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Title: Problems faced with the contraction of railways in the region Post by: grahame on February 01, 2016, 22:34:51 19:30 on 18th February at Melksham Assembly Hall - Slide show by Mike Stone. ^3 guests
There's a bus back to Bath after the show (around 10:30 / route 271) - but (sorry) Well House Manor (http://www.wellhousemanor.co.uk) is fully booked that night (http://www.wellho.net/pix/mdha201602.jpg) Title: Re: Problems faced with the contraction of railways in the region Post by: Red Squirrel on February 02, 2016, 09:02:35 Gosh, that threw me for a moment. Could have been fascinating hearing about the problems faced with the contraction of railways, but the actual topic concerns their construction..!
Title: Re: Problems faced with the contraction of railways in the region Post by: stuving on February 02, 2016, 10:01:47 Gosh, that threw me for a moment. Could have been fascinating hearing about the problems faced with the contraction of railways, but the actual topic concerns their construction..! I was puzzling over that too - but thinking maybe it was about contracting, which I'm sure is what Brunel did with most of the building work. But the same double-take happens when you consider the role of tenders (if not tendering) in the operation of railways, ancient and modern. Mysterious stuff, vocabulary. Title: Re: Problems faced with the contraction of railways in the region Post by: grahame on February 02, 2016, 14:17:21 Gosh, that threw me for a moment. Could have been fascinating hearing about the problems faced with the contraction of railways, but the actual topic concerns their construction..! Yeah ... I was posting late in the day there. The contraction from 7'1" to 4'9" happened a few years laterer. Title: Re: Problems faced with the contraction of railways in the region Post by: Chris from Nailsea on February 06, 2016, 21:47:33 If I may just pick you up on a minor typo there, grahame, it was actually a 'contraction' from 7' 1/4" to 4' 81/2". ;) :D ;D
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