Search results

And, of course, Tebbit didn't say "get on your bike". He said that when his father lost his job "he didn't riot, he got on his bike" to seek new employment.

But speeding up some existing flows isn't "growth".

There is no evidence that Thatcher ever said this. The aphorism goes back long before her time. It has been attributed to Loelia, Duchess of Westminster (1902-93); a friend of hers says that she got the phrase from a poet named Brian Harwood (1905-58).

I believe a photograph appeared in the railway press - either Railway World or Railway Magazine.

It certainly carried the name, in the sense that it was painted onto the bodyside. Why this happened I have no idea.

Surely, a station pilot is a loco which spends a period of several hours at a station to do anything that needs such a loco to do it? This would involve shunting parcels vans, adding/removing vehicles from trains, shunting from platform to platform. Nowhere requires that sort of work today...

This is a little confusing. By "I found out a letter was sent" do you mean that you now understand that a letter will be sent? Since you were only caught yesterday they'd hardly have already sent a letter. @WesternLancer is correct in outlining what's likely to happen. They will send a letter...

Thank you for those figures (I rather suspected my figure was too low by at least an order of magnitude!). The regional tv news was quoting "a local resident" as saying that the "use of technology" should eliminate such risks. But without any indication of what technology or at what cost. We...

So around 2,000 User Worked Crossings. If I pluck a figure of £100k out of the ether (I suspect it's significantly higher*) that's £200 million. * I have seen suggestions that maintenance can cost up to £100k per annum for some crossings!

It's not about customer service. It's about practicality. And cost.

How much (ball park figure) does an AHB cost? How many such crossings (i.e, user worked) are there?

And where would you put an extra 4 platforms at Wolverhampton given the station's setting?

It looks as though it's user-worked, in which case they should be closed after use by the road user. But - as in many such instances - the users don't bother. (I don't know the area, so I may be wrong.) 1788027084 Reported by whom?

Confiscation of land and property tends to be unpopular, for obvious reasons.

I was a Borough Councillor for 20+ years and sat on the Development Control Committee for seven years. Never encountered any suggestion of "brown envelopes" (if by that you mean bribery). 1787762632 The bus stop you refer to here is nowhere near the proposed station. 4 buses per day (each...

It's a typo on a £3.15 UFN

Is it simply an Unpaid Fare Notice requesting payment? Seems a plausible explanation.

I've used 805s and 807s. The 805s are good but the 807s are excellent! Forum rules probably forbid using the traditional expression, but excrement off a spade comes to mind.

Thank you for finding this, but it all seems rather improbable. Commuters - the population of Heathfield is c.1500, Teigngrace 300. Does that point to a market for commuting to Newton Abbot? Stations - Ownership? Access? Track - Given people can drive from Heathfield to Newton Abbot on the...

We used to manage it quite competently. I suspect it's the loss of single comprehensive authority at individual locations that has contributed to this. 1787507955 It's partly down to different conditions of employment, rules on continuous work, breaks etc.