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Yes, but there were also thoughts of something more direct connecting with the LNWR at Tring.

I think the NNML hardly counts, since the point of the London & South Wales proposal was that it wasn't the GWR. The basic idea was to help persuade the GWR to pull their finger out and build the Badminton cutoff already. Which they did do, but I'm not sure to what extent that was actually...

With all axles individually powered, it is possible "these days" (has been for a pretty long time actually) to separately control the torque and speed of each motor, per fractional rev, in either the "forward" (driving) or "reverse" (generating) directions and through zero as well. It is...

...although they turned out not to be all that wonderful, and they did better with locomotives obtained in Britain. (Although it should be noted that the notorious locomotive "Surprise!!! *BANG*" was British.)

Well I've always found it highly confusing. You turn it to "Line Blocked" when the line is not blocked... this manufactures nasal chickens. "Normal" is perhaps not the best choice of alternative but it's a vast improvement.

Class 90/1 90125 ought to have been named Yes.

Have a look at Keith Roberts "Pavane"...

So whichever general first has a brilliant idea for moving troops about...

Not just them. This is probably just off the edge of one of yours...

Would Caesar have made the trains run on time?

Someone drops their return half?

It would be useful if there was some documentation on that fastjp site, particularly about the public API (ie. the one you get to use if you haven't signed up for an account, as I guess the posters immediately above haven't).

And a new Templecombe as well, I hope...

...can avoid bypassing intermediate villages, in order to serve them, when the Victorians would have contented themselves with plonking down a platform at a bridge a couple of miles away, on the grounds that's good enough when people have no other choice? Absolutely not. These days people do...

The Australians also bought some Crossley-engined Metrovick/Beyer-Peacock locos. They seem to have been the first to do it, as they apparently sent a resident engineer to Crossley's works at Openshaw in order to supervise the construction of the first batch of engines, which were essentially a...

Victoria is better than Midland certainly - priceless city centre location, no need to reverse everything - but as far as the approaches go the Midland lines generally have the best alignments in that area because they got there first, and the GC and GN had to wiggle tortuously around them. So...

Unreality TV.

...having feelings of an almost human nature. This will not do... It's just categorising shapes and then either regurgitating them raw or making up shapes that are mathematically similar, according to how definite its statistics are on what kind of things go where in what context. So it's found...

Thanks.

Aye. Shame they were no good at it. And the intentions of supporting British industry had a tendency to backfire. The tale of NBL is probably the most egregious example, but there are plenty of others. The Modernisation Plan and the "dash for diesel" didn't help either. Too many outfits getting...