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  1. LNER Sanity Options

    It is 1941 Sir Nigel Gresley has died and you are made CME in his place. What do you do? The answer is not as straightforward as nothing that Edward Thompson did! The LNER badly needs an equivalent of Stanier's Black Five and 8F (and probably the 4MT 2-6-4 tank engine). Gresley's conjugated...

  2. No London Extension

    Although this was built before 1900 the effects of its not being felt would be post 1900, hence this being in the Post 1900 Forum. The Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway wouldn't change its name to the Great Central , but there would be other knock-ons . Given its close working...

  3. Make the Film "The Battle of Britain" a major international success
    Threadmarks: Film Battle of Britain

    Whilst perusing the "No James Bond" thread the film was mentioned with regards to Harry Saltzman. Now a film was going to be made about it at some time, so lets have the film made at the time the OTL one was made. There was such a lot right with the film as it was made. In no particular order...

  4. A Milton Keynes WI

    In 1965 instead of Linslade being moved from Buckinghamshire to Bedfordshire, Leighton Buzzard is moved from Bedfordshire to Buckinghamshire. So when the planning for the new town (that was OTL built between Wolverton in the north and Bletchley in the south) is started it has Bletchley at the...

  5. WI:Gordon Banks had NOT lost the sight in his right eye?

    We have just lost one of the great goalkeepers of all time. I'll leave it to others to argue between him and Lev Yashin. There has already been one famous (infamous?) time line about him playing against West Germany in the 1970 Quarter Final so I'll choose another POD. What if either the...

  6. Three Lions on the Shirt:Jules Rimet still Dreaming

    What is this? An England Football Team timeline. ? I've pulled out the posts that I made in "The Madman and his Blue Box" and given them their own thread. Why? So they can be read by people who wouldn't look in a Doctor Who thread (and why should they). OK but what's the background? Well...

  7. RNAS NOT included in the RAF in 1918

    To avoid derailing this thread Six More Ark Royals. WI When the RAF is founded in 1918 the Admiralty fights hard to keep the RNAS under its control. The sticking point would be the heavy bombers. Would these be transferred to the RAF or would the Admiralty keep these at least until the end of...

  8. Andre Chapelon CME of the LMS

    WI Sir Josiah Stamp had thought even further out of the box in 1931 and instead of bringing in William Stanier from the GWR instead had asked Andre Chapelon, then at the Chemin de Fer de Paris a Orleans to bring order to the LMS? Chapelon had already revolutionised the performance of the de...

  9. WI:Virginia doesn't secede?

    The Virginia conference on secession was a lot closer than one might imagine. What if the Lincoln administration did at least one of the following 1. Leave Fort Sumter. Even those in Virginia who wished to remain in the Union wanted the garrison withdrawn. 2. Recognising the fragility of the...

  10. The Madman and his Blue Box: Another take on the Doctor

    I can hear the groans "Not another Doctor Who thread!" Well yes it is. This is a spinoff from my "An Alternate Trek" where Gene Roddenberry ended up in the UK making Star Trek with Lew Grade and ITC. This is going to be the story of the Doctor as it happens ITTL. I have already...

  11. York Station

    As this mainly affects trains after 1900 perhaps it should go into that forum but as the station was built in 1877 I've put it here in pre 1900. The politics of why the station is where it is are quite involved but basically the powers that be in York did not want the new station within the city...

  12. WI Brown didn't rescue the banks?

    I'm sure that there must be a thread on this somewhere if so please tell me.(I DO remember my thread HBOS from 2013, that just had to deal with not forcing Lloyds to take it on this is meant to be more general) WI in 2008 Brown doesn't rescue the banks. So he doesn't ram through the merger of...

  13. A Journey North

    He got onto the Manchester train at Bletchley and settled down for the journey. It still went against the grain to get to York via Manchester! He still felt that get to Birmingham New Street and get onto one of the Newcastle or Edinburgh trains from the South West was the “right” way but the...

  14. Internet Licence?

    WI In the UK we didn't have lots of separate Internet Providers but just one? For argument's sake BT or even with a far enough back POD the GPO (which used to run Britain's telephones). So by paying a Licence fee (as per Television) you could access the internet anywhere in the UK where there...

  15. Plane most affected(badly) by the original specification?

    OK after a suggestion in another thread: which plane, which could have been successful IF the designer had had a free hand, was most badly affected by the government/air force requirements or meddling? Two to start with; 1:The Defiant which if it had had even two forward firing guns could have...

  16. Why not dandelions?

    Lettuce has been cultivated since Ancient Egyptian times. However it is still prone to diseases. So why wasn't the dandelion cultivated in the same way? Its leaves are just as delicious as the lettuce in salad and it is a lot more resistant to whatever is thrown at it (thus speaks the man who...

  17. AH Vignette: A Life more Northern

    Frank looked on happily as the election result for his old constituency was announced. His successor Rachael Maskell had won comfortably and had even increased the Labour majority! He then reflected on his parliamentary career, it had been full of surprising twists, one major success and one...

  18. In Britannia Salutem
    Threadmarks: 452 AD

    An Alternate Night of the Long Knives No, not that one! This is the one that has gone down in infamy in British (NOT English) folklore. I wondered what would happen if Vortigern was not a complete idiot (just one most of the time) and showed a touch of the Vitali (sorry Cymraeg:eek:) Also...

  19. DBWI:Jimmy Adamson does NOT become England Manager in 1962

    As we know Jimmy Adamson was the FA's first choice as England Manager when Walter Winterbottom resigned in 1962 (or was pushed it depends on your interpretation!). It is on record that he nearly turned the job down. What would have happened if he had done? Who would the FA have turned to? Would...

  20. The Light Brigade does what Raglan intended

    WI The Light Brigade actually does what Raglan intended it should and attacks the batterries that the Russians were attempting to move rather than those which were dug in and fully manned? (Apart from at least changing Tennyson's poem!). I can't see it materially changing the oucome of the...
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