It took me six weeks to get there. Mind you, I did walk from Edinburgh. :) That chapel is a really atmospheric place. (View Post)

From what I recall, that's wrong. Yes, the route was a double-track mainline. But the fallacy of reopening lines with a single track has been seen several times recently, with lines soon reachin… (View Post)

I'd like to see the bailer that made that bail! (View Post)

Very much this. Companies were going around stating that their products were fine and safe. Which they may have been, *in isolation*. When put together as part of a system - even a system they were d… (View Post)

Ahem. The Monsal Trail *should* go back to being a railway. Beeching didn't even want it closed, and it would form a massively vital link. (View Post)