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How much of the savings with the Pacer was down to having a wheel in each corner rather than a bogie mounting for the wheels?

If you have oil fired steam rather than coal fired steam, what activities are no longer needed?

O/T but anyone have the history of TBM diameters?

Considering how far out the current plan is cost wise how can it be sure that 9% figure is correct?

Anyone know what was the reaction of the coal unions in the US to the extinction of coal firing on the railways?

What examples of diesels were there in other couyntries at this time?

Given the way Manchester and the railways developed was there any possibility of the Castlefield corridor being wider from the start?

If the Overhead System is built for 1.5kV DC what is involved in modifying it for 25 kV AC?

Those photos of Abergavenny have me asking does anyone have the track layout before bits were removed?

In the current edition of Rail, there is an article on 'The Beeching Legacy' that says. 'In the run up to the publication of the 1947 Transport Act, the LNER (backed to a lesser extent by the LMS) advanced and argument that we would recognise today. In the paper titled The State and The...

Did the suggestion to replace Hungerford Bridge with a double deck road / rail bridge, and a new Charing Cross station built to the east of the old one result in any drawings/plans or did it just stop at a suggestion?

James Holden introduced oil-burning to some of the locos that GER used, which utilised residues that were a by-product of the company gas works. What was the calorific value of the residues vs coal vs oil fuel? How easy to handle were the residues compared to oil fuel, did they require any...

Would there have been any driver for more through platforms for Manchester Piccadilly and making the Castlefield Corridor quad track from the start when they were originally built?

Are there many stations that have bay platforms that would be more useful now had they been built as through platforms?

It is also the subject of an argument over accessibility, if there are no staff available to give assistance then passengers heading towards Newport, Cardiff etc who cannot use the bridge have to go to Hereford then come back. The rail company seems to get a lot of flak over it even though its...

Given the way the railways developed, would there have been any chance of the tracks being laid to the new layout when the lines were first built?

I've seen suggestions for a nuclear powered 15,000 ton surface effect ship that would carry the equivalent of 2,000 cars at 130kts.

Oh I know what the grounds like, I live in Abergavenny, that's why I was interested in where they thought they could put two new tunnels.

The BBC article suggests two new tunnels would be bored to join the existing ones. Be interesting to see if anything more than a casual glance at a map was done to see if they could be shoehorned in.

Boring two new tunnels was looked at back in 2007-2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-17264422