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I was going to add "and earthing". But earthing of power systems is black art as far as I'm concerned, and grid earthing even more arcane.

The voltage has to be stepped up to 25 kV at the output. IGBTs don't like voltages anywhere near 25 kV, and I don't think anyone has found it makes sense to stack enough modules in series to reach that level. For one thing, to share the voltage equally between stacked modules calls for a...

It's a typo for 132/27.5. Someone has got the idea that they should use the off-load voltage, though it's not how the nominal voltage is usually given. The planning statement says there are two 132/25 kV transformers there.

I'd agree with that - I can see some evidence to support Jimmy Seed being not selected for Boxing Day by agreement. For one thing players' injuries get a lot of coverage, even if still able to pay. Jimmy twisted his ankle playing against Blackburn on 15th December 1923, but many newspapers...

I too think that few fans travelled to distant away matches. Most supporters worked Saturday mornings, so could not travel far at all before a match at winter timings. They went to home matches, and local derby matches as well - that's why those got such huge crowds. As I said before, I think...

I've now found a lot more news reports of both matches. There are some odd contradictions among them: some say both matches were played on frozen pitches, with the one at Huddersfield covered in snow; others say there had been a thaw on Christmas Day and the pitch was not bad for the second one...

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner of 24 December 1923 noted the next day's match as "a morning match", and starting at 11:30. I can't see anything about travel to the match, so I guess that hardly any travelling supporters were expected. Isn't the logic of the return match the next day that all...

I have found an LNER advert in the Saffron Walden Weekly News of 21 December 1923 for travel to the Spurs v. Huddersfield Town match on Christmas Day. This only covers travel from East Anglia, presumably by Spurs supporters, with cheap fares on specific normal trains (not specials). For example...

I can find few newspaper notices from railways about their Christmas services. There are general ones from LMS and GWR that both say that on Christmas Day 1923 a Sunday service will run, and on Boxing Day a weekday service, but with some changes. Nothing from LNER, and nothing specific to...

I've just happened across a piece in Railway News; 02 May 1908; p11, about these LSWR vehicles. It credits "The South-Western Gazette", and either that or this looks like the source of what Weddel wrote and Gloster quoted. Most of it is about the luxuriousness of the interiors, but some is a bit...

Could that be the kind of leather fob with a metal badge coupled to it (closely or so it flaps on its own) like the branded ones car dealers add to car keys? In the USA these are commonly used for official badges, such as taxis or police. Here less so, though this is a London taxi driver's one...

This is the official list entry. It's quite long, of course, but I can't see an explicit statement about how anything built on top of it would impact its listing (or vice versa). The only mention I can find is this paragraph, confirming they knew this was planned:

He did mention the "Y" columns supporting the roof of the GWML station as being built now. That's a simpler design of roof than the fancy HS2/upper deck one. I think I saw some of straight columns for that roof underway in the video or perhaps somewhere else. So if you think columns counts as...

Mind you, if you compare that word with "serve" on the bottom line minus its "r", aren't they nearly the same?

Announcement from English Heritage: https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in-your-area/london/southwark-tube-station-listed/

I've now found this (from UNECE) - some presentation notes for an explainer on URVIS and the registry, but some pages can be read as a summary. So yes - it's not what I'd assumed - just a register entry number. But if you think about the reason for it, that suggests an answer to the OP's...

Today's announcement from DfT this morning about the Railways Bill includes this: A quick look at that subject suggests the protocol includes a commitment to give all rolling stock a globally unique asset identifier. I have not yet found the bit that says what its format is, and whether it is...

The passenger walked north to the nearest access point (Wickersgill?) and were taken by vehicles to the hotel. The access close to the hotel's road entrance is a very steep staircase down a high embankment, and would not be advisable anyway.

Sleeping cars in Britain were all first class until very late. The earliest mention I can find of third class ones is an experimental introduction in September 1928. Given a mention of hiring a rug, I imagine they were used more like couchettes than beds. LNER's were compartments of four, as...

This is an HS2 picture, with the caption: "Artist's impression of the view of the Curzon No.3 Viaduct as it crosses Digbeth Branch Canal." Next to the piers on the eastern side in that video are a couple of odd angular things wrapped in sheeting. I guess those are some pieces of those steel...