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Had to come, the more he was seen to be getting away with stuff, the more disgruntled the other drivers were becoming. Even Seb had a dig earlier. Today's race looks Hamilton's to lose, next week he gets his new engine again which if he can win that race tees up the finale to the season at the finale of the season. I much prefer the idea of a final race where both drivers have to beat each other on the track and that the season won't be decided by someone offing himself during an overtake from the other to retain a lead.

Cue Boris next week hailing the new all electric Spitfire fighter for the RAF, to go along with pounds and ounces and tripe back on sale in supermarkets to counter any meat shortages.

I agree that there needs to be fundamental change, but just like it was the masses who bought and did everything to feed to few at the very top who continue to get richer, it will be the masses once more who suffer the most whilst the richest remain and get richer. Battle Royale, Hunger Games and Squid Game are all a grislier representation of how the rich look down and use the masses for their own ends.

It wouldn't be a Bachmann product without a gap somewhere I think you should try and see one in the flesh and then see if it still jars, it's a lovely looking model and I would expect it to be streets away from the Kato model if it ever surfaces to buy now.

This is interesting, Hamilton in using an older engine this week to save his new engine for next week: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/59361848

It must have been agonising Just enough time to build a diorama was it

Two dedicated express lines through Manchester alongside the commuter lines, through Guide Bridge and out towards Standedge using electric traction will deliver massive benefit. No stoppers getting in the way, no freight, ditto the route from Liverpool to Warrington and onto HS2. Just having dedicated tracks will make a massive improvement, remove interim stops and full electric traction and at 100-125mph you have a very high speed railway for the distance between Liverpool and Leeds with the expense of a HS2 type tunnelling, soft curve higher speed line. The Liverpool-Leeds line is half the distance of HS2 from London to Birmingham (140 miles) with at least three stops (Warrington, Airport, Manchester (with reversal), whereas HS2 is two London stations and two Birmingham stations.

I don’t think Liverpool to Leeds will be any more than 125 apart from maybe the HS2b element from near Lymm to Manchester. It doesn’t need to be faster, 100mph would be a massive up shift in itself and like you say much closer distances between stations Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, Huddersfield (?) and Leeds

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I'd say it is more like most of the existing network will carry hydrogen. They've been busy near me for a couple of months replacing the gas main and pipes to houses on a 1930s estate, whilst I doubt it is the original piping I'd wager if it needed replacing it certainly wasn't up to a standard for current natural gas let alone hydrogen.

A3s would also work overnight parcels trains into Manchester Central via Woodhead.

Just found this, brilliant. Plenty of discussion on the web why it is pronunciation and not pronounciation, then I find this site and it has a UK based number, tutoring people to speak English:

Luckily your 3d CAD work is better than your sketching But there is a hint of Paul Lunn type layout planning there.

A BFK might be long time or never, it's not often we get a brake for the other end of a train! However, this blog shows how it can be done:

Maybe, but I am of the mindset that things are only going to get sh*ttier for the masses from here on in.

But the people of Blackpool did suffer a number of tremours from it. Personally, if we are that desperate for energy that we need to frack then something is really wrong, there are plenty of other polluting things we can do to make energy without literally destroying the land under us.

But the soluton he was following did have a precedent, a quite clever one. But running a knife like that through anything is pretty risky, to be fair to him, he rated having the loco over not having it, took a chance on an expensive model and isn't unhappy at the solution.

One day that will sell for a fortune on EBay - RARE 18000 with cowling removed.

Uh oh, let's hope Mr Putin's meddling doesn't unlease a new PR campaign. Come and see the new ground level illuminations at Frackpool, rainy night, no problem, just set your water taps alight and have an illuminations party in your kitchen.

That assumes we will still all be able to afford cars as we do now. I know that with mass production the price of electric cars should come down to the same level as ICE cars, but with the current increases in second hand prices and the price increases that will afflict ICE cars as the economics of production increases my fear is that electric car pricess will stay where they are and the other cars will rise to meet them.

If you can tunnel under the channel, you can build new viaducts and if you can can compulsory purchase properties on an route (HS2B) currently mothballed then you can buy a few properties that encroach on the alignment. It is a thought experiment, but in the absence of the actual plans what else do we have - for me it is whether tunnelling under the Chew valley is cheaper than reinstating a railway on the surface missing some viaducts.

And we ought to be careful of bears with gas pipes too.

I think we can be pretty sure that the Chinese government have a pretty high grasp on controlling it's people through manipulation and coercion. And in terms of other countries, it's infrastructure development programmes are a method to exert control and take large chunks of foreign soil through provision of loans that countries simply cannot afford and forfeit property when loans fall behind. Was the West conned by the Chinese Government, possibly or possibly the Chinese Communist Governement itself was at some point hijacked by a few rich powerful individuals and moulded it into what exists now, rather like another notionally Communist regime. The Chinese people did not vote for the oppression they now find themselves under, they sleepwalked into it as much as the West did.

What if they inverted the railway, reinstated the Micklehurst loop but for the stoppers and added a couple of stations, closing the existing Mossley and Greenfield stations. That way the new (electric) route could service the towns it went through and allowing the current route to become the higher speed route. Just a thought, would prefer that to a high speed line popping by by Dovestone reservoir.

I did wonder about Bullhouse when I saw the image, but it may just be a composite image made to give a flavour - especially given the fact they are using Tommy as the loco and not an actual EM1 or EM2