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I'm sure they wanted to. They wouldn't have dared if my great aunt had been within earshot, even though she would have only been in her 20s at the time.

Greenford - Ashendon Jn opened in 1905, along with the connections to the GC at Neasden and Grendon Underwood. Ashendon Jn - Aynho didn’t follow until 1910. My great aunt played the harmonium in the temporary mission church built in Beaconsfield for the navvies.

The 4-SUB design was constantly evolving. The basic electrics hardly changed from LSWR days though. The first EPBs were based on the latest 4-SUB, but with completely redesigned electrics; a project that had started pre-war but was inevitably delayed, just like so much else. The switch to the BR...

Ah ok. The photos Google has come up with aren’t very helpful.

Maybe I imagined it, but the Bulleid profiled EPBs did feel roomier than the Mk1s.

That’s really interesting. So the old Wellington is going to be completely reinstated, right up to the river? Shame about the sacred car park... With all those extra westward-facing platforms, surely something will have to be done with the western approaches, despite the addition of the HS2...

So how do the businesses cope with the criminals?

The 304s were not well received when they replaced the DC units on the Manchester-Altrincham Line in 1971. Ride and acceleration were noticeably worse, and the first batch in particular felt no more modern than the 40 year old trains they were replacing. The later batches were better with their...

DC electrics on the Alty Line. I’m sure I must have travelled through to London Road when I was a baby, but have only memories of changing at Oxford Road. DMUs from Alty (or more likely Hale, our house was equidistant from each) to Chester Northgate for the zoo. Standing by the level crossings...

Yikes - you are quite correct! I was aware that the line to Stratford/North Woolwich through Hackney had been reopened several years prior to Broad Street’s demise, but hadn’t realised the Richmonds had all been rerouted that way over 12 months before it closed. As usual, the Disused Stations...

Thanks for that. Most interesting.

Manchester’s buses hadn’t got them, but Salford’s did!

Your recollection is spot on. One of the key objectives in the rebuilding of Euston was massively improving access to the Tube. I suppose that a simple transfer onto the City Branch of the Northern was deemed to be easy enough. What struck me as odd at the time was forcing all GN inner...

I can't find a pre-rebuild track plan, but I'd say whatever was in the place where the current Platform 9 is.

You could be right! Still rickety though. Any idea when AWS was installed on the WCML? It certainly hadn’t been at the time of the Harrow crash in 1952, and presumably this photo isn’t a lot later than that. Did it appear on electrification?

So it is; the new building rising in the background is the Granada Studios. Have you got a date? The corner building in the centre of the photo has miraculously survived, surrounded for decades by either dereliction or (at best) second rate new buildings. It has recently been incorporated into...

Zamora. The bishop told people that germ theory was a Communist/Protestant Plot, and to avoid getting infected they had to come to Mass at the cathedral for nine days on the trot and kiss various Holy Relics. The ensuing 10.1% death rate was the highest in Europe.

Nope. It’s in the country that gave the pandemic its name (though NOT where it originated)

:lol: First time I’ve participated in this thread. At what point is it decent to give clues?

Which European city suffered the highest death rate (%) in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, and why?