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This link should take you to the transcript. http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/WrittenEvidence.svc/EvidenceHtml/6845
@stephen15 - thank you for the step by step guidance. have now found it. will post the link on separate thread. thank you once again.
@stephen15 - can you send me a link please. all i can find is this http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmtran/681/681.pdf
FB - my thoughts, for what they are worth, on your post above. Oh dear what a half empty glass you have. There has been lots of discussion on this website and no doubt elsewhere as to the need to improve the sea defences. What happened last month has brought it home just how much the sea defences are needed and that they need improving. Perhaps you haven't read the postings on here or read ...
I don't see why? Do you? We are where we are with regard to the railway line. And we can either see doom and gloom because of it or see it as a golden opportunty. Just think how much 'free' publicity, both nationally and internationally Dawlish has achieved because of what has happened. And do you know what? I actually think that the publicity will increase the numbers visiting the town ...
Isn't Network Rail responsible for maintaining the wall? “Network Rail is a company limited by guarantee, and was established in March 2002. It is a private company with a board of directors, but does not have shareholders. It's members are drawn from the rail industry and the public. Its accountable to its customers and funded through a mixture of access revenue, paid to it by the train ...
What a very appropriate name for a pub in Dawlish............
Then there is Prof. Roger Falconer of Cardiff University. https://www.engin.cf.ac.uk/whoswho/profile.asp?RecordNo=19 Wonder what he'd have to say?
@stephen15 - transport select committee meeting was broadcast on the parliament channel 81 last night. saw most of it. will try and get transcript. noted that nr chief exec talked of looking at building breakwater here. @leatash - would agree with virtually everything you say in your post above. but thing is, and as i have pointed out before, we need to protect this bit of the coastline as ...
@stephen15 what i am saying is that the railway needs to be up and running asap and then to make it more resilient for the long term more engineering work out at sea will be needed ie a breakwater/reef. and before anyone tells me that i'm not an engineer, an oceanographer, a hydrologist, or any other profession that would give me an informed opinion on this matter, i would agree. it just strikes ...
