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31  Sideshoots - associated subjects / Railway History and related topics / Re: Liverpool Overhead Railway 6 March 1893 to [otd] 30 December 1956 on: December 30, 2023, 16:08:22
My mum and dad, still then just teenage friends at the local youth club, took a trip on it in its final year. They had to borrow money from an aunt in Fazakerley to get home again! Typical teenagers - nothing changes.  Smiley
32  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Very lucky escape... on: December 29, 2023, 23:23:01
And all commuter trains arriving at Waterloo in the high peak were empty by the time the train came to its final standstill.
33  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Call for rail fare simplification on: December 28, 2023, 20:41:12
Good point. Back in the day, LNER» (London North Eastern Railway - about) and the LMS (London Midland Scottish - 1923 to 1948) were able to cooperate sufficiently on this to offer angloscottish return tickets that allowed outward travel by one route and back by another - and they were separate companies.

I suspect that was an arrangement, either organised or managed, by the Railway Clearing House that distributed fare revenues.
34  All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: report on reduction of sheffield bus's on: December 28, 2023, 14:07:28
A reduction of what, belonging to a Sheffield bus?  Wink
35  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Signalling in Christmas - AQ23, 24th December on: December 24, 2023, 09:26:15
3: Moorgate on the Widened Lines (south) half of the station.

The through Metropolitan lines are not shown below the diagram.

A bit of Xmas trivia: This was Midland Railway's first London terminus, predating St Pancras by three months.
36  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ23 - 23rd December - crossings on: December 23, 2023, 08:48:53
4: Kaaimans River Bridge in South Africa on the George-Knysna line.
37  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes on: December 22, 2023, 08:08:42
3: Douglas, IOM
38  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ23 - 20th December - who ran when? on: December 21, 2023, 13:54:24
Sorry - no.  But you're on the right spoke out of London.

They are certainly running the same shifts as us. I've worked some of them! Smiley
39  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Aberthaw Power Station and Decarbonisation on: December 20, 2023, 10:35:53
Tony makes a good point on the thermodynamic truth of green and blue hydrogen. I most cases, it is best just to use the electricity at the point of need or store that unused electric energy in a more energy efficient manner.

The beauty of gold or natural hydrogen is that the Earth has already expended its energy on creating it from its own nuclear energy reserves; crystallising the mineral olivine out of the Earth's mantle to make oceanic crust, or its equivalent. The Earth adds its own water (plenty of that about) to the mix and hydrogen is generated. Man's quest is to find where it has become trapped using his 100 years worth of oil and gas exploration techniques. That's a least what is keeping me, and several of my long-time colleagues, busy at the moment.
40  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: AQ23 - 20th December - who ran when? on: December 20, 2023, 10:01:21
1: Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway.
41  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December on: December 18, 2023, 17:45:52
That toilet block was demolished in 2009

A piece of seaside history - destroyed  Cry
42  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December on: December 18, 2023, 12:33:05
Blackpool Central IS the odd one out I had identified, and some of you are quite close to identifying why that is/was.

Part of the original station - the excursion platforms toilet block - still exists and is in use. Don't know if North has any toilets!
43  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December on: December 18, 2023, 10:57:22
Did Blackpool North initially take all those 54 trains a day or was there some rationalisation?

Blackpool North (the town's main station today) was the one slated to close but the Corporation cast their greedy eye on the railway estate of Central that lay just behind the promenade and came to a cheap deal with BR (British Rail(ways)) to swap the two stations around.  Those 54 services terminated short at Blackpool South for nigh on 7 years which was clearly unsustainable with only two working platforms. I think the last London Euston express moved to the North station in 1972. Today, the line to Blackpool South is just a withered single track siding with a train service to match.
44  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December on: December 18, 2023, 08:57:18
There are various odd ones out here ... I had Blackpool Central, but why?

All the others aren't a tatty car/coach park and a general carbuncle on the town that it hosts.

One must remember that this was a self inflicted wound as Central was not on Beeching's list for closure.
45  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: 18th December - AQ23 on: December 18, 2023, 08:50:12
1: Irrespective of the nameplate on the wall, I thought it is called 'Severn Bridge Junction' signalbox.
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