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Oh Dear: Axe to fall on rail network

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    #11
    Bummer...I just bought a season ticket on my heavily subsidized line - the Clitheroe line in East Lancs.

    Sigh..from the council tax, to the broken washer, to the car heater breaking, to the baby crying, now my train is being canned. Its all becoming too much!!!
    McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
    Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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      #12
      Originally posted by stackpole
      Assuming your train didn't fly off the track into the south midlands countryside.
      Which, lets face it, could only be an improvement.
      "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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        #13
        Why mothball etc. etc. why not just tarmac the freaking things over and make nice new highways out of it?
        Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
        threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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          #14
          Well done Zeitghost.

          About twenty years ago I went to British Rail for an interview, and he asked me "Shouldn't railways be just be covered in tarmac".

          I thought long and hard, efficiency? no, cheaper? no they cost a fortune, more comfortable nope, more reliable, err ? in fact I ummed and arred so long he realised I agreed with him and then went onto the next question.

          hmm now at last the answer, I was supposed to have given
          Last edited by BlasterBates; 1 February 2006, 15:38.
          I'm alright Jack

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            #15
            Originally posted by zeitghost
            Coz they're a bit narrow?
            Ah, you're only thinking of the width of the track (4 foot 8 an'alf inches when I were a lad)

            But even a single track line is at least 36 foot wide, when you include the bed either side and the cess etc. etc.

            HTH

            Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
            threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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