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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-41066172 While not a level crossing, it was a crossing. See if you can work out how it happened. I bet that was a surprise, and I hope the person responsible wasn't too badly injured.

Perhaps most importantly, the platform numbering will finally make sense

I think you meant "What a great market driven solution that delivers efficiency savings and value to both shareholders & taxpayers".

Interestingly, if you watch the video the car following (that she subsequently reverses into) also crosses the stop line with the lights flashing & the barriers lowering, with what appears to be a clear intention to try to make it across. Indeed, they appear to reverse a little when they realise the barrier is about to lower onto their bonnet. I'd hope the Police also spoke to them, too.

As someone who has "Remain" written through their very core, I'd just like to say that I am immensely proud of the UK's new carriers, and I am very glad that we continued to build HMS Prince of Wales through to completion & operation. The two concepts are not orthogonal, after all. Back on topic I'd known that the Russians tend to uh, go a little over the top with their carrier defence, but the diagrams above very heavily underline that! I do wonder that the Russian Navy will do once the Kuznetsov finally bites the bullet: even by Russian standards it can't even be that far away from terminal end of life, surely?

As someone who has semi-regularly done Bristol-London...no. It's long enough that having 1st, and being able to get a decent seat with a decent table, and set up my laptop and get some work done for 1.5 hours in relative quiet & comfort, is well worth the extra ticket price. I'll note that some of the anti-1st class comments I've seen elsewhere have a certain air of sour grapes about them, with a bit too much "Well, why should they get to enjoy 1st class!?" for me to take them seriously.

Well, the IEP sets will still run to Swansea, so the depot will be used. It does possibly win the award for "Most isolated 25kV wiring on the British Rail network", though.

If you are going to build a new line, you may as well build the fastest line you can. The civil engineering is eye-wateringly expensive for both options, and at the end you're just haggling over a few million here or there between the two options.

After seeing her understudy for Theresa May in the debates, I think she's already failed that test.

MERG have a bunch of Train on Track & various other type of detectors you could take a look at.

What's more interesting is the map with "Paddington (High Level)" on it. I'd never considered it like that before, but yes now they require the distinction!

Now there's a view I remember well. It barely changed in the proceeding 20 years, right up until the day work started on Cabot Circus! They definitely worked in the early 80's. Or worked occasionally in the early 80's. I remember using them with my mum and grandmother when I must have been 4 or 5. We were probably going to Hurwoods.

Do you know what we have a distinct lack of, in both N & OO? Cranes. A nice Cowans Sheldon 30T or if you want to really push the boat out, how about one of the converted Warwells with a crane built onto the well?

I'll take the one on the left, please. Do you have a second one to match?

I think the GWSR have been fairly careful with their alignment, with an eye towards double track running at some point in the future. Rebuilding north of Broadway and reconnecting to the main line will almost certainly be their next big challenge, though, so it's going to be a long way off yet.

I would think HAL are unlikely to try and upset anybody too much, or at least not to the point that any Ministers or especially DfT get involved. That 3rd runway is still a little tenuous, especially with a General Election looming.

EE Type 4's, Presflos, interesting trackwork...this is ticking some serious boxes!

40's too?! I don't suppose you happen to have any of those photographs, do you?

Looks like you're onto something there! https://youtu.be/wUXEzj33mFU?t=91

(If you haven't come across Scarfolk yet, and serialism isn't your thing, then just try to ignore the actual content of the image!) This is probably a long shot, but can anyone identify the location in this Scarfolk poster? I really quite like the single slip out of the siding/loop onto what appears to be a main line, but I can't imagine that was particularly common?

I knew this rang a bell: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/49391-diesel-nose-gangway-doors/

I believe the doors on the 21's were used semi-regularly, if for no other reason that they were so unreliable it wasn't unusual for the second man to have to climb all the way back to the 2nd loco to deal with it.

Wouldn't that be contaminated, and thus expensive, land?

When I built fiNetrax plain track, I slide each sleeper base moulding onto a pair of rails; trying to thread a rail all way through a long length of chairs would probably require quite some force because of the friction involved, and keeping it all (relatively) square and straight would probably be very difficult.