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I have a copy of '4 ft 8’ 1/2 and All That' and it is nothing like the description given in the first post.
Could it be this dating from 1976?:
https://biblio.co.uk/book/railway-cartoon-book-baynes-ken-kate/d/685063051
I've found the article, it was actually in Railway World Annual 1977 - 'The Little Channel Tunnel', by Michael R. Bonavia.
The gist of it is that a financier, Sir Blundell Maple commissioned Sam Fay of the Great Central to make an evaluation of the Isle of Wight's railways following which he...
I can't readily lay my hands on it for the moment but in one of the railway magazines some years ago there was an article on a proposal by the LSWR to build a tunnel to connect the Lymington line to either Freshwater or Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. Can't remember the details as it's a long...
This is mentioned in 'The Leader Locomotive' by Kevin Robertson in connection with thoughts of a new type of locomotive that eventually appeared as the 'Leader' class.
There are three mentions:
"It was number C21 of the class that was involved with speed trials running in reverse at 75mph."...
How about the Grimsby to Whitland fish train?
I haven't looked into it, but I believe an Immingham engine would work it as far as Banbury where there would be a change of engine - perhaps on this occasion a K3 worked right through?
In my day (around 1961) it was usually a Britannia, but no...
An advantage of the diversion was that it cut out the Selby swing bridge with its speed restriction and probable future complication for electrification.
I wonder what solution would have been found if the diversion hadn't happened.