Just need to find somewhere to put all the equipment that is under the seats....
Like the top part of the wheels...
Weeell, don't knock it - all you'd need would be enough buses to move the numbers carried by railway. Then it might make sense to join a number, say eight or twelve, together to save space and improve safety, which could then further be improved by having the vehicles run on some sort of railed system to avoid crashes...hang on a moment!
Off subject, but I have long wondered why these machines have two wheels/brushes. If you have one foot under a brush you need the other to stand on, although I suppose you could pull up a chair. Why not have just one brush and move a few inches to one side when you want the second shoe polished?
And on the mk5 coaches of the Caledonian Sleeper. Anyway, I'm taking us even further off topic!
Of the original three routes, the North (Poulton) and South (Lytham) routes served intermediate stations and the former also the Fleetwood branch. The Central (Marton) route had no intermediate stations so was only ever about providing extra capacity into Blackpool. So when that capacity was no longer needed it made sense to close that one, and I'd guess Beeching's preference was based on some spurious analysis (such as the line with no stations having less costs - please note this is speculation on my part). So this was probably the best outcome for rail passengers, although some ended up a bit further from their destinations in Blackpool. I agree it would have been desirable to retain the short extension from South and a much slimmed-down Central though.
It is a story that will run and run I think. I always thought it was the council's idea to use it for development (who owned it?- did BR just sell it to the council cheap in 1964?) The buidling was used for bingo for a while (my grandmother used to go !), wasn't Coral Island built on a small part of the site in the 70s ? My memory is a little hazy. I know most of it ended up as car park as did all of the station approach land.
Where we‘re going we don’t need wheels...
Yeadon Way (on the viaduct) is an enjoyable but unusual drive, it's rare for a viaduct to be converted into a road like that, as double tracked railway viaducts aren't very wide. As it is, it's a constricted S2
Wasn't that a bit of a common technique - lets find something on the line we can say is too costly to justify 'essential' repairs? The Goblin line nearly went that way in the 90's. Wasn't one of the IoW lines also in this category, and the otherwise viable Hayling Island branch?If so, will no doubt have been costed like the one at Ribblehead.
I think the more usual technique was to roll maintenance right back to save costs then 'discover' the cost to bring it up to grade. But the Hayling Island branch wasn't viable by any measure, bridge rotten to the core or not.
Wikipedia claims it was in fact covering is costs, but it wasn't doing any more than that. When the bridge needed repair (and tbf it was more than 90 years old), it would never have returned that investment. The Terriers and coahces were totally life-expired, and with rising costs not being matched by fares additional capital investment was not justifiable.
Hardly nitpicking. The branch was instrumental in creating Aldeburgh as a fashionable Victorian seaside resort, one that was favoured in literary and artistic circles, and remains so. Thomas Hardy took holidays there, for instance, and would have come by train.
.I knew there was a photo of Thomas Hardy on Aldeburgh beach. I have just done a Google search and found that by sheer co-incidence there is an article on Hardy today in the Mail Online which includes that photo. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...enuine-love-match-despite-age-difference.html (scroll down a bit). This was probably in the 1920s but the fact remains that Aldeburgh was established as a genteel resort in Victorian times, helped by the railway reaching it.
