...stops freight running west to Hampstead Heath, reversing through Gospel Oak to Junction Road, then running west via Junction Road Junction to the MML? Two reverses! That could work, i just didn't think of it. The ... the link to the MML. You can't do that at Junction Road Junction: you either have to carry on to Upper Holloway, where there's...

... the MML. Score one for the Goblin! I don't believe there's any way for it to do this without reversing at the moment, and even with a reverse, it has to go via the WCML, Acton Wells and Dudden Hill. Or am i missing something? What stops freight running west to Hampstead Heath, reversing through Gospel Oak to Junction Road, then running west via Junction Road Junction to the MML?

"Tom Anderson" <twic@urchin.earth.li> wrote Junction Road Junction. That is a brilliant name for a junction. When it had a signalbox with that as its name plate it ought to have been twinned with Box, where the box nameplate read 'Box Signal Box' Peter

..., meaning southbound ECML trains can't get onto it eaily. Plus anything electric. Plus various occasional traffic like diverted sleepers heading for the ECML. OTOH there is no access from the NLL to the MML, whereas from the Goblin there is the connection via Junction Road Junction. That is a brilliant name for a junction. tom -- got a DOCTORATE in cold ROCKIN' IT

... at the other end are more important - the Goblin has no equivalent to Canonbury tunnel, meaning southbound ECML trains can't get onto it eaily. Plus anything electric. Plus various occasional traffic like diverted sleepers heading for the ECML. OTOH there is no access from the NLL to the MML, whereas from the Goblin there is the connection via Junction Road Junction. Peter

.... "Motorists face a postcode lottery under Government plans to introduce road tolls. Car owners from wealthier districts could find themselves paying more than ...areas. A 300-page document issued to firms bidding to run road-pricing trials says any scheme must take account of 'fairness' and different 'road user classes'. The pay-as-you-drive charges of up to £1.50...

....com> writes Are the 'Tired' was that not a Russian truck in the 60's? No idea, but I well remember their Moskovich cars from about that period. They got banned from the roads here after some government department did tests on them and found that they all had a braking defect which caused them all to veer away from a straight line under braking. And on full lock the tyres...

... <tony.dragon@btinternet.com> writes Are the 'Tired' was that not a Russian truck in the 60's? No idea, but I well remember their Moskovich cars from about that period. They got banned from the roads here after some government department did tests on them and found that they all had a braking defect which caused them all to veer away from a straight line under braking. -- Clive

...lighter. Any guesses? " traffic policeman on a training exercise reached 104mph on a country road before losing control and killing another driver, a court has heard. PC Sean Schofield, ..., was driving a high-performance Volvo T5 when he crossed on to the wrong side of the road at a bend. The police car smashed head-on into a VW Touran, killing driver Peter Williams,...

...lighter. Any guesses? " traffic policeman on a training exercise reached 104mph on a country road before losing control and killing another driver, a court has heard. PC Sean Schofield,... was driving a high-performance Volvo T5 when he crossed on to the wrong side of the road at a bend. The police car smashed head-on into a VW Touran, killing driver Peter Williams...