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If I were NR and/ or the local council I wld be pushing for the closure of this crossing as a matter of urgency. There is a perfectly safe route via Yarnton La to the South which only adds 800m to the journey and completely removes the risk (assuming the old fella doesnt crash thru the bridge...

Owing to Christianity not really making much impression north of Hadrians Wall

I agree - good film - must have taken weeks to edit all the green screen sections into the backgrounds correctly - no way a lot of the stunts in that film (which is basically an advert for the bike) were filmed for real.

"There is a belief that she was buried between platforms 9 and 10 in King's Cross station in London, England. There is no evidence for this and it is probably a post World War II invention"

IMHO pretty much every £ spent on facilities for the disabled is a waste of money. For whatever reason(s) - real or imagined - the lesser mobile section of society are not attracted by the service offered by The Railway. Since Jan 2012 I have been travelling to work by train in Birmingham - so...

The pedantry in general on this forum, not just this thread, has to be seen to be believed - post anything that you can't back up with evidence from abt 100 sources or contains the slightest error and 'they' are all over yr thread like a rash, pointing out where you went wrong. But what do...

Apparantly the Courts can - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18670144 "used their position, and others within the rail sub-contract industry, to steal up to 3,500 tonnes of rail worth up to £1.5m." I wld suspect if very far from being an isolated case.

Slight cheat as not part of the network since the 1960's (but people have been suggesting sidings which probably haven't been in use since that time as well) I give the original insitu rails of the Cromford and High Peak Railway 1825!

First hand account from a former NR worker - good enough for you?

Most 'retired' rails turning up in scrap dealers yards are 'inside jobs' by Network Rail workers. Scenario goes like this: do a job; cut the scrap rail into HIAB manageable lengths and then leave it somewhere accessible on the trackside; return later with HIAB and remove rail; take rail to...

Disappointing ...but not surprising. RE the OP's original idea abt socialising on trains... its a non starter. People dont want to speak to strangers on trains - mp3 players have killed that idea stone dead.

Blindtraveler - with nearly 2000 posts on this site surely you shd have been aware of the levels of pedantry the thread wld decend to? A lot of the more knowledgeable posters on here have great info but too many people spend time arguing abt things like whether its legal to transport sheep over...

"Train Manager"? - I presume you mean the ticket inspector/ salesman? Its just like binmen being called 'environmental executives' And to answer the question - how many £50 notes wld it take to gt me on the track? One - just the one (actually I wld probably go on the track for a £5)...

Hopefully there will be some bats/ newts on the route of the HSR2 vanity project - though I suspect it wld all be hushed up if that was the case!

I think the trouble is that most people perceive a BTP Officer as being somewhere between a park keeper and a traffic warden in terms of their available authority - now we all know that is not the case and they have the same powers as the 'normal' Police. Some fotogs generally seem to believe...

I have a photo of one of the information boards from the Hopton Incline on the old High Peak line. It states that the stationary engine was removed in 1877 and the trains were then hauled up the incline by the locomotive alone. The incline was not reprofiled to the shallower 1:14 until 1903. As...

Some sort of sensible employment rules to deter the employment of vodka swilling Eastern 'Europeans' in farm work wld be a big start - its a guaranteed nailed on fact that the tractor driver here is going to be a Polish imigrant who cant read English and therefore had no idea what the warning...

If you are using a credit card as a replacement for carrying cash then just pay off the balance each month and incur no charge so the APR is irrelevant. Personally I hate carrying cash esp' coins and the Govt should make it a requirement of retailers that cards are always an acceptable form of...

When investigated will probably turn out to be Eastern European types stealing cables.

A collapsed wall between the canal towpath and the site of the old Granville Station in Birmingham allowed me to cycle through the tunnel under Gas Street basin to the site of the former Birmingham Central Sidings a few years ago.