Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Freedom Pass at risk? | |
Posted by: | Chris Veasey | |
Date/Time: | 14/11/09 09:05:00 |
One-off stunt runs is one thing, but for many years early 20thC the fastest regular station-to-station train run in the British empire (which may well also have meant in the world) was the Darlington-York section of a NE-SW long-distance express service, till the GWR accelerated the Cheltenham Flyer early 1920s to beat it. Perhaps if the Westminster govt hadn't meddled with the ownership of the railways early 1920s and saddled the NER with all those barely profitable or unprofitable London-based and Scotch railways the well worked-up NER scheme for electrifying the mainline from York to Teesside and Tyneside would have happened in the 1920s, making steam-powered speed runs, stunt or regular, a complete irrelevance. |