Journeyman
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There's quite a few ideas that people hold that seem accepted as "fact", that are actually wrong, but are rarely challenged. How about getting a list of them together, and working out where they came from, and why they've persisted?
Let's start with the ever-popular "Great Central was built to continental loading gauge" idea. No idea where it came from - I think it got mentioned in a book once - but it's demonstrably false. It still gets wheeled out as an argument as to why the line should never have closed, should be reopened instead of HS2 etc.
Let's start with the ever-popular "Great Central was built to continental loading gauge" idea. No idea where it came from - I think it got mentioned in a book once - but it's demonstrably false. It still gets wheeled out as an argument as to why the line should never have closed, should be reopened instead of HS2 etc.