When I worked therein the noughties, most were very surprised when told that that their precious inch and foot are defined as precise fractions of a metre.

When I travelled on a South African Railways train in the early 80s I was disturbed to see, looking down the bowl, the sleepers flashing by. .  No U-bend ...

There was a shower though!

John Betjeman would have had it run through to Slough!

Brighton?

I believe it took several attempts to get this embankment built, it being washed away on more than one occasion during construction. I imagine that the fill has been washed out under the wall somewhere. Some dye testing will be very interesting.

Is there a minimum platform length at which an 80x can stop? Could it be occupation time of the single line section?

But yes, double standards.

A second vote for for Rutland. Visited last year. Lovely Lincolnshire Wolds, Rutland Water and places to visit. A hidden gem.

It reminds me of a drawing of a modern signalling control centre with consoles and screens and off to the left there is a sign which reads, "In case of emergency, break glass".

And there visible, behind a glass door, is a full manual lever frame and block instruments. 

There are a couple of survivors on the Manchester Ship Canal where the free foot ferry (bankrolled by Peel Ports - the canal owner) proved access between public footpaths that were bisected on its construction in the 1890s.

Mods: this (and maybe some above) may be better placed in the foot ferry thread.

Thanks! I shall re-propose this to our railway management team, quoting the original BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) article.

I suggested the possibility of weddings on our heritage railway but was told it required a fixed licensed premises open to the general public, for weddings are a public event. Maybe they have changed the law.

The irony about Cholsey is that Platform 4 on the Up Relief is near level access with the ramp to the station carpark but no doubt there will be some provision that prevents this easy fix. If it was, a wheelchair bound person or person with mobility issues could enter the London bound platform; and even if they wanted to travel to Didcot and beyond they could travel via Goring and Streatley and use the lifts there to access the correct platform for their onward journey.

Along with the third rail?

Graham, this is the kind of subject the 'Blackbelt Barrister' on YouTube likes to cover. I would drop him a line outlining your case.

Local instruction perhaps as its a single vehicle and can't be divided?