Thread: Old Dalby Test Track to be used by Metronet
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Old February 17th 07, 10:14 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Old Dalby Test Track to be used by Metronet
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Bruce Fletcher wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

Nonsense! Dangerous modern rubbish! Stagecoaches, sir! Quite satisfactory!

I agree. No less an authority than Dr Dionysius Lardner has warned us of the
dangers of high speed travel.

A much maligned character. What i didn't know, though, is that the GWR
brought Charles Babbage on board to analyse the behaviour of the broad
gauge:

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/history/ikb/broad

tom

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