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This does appear to be standard transport and logistics jargon - you may be able to find a reference work on that. Of course the railways usage of the time may not be exactly what's common now for other modes. Terminal costs are the fixed costs of a journey, working or whatever that is called...

The NUR had negotiated restrictions on these Italian workers, as described in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Published Monday, 14 January 1952: Jackson then turned up to welcome these 98 Italians on arrival in the name of the union. They were, at least initially, living in the...

There have been persistent complaints of noise from Reading depot since before it was built. I think it was done as permitted development, replacing lineside sidings between the running lines and Cardiff Road. While the western (out of town) end adjoins fields and industry, at the town end there...

Noting that reference I found to an "inquiry inspector" with such a jacket (I doubt anything more was that colour) in 1977, that of course is within the memory of a lot of us here. So I have been trying to remember if I ever saw someone with such a jacket - most likely sitting at an inquiry...

I have found a newspaper report of "an inquiries inspector, in the maroon coloured uniform that marks the Passengers' Friends of the London Midland Railway" who retired in 1958 after 20 years service at St. Pancras. 1790016676 This is from December 1932 - apparently the starting date (but no...

There is a fair amount of coverage of this in the newspapers in the British Newspaper Archive, as well as Italian workers in other industries (the best known being brick-making). A lot of the news is about the impact on labour relations and the attitude of the unions. I can see mention of track...

Behind the overall accessibility guide I referenced earlier, there are railway standards. Lots of them! (As is often the case.) The main one is RIS-7016-INS*, and from 2018 there have been six issues of this. The main changes each time are (from a table in Issue 2.2; I have bolded the ones that...

The Canterbury Works shaft is visible in Google Earth at the moment, looking as if it is complete and the head house not yet started. Work at Adelaide Road was behind that, and has been paused, so judging from the latest view on GE (July) work on that shaft has barely, if at all, begun. It will...

I found a forum post that noted tactiles going in at Carlisle in 2011, so this was not, in fact, very old at all. It does seem the yellow painting and tactiles were put there together, and presumably to meet the relevant standard. That standard is I think "Design Standards for Accessible Railway...

Is it not just rather old? It appears to be based on the idea that the tactile strip is understood to say do not stand here, and the hatching extends that further from the edge. It may well have been seen as needed due to the curvature. I guess it dates from when the single yellow line was still...

The Salusbury Road vent shaft has in fact been built instead 500 m further along the route, just past Canterbury Terrace. So I don't think either TBM has got there yet.

Official statements are now very cautious, saying nothing is known for for certain, but that's just the rule with a police/judicial investigation. These are also, in theory, strictly confidential, but do tend to leak evidence - statements, confessions, expert reports, etc. - to an extent that is...

Or, in fact, of everything except the station. But it's getting very confusing, all this masterplanning... The Oxford station masterplan mentioned in some press reports was done in 2013/4 by Aedas (now AHR) for CCC/CCC/NR; It included pictures of station architectural design, but only to...

So does my local one, plus it has a label inside the cover giving numbers for emergency (999 - which I think goes out to the standard public network 999 handlers) and the local ECR. But I understood that much of the old internal railway telephone system had been dismantled, so who can you still...

A 5m length of rail was found lying along the four-foot, and the driver reported seeing what looked like this. The investigators are trying to pin down where it was when the train got there. But while they have taken the "black box" recorder, I have heard no mention on TV news of checking the...

Here is HS2's own video marking the completion of the platforms (also released 13th August). The host page has (I think) the full commentary text.

There are ads and news items in the BNA about the Euston Dining Club from 1907 to 1958. No doubt it existed earlier, as well as later, just wasn't in the papers. There are some ads for waitresses, WW1 and 20s, with hours 9-6. From reports of careers at retirement, the EDC was run by a committee...

It looks like I've added two plus two and got six; two unrelated issues (temporary for Fagioli). Forkast does look like a genuine merger; the dissolution of the parts was just how the merging was implemented. And while the branding etc. was acquired, they do seem to be in an unseemly hurry to...

I spotted a couple of unfamilar names in those Water Orton videos. The SPMTs, though Mammoet-red, have "Fagioli" on them. But there are also hangings with Ceva-Fagioli; Ceva took Fagioli over earlier this year. And on some bits of the viaduct formwork there is the name "Coffrage&Quipage", though...

It should help to see those two 6" OS maps together (from NLS): 1896 on the left and 1913 on the right. The earlier map has the LNWR main line already quadruple, and I was talking about the Rickmansworth branch being doubled in 1907-10. This was indeed part of the "New Line" works, most of...