Clive
'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 ...
Great, so now you need to file a complaint about the complaints procedure Here some points I have heard on Radio 4 recently. It goes something roughly like this. It costs £610,000 for the basic training of a doctor. Of the 5000 being trained for the shortfall, the prediction is that half of these will be moving to Australia. When a student graduating with a loan of say £40 to ...
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 ...
As below: http://www.ice.org.uk/News-Public-Affairs/ICE-News/Happy-engineers-get-dancing-to-Pharrell-hit
Nice one Lynne. Here's a similar idea and I joke not. The 'Orange Army' did an astoundingly quick job puttig the railway back up and running and the Institution of Civil Engineerng was quite rightly proud of it. Have some fun watching the attached link of their latest promo 'Happy Video. It is completely London centric. Then ask yourself is there something similar Dawlish could put together ...
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 ...
Joking aside, Tangmere did actually have a potentially serious accident last November 23rd at Winchfield on the way back to Waterloo from Weymouth. It was reported in this month's rail magazines that a connecting pin at the front of it's driving wheels sheared off leaving the long connecting rod potentially able to 'pole vault' the loco off the rails. Luckily the train was only doing 40mph and ...
