The sort of situation which, in a much earlier state of development, would once have caused crisis meetings in Nos. 10 and 11, banner headlines, and so on and so forth. One does feel one's age s… (View Post)

It is (well, medieval to me). Mine is the 2020 revised edition! https://stenlake.co.uk/books/the-solway-junction-railway/1227 (View Post)

Oh, the siding made it an even better story! (Reminds me of the earthworks between Melton and Oakham IIRC ...). TV drama - Trollope's The Way We Live Now (BBC) was effectively the Hudson story, … (View Post)

Never heard of it! For the best wrong reason too - the George Hudson's main line to Leeds but he crashed first ... though I see they did i n the end use it, for a siding to a local mill. (View Post)

Strictly speaking, Scots pubs or hotels/inns anyway weren't closed for drinks to bona fide travellers - but you had to do the travelling first, even if it was just a walk of a few miles. In this… (View Post)