The GCR route to London ran over MR lines from Quainton Road to London, and to reduce reliance on the shaky goodwill of the MR, GCR General Manager William Pollitt decided to create a link with the Great Western Railway to create a second route into London.
For example, Snips partnered with France's national railway to create an app that predicts up to three days in advance how crowded different trains will be.
The artist has been "abandoning little people on the streets" for the last nine years, using reposed and painted train set figures and props from model railways to create his miniscule scenes often humorous tableaus, like a tiny graffiti artist spray-painting some leaves, figures swimming in a melted lollipop, or skaters using an orange peel as a skatepark.
A director of many railway companies, he had a vision of unifying a string of railway companies to create a single route running from Manchester via London to an intended Channel Tunnel and on to France.
Expect more of the same, from mutualising infrastructure such as railways, to creating assets and savings for working people.
So Kalyani got in an ex-bureaucrat Sunil Chaturvedi, who has held senior positions in the capital goods sectors like heavy industry and railways, with a mandate to create a new set-up for project-oriented businesses.
The Potteries Thinkbelt, for example, redeployed disused railway tracks in Staffordshire to create a new type of mobile university, with seminar units in train carriages and inflatable lecture theatres.
The Great Central Railway's Mainline – Bridging the Nation project, to create a heritage railway museum in Leicester incorporating a unique double-track line between the city and Loughborough, has been awarded £9.9m.
We founded the world's greatest railway museum in York, created a national museum in Bradford, rescued the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester when its future was in doubt, and worked with Durham county council to create a railway museum in Shildon.
Before Christmas he asked passengers to "bear with us over the Christmas period as we undertake this extensive improvement work to create a better railway for passengers and those living near to the railway line".
