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Differences in the adoption of 'bogie' coaches between the UK and USA
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(Recognising that this thread is strictly about bogie coaches rather than bogies in general.) I was struck by a look in my reprint of...
Yesterday at 22:43
Dr Hoo
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Unusual CrossCountry routeing... via Tinsley!
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I’ve been that way with CrossCountry on a pre-planned engineering works diversion and an ‘in service’ route retention service late one...
Yesterday at 22:19
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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I've been knocking together some statistics from BR Annual Reports and Transport Statistics UK for selected years from the end of 1947...
Yesterday at 21:56
Dr Hoo
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DHELM: Why are UK railways so bad?
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@mike57 , a good long list but none of them are what I would describe as ‘simple’ or ‘baby steps’!
Yesterday at 16:53
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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Stabbing in the dark a bit here but one might assume that 'convenience to passengers' would have encouraged the concentration of...
Monday at 19:02
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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Ah, yes. Inter-regional gamesmanship for revenue manipulation. Now, what was that in the Transport Act 1947 about the duty to provide...
Monday at 15:13
Dr Hoo
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Is ‘train station’ replacing ‘railway station’ in UK passenger rail terminology?
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Your work might stop at your workstation. I've always thought of journeys starting at the bus station or train station; similarly (in...
Monday at 14:44
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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Whilst there is a lot of underlying truth in this, it still begs the question of why British Railways/Railway Executive/BTC had...
Monday at 14:35
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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Surely not? Did the GWR, LMS and so on really enter into impregnable 'evergreen' contracts with 'one bloke and a horse & cart' coal...
Monday at 11:37
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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In Oxford, Rewley Road was retained for goods, albeit only in full truck loads and not things like livestock. Only needed four staff to...
Sunday at 21:33
Dr Hoo
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Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates
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The 'loop work' in the scheme was very largely focussed on making it possible to regulate the longest likely freight trains through the...
Sunday at 19:02
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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(Having been away from my reference books for a few days...) It does seem to have been general attrition of marginal locations rather...
Saturday at 21:53
Dr Hoo
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trivia oldest and newest together
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I've now found a photo in the February 1965 Railway Magazine of J94 saddle tank (Hunslet 1944) at Middleton Top on the Cromford and High...
Saturday at 12:49
Dr Hoo
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trivia oldest and newest together
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The Middleton Incline on the Cromford & High Peak was worked by an 1829 (stationary) steam engine. Various trials were done with modern...
16 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Euston overcrowding at TfL/LU entrance caused by new Network Rail departure boards
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There are, of course, three sets of departure boards generally in use, two in the 'middle' and one of the booking office side. As I...
14 Apr 2024
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