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It should be borne in mind that the route from Chinley to Dore and thence to either Sheffield or Chesterfield is also pretty steeply graded; it may not have 3 miles at 1 in 90, but it does have most of its length at 1 in 100, and probably (estimating by eye) a smaller percentage overall of bits...

Hehe, it looks to me (especially viewing the image at its natural size to avoid browser scaling artefacts) that there fairly clearly has been something done in those three spots; they have been patched with a different colour material (could be concrete) and are a few millimetres different in...

Would seem to be a natural route for anything from the Peak Forest or Hindlow quarries to anywhere south of Derby. All downhill in the loaded direction too...

My enthusiasm for Mk 2s and Mk 3s is because I consider those points to be either false or beneficial (ignoring the bit about "European contemporaries" because I've never been on any). Never found anything to complain about in the ride of either Mk 2s or Mk 3s - yes the latter did sway a bit...

If we extend this to include "closest approaches available before electrification was an option"... The pipe on the Dalkey atmospheric railway terminated a few hundred metres short of the actual terminus at the upper end. Arriving trains would coast into the station; with departing trains, some...

Forget the summit, it's just a pile of rocks. It's like Blackpool, including everything you touch being slightly sticky. Better to just wander round it at about the level of the railway terminus, look at the views, take some photos, and find that half an hour doing that is quite enough to get...

Can certainly blame the Major government for creating the situation in which such concepts even arise though. And hope that nationalisation will undo that. Except I bet it won't. Gah.

This list may be the most convenient answer to the question: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Level-crossing-risk-assessment-data-August-2025.xlsx From the above I get St Mary's, Brimscombe (between Stroud and Kemble). Map...

Very Midland. I approve!

Probably the most boring train journey I have ever done was York to Cambridge. Down that stretch, with me vainly trying to spot something interesting in the countryside and failing, then via March and Ely where in addition to the general lack of anything I had done it several times before. The...

People who don't have "smart" cards?

Many thanks to Doctor Fegg for completing Scotland! Now I can see clearly what people mean when they are discussing the Scottish rail network, about whose layout I've always been a little hazy. For sure other maps exist, but none of them are so clear or convenient. I usually have a New Adlestrop...

Are you now saying that those segments are also supported by wheelsets underneath the body, and not just on the big rings/pins?

It had been converted back to a conventional reciprocating locomotive a few months before that.

By being very large. Turns out it doesn't actually work very well because so much of the excavated volume is wasted; it's easier just to get the bulldozers in and only dig out the bits you actually want. They've got a string of radioactive lakes somewhere or other where they discovered this by...

Lynton & Barnstaple.

If you're making turns of <2km radius with so wide a gauge as 100m as part of normal running you are going to need to allow the wheels to rotate at different speeds across the width. You'll also need laterally independent suspension to be sure of more than two wheels touching the rail. Both of...

Individual motor drives for each wheel. You're more than likely better off without axles so you don't have to consider wind-up. With articulation the pivot axis is right at the end of the vehicle, so on a curve the entire length of the vehicle, being between those axes, overhangs on the inside...

No, the time available was never sufficient for that trip plus the necessary extra bits.

I'm not sure that "nothing to drink or eat for several days, trapped in boiling heat" is quite the image a restaurant owner would want to convey...