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My understanding is that BA's position is that it was a manifest error: i.e. that that the price was so wrong as to be obviously a mistake, and so anybody booking would be aware, and hence the contract void. A legal definition: a ‘manifest error’ is one that is “obvious or easily demonstrable...

For those who have looked at Rail Route (see thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/demo-free-to-play-rail-route-a-rail-network-simulation-indie-game.163193/ ), and enjoy that style of simulation, an alternative (long established: it's now at 3.9s) is Train Director (seemingly not...

And then there is London Fields...

When the requirement for landlords to check immigrants' 'right to rent' came in I saw a piece listing something like eighty ID type documents that would demonstrate such right... (This included documents from countries whose nationals had the right)

Yes. Traditionally the Greenford loop 'local' service was a shuttle from EB (steam railmotor, then pp train, before dieselisation). Pre-nationalisation, and a service reorganisation concentrating GW&GC Joint line (what we now think of as Chiltern) 'suburban' services (to High Wycombe, etc) into...

The other trivia thread topic is where fast trains run on the the slow line(s), and slow trains use the fasts - this was certainly (and still is?) the case on the LSW Windsor line from Waterloo to Barnes Yes, to Stoats Nest, as part of the Three Bridges panel box resignalling in the early...

The "Season ticket conditions" (which I would agree are overuled by the CoT) reference to change of address or work place are an implication that ordinary season tickets are specifically for journeys between work and home, not something I believe stated or required anywhere else: I would say...

Former Soviet Union (Russia, etc.) is generally quoted as being the largest (but note the picture of rocket is on an industrial line at the Cosmodrome, not 'national network'); other contenders are North America, some Australian lines, and Eurotunnel.

The Steyning route was included in the November 1946 announcemed proposals (as well as SC-HK) - both in phase 3 (with the SE Hastings line) Yes - it was originally included in the late 1930s plans, following on from the Portsmouth schemes.

The impression I have is that the Southern had a desire - if nothing more - to electrify pretty well everything east of Weymouth and Salisbury; but to what extent this was translated into plans and schemes that got onto, let alone off, the drawing board, I've no real idea. Maybe as much a case...

Yes, it has always had a different metallurgical composition for high conductivity, and also a different profile, with a flat top head.

Fine - but that doesn't match the title of the thread. A different list, from a different source, based on a different consideration of what a station is... For you to produce an accurate list - and hence count - of 'things' (in this case stations), you have to define what a 'thing' is - so...

But that isn't the number of 'stations in the UK' - although used on the 'All the Stations' website, tracking back gives it as the number of stations on the ORR's 'Estimate of Station Usage', which they quote as source for the figure for 'main line stations in Great Britain', without any...

The preceding County of London plan (and pre-war plans) saw replacement/removal of the railway viaducts from the Central and South Bank areas (i.e. the SER lines west from London Bridge to Charing Cross and Canon Street, and the LCDR 'Metropolitan Extension' from L'boro Jn/Elephant & Castle to...

One of the problems I think with the 1946 report is that it is - essentially - based on the rather idealistic wartime reconstruction plans for London, and that its proposals were consequently something of a first draft. Probably far more realistic is the London Plan Working Party report of 1949...

Yes it did, to Brentford Dock. Traffic transhipped from the river was the original reason for the line being built.

A change since my time out there...

The Chicago, South Shore and South Bend RR passenger timetable always specified that timings were on 'Chicago Time', despite most of the line being in Indiana - a state which isn't all in the same time zone, and not all of which observes daylight savings (summer) time. Because times were (and...

Time interval working was still the 'default' on BR in the event of communication failure well into the 1970s and beyond, and was involved in the accident at Worcester Tunnel Junction on 3rd January 1976, see http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=1491 . Can anybody say when...

The American T&TO system did - in part - rely on trains observing timed instructions - either from the timetable or in orders - so accurate and consistent knowledge of time was essential. Conductors and engineers (drivers) were all required to have an approved 'railroad' watch for this. While I...