General Discussion
@Mrs C - 'closing the line' - where did heck that come from!! no, no, no, don't get me wrong, i love the stretch, and visited it out of choice countless times when living for many years in exeter. it's also the best relief of scenery to pass the time on a lengthy journey to cornwall. need something on a route that takes twice as long as getting to paris from london. i would die of boredom ...
No wonder the Eurostar is the mode of transport of choice for Euro MPs. All that courtesy food and wine that comes with a first class ticket...silly me thinking it was to do with being green or 'turquoise'
Thanks for that Mrs C., luckily so then. Points to the wall parameters being even more damning. Anyone know what level the sand was pre-1901? Nevertheless, to start to make a real difference to the rest of the wall another 20feet or so of depth is really needed (brilliant breach repair excepted).
'... are able to enjoy tax-payer subsidized drink...' - why exactly?
As per per the below article, and photo why did NR ever claim the line to be resiliant?? The wall at the breach was patently obvious as the location that something bad would happen (says 'Mystic Clive') due to low beach, complete lack of defences, thin stone wall and rubble backfill. Frankly it beggers belief to me how much surprise and hand wringing about the weather there has been at such a ...
@Mrs C - however, not wishing to dodge a reasonable statisical question purely with h&s logic: - Feb/March 1986 – blocked 26/02/86 to 03/3/86 – serious damage to wall at Smugglers Cove. Services commenced on 03/3/86 with the Down Main Line (Westbound) remaining shut until reopened on 11/3/86. And yes I was on a train from Plymouth that was brought to an unscheduled stop and decanted onto a ...
@Mrs C - primarily it's a question of health and safety. you cannot put a price or frequency limitation on that. fact is, fgw send a 2 car train all the way up to the 'soon to happen' (just 12hrs later?) breach section from exeter when there were already stones on the line and dangerous waves. thankfully the driver was proceeding slowly enough to not derail the train. passengers then had to ...
Ref. today's 'Metro, pg.4' The 'South London' home was actually in Wimbledon and sold for £1.2m profit!! Surely the smart 'chess move' would have been to magnanimously refund the full £46k?, looked good, secured the job and reputation of self and party? Some people just don't 'get it' do they?
Handy as it is, should help FGW not to be so daft as to send trains towards Dawlish when track is blocked with stones, or to rescue passengers getting the car wash treatment from sea soaked failed engines
According to the BBC: 'The discrepancy springs from the difference between the size of Mrs Miller's mortgage, which was £525,000 when she entered the Commons in 2005, and the £237,500 purchase price of the five-bedroom property. The commissioner believed she should only have been able to claim expenses for interest payments on the original 1996 mortgage of £215,000 and additional claims were ...
