BR(S) Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Article about railway lines on the coast and the problems they face: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31113368 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 This item is well worth a look its on the BBC news page online and is all about coastal railways and how vunerable they are to encroachment by the sea,it covers Dawlish Cumbrian coast and the Cambrian coast lines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivegreen Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I have just seen that too - but reader beware, as not untypically the piece tends towards sensation. For example, in the veiled implication that nuclear flasks to and from Sellafield are endangered (is that perhaps in response to the piece, mentioned elsewhere in these threads, that was on Russia Today a little while ago?). As to the fact (I have to take the writer's word for it) that a couple of breaches did not make national headlines last winter, who is to blame for that, BBC? (Among others) The slant put on the need for continual maintenance also shows a considerable degree of journalistic ignorance. Once again, reader beware! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted February 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2015 Largs misses out again as it so often does in discussions about coastal railways. Saltcoats is every bit as vulnerable and as pounded as Dawlish. And it's 25kV electrified. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mod6 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Duplicate topics merged. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astockfan101 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 it forgot island line in Ryde Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Cheese Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 it forgot island line in Ryde Pier Head to St Johns Road only at present too, with a replacement bus service to Shanklin as they are doing a load of maintenance for a couple of months. I'm over there on Saturday for the first jolly of the year, after a semi-dry January...walking from Shanklin to Ventnor to explore the local pubs (again) should be good if it stays dry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 For example, in the veiled implication that nuclear flasks to and from Sellafield are endangered (is that perhaps in response to the piece, mentioned elsewhere in these threads, that was on Russia Today a little while ago?). Given that those flasks can survive being hit by a class 46 doing 100mph, I'd suspect that ending up in the sea probably won't do them much harm. The bigger problem will be the massive fuss created by Greenpeace and other such organisations. I'm not quite sure what pint the author of the article was trying to make, and I suspect they didn't either. If you really wanted to talk about the risk from the sea, then surely you'd talk about the risk of bridges being washed away with trains on them, as happened with the Tay Bridge and nearly happened to an Irish Rail train a few years back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Bridges ? . An advance on the Tay Bridge, try Glanrhyd, 1987.................................. . Brian R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 ......the veiled implication that nuclear flasks to and from Sellafield are endangered..... Given that those flasks can survive being hit by a class 46 doing 100mph, I'd suspect that ending up in the sea probably won't do them much harm. The bigger problem will be the massive fuss created by Greenpeace and other such organisations. I'm not quite sure what pint the author of the article was trying to make, and I suspect they didn't either. I think the point the author was trying to make, regarding the flasks, was not at all about the danger of them falling into the sea. Rather the fact that if the line is severed, the main link for transporting nuclear material and waste to/from Sellafield will be lost. That would cause enormous difficulties. Last year Network Rail spent £2.3m repairing the sea defences along this line. And as I interviewed those commuters, a deafening reminder of the line's strategic importance came rumbling by - two heavy goods locos pulling a single wagon on which sat what looked like a nuclear flask. This is the line to the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield. .....makes it very important - and it may become even more important if plans for a nuclear power station next to Sellafield come to fruition. At that point Network Rail's existing policy of patching the line up piecemeal may no longer be sustainable, and parts of it may need serious investment to bring it up to scratch. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatley Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Rather the fact that if the line is severed, the main link for transporting nuclear material and waste to/from Sellafield will be lost.That would cause enormous difficulties. Not sure about enormous difficulties, it would cause massive inconvenience having to take them up the A595 to/from (let's say) Kingmoor, I accept taking them south to Barrow by road would be a bit more hairy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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