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Post by brigham on Jun 1, 2019 7:51:15 GMT
Dog racing was a mainly-male occupation, too. Easington Greyhound Stadium had no separate toilets for years. A fellow would stand outside while you went in, if you happened to be female.
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SPADs
May 23, 2019 7:44:54 GMT
Post by brigham on May 23, 2019 7:44:54 GMT
Is there any evidence that counting 6-inch SPADS as a 'major safety-critical error', is part of a long-term plan to discredit the notion of having an on-train driver?
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Post by brigham on May 22, 2019 8:13:32 GMT
Where a line crosses a bridge, a pair of check-rails is normally fitted in the four-foot, at a suitable distance from the running rails to prevent derailed stock from striking the parapet. They usually have a tapered run-in. Perhaps the platform subway counts as a bridge?
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Post by brigham on May 22, 2019 8:02:57 GMT
The comments here regarding modern nth-generation buses and the like having been re-engined shows how completely the significance of this historical artefact has been missed. This is the ONLY surviving relic of the two petrol-electric railcars introduced by Vincent Raven, which were the first of their kind. EVER. ANYWHERE. The fact that the pioneering traction equipment hasn't survived, lessened the case for conservation rather than restoration. If an entire car had somehow lain dormant for a century, then 'restoration' of something so historically significant would have been out of the question. I've followed the progress of the project since its inception, but two attempts to actually see the item have proved fruitless. Another trip is planned, and, assuming success, I shall comment further.
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Post by brigham on May 21, 2019 9:21:49 GMT
Retro-Routemaster Buses?
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Post by brigham on May 21, 2019 9:20:27 GMT
I'm all for re-creating things which have been lost in time, indeed, even things NOT lost. But an entirely-different technology, which was in its infancy at the time, applied to a genuine historical artefact, is a step too far. IF you can build an entire A1 locomotive from scratch, you can construct a Wolesley flat-four petrol engine. A suitable dynamo from the period should be easily located; they changed little over the years, and were in widespread use. Because this project hasn't the glamour of steam, it has been under-funded and under-sold. I sincerely hope that it can be granted more respect in future years.
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Post by brigham on May 20, 2019 17:20:02 GMT
in what way is it converted to a "ride"? It has been mounted on a Diesel-powered underframe, so that people can pretend to have experienced riding on a Raven Autocar.
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Post by brigham on May 20, 2019 16:18:12 GMT
Does anyone doubt the historic status of the Raven Autocar? My unease is over its conversion to 'a ride', not its historical importance. As for amusement park rides, I have no objection to those in general, or vintage ones in particular. In fact, I make a point of riding on historic examples. It was my childhood ambition to one day own and travel a Lang Wheels Autodrome.
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Post by brigham on May 20, 2019 8:52:09 GMT
Dieselisation has reached the 'heritage' world now. The difference between a historic artefact and an amusement park ride is narrowing. Visitors to Beamish Museum in my native Co. Durham will already be sadly familiar with this process.
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Post by brigham on May 20, 2019 8:05:19 GMT
I wonder if we'll be seeing '11 George Romney', formerly Cable Drum Wagon jle21, anytime soon?
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Post by brigham on May 18, 2019 7:50:54 GMT
17 Florence Nightingale was the number and name of one of the Met electric locos like Sarah Siddons No. 12. I was aware of the fact that Met. No. 17 was called 'Florence Nightingale'. I was wondering why an inspection saloon should be named, not after Florence Nightingale, but after a locomotive so named!
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Post by brigham on May 18, 2019 7:37:42 GMT
The inset MUST be Chicago, surely!
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Post by brigham on May 17, 2019 7:34:17 GMT
'17 Florence Nightingale' sounds like a colloquial street address. Is there any significance?
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Post by brigham on May 10, 2019 7:36:52 GMT
Through trains from the Liverpool Overhead Railway to Aintree on race-days were restricted to the series-notches only, because of the higher voltage on the Lancs & Yorks section.
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Post by brigham on May 4, 2019 7:30:37 GMT
Is it the platform that used to be part of a loop? I can't remember where it was. Embankment?)
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Post by brigham on May 2, 2019 7:54:45 GMT
Angel of the North.
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Post by brigham on May 1, 2019 7:44:28 GMT
Stray cattle struck by train?
Bulls Hit!
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Post by brigham on Apr 30, 2019 7:46:10 GMT
Oh! I thought stray cattle had caused an incident!
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Post by brigham on Apr 17, 2019 7:30:56 GMT
Looks like the tradesman from Thetford will just have to bite the bullet and pay the Congestion Charge!
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Post by brigham on Apr 16, 2019 7:55:08 GMT
The purpose of station car parks is so people can park their cars and travel on by train, which is easier than driving the whole way. But, if housing needs are more pressing, we'll just have to take the car instead.
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Post by brigham on Apr 12, 2019 7:57:54 GMT
The prep/service system becomes both simple and foolproof, once you grasp the difference between post-prep time, and time in service. What would be gained by changing it? (Other than taking money out of peoples' pockets. Again.)
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Post by brigham on Apr 11, 2019 7:36:13 GMT
I suppose people thought the OTHER Michelangelo was a crank,too, back in the day.
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Post by brigham on Apr 10, 2019 7:55:26 GMT
Look down the train? Look at something that ISN'T on a screen? How positively archaic!
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Post by brigham on Apr 8, 2019 8:40:33 GMT
Turkey Street station has always fascinated me. Being a town dweller, where Palmerston Street is likely to be near Russell Street and Peel Street, I always intended to visit it, to find out if the next street is Goose Street or Greece Street. What a disappointment to find no related streets whatsoever. There's a Turkey Brook; but still no indication of which Turkey it refers to!
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Post by brigham on Apr 8, 2019 8:13:36 GMT
Gasworks Tunnels, then?
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Post by brigham on Apr 4, 2019 11:50:04 GMT
Let's hope the aviation industry doesn't follow suit.
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Post by brigham on Apr 2, 2019 7:41:20 GMT
... The science museum is interesting, I found the ground-floor heavily aimed at children, then wandered into a gallery of models of marine compound steam engines with labels that I found incomprehensible... That gallery, along with the one with working models of locomotive valve-gear, has been one of my occasional haunts since childhood. In fact, triple-expansion marine engines are one of 'my favourite things', a list of which would cause Oscar Hammerstein to lose much-needed sleep.
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Post by brigham on Mar 28, 2019 8:45:43 GMT
If the middle one is lit, it goes via the Bank.
That's my limit...
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Post by brigham on Mar 28, 2019 8:38:03 GMT
Museums are to keep children informed, not amused. I used to love visits to the great London museums, because I always came away knowing something new. On my last visit to the York railway museum, just a year ago, I learned that "big engines like these were used on the fastest passenger trains". Johnson? Deeley? Never heard of them! Johnson and Deeley never designed a big engine - hence the MR/LMS "small engine policy"! True enough. The NRM can't even get its 'dumbed-down' (ugh!) facts right.
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Post by brigham on Mar 27, 2019 8:33:14 GMT
Museums are to keep children informed, not amused. I used to love visits to the great London museums, because I always came away knowing something new. On my last visit to the York railway museum, just a year ago, I learned that "big engines like these were used on the fastest passenger trains". Johnson? Deeley? Never heard of them!
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