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That's narrow gauge not a true monorail as it has two running surfaces. one either side of the slot. See the tunnel sections and you will see the two rails.
You need somewhere for the wheels go, otherwise they will be tiny. These higher seat are like by people who have problem getting up or down. As they can sit on the seat and bring their legs around. It is normal for the pantograph to be raised so there is power for the AC.
Its the employer who lining their pockets. When you can recover your housing layouts cost after two weeks, each caravan or hut brings in between £400 to £800 each week when you deduct the housing charge from the pay packet. With other deductions, the weekly pay packet is only about £100, this is...
It is to the employers lining their pockets. You can buy a caravan not longer fit for the road dirt cheap (Less than £500), Park a row of them in a field each with their own water tap connected with a ex hire Shower and loo porter cabin in the middle of the site. With 3 to 6 people per caravan...
That's due to pay levels in these jobs dropping. Take farming for example, they prefer to inport cheap labour for they make more money this way. Farm staff used to have tied homes, not anymore, Now the staff are packed in huts or caravans 4 to 8 in each one. These staff are than charged for this...
Bus: On a school trip in the 1970's using routemaster when the bus driver made a wrong and went under a low bridge (Foot to low), ripping the roof off the first ten feet. Being in the 3rd row on the top deck, very much a brown trouser moment
Train: 11th December 1988 was on the 17.32pm...
Most Agencies did not put their non-working clients on furlough, zero hours contracts mean just that. Unemployment went up by over million within weeks of the start of the shut down.
Freight wagons carry steel that were hauled along short sections of the old Glasgow tramway network before it was closed by small electric locomotives to the shipyards from the nearest mainline freight yards.
That is just one view of the story, In the modern retelling of the story, Ben Franklin’s kite is struck by lightning and the electrical current travels down the hemp rope to the metal key. When Franklin touched the key, he received an electrical shock. That’s probably not how it happened...
On June 10, 1752
Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm and collects ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar(primitive capacitor) , enabling him to demonstrate the connection between lightning and electricity. Fly a kite string close to a high voltage line you collect the...
You quoted 'Does anyone know when tickets for mid-October should be available on this route?' Which is what I searched for, dates used were 17th and 19th October. Both via New Street or Newport
Via Newport
IET , Rock hard seats, poor or no buffet at all, Poor design of cycle space (The process of loading and unloading of cycles not taken in to account in the design process) As the interior colour and lighting, done by the office boy as it was the designers day off. The only train that required me...
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