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Railway electrification developed on both sides of the Atlantic at about the same time, starting at the end of the 19th century, with the major electrical companies in US and Europe sometimes having alliances (or subsidiary companies on the other side). Both the Europe and the US were using both...

I would have thought the opposite - singling former double-track routes like Salisbury - Exeter and Oxford - Worcester - Hereford, and reducing some quadruple to triple/double track would reduce track mileage without reducing route mileage.

I'd agree with that. Current Sony camcorder range 'street prices' - https://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/Sony/Sony-Camcorders Current Panasonic camcorder range 'street prices' - https://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/Panasonic/Panasonic-Camcorders Lower end camcorders use quite small image...

Seeing the loco running light at New Street brings back memories of trainspotting days there in the early/mid 1970s, hoping the lunchtime arrival from Paddington was Western-hauled and (if pocket money allowed), buying a ticket to Solihull to enjoy the noise of a pair of Maybach V12s (and the...

This has a section about distributor valves - https://www.advanced-steam.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Dominic-Wells-Brakes-presentation-Part-2-Air-Brakes.pdf

Nice photo 8-) There is an existing thread about these locos - https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/db-hte-class-66s.262127/

It's part of the life cycle of large mature industries, really, not least because the performance of the economy (of the country) also tends to be cyclical. When the economy does badly railway customers spend less if they can, so budgets for new rolling stock, maintenance and investment get...

I agree. I suspect if you are trying to raise private investment on the scale needed to build the GC London Extension, I think 'talking it up' by promoting it as part of a future link to the Continent (rather than just a link between cities with already very well established railway services)...

I've been a fairly regular visitor to the EOR events/galas for some years. I think it's a great railway, with a different atmosphere due to it having been originally built as a GER country branch line then it becoming an LU branch line, so you have structures and lineside artefacts from both...

Yes, it was - I grew up about 2 miles from it, and watching the banking of oil trains between Cradley Heath and Rowley Regis up the 1 in 50 'Old Hill bank' was partly what first got me interested in railways 52 years ago... (A Peak or 47 stabled at Stourbridge was the usual banker back then...

Peterborough, Ely, Ipswich and anywhere along the Felixstowe branch (my favourites are Westerfield and Trimley).

That looks stunning - well done to all concerned with the restoration!

Video from a visit to the UK Bluebell Railway 'Giants of Steam' event nine years ago in October 2015. It was a very popular event, with an intensive steam service involving five (immaculate) mainline locomotives on the day I visited, two of them visitors to the railway (4464 and 925), all...

Yes, I agree. I think banking trains (especially long and heavy freights) is one of those things that looks relatively easy but actually needs a lot of skill and experience to do safely and efficiently, especially on a climb with varying gradients and curvature (and bad weather/wet leaves etc.)...

In terms of right versus left, equally interesting is lines where in steam days the locos were driven from the opposite side of the cab to the 'running side' e.g. a significant number of the pre-grouping railways in the UK were left-hand running but used right-hand drive steam locos. The GWR...