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Certainly in steam days there was an expectation that crews could handle whatever turned up (as long as it was steam), and I think on preserved lines this is still . When on early electric and diesel traction this expectation was lost I don't know, but I certainly have the impression that...

I always understood E, G, K and R were for 'ordinary' wagons, with F, H, L and S for 'special' equivalants. As the system was drawn up primarily for European Continental use, 'ordinary' and 'special' took their meanings from a continental viewpoint, which meant that conformity with GB loading...

To my mind, it looks more like an LNWR F. W. Webb design - most likely his Third Comp. 2-2-2-2 Tank - see http://www.lnwrs.org.uk/PassClassLocos/pass_class_menu.php?display_class_details=w3ct , which originally, for the official photograph, bore the number 3000 as the 3000th loco built at Crewe...

One question I would ask is when were the original tickets London-Penzance and Headcorn-London bought; and when could the London-Headcorn ticket have been bought? Could - in the desired format - it have been bought in advance? (and is the reason the Headcorn-London tickets were singles that a...

Festiniog (with 1 f) is the traditional English version of the name, and was used in the legislation setting up the railway - so the correct name, in the various Acts, is 'Festiniog Railway Company'. But as a matter of practice, it uses the Welsh spelling (which has become commonly used in...

I recall once being asked to help a foreign tourist in the England to use an ATM, at my local bank (S London) - once they stuck their (foreign) card in, it came up with a language selection menu...

Probably to or from Marchwood Military port (rail served from the Fawley branch) - which AIUI was in recentish times the main port for miltary traffic to overseas. Where the UK end would be I've on idea - one of the MoD facilities.

There was an early 1950s British project (North British Loco were the engineers, Ministry of Fuel and Power the sponsors IIRC) that went the same way The American ACE project I mentioned above reckoned I believe to have a solution for all these - the idea was that it could be used...

There was a fairly serious American project in the 1980s for a 'new generation' steam loco, the 'ACE 3000' see https://www.american-rails.com/ace-3000.html , https://locomotive.fandom.com/wiki/ACE_3000 and probably elsewhere. Earlier (c1950), both the Chespeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western RRs...

A fact easily demonstrated by the production of authorising ID... If not produced, they are just 'some person on the train' and unlikely to be authorised.

The defence is actually that they weren't an "authorised person" - which is a reasonable assumption in the absence of evidence, such as provided ID, to the contrary.

In this case is it still a "generic non-personalised Oyster card" (usable by anyone)? Or has it been personalised/registered, so usable only by the specific person - with the Railcard acting as identification?

The railway accepts that anybody can travel, so does not care about ID (unless...), and issues tickets so travellers can demonstrate that they are "bona fide". That is why I suggested having a 'well known' number for enquiries - one that can be plastered everywhere - which can, one way or...

In a sense this all comes down to 'transferability', and is an issue for any Oyster/contactless/etc. card using payg system. 'Touching' the card causes payment of the fare to be made from some account (this is the end result of a somewhat complex process). And the moment that the fare amount is...

A few thoughts on this topic: 1) A frequent comment on this forum is 'the man on the station said'... this is essentially a variation on that. If a railwayman cannot identify himself as such - by showing id or otherwise - then he is just some man on the station (or train), and so cannot possibly...

My basis for describing it as defunct was a business intellignce website (Firmen Wissen) saying it was 'liquidated'. The web address they gave for S&W had been redirected to EK (who I think were doing a lot of sales of their atlases, and decided it was a line they wanted to continue)

OpenRailwayMap is based on Open Street Map, but railway oriented in various styles, and global - though I do wonder how accurate and up to date some areas are going to be. Regarding Schweers und Wall (whose atlases do set the standard: highly recommended), the company appears to be defunct, but...

In steam days crews were expected to (and did) take whatever loco was on the train - even if they'd never had anything like it before.

Yesterday the Steamdreams website (page for this evening's trip, now gone) was saying diesel (Class 47 or 37): that is what I expect to happen. I see their pages for Thursday's trips now have the same message...

The first steam railcars were built by William Bridges Adams in the late 1840s, but - for these and other early steam railcars - it is unclear whether they had controls at both ends, or how they were worked in the 'other' direction. But Dugald Drummond's steam railcars of 1902 did have controls...