For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
New Channel Tunnel services planned by Eurostar and Deutsche Bahn appear likely after the European Railway Agency approved tunnel safety rule amendments. Both Eurostar and DB have chosen trains by Siemens with power sources underneath each carriage. Previous rules allowed power sources only at either end of the train, as with the model used by Alstom, a French train manufacturer and rival to ...
For the Tories the problem is people, not policy. David Cameron’s all-female shortlists are a way to boost the talent pool
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It’s not about women, it’s about taking power (Times Online)
Feminism has never had it so bad. Britain is riven with porn culture and a generation is in thrall to a sexist agenda
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When feminism went nuts (Times Online)
The days of suffering in silence will soon be over for rail passengers who endure rude staff, dirty trains and blocked lavatories on one of Britain’s busiest commuter franchises.
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Southern Rail faces big fines unless number of complaints drops (Times Online)
A group of schoolchildren stand on the track in Battersea Park wearing oversized white T-shirts and listening intently to their instructions. They split into groups and prepare for a relay race. “Hey, this team’s the lucky one,” says Jeanette Kwakye, “you’ve got me on your team.”
Continue here: Jeanette Kwakye: full of running (Times Online)
I arrive at Hastings at 6.30am in the company of a dozen other passengers, having set off from Brighton at 5.30am with only two others before Norman Baker MP joined at Lewes.
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Andrew Adonis: suffering the railway refreshment desert (Times Online)
The government is promoting the use of electric cars through a subsidy for new purchases. Is this really the way to save the environment?
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Briefing: Electric cars: Plug in, drive off (Times Online)
A couple have kept their love alive by spending 20 years building a model of the town where they first met.
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Model couple re-create the town where they first met (Times Online)
Keith Beadle has created a unique space-saving toy... an upside-down railway that runs on the ceiling. The railway modelling enthusiast spent three years perfecting the system, which uses a series of carefully balanced magnets to hold the locomotives and rolling stock in place.
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Model railway enthusiast Keith Beadle makes a space odyssey (Times Online)