Recent content by Ken H

maybe the hospital have some sort of impediment to more buses. The perimeter road is narrow and has speed bumps. Only the Burnely bus usually goes round the hospital plus a few infrequent minibuses. The 66 Keighley - Skiptons dont. You have to walk up to/from the road. I know the path through...

I read long ago that Yerkes brought the technology used in the Yerkes tubes and used that for the Bakerloo, what became the Northern and the Piccadilly lines, and District electrification. This was used later for the Central Line, the Northern Line City Branch and later, the Metropolitan, and...

Lets not forget what the ordnance survey was created for. It was part of the military. I dont think the military would be interested in types of signal or if a box is a signal box or a gate box.

Steeton is quite close to Airedale Hospital. But a bit far to walk unless you are fit. Few buses unless you change at Steeton. Pity there isnt a pedestrian way through from the station to the back of the hospital. (Airedale has a catchment that includes Keighley and the Worth Valley, Colne...

You only have to give your address on line to verify the card is yours. The number data in your address is sent to the bank for this reason but there are other methods of verifying cards. So a ticket retailer may not have your address. Why would they want it for something delivered...

One has to remember that OS staff probably would not know the difference between a signal box, a gate box or a structure containing a shunting or ground frame. So 'SB' would probably be used for all these buildings.

New st is a bit different. Through platforms only have a and b sections. 4c is a bay at the end of 4. I suppose they didnt want to renumber 5 - 12 to 6 -13. And would they want a plat 13? I remember when they renumbered Leeds years ago. The suffixes before the change were E and W for east and...

I knew one of the Crossleys in the 70's. He worked in shipley but didnt look like he got his hands dirty. Nice bloke tho.

I assume they mean Bootle(Cumbria). Then why not say so?

Much of the London Underground was built by americans. And the electrification system was US technology. Not sure if European systems has US influence or whether they copied London.

Going back to track - which has a bearing on vehicle suspension - didnt UU railroads make track by using a tree trunk cut in half longtudinally and then nailing the flat bottomed rails to that. In the UK we did it differently, often using longditudinal timbers with bracing to maintain gague...

so if there is no mobile signal at your joining station, but there is on the train. What do you do?

Higher paid workers can organise their affairs to reduce tax liability, or even not undertake an activity at all. Which is why many tax raising measures to 'hit the rich' fail to get much extra funds into the treasury. This affect is known as the Laffer Curve, named for a US economist. When I...

Rotherham Station was the red square in the middle of the map images. It became Rotherham Masborough when Central opened. It was an important station used by NE-SW trains until it closed in 1987. I assume your FLT train used sidings near that. Masborough is a suburb of Rotherham.

The 144's were a class above the 142's. I used to travel Gigg - Bingley or Gigg -Leeds back then. Seeing a 142 coming made my heart sink, but