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Dubton

There is certainly room for better expertise in the Civil Service, and the current system at senior levels works against people building up knowledge of the department they work in, because they being moved around is part of the promotion system. It would also be better if there was more...

Kildrummie Platform

Coalport West

The Ffestiniog Railway's Prince of 1863 alongside the new James Spooner of 2023 would be hard to beat. Not sure whether Prince is currently in service, though.

Meliden

On the right track Hitachi Rail is right. The chain went from Robinson Electric via Union Switch & Signal to Ansaldo, to Finmeccanica and finally to Hitachi. I think the floor belongs to @D6130

Fordingbridge

Wallace Nick (temporary station - 1850 to 1851)

Ainsworth Road

OK - I thought I cheated - but to keep the ball rolling: In 1872 Dr William Robinson of the Robinson Electric Railway Signal Company of New York, invented the fail safe track circuit. To which modern industrial group, through 150 years of amalgamations and acquisitions, can the Robinson...

Well, I confess to having done a little research. My copy of "A Chronology of Railway Signalling 1825 - 2018" didn't help, but the archives of the Institution of Civil Engineers did. I believe the answer is Sir William Henry Preece, KCB, FRS, FICE. Here is an extract from his obituary: The...

I'm reasonably sure it's Mr Tyer - but I think he might have been Edward.

That's absolutely right. I must have been awake in that lesson, too! :)

Wheatstone and Cooke were a bit more than contractors - they invented the electric telegraph! They designed and installed the system on the London & Birmingham (covering just the cable hauled section between Euston and Camden Town) in 1837, and the GWR between Paddington and West Drayton in...

Why don't railways do something similar to airports. One large departure board, with lots of scrolling screens around the terminal area (including in eating areas) so that people can distribute themselves around the available space better when waiting. Some stations (Reading comes to mind)...

Well, I think the first link in the telegraph, between London and Slough, was set up by Cook & Wheatstone, so perhaps one of them. I'll go for William Cooke.

I agree. People (and not just Trump supporters) can now choose to live in a bubble where they only hear opinions that they agree with, supported by anything from carefully and selected out of context facts to outright inventions and lies. In the pre-social media world it wasn't really...

Bonnybridge High

There were indeed two stations here so: Muirkirk (2nd station - 1896 to 1964))