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    Fantasy: an alternative history: operationally combining the Post Office and the railways

    As a result of something else I have been working on, I have found myself led down a seductive sidetrack. I have imagined an alternative history of Britain. In this alternative history, the railways were not consolidated into the Big Four in the 1920s, but were nationalised. In this history, as...
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    Ickenham overrun/SPAD, 12th March 2022

    I am surprised that this didn't end up as a RAIB investigation: Evening Standard article today: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/london-underground-tube-driver-sleep-fatique-shifts-metropolitan-line-b1058824.html TfL response to FOI request, November 2022...
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    Olympia shuttle - better with LO?

    I do wonder whether LO could take over services between Kensington Olympia & High Street Kensington - possibly incorporating them into other services terminating further along the LO network - at Highbury & Islington, or united with the GOBLIN services. Ideally, if and when CR2 arises, CR2 could...
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    Return to the Seaside Specials?

    Given the good possibility that periods such as this one will become more common in the near future during UK summers, is there any possibility that these could be more widespread in future? I can see some of the possible cons: * Lack of rolling stock, or drivers signed for a route with...

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