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Bottom line is you always end up paying for a site investigation in one form or other. Best practice should be to do this before you put the business case together and seek authority.

Indeed-by accident. But meanwhile someone was procuring the 175/180 which have been less satisfactory 1745410552 I am sure your points are valid but relate to operational matters. I was also thinking about standardising the bits under the floorboards and obtaining financial benefits of a long...

Ilkley?

Reading these forums and railway magazines it is clear that several TOCs are going through the procurement process. This could presumably end up with a plethora of different designs from different manufacturers. Continuing the mess privatisation has left. I would suggest this is undesirable and...

Photos-Appendages on an enemy's foot

The answer to the question originally posed is no and no. Conveyance of Mail by rail was as for most freight-hopelessly uneconomic. The Royal Mail business case in the early 1990’s showed that concentrating on road plus air would work operationally at significantly reduced cost. However at that...

Penistone?

I think the comments in the article were not about the brake effectiveness, but the original design that meant that changing the discs/pads was a difficult process and did not use common British parts. re Comparable Voyager performance I think the comment was that the Voyager engines had been...

This was covered off in an article by Ian Walmsley in Modern Railways a few months back. From what I can remember of this the main issue is that the cooling system can’t deal with the heat from the engines, so to protect themselves they shut down. The suggestion was that the current timetables...

I don’t think the 25’s were built at Crewe. Some class 24’s were built these.

Oops! This is embarrassing. I admit I had overlooked the 56 were also built overseas. Apologies to all and particularly RDP. The 20’s and 37’s had 2 locations I believe

Is, I believe, the right answer. Built at Darlington, Derby, and by Beyer Peacock.

Sorry, no

Sorry, no

Which BR diesel class (all variants) had its erection spread over the most works? Shunters excluded.

GW railcar 18?

I mis-read your post when you put "are near" i.e. presently as opposed to in the past. 40 years ago most of them, today hardly any-if any at all.

Correct Over to you

OK then Keeping on the Warship theme. What didn't D800 and D812 have that all the (original) Warships had? Apart from non-Warship names

Are there any Royal Mail Mail Centres or Distribution Centres anywhere near a station? Motorway junctions, yes