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    London's mythological (truly) North Metropolitan Railway

    Related to a thread about Edward Stanford's 1864 map of London with topical railway propositions in "General discussion" (but the question in question (haha) will be probably actually better served here): The online map shows the route for a "North Metropolitan Railway 1866", proposed but...
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    Extra set of rails on bridges

    After going through 16 pages' worth of search results and apparently with no related threads (or perhaps the search terms were off, go figure): I've long wondered what is the extra set of tracks at (some) bridges atop sleepers, in the space between running rails. Is it to somehow stabilize...
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    Starter signal at OXF

    Hello, a blocks/signals question .. While waiting for a train towards Reading at the Oxford station, I noticed that the starter signal for the (I guess it's called) up line seems to display the red aspect for a particularly long time and then change to green in a rapid succession. This happened...

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