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Alma is also a biblical name .
& A name of it's own right in some languages

In Spanish it means Soul

I don't know the Arabic meaning it is used to describe dancers .

So Girls with that name probably not named after the battle .

With the connections between Andalusia I would guess at the same or similar meaning.i do seem to recall there was a Spanish connection in the case I mentioned,so perhaps.

Do we actually own anything these days?     I thought the French were major shareholders in most things British.

I remember  the "Beeching Cuts" to the railways, due to the maintenance being 8 men per mile as opposed to one man per mile to maintain the road network.

Strange thing was that many of the additional men quoted as 7 extra per mile were due to a variety of saety resrictions imposed over the years by the Parliament which set up the Beeching enquiry.
Times have changed, we are 60 years on, and the Beeching report is irrelevant though it got him his peerage.

If it had become known to the railway ompany that he had served a prison sentance he would not have been in railway employment for more than a few further hours in that era.

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As regards the foul up in London with no main lines continuous from south of London to the North, blame this on the 19th century House of Lords and in the main the Duke of Westminster who would have vetoed the lines unless they did not cross Euston Road.
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Feeling a little stroppy tonight, so perhaps it would have been a good idea that the lines now be made to cross Euston Road, preferably on level crossings at grade. Imagine what a line straight out of the front of Kings Cross at grade and continuing on to the Southern Termini would do to road traffic, say 60 trains an hour out of the front of Kings Cross for a start.