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OK how about another 1940-related question? What was the name of the defence organisation established at about the same time as the Local Defence Volunteers/Home Guard (HG) and which had many HG members in it?

Saint Aldhelm's the local parish church? Saint Aldhelm was a poet and riddler-is that entertaining enough?

It depends what information you are looking for. For starters you could try the National Records of Scotland; for example this search http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/overview.aspx?st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=City+Union+Line&ko=a&r=&ro=s&df=&dt=&di=y NB you would need to...

Some more Scottish stations named after people: Kilwinning Kirkconnel (St. Connal Convallus) West Kilbride (St. Bridget) Paisley Saint James Johnstone Dalmarnock (St. Marnock) Dalmally On the Glasgow Underground: St. Georges Cross St. Enoch There are probably others.... Ones...

That doesn't necessarily follow-the City Bypass crossed the Waverley trackbed on an embankment. It should be possible to re-engineer or replace an underbridge to allow 2 tracks to pass. There are lots of innovative civil engineering solutions these day; it might not be cheap but it would be a...

Is it really about saving a couple of million pounds on a project that is costing nearly fifty million or is it because 'the railway' wants to see it closed? Why has this only come out now once the contract has been let; it has not been mentioned earlier. My point is that if there is a...

As this is a formal closure proposal it needs to follow the formal procedure whatever that may be. Is it a standard part of the closure procedure to have a public inquiry? If so the closure itself will end up costing MORE than the improvements needed to keep the station open. In that case what...

Hello I'm a new member and would like to offer some information for consideration on re-openings. What people need to bear in mind is that even an operational freight route cannot be opened for passenger use without it being brought up to a modern standard for health and safety reasons. This...

I take it you are asking about stability of existing embankments rather than designing new ones? From my experience as an Railway Earthworks Asset manager in the early 2000s I would say that embankment stability is a bit like selling property: there are three important considerations but...

Rumours of its demise are much exaggerated! It forms part of the Malmö-Berlin sleeper route. See the Snälltåget website for details: http://www.snalltaget.se/en/destinations/berlin