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While LSWR lines, Putney Bridge-Wimbledon and Studland Road (west of Hammersmith)-Richmond were electrified c1905 as part of the MDR electrification project (so four rail) - quite who was responsible for what at that point is one of those little mysteries... At this point all other (LSWR and -...

It's actually driven by the reverse: the first bit of what was to become the Southern Electric was actually installed by the Metropolitan District, the LSWR following their standard (but dispensing with the centre 4th rail). But quite what the (nominal) voltage was I've never been totally...

Pre WW1 what was to become Goblin, then known as the Tottenham and Hampstead (Mid & GE), and Tottenham and Forest Gate (Mid & LTS) Joint lines, was the principle subsurban service of the Midland Railway (i.e. had more trains than the main line), with a majority running over the Met Widened...

Actually not so: it's a complicated story, but none of it has always and exclusively been Met/LPTB/TfL. If I have it right: Marylebone-Canfield Place (by Finchley Road): always GCR Canfield Place-Harrow S Jn: tracks built by Met for GCR use, 1906 transferred (long lease) to GCR, I think vested...

No - the Qwerty layout was originally designed to keep typing speed down, and improve the reliability of the first generation mechanical typewriters it was designed for... I believe the fastest keyboard design is the 'Turkish F' layout (as long as you're typing Turkish). But any serious typist...

My understanding re Italy is that narrow guage was laid down to be 1 metre between rail centres (so a bit less between inner edges), based on (IIRC) a Franco-Italian quoting standard as 1500 mm on the same basis... The Hedjaz (etc.) 1050 mm was I beieve the first railway concession in the area...

There was for a time, shortly after the LNWR took over the NLR so c1910-1914, a through service - I think entitled 'City-to-City', which is perhaps an indication of its target clientel - from Broad Street to Birmingham. Loco hauled suburban trains onto the LNWR mainline, to Tring, etc. lasted...

My understanding is that the GC London extension (including GW&GC joint) was built as a high standard main line, so as good as any, and better than most: the exception was those bits of older lines incorporated, i.e. Met south of Quainton Road, and Wycombe Railway between High Wycombe and...

He had provided an account (given evidence) on behalf, and as an employee, of Chiltern, AIUI - not I think as an individual. An account which had been doubted...

Interesting... The first two cases seem to be distinctly minor misconduct. It is unclear how in PC Asaro's case how this was detected within the police (did he just own up?), and he does not seem to have suffered any railway penalty, beyond being told to buy a ticket for his return journey. The...

The original MSL London Extension project (Act of 1893) was for lines Annesley-Quainton Road, and Canfield Place (Finchley Road)-Marylebone, also a couple of connections, with running powers over the Met from Quainton Road to Canfield Place. During the planning/construction phase, the Met agreed...

Thinking about this issue, the question I need answered is 'do I get on this train?': and, such is the way of things, I will need to extract that information very quickly - so less I have to read and think, the better... Perhaps the answer is to sepearate the two panels - need I think not be by...

New Croydon was what are now East Croydon platforms 1 & 2. But originally a seperate LBSCR station, which was not covered by the LBSCR-SER receipt pooling agreement that covered East Croydon. One of the Southern Railway's first actions in 1923 was to amalgamate the two, as the reason for them...

From the late 1850s the MS&L (later GCR) and GNR had fairly close relations, with through trains from Kings Cross to Manchester via Retford. But the MS&L (i.e. Watkin) always had a desire for greater access to London - initially through running powers over the GN. So later the MSL/GC London...

The LMSR signalling of 1932-33 did have tripcocks all the way to Watford. Were these removed (or should I say not reinstalled) north of Harrow (and at the south end) under the BR resignalling of the late 1980s?

The Oerlikon (LNWR built) stock - open with end doors - all went (AIUI - just before my time) very quickly after the 501s arrived. The 'older' stock which survived into the 1960s (until services were reduced in the Beeching era) were the LMSR built MetroVick/MCW units of the late twenties, with...

Which makes the exclusion, or treatment as closed, of TfL (and predescessors) and T&W lines even more anamolous... Which perhaps brings me to observe that the biggest issue with any project like this is establishing (and publishing and following!) 'terms of reference' - the definition of what...

I came across this: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/05/review-clevo-n151cu-lafite-iv-system76-darter-pro-entroware-proteus/ , which might be worth a look - reviewer paid half the price of a Dell, and was very happy (despite it coming with Windows that hadn't been ordered...

File size (of a jpg file - in bytes (or kb or Mb)) is down to a combination of the image dimensions (in pixels) and quality - bear both in mind if you want to reduce it. For changing image file sizes, I have some free software - FastStone Photo Resizer - that will do batch resizing (and several...

It was always left (partially) as single track so that the LNWR (whose line it was) could correctly argue that there was no capacity for any GWR trains to run over it to Coventry, should that have been requested.