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only if they find the body...

20 minutes ago, John-Miles said:

How deep is the sea between Sweden and Denmark? It would have a significant bearing on costs. 

The Drodgen Tunnel is in a trench cut into the seabed, under ~10m of water (according to the cross section on wikipedia). The bridge, being only 5 miles long, is presumably not over considerably deeper water.

The official music video for the French entry for Eurovision this year, filmed at a railway museum.

On 15/12/2020 at 16:54, brushman47544 said:

Would you trust that if a spotter and that was all you could see?

Depends on how badly I needed/wanted that particular loco... 

On 29/11/2020 at 17:40, Swifty11 said:

 

It doesn't fill you with confidence when even the Pendolino's aren't wearing their face covering properly... 

Looks like they've changed the front wing... maybe someone had a little ding...

set the loco's speedo with worn wheels then stick a new set on... but the speedo says I'm doing 35mph... 

1 hour ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

 

Surely the Republican Party can find someone else with less "baggage".

They could, but they also know that if he ran anyway as a third party candidate he'd split their vote meaning the Democrats would win.

12 hours ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Tony,

 

Neither does physics for it is as yet only a theory not a law, just saying.

 

Gibbo.

That is because the word "Theory" has had a change of general usage over time and so is erroneously used instead of 'hypothetically'; for example, "in theory this should work," should actually be "hypothetically this should work." 

at least it looks better than the cgi'd image with the thin white strip around the front window...

3 hours ago, phil-b259 said:

 

But Guildford, Woking, etc have lousy access to Heathrow anyway!

Woking has very good access to Heathrow... just not by train. There's a National Express bus that leaves from the station hourly. If I'm going to Heathrow, it's how I get there. Train to Woking (I live on the Alton line) and then bus to the airport.

1 hour ago, Adam88 said:

Sensor-operated traffic lights or signs might be helpful at some locations.  Near where I live there are solar-powered, speed-triggered signs.  I would have thought it worthwhile investigating something similar for frequently hit bridges.  

They have that at the 11'8" bridge... and people still hit it. Even with the sign that lights up next to the red lights activated by overheight vehicles telling them to turn...

11 hours ago, s182ggu said:

I too am experiencing these 'new' adverts but as requested by Andy, I will await the outcome of the 'boffins' research.

No harm in letting the boffins know that pop-ups that block content fall under "stuff that makes me tempted to look at ad-blockers"... 

On 14/09/2020 at 11:23, Joseph_Pestell said:

 

Take that thought forward. If the two Slovenians hold their current positions, that time trial could result in there being just seconds between them going into Sunday's stage (Pogecec Pogacar is a better time-trialler than Roglic).

If that is the case, do we see the usual ceremonial procession? Or do we get a final stage that determines who wins the GC?

I think in the case of the GC the last stage is ceremonial (as long as the Yellow jersey finishes), and it would be unlikely for a contender to be allowed into a breakaway in an attempt to get any time. Apart from the fact that breakaways have very rarely succeeded on the last stage. It's almost always a sprinter's finish (now we might see the Green jersey decided).

It wouldn't surprise me that they neutralised the times if Jumbo-Visma wanted to take a team photo cycling down the Champs Elysees crossing the line in the way Team Sky did once the peloton had gone through.

5 hours ago, Ray Von said:

Or would baking actually negate the need to rinse? 

If it's beach sand you might want to rinse it to remove any traces of sea salt

keep in mind this route was decided (including keeping it all inside France) long before the whole COVID-19 situation. Some stunning scenery so far this week!

On 24/08/2020 at 12:34, Richard Croft said:

66589 and sonme spare parts at Midland Road, Leeds

I mean, I know the Class 70s aren't the prettiest loco, but there's no need to refer to them as "spare parts"...

25 minutes ago, 25901 said:

Does that mean you can wave to us when we watch the Crewe Railcam tonight lol

And whether the top light is on/off and how many carriages there are... 

23 hours ago, Tangoman69 said:

I was explaining to the Mrs when you die you could be reincarnated but must be a different creature. 

She said she'd like to come back as a cow.

I replied, "You obviously haven't been listening”

QI word of the day today - "Word of the Day: BOANTHROPY - a psychological disorder where the sufferer believes that they are a cow."

that is possibly a front runner for the worst livery to appear on a HST... it's not too bad in profile, but that three quarters angle looks terrible... hopefully they'll tweak it somehow... 

reminds me of watching the Ashland cam a couple of years ago when a +100 car train was stopped at a signal for ~2.5hrs, effectively cutting the town in two for that time...

31 minutes ago, Tom D said:

It is interesting to note, that just in the last few weeks, cases of Bubonic Plague were reported in China and USA, in the case of the USA it was a squirrel that had the disease. However, it was also reported that since 1900, the US has between 1 and 17 cases  every year, of Bubonic Plague  (in people). 

That's because the bubonic plague is endemic in prairie dogs (I believe) in the US, and so there is occasional crossover.

1 hour ago, Zomboid said:

Apparently it was so named because it killed the king of Spain

No, it got the moniker because at the initial outbreak the press of most of the major countries were being heavily censored due to the Great War, so outbreaks weren't being reported, but the Spanish press were free to report the flu outbreak because Spain were neutral.

So it ended up being known as the Spanish Flu because that was where it was first openly reported.

That and the then king of Spain (Alfonso XIII) from 1886 to 1931 was wasn't killed in that pandemic.

On my last attempted to leave feedback I had the situation where I was able to save an item in my watch list, bid on an item, pay for an item, but if I tried to leave feedback ebay THEN asked for my password... which it rejected... but I could still go back and carry on bidding on things...

lol... and there I was thinking that that might of had some sort of standards that could be fairly universal...