KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
I like the shadows of the telegraph lines on the engine Frank. At first glance I wondered what they were.
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I do wonder how much difference there would have been if the BG had been more widely adopted. Whether we would have had an irretrievably split network because neither the BG or SG might have had enough leverage to overturn the other, whether the switch to SG might have taken place in the 1900s (or later - e.g. post-WWI) or whether a switch to BG might have occurred! The argument by the proponents of the standard gauge made much to the parliamentary hearings about the "great evil" of transhipment, yet by the early 1900s it is proved by the road wagon working timetables that "the great evil" of transhipment of goods on the wholly standard-gauge national network was taking place each and every day goods train operated!!! Taking place widely too when it came to consignments which were less than than vanload/wagonload size, due to the "great efficiency" of transhipment of these consignments in to consolidated loads! When I read this stuff it comes home how lobbyists then were no less mendacious, manipulative nor economical with the truth than they are today. The men doing this were every bit as sophisticated politically then as they are now.