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And when I was visiting there (1991-1994) they rolled the sidewalk up at 9 pm because the place was shutting down for the night. Amazingly variable weather.

Including two entrepreneurs (other words are available) who were transported for defrauding the Great Northern Railway out of essentially all of its profits for for (I believe) 1853.

He is indeed, the Bolivians having also eventually found him repellent, so the Aussie Govt. will have an interest. But it's the UK that is attempting to process the US extradition request, so it's the UK rules (good or bad, make up your own mind) that apply.

Some (from the Highland branch to Fortrose, closed in the early 1950s) was used as the roof of the village drain (aka open sewer) in Fortrose when that was covered over and used as a road. It had started to fail in the 2010s - I was told this by the local Scottish Water area manager. In the 1840s onwards some sleepers were also kyanized, which preserves wood using mercuric chloride. Ah, the good old days.

I congratulate you for not keeping up with the fate of the repellent Julian Assange. His lawyer's latest ploy, supported by HMGovt, is to demand an assurance from the US Govt that he will not be exposed to the death penalty - if deported to their care. We Brits apparently don't deport to friendly countries that might execute the deportee for the crimes alleged in the deportation request. We also don't deport for crimes that wouldn't be offenses if committed in the UK. Rats. A re-post of @br2975's shorter version.

Tesco. Along with Tavel rose. The shame is that the Brits seem to reject demi-sec, which generally has a better flavour.

I wasn't aware until this post that The Buddha was red/green colour-blind, together with 7% of all men. Thank you, @iL Dottore, for helping me achieve Enlightenment (at least on this sub-topic).

Financially non-coal minerals were dominant, but in terms of activity, there was a surprising amount of passenger. Data from BoT returns.

HH: Please read up on the concept of the "Disease Vector" Also please do not forget that they are disease vectors even after the age of obvious snot-candles (phrase learned from #1 daughter re her/our rug rats.)

The Dogger Bank?

On a quick look on Google maps, @Edwin_m has it wrapped up. The Knighton tunnel is two bores, one in mainline use, one for goods/abandoned/lightly used. So re-instating to 4-track at two levels (the new one lower) plus a new (lower) island platform at Leicester on the (largely unused) sidings and goods bypass are seems to solve problems without shutting traffic off for many months. Just paying for it to go then.

For completeness, Kilby Bridge. FWIW Bing and Google Maps are both locked in the past. Looking at the tree/shrub clearance on the embankments between Leicester & Market Harborough I'd say the intrusive work had been done to avoid the bird-nesting season, although March and April are also best avoided if the habitats might have hibernating snakes.

I attended one - same daughter was singing. Paul Bunyan. One of the worst musical experiences of my life. Plus massive irritation that he was putting out a gratuitously anti-American 'plot' whilst hiding from the privations of WW2 on Long Island. ENO is the victim of the purists being forced to (now only 50%) relocate whereas Royal Opera House isn't, and suffering significantly more severe budget cuts.

The knitting is visually complete (at least) as far as Kilsby Bridge. At the B562 crossing just south of the Junction there's no sign of anything new looking north, but looking south there's some HV stuff, but no wires or pylons. Southwards:

And doesn't help itself by typically being sung in its original language thus making it even more remote from its potential public. Purists (annoyingly including my daughter the music graduate) believe that this ensures the words do fit as well as possible, but I'm not convinced. In fact, totally unconvinced. Do the Italians pile into opera in the same numbers when it's sung in German, Czech, or Russian?