Tag: Railway nationalisation

Issue 82:2016 12 1:Hooting and shunting (J.R.Thomas)

1 December 2016 Hooting and Shunting Sorting the ticket price confusion. by J.R.Thomas How difficult can it be to run a railway?  Not the driving and signalling bits; your technically unaccomplished correspondent accepts that all those electrical impulses and wires must make a modern train very complicated.  In the good old days you just chucked… Continue reading Issue 82:2016 12 1:Hooting and shunting (J.R.Thomas)

Issue 38: 2016 01 28:Tories Nationalise Railways (JR Thomas)

28 January 2016 Tories Nationalise Railways by J.R.Thomas Apologies to confused readers; you are right, it is not April Fool’s Day . The proverbial Martian, newly arrived on earth and standing on a garishly decorated railway platform in London, might assume it is though. The Conservative Party is in favour of private enterprise, of allowing… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28:Tories Nationalise Railways (JR Thomas)

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