A very significant share of the people who are buying seats on heritage lines are 'ordinary people' (i.e. 'not us'). What do they think? I'm not...
As I expect you'd worked out, unless a government is particularly clueless, they will realise that it takes work to set up a new taxing regime -...
I wonder if their financial problems are local to this particular situation, or more general? If the latter, that could have implications for...
I can think of at least one fairly successful larger heritage line that has pretty much only Mk I coaching stock (although since most of them date...
Well, there was that recent appeal for badly-needed funds. (Some lines have had to go that route, but not all.) Noel
"Ba-da-bing", as they say. Perhaps more importantly, at that point, will anyone/anything be able to save the line? You're very probably...
I doubt this person dislikes the NYMR; I doubt fairly strongly that that's the motive for their frequent posting. In fact, quite the opposite; I...
That's an interesting observation. The GWSR's service fleet of carriages is almost all Mk. 1's (list here); they have a large C+W group which has...
What is its story? (Is it on loan, or rental, or did the Bluebell buy it, or what?) (This seems to be its Heritage Register entry.) Noel
I guess the US Civil War was the wrong way to convince the Southerners of that era (changed from the Germans, and WWII, to avoid falling foul of...
Yes; also, one of the best reasons to keep things undercover is that it greatly retards decay, which will have to be rectified eventually, taking...
The basic idea pre-dates electronic navigation systems; I once saw for sale, in a truck stop, a map-book which included annotations on things in...
There are usually/often consequences for engineers who make such mistakes. In the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, the engineering company...
I wonder what consequences they, and their employer, will face? (If there are none, look for it to keep happening.) Noel
I think that some people haven't fully absorbed the point of the aphorism you quoted a few days back, 'the plural of anecdote is not data'. That...
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