Acrosticus wrote:
From: "Cast_Iron"
Date: 18/07/2003 21:16 GMT Daylight Time
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Acrosticus wrote:
From: "Cast_Iron"
Date: 17/07/2003 20:17 GMT Daylight Time

Start here http://www.trainweb.org/railwaytechnical/

Try also: Practical Railway Engineering, Bonnett,
Clifford
F., 1996, Imperial College Press, London

Errm, the man wrote "transport" don't forget. That's a bit
wider than just railways.

Supposing I don't have any immediate access to resources
for modes other than railways?

Try thinking before putting finger to keyboard, if you
have the capacity!

Without wishing to develop this into some kind of "flame
war", perhaps I could suggest that you also:

Try thinking before putting finger to keyboard, if you
have the capacity!

and realise that "transport" ain't just trains.

Of that I'm fully aware having worked on and used most modes.


Most newcomers to a subject will ask questions that are
somewhat unstructured, and this seems to have been the case
here. To respond in a definitive looking way about railways
only may not provide the questioner with the information he
is looking for.

True, but are you really suggesting that I should give him no help or advice
simply because I cannot *immediately* lay my hands on a comprehensive
catalogue. I notice that you have contributed nothing to the posters request
merely sought to criticise another you made an attempt to get him/her
started.


Thanks however for the suggestion that I:

Try thinking before putting finger to keyboard, if you
have the capacity!

I'm just looking up at my BA certificate on the wall now
and wondering whether the fact I've got it means I can
think.

Like many people, you appear to be suggesting that education and
intelligence are one and the same thing. Have you never heard the phrase
that someone is educated beyond their intelligence? I've met many graduates
who are very intelligent and some that are as thick as five short planks and
couldn't work out that it was possible to walk and talk at the same time.
I've also met people with no post 16 education but who could leave a great
many graduates standing in the thinking stakes.