Daily Archives: January 21, 2014


Vaguely Interesting Snippets | 21 January 2014 Britain has fully 108 preserved steam railways. The Economist notes that in 2011 they carried 7.1m passengers. Helping those passengers get from A to, well, usually a little bit further along the line and then back to A, are 18,000 volunteers. They range from the 20 miles of the West Somerset Railway (making it, according to the Daily Telegraph, […]