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Something I came across, as a link from elsewhere, http://www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/documents/get_lob?id=4376&age=&field=file , has, at slide 37, someone's proposal for a unified station at West Hampstead, c2004. Unfortunately the explanatory narrative for the slides is elsewhere...

In late March 1964 (Summer time - all GMT+1, Winter TT) the Golden Arrow was scheduled Victoria dep 1100, Dover Marine 1222/1250, Calais Maritime 1410/1437, Paris Nord 1750, ie 6 hours 50. Return was 1221-1935, 7 hours 14. In 1938 (French=British time), Victoria 1100-Paris N 1740 via...

On searching for "steam locomotive power formula" I found - among others - http://www.smex.net.au/reference/TractiveEffort02.php - which gives and also has a power (and tractive effort) calculator. Putting various classes into this gives - at 60 mph, with K=0.85, and in no particular order -...

For very basic editing (not that i do much), I have Avidemux , Handbrake, and MakeMKV. My go to source for such things is https://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-video-editing-program.htm (other pages for other types of software) - but do read the reviews and comments, and perhaps do your...

Given how useful they would seem to be for a preserved line, a surprising omission from the new build projects has been any of the Edwardian/late pre-grouping big passenger tanks: most obviously the Robinson GCR 4-6-2T (LNER A5), alternatively there are the LNWR Prince of Wales (?) tanks, LBSC...

I believe yes, the P2 is more powerful than a BR standard 9F. But on an all time basis, I think Britain's most powerful steam loco would be the LNER U1 class 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt

Also ex LNWR is the Pontypool and Blaenavon

I'm sure you're right, that most such situations are quickly (5-15 minutes) resolved through normal action. The problem is when they aren't: repeated 'just another 10 minutes' quickly mounts up, and, if and as information to passengers, will lead to a loss of trust by them in 'the railway', and...

On line there is Rail Map Online http://www.railmaponline.com/UKIEMap.php - has historic and modern layers, with annotations available; and, downloadable as a PDF the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas http://www.systemed.net/carto/new_adlestrop.html ,but this only covers the southern half of the...

Yes, registration was done by county and county borough councils (and equivalents in Scotland) - see http://www.metadyne.co.uk/CarReg.html for some history (and his document from there). Originally codes were allocated by the Local Government Board, the Ministry of Transport was only formed in...

The other thing with the letter O is that - in the font used for vehicle registration plates - it is the same as numeric 0 (and I think same is also true of I/1). And it is only the case up to a point that you can tell them apart by position: consider a registration like ABO7OOW (or is it AB0700W?)

One thing I am wondering (because I don't know) ... with Two Together, what is actually being sold (and hence what the underlying contracts are) by 'the railway' - is it one ticket, for one fare, for two people; or two tickets, for two separate fares, one for each person? And if the latter, does...

There is no difference from other situations in which a seat has been reserved for a passenger who doesn't travel... But going back to the topic in general, if the railway sells tickets for two people to travel together, and - when it comes to it - only one of them can, is it better to allow...

Talking about having 'spare' resources (additional, or additionally qualified, staff, etc.) either the the railway has to have the procedures and resources available to expeditiously handle incidents, or it has to be prepared to say that the sort of thing that happened on 2nd March was not a...

I wouldn't disagree - as the proverb has it, judge no man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins. And a criticism I would make of the 'independant report' is that it does no more than hint at what (and how much) else the South Eastern control (TOC and NR) were having to deal with at the...

Or if they both continue on the train, but in different coaches?

While I fully agree that trains can't just be instructed to pass signals at danger, and that rules are rules, the fact is that it was rigid adherence to them - without apparently considering, let alone implementing, emergency procedures such as EPW (emergency permissive working) until too late -...

Having read through the report, the thing that strikes me is the slowness in recognising that there was an incident occurring, and that (because of where it was) this was rapidly going to become serious; and then to quickly establish effective control (something that - substantially - people...

Possibly the most worrying statement in the thread. If a ticket for travel is sold, that is not valid for travel - then in my book that is fraud. (Note: there is a difference between a ticket not valid *AT ALL* (which seems to be what is talked about here), and one not valid *HERE AND NOW*)

At the time most goods transport beyond short distance would have been by rail - alternatives were the horse and cart, or canal barge. So pretty well every sort of goods - but a half or more would have been coal, much in segregated 'mineral' trains. Most common type of wagon, a four wheel open...