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« 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 is fully booked that night
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« Reply #1 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..!
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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2016, 10:01:47 »
Quote from: 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..!
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.
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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2016, 14:17:21 »
Quote from: 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..!

Yeah ... I was posting late in the day there. 

The contraction from 7'1" to 4'9" happened a few years laterer.
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« Reply #4 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".  Wink Cheesy Grin
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