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Clearly true, but having made the call, a mere twelve seconds for the team to note the closure, pass it to the relevent decision maker and relay it to the driver in time for him to change course and not enter the pit lane seems to me to be a very tall order.

Good point about the team waving the driver through, but, would that have been a double whammy? Still incurring a penalty for entering a closed pit lane but not getting the advantage which pitting would give them? Academic as we shall never know how the stewards would have reacted to such an...

I can't help thinking Hamilton was unfairly treated regarding the penalty. The closure was made 12 seconds before he entered the pit lane. Hardly time for the teams to register the decision and pass it on to the drivers. I think the two markers, being out of the eyeline of a driver negotiating...

More to do with the line being one of the Midland Railway's key routes. Their HQ was Derby so it was UP to Derby and most mileages were from HQ (Though I think the MML is the exception which proves the rule...) Edit: Bu99er. Not quick enough. Beaten to it by CW2 :D

Who's to say there won't be some sort of commemoration of VJ Day?

I know of at least four Trump tweets from Obama's presidency where he mockingly stated he thought Obama would start a war with Iran to distract from falling popularity. Trump. The git, er I mean gift that keeps on giving. Just a crying shame it's people's lives he likes gambling with.

And its on quite a curve too, which makes it worse.

It depends to some extent on the critera you set for this theoretical loco. The US loco you quote has three units. Why stop there. Just using current loco power as an example, build thirty cabless class 68s and sandwich them between a pair of single cab examples, multi-controlled. Or why not...

Thank you. So am I right in assuming that any route might or might not show mileages, depending on the factors you mention? I guess this means that if I search services between two points, some will and some won't display mileages, depending on specific timing points used for that service?

Another regular user of RTT here, and very happy with both the old and the new improved version. Can I ask a question which has bugged me for a while? Some schedules show cumulative distances in miles and chains (at least the old version did, not checked the new one yet) and some don't. I've...

Maybe a letter or email to Visit Blackpool, the council's tourism arm might be worthwhile? Their brief says "As the tourism arm of Blackpool Council, we work closely with local partners and stakeholders to showcase the best that Blackpool has to offer our visitors."

Google is your friend...

Often saw these back in the sixties on the A449 between Stafford and Wolverhampton, probably before the M6 was built. Leathers and goggles yes, can't recall if they wore helmets. I always assumed they were lorry chassis, but guess they could easily have been buses.

Someone I know videoed it further south...

Speculation time! Fantastic contract opportunity requiring partial closure... How about someone wanting to spend a fortune using the railway for filming something?

I simply used a phrase to emphasise his lack of attention and add a little colour. And if you think it's a full on insult and he doesn't deserve it, then all you need to do is listen to him or read just a small selection of his Tweets to realise it's nothing compared to his way of referring to...

I would not make the assumption I have highlighted in the quote. I agree his team probably know what the NHS is but it is well documented that Trump himself has the attention span of a gnat with ADHD and struggles to read and focus on single page summaries of important issues. So when asked...

A strawman argument

Good points, but I think any potential deal with the US would always have been problematic. Look at Obama's reaction to the BP Gulf spillage. His reaction was to encourage laying total blame at BPs door, didn't he say something about screweing them for every penny or some equally inappropriate...

Well, you're entirely wrong if you categorise me as left wing. But I do prefer leaders not to be mysogonistic, thin skinned, egotistic, dishonest, corrupt, nepotistic and bullying. And I agree with some of the other posters here. Trump is an unintended consequence of a dissatisfaction with the...