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When Nationalisation was suggested by Gladstone and again post WW1 were any plans developed or was it a case of suggestions that this would be a good idea?

How busy was this service and what was the average time taken to load up, transport the cars and unload?

Tie him to the tracks???

When was the first computer system for managing locos and rolling stock introduced?

Guardian figures on the cost of PFI http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jul/05/pfi-cost-300bn more or less same figures elsewhere. As has been stated it was simply a con to allow the previous government make it look like it was spending more on services than it was and now we are stuck...

They are ignoring the fact they will be paying for it several time over in the long run.

The SNP's paper just seems to assume everyone else will do exactly what the SNP says they will do....absolutely no room for things not going according to plan. Sir Humphrey has a good assessment of the defence side at least on his Thin Pinstriped Line pages...

Alien Space Bats - a tern used in alternate history to allow impossible things to happen.

The ASB's allow you to give advice on how Britain's railways develop. They ensure that your advice is heeded but to avoid awkward questions make sure all your bouncing around time is hidden by a Somebody Else's Problem field. What advice do you give?

What size are the diesel engines on the electro diesel units compared to those on the current IC125's?

Go to the second sheet of the EXCEL download and it gives coal consumption by sector. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/historical-coal-data-coal-production-availability-and-consumption-1853-to-2011 It suggests 14 to 15 million tons annually.

Are there any figures comparing third rail and overhead line electrification in their ability to cope with the various things the weather throws at them?

Higher centre of gravity??

How did the introduction of the Common Carrier Obligation and Government regulated charges in the Rail and Canal Traffic Act 1854 affect the development and maintainability of the railways in the UK?

Has anyone ever out a guestimate to the extra cost of building to a larger loading gauge from the start...for example how much extra it would have been to build to what became the UIC C gauge?

When railways were built in Europe, did they more or less copy the UK loading gauge and rebuild later on or were they bigger to begin with?

This probably falls into the realms of ASB but if there had been a controlled building of a network rather than an uncontrolled building frenzy, what routes wouldn’t have seen the light of day and what routes might we have got?

Oh I understand that, just wondering what size carriages and wagons on his track gauge would have been....not much different from pictures i've seen but hard to tell.

Given Brunel planned for carriages to have their wheels outside the the body of the coach, what loading gauge was he thinking of?

In 1946 GWR fitted Laidlaw-Drew oil-burners in the fireboxes of 19 coal firing freight locos in South Wales and the trials were successful leading to further trials and eventually 93 locos were converted before the Treasury became concerned at the dollar expenditure in buying oil rather than...