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Certainly, I would say... along with its predecessors that bore the name Interestingly, all three of them (GWR '3300 Bulldog' 4-4-0 3414 A.H.Mills. BR(W) Castle 7005 Lamphey Castle, and BR 50007 Hercules) were RENAMED to be "Sir Edward Elgar".

Going a bit further back, my 1967 'British Bus Fleets 15 - Midland Red' (when it was sill BMMO, so pre NBC/PTEs) had routes listed 101-994 without any terribly large gaps (more than 10 or 20), following on from X1-X99; and than had A, B, C, D, E, H, K, L, M, N, R, S and W prefixes to 1 or 2...

And also that times are to the quarter hour...

As I put it earlier ... what we perhaps need in this forum is a 'dead horses' section, whence it can be banished for infinite indecision. In the meantime, looking elsewhere I was pointed at the equally uncertain issue of what is soup

On other scales the names differ - on the one inch, it is "Oxford and Birmingham Branch" all the way from Didcot. I suspect that the names on OS maps were chosen by surveyors, based on where the lines went, and had no 'official' (railway) or 'public' status.

The original GWR line to the north branched off THE Main Line (which was Paddington to Penzance via Bristol) at Didcot, and was known as the Didcot and Chester line. On to Birkenhead was the Chester and Birkenhead Line, otherwise the Birkenhead Joint (with the LNWR). AFAIK GW expresses ran into...

Only in part: while that 'includes' certain things (which do need to be stated to avoid doubt), there are others which are, but are not stated there. I would always be wary of such definitions (in rule books and the like): they tend to have a specific legal reason for being written as they are...

Hmmm - Quoting the London Rail Network: "PAYG with contactless ... is valid at all stations within the PAYG area" which include Reading and Gatwick Airport. So someone touches in with contactless at Reading to travel to Gatwick - and is directed to the direct train... Do they have a valid...

The origianal route to Portsmouth was L&SWR toGosport (via Bishopstoke/Eastleigh); later the LBSC (as it become) 'West Coast' line was extended to Portsmouth (service via Brighton!) The LSWR had a branch from Woking to Godalming; the Portsmouth Railway (a seperate company) built (single track...

According to Wishaw (1842), Mail trains (twice daily by then) were allowed 5 hours, 'First class' trains 5 1/4 hours, and 'Mixed trains' 5 1/2 hours (presumably 'all stations' and both 1st and 2nd class accommodation). The third class train 8 3/4 hours (fare: 14s - a week's wage for a workman?)...

Hmmm... a look at RTT shows the passenger arriving from Hereford at about 0910 (p9); then at p7, the XC train was there 0958-1005, followed by the Avanti 1006-15 (scheduled arrival to actual departure) So... at what time would the Avanti train have been indicated (on platform, and in waiting...

I think the 'train' is one of those terms that - while we all sort of know what it means - is used in several subtly different ways (for the London Underground I identified three distinct meanings) that can be difficult to define precisely. And while typing this Fawkes Cat has posted the same...

Agreed - of the various systems I've seen for converting Lat/Long (from a GPS device) to something more friendly, it seems by far the best. Let down perhaps by a tendency to quote Local plus codes with a locality, rather than full, global, plus codes (perhaps with high order part in...

The other problem with lat and long is that datums differ - maybe not by much, but enough that you'll have the wrong place UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) suffers - or benefits - from being a global system: in its 'pure' form it suffers from being purely numeric, hence involding vary large...

Quite. And w3w is available with 47 (or more) other languages - each with its own word list, and incompatable sets of words for locations - so they can easily use their familiar words - and while they have happly said gwarantwn.rhaghysbysebion.rhodlais - or ከአስተዳደር.ሽያጭ.ተነሳስቶ , you are left...

The big flaw in the proposition that what three words can be used to communicate locations is the presumption that the three words can be easily, accurately and reliably relayed and re-entered. Unlike serial numbers (account, telephone,... whatever) - which we 'know' have to transmitted...

Looking here (OS map from the 1960s) there is community "Livingston Station" by a station - so "Livingston Station Station"?

The story behind Italian narrow gauge was that it was 1 metre between rail centre lines - apparently this was a French convention of the period (under which their standard gauge was 1.5 metres). Normal convention is to meaure guge between the inner, running, edges of the rails - which led to the...

When I started working in 1972, my season ticket said 3rd class. I would be more surprised to learn that BR did not issue any pre-grouping tickets (for some uncommon flows), than the other way round... Virtually all fares pre 1948 were standardised and regulated, so the answer to OP's...

The Ravenglass and Eskdale was originally I think 3 feet gauge, and converted to 15 inch. Quite a lot of early railways in the UK were not standard gauge, but converted fairly early (by c 1850?) - ones that come to mind are the Eastern Counties; the Dublin and Kingstown (originally 4'8.5"), and...