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Trainfx displays on Northern trains automatically get updates from Darwin - not direct as too many messages - but filtered and delivered depending on route. That includes changes to arrival times as well as updates to stopping pattern.

Suprised no one has so far mentioned Clement Edwin Stretton, eminent author of railway books and articles. He made up an awful lot of facts which later were quoted in the writings of quite a few reputable authors. Harry Jack had an article published in Railway archive describing some of his...

What wanted to say is that it isn't a simple process to design and implement software systems and as a programmer designer there are a lot of things to consider that are not always available to control. We should not have to use the systems we design but do have to rely on information we are...

Did over 10 years commuting between various stations and Euston before doing any design. Lots of things changed since then but passengers haven't.

Was involved in the design of a reservation system once, whenever something involved communication to passengers considered a conversation with someone not long before where she complained that could never find her seat. Ticket said seat 24A (or similar), so she went to coach A to find seat 24...

Have always assumed it to be clawton but checked with the expert Ted Talbot who replied "..it is as you say – Clawton. As the stress is on the first syllable the second syllable is unstressed as in Nuneaton, cotton and dozens of other words."

Notice also the lack of arrival times, very much a case of if we don't say when due to arrive then no-one can complain if late

The recent biography of George Carr Glynn "Railwayman and Banker" by David Hodgkins is an excellent source. Carr Glynn (later Lord Wolverton) was the first chairman of the London Birmingham Railway and then continued with the LNWR. The formation of the railway is described as well as the later...

Was less of a merger as many of LNWR senior directors retired at the time. Then joining the LMS gave further dilution. Hughes became CME purely on seniority after merger and for LMS.

Hughes was the first CME of newly formed LMS. Not sure if Ivatt was made CME in preference to Riddles as Riddles soon after became a Vice-President. That may have been the intended plan. There was always Beames but he was a true Crewe man and unlikely candidate as far as Stamp was concerned...

Even more suprising was serious discussions of merger between the lnwr and gwr.

LNWR George Vth build still going well according to there latest newsletter. http://forum.lnwrhg.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=126

Must admit am suprised by your comments, always thought South Wales best steam coal was anthracite. Not sure about less arsenic more than had lower sulphide content and hence cleaner burning leaving less clinker. Also reasonable fast burning and perhaps more importantly higher temperature...

Preferably original flavour maxpaxs.

Isn't that within the same signal area rather than region. Thought this was a Darwin generated identifier, hence associated with a TOC. Although they call it a RID by adding date onto it so making it unique for 24 hours. Is a while since had to understand these (headcodes and UID's) so may not...

Correct me if wrong, from memory. Not maximum profit but maximum dividends. Government were concerned that for certain routes a company had a monopoly so could charge what they liked. So a cap of about 10 percent was placed on dividends to stop profiteering in this way. It was at a time when...

Believe Liverpool to Manchester was around the second public railway - possibly first that only used locomotives, carried passengers from the start, as did London and Birmingham. Neither was short of passengers despite only carrying first and second class. One or two lines were freight only or...

Exactly the point. Compounds could extract more energy from steam therefore require less coal. Webb was very aware of the value of saving coal as not long after he became CME (equivalent) the cost of coal rose to almost double its earlier cost. If the extra expense of compounding - capital and...

Used to look at it and occasionally post years ago as well as on uk.rec.modelrails (or similar). Same as others, dropped out when BT dropped it. Found it again on google groups recently and nearly posted ! But was beginning to feel drugs stuff had swamped it. Loonies never bothered me as they...

Yes there were problems with starting with all Webb compounds and he never really solved that. But perhaps the biggest problem was the ratio of volumes between the low and high pressure cylinders. The theoretic best value wasn't known at the time, Webb started off fairly close but moved away as...