planning is the logic is everyone wants to go to London and have short journey times meaning that intermediate stations suffer along with many intermediate journeys. Berwick to Northallerton is a hard journey with forty minutes waiting at Darlington not being unusual!
Too many trains for the amount of railway.
The loading diagrams are available on the Barrowmore website with the main dimensions on them, both of the designs were built by WH Davis on recovered tank chassis, the PS016A are on shortened TSV chassis (Airfix tank type).