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No, South Yorks and Peak District were about the furthest north of anything that wasn’t just an odd shower.

Heritage railways are entirely irrelevant to a discussion about a working railway, timescales, line utilisation levels, line speeds, requirement to be up and running again etc are completely different. The only similarity is that the H&S requirements for both for removing felled trees are...

Heritage railways are completely different, both in scale of service and risk to the general travelling public.

What 'European kerfuffle'?

What about all those not going on one way trips?

It’s absolutely the point. The topographical considerations and relative remoteness are entirely different apart from a very small part of the Netherlands…

I’m sure they’ll have taken it on board… They’re currently in the Amber area and have been all day…

Hope Valley and Edale ARE in the hills, that's the point... they don't receive significantly, if any, less snow than the hills immediately around them.

There was a photo on Instagram this morning of the Kyle line past Achnasheen. There's been so much snow that it's difficult to make out the route of the track even, so a lot more work needed to get it operational for passengers or any other train. Apologies for the image quality, but you get the...

Although despite the recent good news re Teesside in terms of contracts it still loses £3-4mn a year.

It’s not reality. Much has been made by people slightly desperately trying to find ways to make DSA viable as it becomes apparent that neither passenger or cargo airlines are really that interested. The actual reality is that there is no chance at all of a military aerospace company that needs...

It’s genuinely not about ‘outlooks’, it’s about understanding the dire financial prospects for this airport (if it ever reopens) and the existing factors that make this the case as opposed to goal post moving and ever more outlandish scenarios that could make it viable.

I’m not sure whether you’re actually being serious now. Neither LBA or MAN will get a penny of SY public money spent on them as a result of DSA not being funded. That really isn’t how it works. SY certainly isn’t more densely populated than West Yorks, having a little over half the WY...

It’s not pessimistic, it’s realistic to anyone with an understanding of the industry. There is no ‘main point’. There’s absolutely no need to improve air links for S Yorks residents, within S Yorks or anywhere else as they’re already well served by the surrounding established (and profitable)...

If there is then it won’t be Airbus that builds it… Trainers are an off the shelf option at this point in time, the likely contenders for the RAF (and most other western countries) have already been identified which will cover the next 2 to 3 decades, there’s no need for brand new airframe...

No regular runs now, but the MoD still operates 4 Ro-Ro ships under charter from Foreland (PFI build originally), the Point class which are used to transport kit on an as required basis. They're available for civvy hire when not being used for MOD purposes, but spend most of their time on MOD work.

Agree with much of this, if something like this has to be done then better it’s done properly by a specialist design agency.

To remind people of how terrible it used to be? No thanks…

it’s not clear what age the teenage daughters were but if they’re under 18 that would have been an extremely unwise thing to do from a legal and safeguarding point of view.

The staff member may not be solely locking stations, he may also have other non-rail related duties to carry out that are also time specific.