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Oh well, some other time, maybe...

I guess there is a long tradition of using railcars (if not multiple units) for freight service in Ireland. I also recall reading that the County Donegal Railways had special lightweight freight wagons that were hauled by its railcar fleet. I suppose units like the MPDs are really a cross...

I seem to remember reading a report about container wagons being tacked on to the end of Northern Ireland Railways DeMUs back in the early 1970s.

There was a night bus version of the London Underground Northern Line that was advertised as exactly that on posters at tube stations. (This was before th Friday/Saturday night tube.) I belive it had similar stops to the Northern Line, though being a south Londoner I never had the 'pleasure' of...

Oh wonderful, happens just as I've booked myself four days at the end of October to travel on the IoM railways. If the electric cars are out of action, will they be using the diesel trolleys to reach the air traffic control station on the summit? If so, when would these operate?

Yes, I'm pretty certain it was built under a Light Railway Order in the early 1950s - although it did in fact use full-width gates at the three places where it crossed a public road, and there was certainly nothing 'light' about the traffic it handled.

I lived in Amlwch until I was 17 and I don't recall any lenghths of shared road and rail - unless you count the very last bit in the Octel Works itself. The Octel works branch was a light railway that had three level crossings but otherwise had its own right of way.

I have friends and family in Edinbro and Glasgow and purely anecdotally, I've detected a terndency for people to take the train these days - wheras 20 years ago flying seemed to be almost a proof of your worth and virility. I think people have cottoned on to the fact that, door to door, the...

The staff halt at the end of Grosvenor Bridge near Victoria? Followed by Wimbledon Staff halt?

The single lead junction on the Thameslink route south of London Bridge before it disappeared during the Thameslink uopgrade work?

Worth pointing out that you can make cycle reservations at the same time as buying tickets on Redspottedhandky.com, though they do charge a £1 booking fee. In fact I used the site to make a cycle reservation for a return VTEC journey from King's Cross to Darlington last week. Which didn't stop...

The Van branch from Caersws to Van in mid-Wales? Unusual in that it was a rural line and not a colliery or industrial concern.

Except that it had awful road access. I went on a press trip to mark the opening of the terminal and the coach got stuck on a corner in the backstreets. Somewhere on the M25 would have worked much better.

Well, yes, if it is a bird reserve judging by what's visible on Google Earth it's been pretty comprehensively trashed...

Could you quote chapter and verse for that? There's no reference to a 'Hoo' reserve on the RSPB website and there are no reserves on islands anywhere in the area as far as I can tell.

Interestingly, the system seems to have been more extensive at one point...assuming all the lines shown existed simultaneously.

Revised 1995; Revised for selected change 1999. Could simply be overgrown and not visible any more. Would it have been worth anyone's while to dismantle it, given that it was on an island? Well, the island is only separated by about 200 metres from the nearest point on the mainland...Wonder...

Some fascinating replies - definitely worth a closer look...

Just got the Thames Estuary OS map (sheet 178) out of the local library. There's an island in the River Medway, in a stretch called Gillingham Reach (opposite Gillingham) marked Hoo Salt Marsh that appears to have a railway around its edge, for about three quarters of its circumference. (See...

You can find the City of London symbol (red cross on a white shield) up to 20 miles from central London. It manages several commons in places such as Ashtead (near Epsom), Farthing Down (near Coulsdon) or Spring Park (Bromley).