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Quick search found this link: https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/charfield-train-station/. This links to a plan and progress updates. This was the site of a serious accident in 1928: https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=304 The linked report includes a plan of the station at the...

The report into the first Morpeth derailment 1969 (https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoE_Morpeth1969.pdf): Stated elsewhere in the report that the guard did not see anything unusual in the load. History (or at least this report) does not record the fate of the pig.

The tram doesn't have roundels either.

Closing the box would be followed by disconnecting its connections to the pole route and probably adding some extra wires to bypass it so the boxes either side could communicate with each other after it was demolished. And removing the veranda and brackets might have been an early stage of...

Several of them have appeared on Hidden London Hangouts videos in various states of disrepair, but I don't believe any are still operational.

Whern't Chiltern talking at one time about extending north from Aylesbury Vale Parkway to Brackley? It's a relatively unpopulated area though, which is probably why both Silverstone and HS2 are there.

Probably platform 6 at Nottingham (now platform 7). Prior to the re-modelling this wasn't normally used and was only accessible via the centre bridge or directly from the car park. Ramsline Halt was only ever used a handful of times. I think there was some safety issue with running...

Similar, but it also includes something called creep control which adjusts the wheel speed so it is slipping but only very slightly. The friction of steel on steel is more in that situation compared with no slipping.

There were accesses onto P1 both north and south of the station building (and still are, though they are now gated). My guess would be that fans heading for London would have been escorted through the parcels subway near the south end, while "normal" passengers used the bridge.

Unless the failure made the train physically unable to be moved (derailment, seized axle etc) it might have been preferable to use an assisting loco, which could be a diesel, to drag it to the nearest station. It would then be out of the way of other services and passengers could be better...

Travelling from Euston Square to High Street Kensington via Circle Line does need one change, at Edgware Road. However, it should just be crossing the platform* so easier than changing at Victoria or Green Park. *Alternate trains are not cross-platform, but you could just wait for the next one.

Maybe so from those stations but I'd say Loughborough has more travel to Nottingham than to Derby. The fact that Beeston retains its London calls despite similar platform issues and alternative connections being available suggests the same would continue to happen for Long Eaton.

Does that factor in tyre particulates?

As i posted on another thread, 222s have a high weight per seat and large engines that are probably running below their most efficient output for most of the time, so are likely to be amongst the highest emitting trains per passenger-mile. The discussion suggested that it would be in the same...

Unfortunately most of the media is much less critical of a Tory government than a Labour one.