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That's a good thought, one that didn't occur to me. Mind you, I think that the owners of the many big houses in Ham and Petersham might well have objected to a railway running at the back of their gardens.

Kingston to Paddington would have posed some real problems. One is required to do what the LSWR did -- a loop around from Twickenham, or approach from the south-east -- if one does not wish to tunnel through the ridge to the east of the town and under Richmond Park. A north-south route through...

Whereabouts were they? I changed trains at Shrewsbury a few months back and noticed that the first platform was 3, but couldn't see where 1 and 2 might have been.

How easy was it to calculate the pinning down of the brakes, if one wished to avoid wheels not turning and thus getting flats or, conversely, not applying sufficient pressure on the wheels and thus not braking them? Presumably freight guards worked this out by way of experience.

I remember seeing the 4-PEP units in the all-over blue and the 2-PEP unpainted unit, but I don't think I saw any in the multicolour scheme. That might be because in 1985-87 I rarely commuted to work via Clapham Junction. I have a feeling that one had to make the doors start opening by pushing...

This posting appeared on my Facebook feed. Rather than depicting a Stanier 8F, what we have here seems to be a truncated, both locomotive and tender, Stanier Black Five. It refers to 8F no 48666, but the number on the illustration is 49666, which was a Fowler 7F 0-8-0. This isn't the first...

Try travelling on an all-stations service up to Waterloo, or go around the Teddington loop. It seems like announcements all the way along. Add to these the dreaded 'sorted' BTP mantra after every stop, and it really drives one barmy.

I also noted that Richmond/Clapham Junction <> Stratford services have also been severely affected, along with services on the Goblin line. Real Train Times gives 'power supply problems' as the reason for the cancellations, although later on 'a fire' is given as the reason. Is it that the fire...

And there's the short tunnel on the incline from the Ffestiniog line up to Wrysgan Quarry near Tanygrisiau.

Blimey, it must have been bad back then. I changed trains at New Street last summer, and I found it a pretty depressing place, although I accept that it must have been difficult, if not impossible, to do much rebuilding in the confined space available. I really don't understand the dividing of...

I read in an old copy of the Railway Magazine an article about suggested postwar railway development around London, and there was on a map a loop going round from the West Coast Main Line roughly where the M25 goes, round to Redhill or thereabouts. I'll try to find it, but there are a lot of...

I didn't know about the projected port at Porth Dinallen. It would, I guess, have been a rival to Holyhead, albeit with a much more circuitous railway link.

The idea of the Bishops Castle line as a 'trunk route' makes me smile, seeing how incompetently the part of the line that was laid was actually built and then managed. Going through to Montgomery would have 'cut a corner' for traffic heading north from Hereford and going on to the Cambrian...

Mystery solved! I didn't know that about Central station. It makes sense now. 1767028985 '... from hamm + tun...' — Hampton is one of those names where a P sound has emerged between the M and the T, as it reflects the way the name is often said; MPT in a word being easier to pronounce than MT...

'... crossing the River Severn at Beachley by a new 3,300 yard bridge...' -- Now that is what I call ambitious, getting quite close to rivalling the Tay Bridge.

The roundabout on the A316 in Richmond that is officially called Manor Circus was always called the Gasworks Bridge when I lived there back in the 1960s, and people of around my age from that area still call it that, although the Richmond gasworks site has been for some time a Sainsbury's...

I've noticed on Flight Tracker and other sites that gliders do seem to go all over the place. What sort of regulation is there of their courses?

Returning to the original post, I'm wondering what might have happened if there had been no station staff on the platform at Cambridge, or if the lad had 'boarded' at a station that isn't manned on the platform. Would he have been able to hold until the next station, which might have been some...

This made me laugh.

That explains it. Thanks!