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Kangaroo is tasty when well prepared, but is difficult to cook. It makes a good casserole, but most of what are sold as steaks are cut along the grain to get a decent size piece and so are tough unless prepared really well. (The most commonly-hunted kangaroos aren't particularly large apart from...

Surely it would have been the closed line between Deeper Deepcarand Penistone that would have been used for tram-trains, especially if tram-trains were extended over the extant but unused line to Stockbridge, as gets proposed. every few years.

Aiming southeast to somewhere near the mint to take over services from Fenchurch Street might be a better balance for the twin tracks, especially as it would allow the DLR to extend into Fenchurch Street from Tower Gateway, or the station closed and sold.There's also a cramped but probably...

I suspect that would cause a lot of congestion at Waterloo East, even if you can separate out a pair of lines to run across the link from the SW side, unless you closed Charing Cross. A more expensive, but more useful, project would be underground loops linking the city and west end SR...

Maybe the word Gorsaf wasn't in use in Snowdonia, especially since the railway companies in the region were all english-backed and there hadn't been local tramways or plateways beforehand, and probably no regular stagecoaches except the mail along the coast, so whatever Welsh word was used for...

Same for me, in toothpaste livery. One of my earliest train-related memories is being allowed to sit in the guard's compartment and look through the periscope. Going up to London via Havant in the early SWT years was fun. I can't remember what class units they were, but they had a DTCsoL with a...

Perhaps it would help if the press releases describing people hit by trains were really lurid about the injuries, and vague about when they'd have lost consciousness. I suspect people choose suicide by train partly because it sounds like a quick and certain death, so convincing them to try...

Once the technology is proved to work accurately they can see about getting them approved as enforcement tools, so you'd get points on your licence, which eventually achieves something even if the fine doesn't.

following distance could be enforced automatically fairly easily, since you just need to measure the speed of two vehicles and the time between them passing. Passing distances and stop signs could be done automatically but would be a little trickier, and the gaps in enforcement would be more...

Compared to the cost of electrifying the existing goods line, upgrading South Staffordshire Line signalling to passenger standards, upgrading track as required for good running, extra trams, and so on, replacing the crossover and resigning would be a relatively small cost and would mean...

There's a few people on uk.railway who pushed "Stratford in the Hole", to match Stratford upon Avon and Stratford on Lea

I assume the branch platform would be used to reverse trams arriving from Brierly Hil, so it wouldn't be any extra faff to go to Stourbridge Town instead of back to Brierly Hill. However, it would probably be more convenient all round to only do that when they want to send the branch tram back...

Since there would be a huge increase in services, and a decades-long building project, it is hard to see which workers would object. Even with DOO everywhere and efficiency improvements, there'd be a lot of driver jobs for displaced guards etc., more signallers, and so on. The TOC owners and...

Their objective was just to make all lorries pay their road tax, so it is only charged if you drive on an autobahn and is capped at the old road tax value. the problem they had was with some quirk of the national treatment rules, though I’ve forgotten what it was.

There’s a mileage based fee for HGVs regardless of where they are registered, and the VED for HGVs has been cut accordingly. I haven’t done the maths on how the shortfall (if any) there compares to the value of rail subsidies to freight operators (which is tricky to pick out anyway)