Re: BBC News - Snow's Gone Metric


"John Rowland" <johnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Blah wrote:
John Rowland wrote:
M.I.5¾ wrote:
I perhaps should have added that given the months and months of West
coast modernisation, that the Great Western Railway converted its
entire network from broad guage to standard guage in just *one*
weekend. This entailed the complete relaying of the track of the
whole network. The first (brand new) trains ran on Monday morning
exactly as timetabled.

Utter utter utter rubbish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Railway#The_.22gauge_war.22



Which says:

"Once the GWR was in control of the whole line from London to Penzance
it set about converting the remaining broad gauge tracks. The last
broad gauge service left Paddington station on Friday 20 May 1892; the
following Monday trains from Penzance were operated by standard gauge
locomotives"

your point was?

The railway was converted to mixed gauge over a long period. There were
standard gauge trains from Paddington to more and more destinations over
that period. When the final branch had been converted to mixed gauge with
the exception of a few complex junctions, the final weekend then involved
converting those junctions to standard gauge, not "its entire network".


No that's not correct. There were mixed guage sections of the GWR but only
where they shared track with other Standard guage railway companies.

You should not believe what you read on Wikipedia, especially railway
articles as most of them are driven by an arrogant train spotter who won't
allow anything to be included that differs from his own personal (and often
inaccurate) knowledge.


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