Foulounoux

Having driven back along the A30 yesterday from Launceston 10hrs might be a bit quick for a bank holiday;-)

Well it made a debate in the national assembly last week I follow the AngouLim page on Facebook and lots of activity including recent protest walk along the line. Although most of the local chabanais posts this week were around the Vienne floods apparently the river rose 4m rather quickly Colin

Well at least this one can't be blamed on HS2..... or has that TBM taken an extended trip .

Phil you may say double standards I say appropriate risk analysis driven approaches Just in same way at airports different groups of passengers arriving from certain destination get different treatment Maybe in some future universe with international trains from various European cities the same approach would apply ie Amsterdam trains get treated differently (behind the scenes ) to trains originsting from say Strasbourg based on what risks they present. Ie more overt drug detection measures for one of them

Adding this for reference https://www.eurotunnel.com/uk/travelling-with-us/safety-and-security/

Your car at Eurotunnel may well have been x-rayed Those rather large boxes just before French passport controls and the great big signs saying warning x rays don't stop in the marked area.....

Most security checks are intelligence led, so just because you haven't been submitted to additional checks don't assume they don't happen. Years ago after an old boss decided we would stop at tobacco alley he was rather surprised to be pulled in for additional checks and it was clear that this wasnt random and our shopping trip had been observed Frequently cars are routed after UK passport control and before French control for explosives checks And we have seen cars pulled in for more exhaustive checks There are also x-ray checks, with warning signs not to queue in the x-ray zone but frequently ignored Car and passenger details must be submitted in advance I'd also suggest that the navettes are designed to take into account any such incident And Eurotunnel have also made preparations for the impending new controls. We have been users for 29 years and seen additional controls implemented over that time

We were very fortunate Richard Hale School in Hertford and Halerail A geography teacher who also happened to be a rail photographer one AEYoung (I note many of his photos on disused station site) End of term days where school trips were arranged including rail excursions Blackpool York etc , trips to London terminii and arranged trips to Finsbury Park and Old Oak Common And managed to get connections to Sir Peter Parker and Bert Gemmell (chief passenger manager ER and creator of the sidings hotel) which enabled some pupils to get tickets for the inaugural Silver Jubilee in 1977 Plus for me dad working in London and having to go into the office on Saturdays meant trips to London in Cravens sat of course behind the driver

I spent a few months contacting for the MOD 3 of us contractors 2 ex forces covering 13 vacant roles and in 6 months we had the outstanding order balance at the lowest it have ever been. The debrief when I left for a permanent role was enlightening....for the MOD

I purchased 4 Bemo Rhb coaches all perfect and for <20 £ a coach I was expecting at least one to have a problem but all good

As until recently the EMEA Warranty Manager and still closely related to the claims team for a manufacturing company I really empathise with Accurascales comments about contacting support The number of time I have had to counter a sales manager who happily says oh we have a massive problem with product x. I pull the claim datav and respond No wevdont we have had 5 claims in 4 years and 3 were dekivery and the other 2 claims are separate issue to what you claim. Of course turns out noone has contacted warranty so we had no parts returned Getting product back is vital a) It gets the claim recorded in the system so we get to build a picture is it a one off or something more serious ie multiple returns from different customers b) We can analyse the product to determine root cause and take action c) We can inform the customer if we believe the issue is application And we also have to deal with product that has been altered by the customer of course we can deny straight away but given we are often dealing with large oems anc some custimers who are explicitly allowed to adjust product the this not always the right response so I had the team consider one simple question Did the alteration cause the failure? if yes then we need to explain that as the alteration may still have been sometging the customer woukd reasonably expect to do without cauing a problem. If the alteration did not cause the failure then we need to focus on finding what did The aim is always to learn from returns to improve products Of course as a B2B business it's slightly less personal/emotional than retailing to the public

Great photos Until a few years ago Morges was a regular destination for me as our EMEA HQ until it was moved to Budapest and always by train from Geneva airport Never had the opportunity to stop in Geneva so these posts are answering questions I had

Just one observation on 4 tracking and capacity towards London Welwyn

Reading the arguments about speed and see responses that 186MPH v 140mph/125mph But surely the issue is that the design was for 225mph 360kph and that requirement meant gentler gradients/ larger radius curves etc. And this had an exponential effect on costs Even if the trains will now run at more conventional LGV speeds

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/getlink_doublement-des-destinations-directes-via-ugcPost-7141396012505432064-S3aV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android Getlink post on linkedin

Back to the original purpose of the thread https://www-kentonline-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/amp/the-67m-scheme-to-bust-kents-holiday-season-border-gridloc-298635/?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From %1%24s&aoh=17027216922764&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kentonline.co.uk%2Ffolkestone%2Fnews%2Fthe-67m-scheme-to-bust-kents-holiday-season-border-gridloc-298635%2F Most of the article is about how eurotunnel will mitigate the impact of the new border controls by having processes in series. But towards the end is the statement that Eurotunnel are looking to expand the range of operators using the tunnel

B.....r I was just about to go full throttle on our involvement :-)

Maybe model it as a double track line that has been singled...trackbed showing remnants of the second line

Coming back to my OP seems to be taking a step forward

Lets just say in those days heckling at party conference didn't lead to eviction .....well no one evicted me:-)

Just spare a thought for those of us who were conservative party activists in the past, and now are politically homeless That network north document looks like it was drafted on the proverbial fag packet, not just the contents but even the some of the sentences are incomplete. And branding improvements in Devon and Cornwall as the north ( need to repair the damage in the wall caused by my head) The only railway project not on that list is four tracking Welwyn... mind you as the MP is G Shapps ... Oh for the MPs of old like Robert Adley who had the knowledge

Who needs cameras the telemetry capability of most modern cars means we are tracked more than we think. There was a recent tv documentary where the criminal was convicted because his Mercedes A class telemetry data proved his car was in the area of the shooting at the time it took place thus confirming his prescence at the scene (with other evidence of course) So they know where you're driving

And was useful at FP if you had come up the wrong set of stairs.... wait for a semi fast through the compartment and onto the right platform:-)

Agreed In fact our company like many is now strongly suggesting that we minimise WFH and get people back in the office to the same level as pre covid. It was pointed out that some new staff may not have even met colleagues and developing new products and technology etc needs that in person chemistry We have just implemented a new ERP system and training users is so much easier face to face than virtual training.

Well it now looks like the introduction will be delayed again according to an article on schengen visa site may 2025 now the earliest likely date