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They were called members. The chairman appears to have usually been the general manger of the relevant region as well. When H. C. Johnson was appointed in 1967 as vice-chairman of the British Railways Board, he was replaced as chairman of the London Midland Railway Board and general manager of...

On "landsale facility" specifically, I've found a news report from 1978 of the NCB placing an order for "a new coal preparation plant at Hatfield Colliery, near Doncaster. The plant will produce power station fuel and have a landsale facility." More relevant to the query here is a long report...

... which were yellow for first and pale blue for second - no line for third. In 1921 second class still existed on London suburban services (as well as continental trains). As a result, third class season tickets were not issued for stations with only such services, on the grounds that the...

I'm sure these new seat bases must be the Quantum Seating "Ecoseat", which has had quite a bit of coverage as being pocket sprung. I can find their announcement of its initial use for GWR on 1st class seats in 166s, but not yet for this bigger order. Their flyer for the product refers to its...

Quite so. The public found out the new names only after the announcement in the Financial Times at the start of January 1923 of the entry of the new companies onto the stock exchange. Before that there had been a lot of public speculation, and suggestions for names (such as from public meetings...

This power failure affects Gare de l'Est specifically. Google's AI thinks it was started by the catenary falling on a train, followed by an supply failure, but non-one else does. The latest news (Figaro, just now) is that services have been announced as restarting progressively from 20:00 at...

If you look up its registration, it's a 32T rigid. With a single central arm it won't be a skip carrier, most likely it's a tipper with a grab.

Looking at the pictures in posts #2 and #52, I can only explain what they show by: 1. Lorry comes in from the east and gets its lifting arm jammed under the first beam. 2. Driver activates the hydraulics so as to lift the beam (or at least lighten its weight on the abutments) and push it...

I'm beginning to doubt that is Audenshaw. The bridge is identified as Snipe Bridge, and there picture on Facebook, showing it as an iron plate bridge. The plan shows a dividing girder own the middle, and the platforms do not run across the bridge. So the view can't be in that direction - but...

I've always assumed that it was just that it was for private use - within the railway or perhaps by an employer or local VIP - so it never needed to be described as a station or similar to the public. But it was still a platform.

I have found a newspaper report of a meeting of the Ancient Order of Foresters in Folkestone in 1910. It is mainly about money, and includes "A new deed box has now been obtained with three different locks and sets of keys, each trustee being supplied with a set." And there are a few...

What does "next to" mean? That briefing presentation lists the site as new, and as a SATS at Tommy's Lane, Winsford, 158mi 780yd (i.e. 35ch; Crewe North Junction is at 158mi 18ch.) Tommy's Lane runs from the big roundabout behind Crewe station north and round beside the Up Manchester Loop line...

The Hexthorpe accident (1887) was caused, as usual, by the combination of many factors, but one of those was the operation of a ticket platform. This was only used on some race days, and the signalling required to protect trains stopping there was not provided permanently but by flagmen. There...

I didn't spot the words "ticket platform" outside the map frame, or I'd have made the clip of the map (above) extend to include that - here's the bit that would have added:

This does appear on an 1887/89 25" map at NLS (site now under Tesco):

A parish chest, for storing parish registers, was required to have three locks (held usually by the priest and two church wardens). That was much bigger than this one, of course, but the idea of triple locking was well known. So what might need to be secured, but in a box small enough to be...

I expect they will remove this final piece pinned to the end of the "nose" (seen here before the move). Most likely that's needed to make it short enough for the final push into position, and the fact that it's too long with it attached explains why this two-step pushing procedure was needed.

The endgame for the levers and interlocking at Wokingham was as brutal as we expected: You can see how recovering the complete interlocking with the building intact might not be feasible.

That kind of support is for conductor replacement, so the link will be taken out of service for that process and if need be for the scaffolding. The wires need to be dropped, reeled in, and new ones spread out and hoisted into place, so supports are needed for lots of other things as well on the...

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