Recent content by Norm_D_Ploom

And convicted criminal

The process was started long before him so please don't try to camouflage his failings. We are turning prime arable pasture into solar arrays yet importing more daily foodstuffs. Imbecile behaviour. NG will have rely on imports because they refused further production licences in the NS, whether...

There was an awful lot of generation capacity added to the grid in the early/ mid 90's the majority of if from CCGT. Those facilities are approaching life expiry. The energy situation is multifaceted but the decision to turn away from NG, the reluctance to embrace at scale EFW (solving 2...

Thanks. Return journey will involve a short transit from close to Central

Arras is close enough. The WW1 tunnel complex is worth a visit

Just found this thread having booked a holiday via Es to Brussels. Slightly concerned about the comments around the stations on the city !! For what it's worth surprised Köln and Essen getting mentioned.

If it was easy it would have been done by now

How very cynical, but incredibly accurate, of you !!

Thanks

I haven't read all 49 pages so apologies if previously asked but could they replace 319 in Northern? What about in Scotland, any use? Or to form new services Donny all stops to Edinburgh does that work? Could they supplement Brum / Cov to Manc to minimise diesel under wire?

From personal experience I would say 6 or 8 car. I'm not sure about frequency in total because I'm only usually concerned about getting my train to whichever station I've decided to park at. However it not unusual to see a couple of q's go while waiting so I'd guess around 5 / 10 minutes between...

I always use Chiltern from Wembley Stadium station and I'm not sure I agree with that statement

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DB did a lot of that though didn'tthey ? ( along with new lines) and for a while it worked OK.

Yes, improvements could have been made to every line coming out of every London terminus. But it costs a lot more to work alongside a live railway and can involve significant disruption whilst you do it. So we're back to HS2 being the correct concept but delivered incorrectly.