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See Erksine May indeed. All Local and Personal Bills have a preamble saying basically what they're about. The statements made are the allegations, e.g. "Whereas there is a shortage of transport facilities between Blackburn and Padiham and this shortage could best be met by ...." — as you have...

Pretty well the only landline calls I seem to get these days are scams of one sort or another, all too often given away almost at once by an Indian accent. There definitely seem to be fashions — the majority at the moment appear to be about roof insulation and come from an 0116 number.

Use of "may" when sequence of tenses demands "might". BBC staff trying to bring is use of American "Zee" for English "Zed".

Have there been any diesel locomotive designs at all that could be called attractive, except for the Hymeks and (just possibly) the 47s? (Performance is a different matter, of course. I don't think anyone will dispute what the Deltics brought to the ECML, and I'd contend that the Peaks were much...

The Bill never made it through parliament—preamble not proved. Commons Journal, 8 June 1846 (9 Victoria), pp.817-8: "Viscount Palmerston reported from the Committee on Group No. 44, of Railway Bills, to whom several Petitions against the Bills comprised in way the said Group were referred ...

The 1848 Notice for a Bill in 1849 as printed in the London Gazette (20920) 25 November 1848 page 4368 has this in what seems to be the relevant paragraph: "A branch railway commencing by a junction with the East Lancashire Railway, at or near the south-western entrance of the Gannow Tunnel of...

That wasn't always so. Political decisions (or failures to take decisions) over the last hundred years were responsible for aiding the development of that situation.

Doesn't whether we need a replacement chamber or not (either adversarial or more collaborative) rather depend on whether we think there's any need for debates or not? Most of the time there probably isn't, given that MPs just trot out their prepared "speeches" and then just go and do what the...

I don't think it's just a question of a modern chamber (of a more sensible design than the present adversarial one). They also need full modern committee-room / meeting-room facilities, enough good individual offices, etc etc. No way could the present building give all this without gutting it...

The deadline was 30 November, for deposit with Parliament and with the appropriate Clerks of the Peace — as well as a draft Bill there had to be an overall map, the detailed plans, and the Book of Reference setting out the details of all the land proposedd to be taken. If there were errors in...

It comes out at 99 miles 5.1 chains, which—given the location of the 99 milepost very slightly north of the south end of the platforms—looks as if it could be the mid-point of the station platforms. That was the traditional Railway Clearing House measuring point for a station. Is that still the...

Because in general we've become a country of low expectations, and not just on the railways? I'm sure we're actually every bit as capable as the Japanese of working in all fields to very high standards if that is what is expected.

Indeed, but I was simply following up Mogz's speculation about "building a straight line right up the centre". An "as-the-crow-flies" crayonista route from London to round about Carstairs via Birmingham, Manchester, Preston, and Carlisle would only be about 20 to 25 miles further than...

Such a straight line from London to a reasonable split-point for Edinburgh and Glasgow would take you straight through Sheffield — would be one way of giving that city the high-speed link it would love to have!

But once the Abandonment Bill had been thrown out they got on with the job and built Crossley's line as planned, as a well-laid-out fast main line, even though the final bill came in far above the original estimates. And then in the 30+ years up to WW1 they do seem to have exploited it even...

The earliest plans shewed a straight line past Wellingborough, but this was modified in the 1847 Act and then the 1853 Act simply retained the changed line. The change was down to George Hudson, it seems. According to the Railway Chronicle (26 September 1846 p.946) Hudson told a meeting at...

There were three different Acts. That of 1892 gave the powers to widen from Dore to the north end of the Shrewsbury Road tunnel in Sheffield. The three quarters of a mile through the station were dealt with in the 1898 Act which authorised, "A widening six furlongs and two chains in length ...

Completing the quadding by providing two extra tracks between the north end of the station and Mill Race Jn. I don't think I ever seen anything to say whether this would have been accompanied by a change from by direction to by use thence to Masborough or whether Sheffield to Masborough would...

So who was responsible for a change of specification "to save money" that was inevitably going to lead to problems pretty quickly? Escalators for outdoor use in fairly severe conditions are scarcely a new technology.

How are the official times calculated? Crowds at footbridges/subways or just light foot traffic? Worst-case scenario in terms of distance, or some sort of average for a station? Here at York a change from first class (i.e. at the south end) in a train arriving from London into platform 9 to a...