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The UK had Identity cards from September 1939 (introduced as a wartime measure) until 1952, with, I understand, an obligation to carry and produce them on demand. They did not (normally) have a photograph, only number, name and address: date of birth, and I think some other information, were...

'Timetable and Train Order' is NOT 'on sight' and is NOT a block system - and so alien to British minds. It developed in the 1850s from pure timetable operation (trains could run when and how the timetable said they could) by adding 'train orders' sent by telegraph from a dispatcher (controller)...

The impression I have is that in the early days of railways in Britain low (rail or not much more) height platforms were quite common, and high platforms (as we know them) were only standard/near universal from the end of the 19th century - pictures of trains in the 1890s commonly show coaches...

So that clarifies it somewhat - the railway did own the 'tunnelspace' within the sub-soil freehold, at least in the case of the GN&C, but probably most other tube railways. I seem to recall there were issues over the land under Waterloo station required for what is now the Northern line, but...

All very complicated, and dependent on wide variety of factors - including the relative influence of the accountants, operators and engineers in such matters; and the value placed on a 'logical' (re-)numbering versus the confusion of changing numbers (is loco X the same as it was last year, or...

My understanding is that, unless the highway authority has actually acquired (specifically) the land, 'ownership' of a highway is (normally) by those owning the land on either side (see https://www.bsdr.com/publication/highways-an-overview/ for more details). When railways were built, the...

I think - from the point of view of passengers on the overcrowded 2M50 - they were - and were aware they were - just outside Lewisham station. Had the train moved it would have been in the platform in a few minutes. If they detrained, they would perhaps be on the platform in 15 minutes or less...

There seems to be to be a conflict between the 'timeline' - which says that 2M50's pax self evacuated at 1845, after the power had been off for 2M48 to be de-iced - and the RAIB summary, which says that they (2M50 pax) did so before the power was switched off, 'while the signaller was in the...

My take is that it is a mono-rail and street-running equivalent to the pneumatic tired Paris (and elsewhere) Metro trains; and so a street-running train, in other words a tram.

I think the issue is that a ticket is evidence of a contract, between an individual passenger and train operator, and in strict legal terms it is that contract (and not the ticket itself) that gives the right to travel (and everything related to it - particularly relevant when things go wrong)...

Regarding 5.1, my thought is that a ticket is bought on behalf of the person who will be using it; and that person is only further defined when they start using it. The only good reason is that the ticket may only be used by the (named) individual, and so to match it to them.

I'm rather with manxmaninexile on this: the ticket was purchased on behalf of the company (employer) for use by 'any person employed by that organisation', and it was provided to and being used by such a person (as such, and not by the OP as an individual), and so valid in accordance with NRCoT...