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Sstuving replied to the thread Radlett Rd Watford.I was expecting to find public notices in the Watford Observer about the stopping-up of Loates Lane at the crossing, but so far I...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Unbuilt Connection to London Waterloo?.The use of this area in the Festival of Britain is shown in the attached image, taken from the wayfinding plan in the official...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Limpley Stoke Bridge Strike (Monday 23/03/2026).If you're really interested in bridge strikes, the briefing for that part of FOAK 2025 is here. Despite being quite long, and focused on...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Euston Dining Club Menu 1963.Re: mincemeat slice - (traditional) date slice is still fairly common, and this would be the same. Most likely shortcrust pastry, with...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Limpley Stoke Bridge Strike (Monday 23/03/2026).And they are not new. Here's a surviving BBC news item from twenty years ago! Since you don't need anything that complicated to make...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Padiham Power Station C More Details.I find it odd that BR/CEGB discussions in 1965 would not be for merry-go-round trains. By January 1964 the preferred rail delivery...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Padiham Power Station C More Details.It sounds like Ratcliffe-on-Soar, which was about 2000 MW and built 1963-1968 (see Wikipedia). That had four 500 MW sets each of boiler...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Longest Point Rodding.Were there problems in practice with the temperature compensation? Obviously the expansion to be made to balance out is greater on a...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Freight train derailment caught on live stream - Pennsylvania, USA.At that specific location they would be looking out for it - it's no accident there was a video camera set up there, to watch the trains...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Heathrow Tunnel Partial Closure Monday 10/08.According to the HAL Network Statement, Network Rail are Asset Manager, Infrastructure Manager, and Operator for the track, railway...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Railway Telephone Circuits Help.They lived in the Dower House on the Grove estate, not the (very) big house. That was in the 1960s - they had a TV kitchen there.
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Sstuving replied to the thread SWR WoE line — do they know something we don’t?.Basically that's right; here's a bit more detail. Forster has been banging on about the poor SWR service at Woking for ages, and he...
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Sstuving replied to the thread BR Tendering, By Who, When & Where Questions.I can't find anything in the newspapers that fits that. So either the notices were worded in a very unexpected way, or appeared only in...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Railway Telephone Circuits Help.Since you needed to know the bell codes for all the other phones to use an omnibus circuit, there had to be a list by each phone. There...
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Sstuving replied to the thread Railway Telephone Circuits Help.Taking what you've written at face value, these are telephone, not telegraph, circuits, so they are not for block signalling. I'd guess...
