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My wife was working in clinic today - full PPE on - visor, gloves etc - kid comes in for assessment. Looks ill, mum says temperature was checked at school and when asked by my wife child didn't indicate any loss of taste nor smell. But she messages me, how do we tell what is a cold, what is flu and what is coronavirus, when do a refuse to assess someone and send them away? And then there is the one person in Bolton who according to local news infected 200 people causing the lockdown. Mrs W goes to Bolton once a week and mixes with people as part of her job. Woodenhead Towers, feels so safe until I consider that both my wife and child travel about Greater Manchester daily.

I sarcastically meant to decide the result, there are driver of the day polls already yes. F1 want to add some jeopardy to the races but the teams just want a level playing field sprint to the finish. Maybe exciting race tracks engineered to allow overtaking without mechanical aero or electric boost aids would be a start - but that will cost millions whereas a reverse grid costs nothing but makes the whole race a pantomime.

Or they will just go out earlier to go home with someone earlier. The time of day isn't going to stop people doing what they will do and things like Tinder solve the issue of finding someone.

What next, replace results with a phone in and top three decided on votes cast for who's your favourite driver. Simon Cowell and a panel of driving experts (well they drive posh cars) telling us who to vote for.

Unless it's a Grouse shoot or hunting with guns - then it is 30 people. Don't get me wrong I understand the concept of six people but how is shooting or hunting an animal a sport. Hunting a pest near a farm just requires just a farmer, so this is killing just for enjoyment, how lovely that in order to avoid a possible death I must not see more than 6 people but if I want to wander around the countryside with a gun and kill things I can do so with 30 complete strangers. People need to see that what is being imposed only applies to certain classes of people. So when rules like this are applied then the people it is being imposed upon look at the people who don't have to follow it and go, well if they don't have to follow this rule, why should I. Consistency, fair imposition of rules, clarity and proper respect from the top is how you get people to follow, not through badly thought out social media driven scare tactics. It's a curfew next for Newcastle - so this illness only comes out at night does it? Sorry, rant over.

Tampers back, looks like they been away to swap tracks and are not back to complete the other track.

Sorting the ballast in some way. Within the multitude of comments about the work it was suggested it is all plain track, maybe it was just a few straight panels they laid yesterday rather than a switch. Someone suggesting first train at 5am - less than 2 hours away, impressive given the location of the derailment and the busy junctions all around it.

To answer my own question, would they temporarily plain line it - No

To be announced by Rails and usurped by Hornby any day now.

No lookouts below or fencing either to keep people out of shot either

It was off it's bogies as it had to be lifted onto a set, I imagine (as I've not seen it) they did something similar with the fourth wagon as I can only see two on the ground and there are other track vehicles at that end of the viaduct now rather than train vehicles. The middle two perhaps had more damage or it was easier to lift them for some reason than to shift them. They've moved everything now so its on to relaying the track, there were some people inspecting the underside of the bridge but it must be fairly intact/safe as they were below whilst the men above were hefting the wagon about. What do we reckon first train over tomorrow or Friday morning - they've got a whole day to put it right and they may just plain line rather than replace points in an emergency.

They appear to be placing this wagon back onto track rather than lifting off.

Getting ready to lift the next wagon

Both back upright now, ready to be dragged away, they don't hang around

Access is the Devil's own spawn. Maybe I suppose it's ok for home application, I've not touched it in 15 years except once when I was asked to look at a client database and I was able to say not my problem and walkaway.

Excel is the easiest I would say unless you want to do weird and wonderful stuff with it. It's a robust application, why not try an open source version, no cost of licence or need to keep it online only. Libre Office is good, I installed it years ago and have never needed Microsoft again at home. There is also Google Docs as an alternative online. It's no longer a Microsoft World.

Doesn't sound under power, there was a recovery vehicle of sort sort right in front of it moving in time with it. The smoke I think was from the crane alongside it.

It's a double track bridge, so they must have space to shift the locomotive about - the crane is now moving by the side of the upright loco. Looking on Google, perhaps it was a failure on that crossing of some sort as that is where the issue looked to have started before the locos came to rest a little further on.

First loco righted and I imagine sat on some rail, mobile crane on the bridge currently moving it's jib away from the loco.

Still hard at work - one of the carriers was lifted off last night - they had to use gas cutters before it was free to lift. At the moment attention is on the lead loco - there was a lot of equipment in front of it during daylight yesterday and there's stuff there now in a different position. I wonder if they are going to try and recover the locos on the bridge and not lift them off - cannot imagine such a huge lift would be easier than lifting the loco where is stands and sticking some temporary track underneath

I did do a search but nothing apparent, I was in USA though not just overseas prototype, my bad

Anyone else watching the convaluted route the blue 12 wheel dump trucks have to take back and forth across the tracks. "How many wheels on your truck Bubba?" "Six Hank!" "heck that's not enough, stick another 6 little ones on".

I did see it but decided that picking up on minor spelling mistakes is perhaps pedantic.

I was going to ask how many denarii for a coach, I've been saving mine for a trip to Rome but it seems going abroad is rather fraught will peril at present.