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When mass hysteria like this becomes common place ..... it is only a matter of time before .....
'On the Buses' with Reg Varney?
Except one needs to bear in mind that Plymouth is the single biggest destination (hence paying most towards the upkeep of the wall) and does not have anything remotely resembling a respectable mainline standard railway to it from Exeter. My vote is that to be fit for purpose every mainline in this country should be heading towards a future of being equiped with 25kV and Pendolinos. And if ...
Perhaps the district council planners also like to put their reputation 'on the line' that west of Tiverton will not be disrupted again this winter. Do they really believe it was just an extraordinary 1:100 year event? I think not. Services terminating at T.Parkway has become a perfectly predictable part of our winter timetable.
1. Don't know why the WMN is sounding so surprised. Don't their reporters keep up with the plot? Or perhaps they are looking for a sensational sounding headline. Point is, as I think we all know already, the £35m is just the bear minimum to try to stop another catestrophic collapse again this winter. It in no way provides resilience in the true sense of the word either this winter or more ...
Am actually a fan of HS2 - it's about 50 years late and very badly needed. It's not about the speed but capacity. The justification for it being so fast is that when you build new infrastructure it has to be future proofed. Having said that I do believe that it is not the optimun design. It's the interconnectivity with existing lines that is lacking, that plus it is a bit unnecessarily fast, ...
@wondering - this article is actually factually incorrect. i got my little scale ruler out and even a dead straight line from alphinton to newton abbot station doesn't clip anywhere near 12miles off. aso the best a 125mph line would shave off between these stations is 5mins. and that is half the problem with getting such a high speed line built. several billion pounds for 5mins quiker just ...
Investigating how the truck became overwhelmed...don't they know already that the answer is something to do with the moon and some clot who clearly cannot read a tide timetable :)
So if we can believe our politicians that crime rates are genuinely down, and add to that only 50% of sentence lengths are served, can someone wise me up why the prisons are bulging with inmates? Are police and justice simply more sucessful at catching and prosecuting or is there another factor at play here? @fannyann - hmm, kind of fits with what a retired policeman once told me - '...if ...
Apparently one mistake solar panel planners make is to have most of them facing south. Although intuitively this makes sense, they have found in Germany that it is better to have a mix of east, south and west facing panels to avoid a midday spike in the supply.
