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Someone rather better-connected than me has intimidated to me that investigations are going on, looking at mobile-phone records. That would be almost mandatory these days though given what has happened recently on motorways.

And therefore Board of Trade inquiries into sea disasters like the "Titanic" are under your "Captain Sensible" attitude entirely a different matter. We all know now that the B of T inquiry into the Titanic was a whitewash job on the "White Star" management and Bruce Ismay, and that the captain...

It's clear that drivers go as fast as they safely can on the late services, where they are also sadly only too likely to have to deal with disruptive passengers. That's my experience even after about 9 p.m. let alone the last bus.

A Board of Trade Inquiry which didn't find out the whole truth or covered up facts which would have shaken passenger confidence into services run by private train operators? Sounds almost like the position today. Did you know Major Pringle?

My memory of events 110 years ago can be faulty, I didn't check on Wiki. Let's just say that "LSWR Drivers later admitted.." which would be pretty close to the truth.

Yes that is extremely worrying. There often seems among public transport drivers an element of competition, even among train drivers as to who can go fastest over a particular stretch of route. In 1906 a boat train from Plymouth derailed travelling at high speed non-stop through Salisbury with...

I was born and brought up in the area. My grandmother lived 200 yards down the road towards Shirley. When the original plans for Tramlink were announced in the early 1990's the key factor was the old Woodside- Sanderstead line which forms the part of the tram route both towards New Addington...