Are you suggesting that the occasional snippet of duff info may, from time to time, have inadvertently been included in his literary output?
The CEGB archives seem to be a bit scattered. The majority appear to be in the National Archive at Kew (or their other repositories), but some are held by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in Stevenage (but much on-line). A few years ago I was working at the 'Electricity' exhibition at the museum of Science and Industry in Manchester..and discovered that some CEGB archives were held there. Indeed, some of the visitors were ex-CEGB/National Grid employees who had come to see the excellent exhibition, and also access the archives.
Why couldn't they find them in hedges like everyone else?
That reminds me of "Trainspotting Live!" and the reports of a Pendolino at Wick (or whatever it was) that Peter Snow read out on-air!
I suspect few outside the signalling profession and industry know there's an SSI in RETB installations. All the publicity centred on the wonderful new radio signalling aspect of the scheme. Leamington on the other hand was explicitly sold to the world as the wonderful new computer signalling. As I understand it, the RETB application has the same triple redundant hardware but runs a different main programme compared to the classic lineside signalling implementation.
I did once see a reference in a broadsheet newspaper to the Windsor Link being in Berkshire.
You're thinking from a calendar day perspective. A railway day starts at 04:00 and ends at 03:59, so the RRB actually left the day before and the tweet is correct.
Is it not 0430 -> 0429 or is that for tickets? Happy to be corrected.
Or even if he wrote them all himself ... Cecil J Allen, no less, regularly commented that he had junior management staff at Westinghouse in Chippenham, where he was a director, ghosting for him, to add his name at the end.
That was going to be my second answer as I'm not 100% on the times myself. But I do know that the RRB left the day before as far as the railway is concerned.
I did think this but I thought the railway day was 12 am to 4.30 am the next morning.
Presumably he felt their reward was their salaries? He didn't expect them to write for him in their own time did he?
That's just a 20th century version of a celeb having staff to write their tweets.
Possibly just the way it was written. CJA was the notable religious supporter, but Ian Allan himself found him tedious and pedantic (although a precise writer). I don't think CJA ever forgave Ossie for taking over his slot on loco running in The Railway Magazine - but CJA didn't have a leg to stand on with that, as he himself had suddenly quit his longstanding column there to start a complete rival in Allan's new Trains Illustrated (which later became Modern Railways), and The Railway Magazine asked Nock to thus take over.
Perhaps we might investigate what other senior staff at Westinghouse did in respect of their working day? Having a doddle of a senior job wasn't unknown. For example, I was reading a book about the famous philosopher Isaiah Berlin, who was nominally a professor at Oxford, yet when one considers the amount of extramural activities and hobnobbing with the rich and famous he got up to, I started to wonder how much -- or how little, to be more accurate -- actual teaching work he did.
The modern terms are ''executive directors' who are involved with the day to day running of the company and 'non-executive directors' who aren't. The latter are there because they own a large proportion of the shares, can exert influence with the authorities or have special expertise, for example. They aren't expected to spend 40 hours a week working for the company.
But if I recall correctly he was the father of Geoffrey Freeman Allen, who wrote for Modern Railways until his death a few years back.
