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  1. TL: UK Overseas Regions [Redux]
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1: Eden

    Anthony Eden Conservative Premiership, 1953-1960, won election 1955 Eden and Eisenhower oversaw a souring of the US-British relationship following the Second World War. The United Kingdom today owes a significant part of it's heritage to the efforts of Anthony Eden. Taking over from Churchill...

  2. TL: Yorkshire Devolution
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1

    Chapter 1: Much of the history of Yorkshire, and indeed the north, sees a great deal of devolution from the English central government in London - a practical necessity due to the distance in the centuries prior. Yorkshire, a county which dwarfed other English counties, was so large it was...

  3. TL: The Milwaukee Road
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1: The 1970s

    Chapter 1: The 1970s A Milwaukee Road freight operates in the west. By 1970, the Milwaukee Road was struggling to make ends meet with the railroad teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and financial insolvency. High up on the agenda was a drive to increase revenue, improve productivity and...

  4. TL: The UK Overseas Regions
    Threadmarks: Part 1

    And so begins a shortish timeline... ------------------------ The Eden Premiership (Conservative, 1955-1960, won election 1955) The United Kingdom today owes a significant part of it's heritage to the efforts of Anthony Eden. In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal - as legally...

  5. Unbuilt Britain

    A thread for sharing and discussing the unbuilt proposals for "stuff" in Britain, post-1900. To start with (with thanks to @Masked Grizzly , and removed quote tags to make it easier to quote this post). Partly copied across from the semi-contentious "London thinks big" thread.: Proposed...

  6. TL: A Nordic Twist [Redux]
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1: Introduction

    Chapter 1: Introduction Hilmar Baunsgaard; the original architect of Nordek. The Nordic Confederation traces it's history back to the post World War 2 era. Denmark and Norway were recovering from German occupation, whilst Finland recovered from two wars with the Soviet Union (and in view of...

  7. Consequences of Paris falling in 1914

    Hey, I've been reading a load of threads about the possibility of the Germans either capturing or sieging Paris quickly after the start of the World War 1 - a lot get bogged down in the specifics of the 1914 military manoeuvres, but I'd rather skip that part. Let's assume it does - at the very...

  8. TL: The Finnish Referendum
    Threadmarks: 16th August

    Hi all, taking a little break from rail writing, and in to my other favourite area of the Nordics. I wanted to write something about a unified Nordics state, which then narrowed in to Sweden-Finland and taking Norway, and what that could like in the modern day. I should say a big thank you to...

  9. WI: Technologies

    One of the spinoffs from my other musings has had me pondering the myriad of technology what ifs, and was wondering what other ones people have thought about, or seen in other TLs? The main ones for me have been: What if Firewire was more successful over USB? I'm particularly intrigued by...

  10. 12:08 - Redux
    Threadmarks: 1953

    Choo chooooooo (it's a bit hard to write down diesel or electric sounds)! So, you've had a couple of years break from my talking trains (although I have witnessed a "few" other rail threads popping up recently!). What was Devvy-spawn has now grown significantly to the point where I'm not having...

  11. The Union State

    The television screen crackled for a moment as the next programme started. For all the fibre that has been installed across the Union, catapulting digital cable television to the fore, the set top box was of varying quality depending on who you used as your service operator. The choice was wide...

  12. TL: The European Community (Anglo-French Union)

    World statesmen who provided the stimulus towards integration; left to right: Schumacher (Germany), Nasser (Egypt), Eisenhower (USA), Stalin (Soviet Union) Excerpt from "Channel Integration", by Henri Miskin Many a man could point at two points in history for the eventual union of the member...

  13. TL: The Double Headed Arrow (UK Trains)

    Credit: John Ragla Yes, I'm back again. Yes, it's more trains. If you don't like talking about trains, leave this thread now! :) Over the last 6-8 months or so, I've been slowly collating information and working on a substantial rewrite to my earlier UK trains timeline. I did start working on...

  14. TL: The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

    In-vogue introduction stuff: After gallivanting around the Middle East (Jordan and Israel) over the last few years, I just wanted to write something about the region. So here we go. It's written as a travel diary format - I experimented with this ages ago about the Nordics but wasn't happy...

  15. AHC: Get the UK to drive on the right hand side

    While, as a Brit, I enjoy the quirks of life that make us drive on the left in contrast to much of the world, what could push us into literally switching sides? I've read that the DoT considered it in the 1960s. And especially when we joined the EEC in 1973, right-side driving would have...

  16. TL: The Imperial Evolution (a stronger Commonwealth)

    This is a TL I've had on a backburner and side project for a while; how can the British Empire survive... Obviously not as an Empire. But by embracing Imperial Preference schemes, and the evolution then into a Commonwealth. Although I've kept the year summaries semi-brief, and only really...

  17. Kinnock wins in 1992 UK election

    In my 16:51 TL, I loosely mentioned that Kinnock won the 1992 general election in the UK as a side point. What are people's thoughts on the knock-on effects of this - both in the UK and Europe? I've seen suggestions on this forum in past threads that Kinnock was looking at lowering the value...

  18. 16:51 Service to (Rail in the UK, mk2)

    Yes, this is a semi-remake of my earlier 12:08 British Rail tl from a few years ago. It's a very different PoD, starting from the early 1980s, with the "Fares Fair" policy working out differently, which has substantial ramifications. No, I haven't abandoned my Nordic TL yet; I'm just still...

  19. A Nordic Twist to Europe (Nordic Confederation)

    Chapter 1 May 1992 Headline from newspaper: Swiss decide to postpone EU application, focus initially on economic integration announces minister The Nordic Confederation, looking back, owes it's existence to several independent yet connected events in the first half of the 1990s. 1994 is the...

  20. A Fractured Fibula (A Napoleonic Europe TL)

    A History of Modern Europe The Treaty of Tilsit is often regarding as one of the major turning points of Modern Europe. The begrudging peace between what were two of the Imperial Mights of Europe spelled out peace across the continent. Only the third Imperial(3); Great Britain remained hostile...
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