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Title: Quarter of a century of articles from Christian Wolmar Post by: grahame on January 31, 2024, 22:14:58 https://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/2024/01/rail-1000-a-look-at-a-quarter-of-a-century-of-rail-columns/
Quote Rail 1000: a look at a quarter of a century of Rail columns My first column, at the end of September 1995, was in issue 262, oddly entitled ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ and I was apparently a modest brown haired fellow at the time who wrote ‘I am a humble layman, an observer of the railways and Government policy towards them’. Now I am a grey haired git with a hint of arrogance born of surviving for this long in Rail ... Title: Re: Quarter of a century of articles from Christian Wolmar Post by: CyclingSid on February 01, 2024, 07:08:40 Quote he asked me why lightly loaded trains could not stop at level crossings so that cars could have priority Was this a pre-cursor to the Hierarchy of users in the latest update of the Highway Code (; Title: Re: Quarter of a century of articles from Christian Wolmar Post by: PhilWakely on February 01, 2024, 12:31:11 Quote he asked me why lightly loaded trains could not stop at level crossings so that cars could have priority Was this a pre-cursor to the Hierarchy of users in the latest update of the Highway Code (; They do (or rather did, in this case) sometimes (https://flickr.com/photos/pwakely/49735365796) Title: Re: Quarter of a century of articles from Christian Wolmar Post by: rogerw on February 01, 2024, 16:25:00 I knew that crossing very well
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