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Painted like a bong? :P

Most other European countries' capitals have been able to concentrate the railway traffic in and out of the city on one single terminus - at least for long distance traffic. Would something similar (perhaps a merged St Pancras/Kings Cross?) be feasible in the UK? Was something like this ever...

Mk1 diners and guard's vans ran with Mk2/Mk3 rakes, so at least some of these would've had to be AB I'd think

Lowland Locomotives (a website that unfortunately no longer exists) had a photo of an MGR at Carlisle (or was it Carstairs?) with a Class 26+56 combo

Are the 68s that troubleprone?

North American locos have also had this for quite some time

86s operated on the GEML, and hauled mail trains (and possibly freight?) on the ECML. 90s took over for 86s on the GEML, and also hauled mail trains (and possibly freight?) + occasionally stepped in for 91s on the ECML. And both 86s and 90s hauled freight on the North London line. But did 87s...

Didn't they have to cut apart much of the 159 on-site to get it away from the accident site?

I've seen the ECML Terminus written both ways, Wikipedia says Kings Cross, lots of other sources say King's Cross - what is actually correct?

EDIT: Noticed this was answered further up in the thread

What was done with detours over S&C in the BR Swallow era? Did they take the 87/90 off at Carlisle and attach a new one at Lancaster or wherever the train rejoined the WCML?

Scandinavian miles are metric tho, and have been so for ages (One scandinavian mile = 10 km)

NASA uses solely metric AFAIK, and in most scientific settings metric is used. The US military also I think solely uses metric. 1636362660 While NASA didn't officially go purely metric until 1990, they still mostly used metric units during the Apollo program...

You Brits are weird...

That's what I thought, thanks

Is (was) 159102 always a 159, or one of the rebuilt 3-car 158s?

AFAIK Eddy current braking are only used on a few high speed trains (possibly only the German ICEs)? Magnetic Track Brakes, however, are more common.

Are magnetic track brakes a thing in the UK?

One thinkable outcome, I suppose, might be to repair the 158 with the undamaged endcar from the 159, and then either keep the 159 middle car for spares, or put it into another unit if needed?

I notice there are some gaps in the 158 number series, but I take it that these are the FGW(?) units that were rebuilt to 3-car and got new numbers in the /9 subseries, and that no 158s have been otherwise retired until now?