Bit of a crazy B going backwards, but excellent nonetheless. I know that I am Completely lost to virtual travel when I recognised some of the curved buildings on the left from freight trips I have been on😂
Looking at the track bed shows how thinned out or "rationalised" the running roads are, compared to when they were built. Track radius may have improved timings slightly, but it's obvious how much more rail the area once accommodated. Slow lines and loops have been eliminated, as well as track to private sidings and railway sheds. Trees would never have encroached in steam days as they do today. It was much easier to put a stopping train out the way of an express. Now everything goes at the speed of the slowest occupant. Is it naïve to ask if network rail should put in more metals before going for faster trains?
