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  1. DenysW
    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).
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    Financially non-coal minerals were dominant, but in terms of activity, there was a surprising amount of passenger. Data from BoT returns.
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    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.)
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    The Dogger Bank?
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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:
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    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?
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    Still smarting from the (historical but ultimate) insult/put-down of only meriting a Branchline Terminus by the Midland Counties Railway.
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    You are confusing Nottingham with (at least one of) Leicester, Coventry, Lichfield, Tamworth, Walsall ... the list is almost endless because it does not include the unlamented Trent Station.
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    The rails in both seem to have been very similar to IKB's Great Western shape.
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    I believe that the Lickey was Vignoles rail as well. Mea culpa. I hadn't realised that Vignoles rail did not have the longitudinal sleepers of IKB's baulk track (nor his original then abandoned vertical pillars), so was a distinctly different (and cheaper) design. That seems to have looked to artists indistinguishable. Shame it seems to have rocked.
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    I assume it was in the £900k of track upgrades that caused a fuss with the auditors in August 1849. 35 miles of Birmingham & Gloucester is certainly mentioned, as well as 35 miles of Midland Counties, and some other bits and bobs.
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    Presumably freight then. It would give the same "Foreign Lines Worked" for a map, but not show up in passenger timetables. I don't believe that family saloons, horseboxes. etc. would count as then all the 1913 maps (a new requirement in the accounts that year) would show virtually all of the Great Britain network. I attach a poor photo of said map.
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    Before we try (retrospectively) to withdraw an Artistic License, I give you the (very similar) view of the genuine Vignoles/Baulk track up the Lickey Bank, as a screen dump from Wikipedia - it gives the (lack of) copyright:
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    That would explain why the majority of the illustrations ignore the sleepers, but they ignore them completely, not giving a baulk-track look by showing the joins every 45(?) feet. The picture of Bedford appears to be showing missing ballast only at the points and a pedestrian/employee crossing, not a regular omission of ballast.
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    I was naif/feckless enough to buy a Trix/Marklin DCC locomotive that said it would work on DC. It did - for a while. It turns out that the maximum DC voltage it could accept was appreciably lower than the 20V maximum put out by my Gaugemaster controller, and I burned it out quite quickly. I'd say that specification incompatibility like this will be quite common, and Hornby may just be guarding against it.
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    Did the L&Y also run a few passenger services into Carlisle Citadel at this time? Its 1913 map in the accounts shows the LNWR line from Preston as also used by the L&Y, but my 1910 Bradshaw is ambiguous about what is a service and what is a connection and/or a carriage added to another company's trains. Some trains from Preston are marked as Midland and only to have 1st & 3rd class, but some are marked as if L&Y services.
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    On re-reading F.S. Williams' History of The Midland Railway, the illustrations show balk track at Monsal Dale (p109) and a timber-construction rail viaduct at Bugsworth (p164). Are these correct? Mostly the drawings ignore the sleepers and only give the rails, so the balk leaps out at you. I knew the Lickey Bank had balk/Vignoles track, but not anywhere else.
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    I find it moderately nerve-wracking to do more than 60 mph along the M42-> M42 slips on that junction, although the M42->M40 is fast, especially southbound. Similarly the M69->M6 slip is signed at 50 and means it.
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    Or as signed, especially on the older exits. The French design is to force you to slow off with progressively lower limits and harsher bends. Each to their own.
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    From that article "The Department for Transport (DfT) said it awaited the group's proposals for securing funding." It's all posturing and politicking until they have the money. And I read DfT's tone as "... which isn't coming from us."
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    Just a small ghost , but it still proudly announces that Kew Gardens Station on the District & Mildmay Lines is on the Southern Railway. Location: just outside the pub/restaurant that (sadly) no longer has direct doors onto the platform.
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    Equally likely is that histories of Much Wenlock, correctly known as origin of the modern Olympics revival, are wrong in stating that laurel wreaths were presented to the victors, and this this was an early gold medal/souvenir.
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