From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #40 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, April 30 2011 Volume 19 : Number 040 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The last main line [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] White music [Stewart Russell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:16:43 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: The last main line Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:40:31 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Great Central Revisited Anyone know what "Great Central" in the title of Kimberly's 2002 record refers to? Is it a railway line? J * It is indeed! Or rather was until 1966, when it was closed on the 1963 recommendation of the notorious Dr Richard Beeching as approved by the Labour government 3 years later after promising not to... see 'The Last Main Line' at http://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/ * There is still a preservation group in Loughborough named the Great Central http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/ but it no longer runs a main line from London Marylebone to Manchester or Sheffield. * Kim obviously misses it as much as I do! - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:00:48 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: White music Anyone got a ripped copy of XTC's White Music, please? Mine looks like has been attacked by space gerbils. Thanks Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ - 73 de VA3PID ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #40 *******************************