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At least VivaRail make them look a little different - the poor IOW know what their next train is decades before they receive them. I am going to make a wild stab in the dark guess that if there ever is a replacement for the 484 it will be S Stock. The passengers will see a big improvement in headroom and they now have wifi to sit down and watch a movie (intro or a music video)

Here is the link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-55006434 Actually, duplicate thread.

I think once people begin being vaccinated we will see a lot more people begin to behave as they feel like - it's understandable in one sense as we've been waiting for this vaccination since March - just so long as people allow long enough for the most vulnerable to receive their vaccine. I feel for transplant recipients who are on a lifetime of suppressants as it is highly possible the vaccine will not help them as their immune system is being suppressed.

I agree the messaging used has been to drive the most fear of the virus in order to get the best level of co-operation from the general public. I would also agree that the risk of death from the virus is very low, but, it is excessive when it comes up against normal expected levels of death in any given period and it is also likely to cause vulnerable people to be unwell enough to require hospitalisation and potentially additional support within critical care in a manner that makes it very hard for an ICU to perform normally due to it's infectious nature. As I've witnessed from within my own family, a single infection can quickly spread to other people - in this case vulnerable inpatients and also the staff who work on the ward where those inpatients were - those staff have to be replaced by other nurses with further risk of spreading or you simply run out of nurses and then what? The big thing in all this is the capability of the virus to quickly spread where measures are not being taken to stem infection and once it gets hold it can overwhelm services. For this simple reason the Government has had to take a route that is unpopular and up for challenge especially from people very unlikely to suffer - the Government does not have (and certainly does not want) to pick one group of people over another. It is trying to maintain everyone's health through consent which actually is what we have Government for - to manage our health with our consent, that extends to all people of this country and sometimes it means people have to do something they don't really want to have to do for the greater good.

phew

My sister recently came down with Covid. She is a nurse, she was in PPE (not the full covid ward stuff) but was in a room with a covid sufferer for several hours in a dementia ward. By the time she had recovered (my sister), the whole ward and nearly all the staff had caught it.

Rather thrown by the 04 reference, there I was thinking a big 2-8-0 engine, lots of mineral wagons and you actually meant a diddy diesel. Wot next, an 08 or even a class 15?

If we can't have a groan button can we at least have an 'Eh?' button

Hornby strikes again - I'd really like to know if it is Hornby or the retailers at fault as it appears to be a repeating scenario, the main common factor appears to be it's Hornby models where this occurs most regularly.

First, no-one official has yet given any indication on how the tax deficit will be recovered so it is all conjecture and scaremongering at the moment. Next, 2030 is when new car sales of solely ICE will come into play - there will still be plenty of petrol cars around and maybe quite a few diesels - given a well looked after car can last a decade or more now then we are probably looking at 2040 by the time the last of the general public gets rid of the ICE car unless incentives are offered to go earlier. Also indicated is that Hybrids are some sort will also still be sold - so maybe you won't need to plug in still. We do need to get rid of petrol and diesel cars and actually bringing the date forwards forces the manufacturers to act now and not later, the more electric cars there are in production the cheaper they become and the faster innovation occurs to address challenges.

Thought you had, it's how we all say it. There's a pronunciation of a locality within Salford that is rather racist when said now, it was a coal mining village, I wonder now if it was actually on purpose.

Could there be a Precedent for an antiquated Victorian 2-4-0 bought in the 1920s to work these trains? It would certainly improve the range of motive power available on the line! I know where it would work

It's been hidden under a hat

Failing that the next layout could be in Kent and of a Colonel Stephens fashion with 4 wheelers.

Wot you need is a groan button

it's quite simple, as discussed recently by Kernow - if you commission your own models you control the price as the model is peculiar to your business and no-one else has them. It's why they didn't have to immediately drop the prices of 02s when sales slowed because they knew they had the only 02 models rtr. For Gaugemaster, they control the price of their models, if other retailers purchase them off Gaugemaster as they do then Gaugemaster have still got the value they want from those models even if the retailer then slightly undercuts them and they wont have been forced to drop their wholesale price. I would imagine as others have also said, they have built in some inflation based on when they are going to be available to buy.

I don't even like Cruise Control - not very good in the wet. But I do like Speed Limiters - they are great, I never have to worry about speeding now, especially in controlled zones.

So a localism, which now you state place names resonates with me. I do like the Tram though, it does suit your style.

Ewe have to be kidding me - the genie is out of the bottle, we're not in Somerset now

The only creek in the UK I can think of is Deptford Creek - I doubt such a beautiful place is what Rob had in mind. Perhaps Becks, Brooks or Gills (though not in the Fens!!)

You say creek I see this With thanks to https://www.american-rails.com/geared.html

Sheepstake.

And of course soon cars will drive themselves which has to have telemetry as well. I know what you mean but I still think there have to be ways to do this without having to record every mile undertaken, when and where. There is the argument that if you're doing nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear, but it is the fear of unintended consequences, and yes I have a mobile phone and yes I do have the GPS on but it's my decision and its not being imposed.

I don't think it would matter. The container will be as secure as it has to be when it leaves where it is loaded, no container is on a train all it's journey, in fact I would hazard a guess that unless it is going across a continent then it will spend most of it's time on the back of a lorry, on a dock or within a ship. Generally on the back of a lorry it faces backwards, but I presume that allows unloading of the container in situ upon the trailer. For customs I reckon they are picked for checking as they leave the terminal if by road or as they they leave the ship - once in storage they may not necessarily be at a height where customs can access let alone the right direction. They couldn't be scanned I wouldn't think without going through a scanner probably on the back of an internal carrier unit if heading off the terminal by means of rail.

It would be in addition to current VAT, I don't have all the answers but I do know that simply taxing the charging would be less expensive to set up than setting up a network to track a vehicle 24/7 not to mention the further erosion of the right to personal privacy in what I do and where I go.