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    I worked several times for a company near there (Daniel Adamson Road) on and off from 2007. From about 2012, there has been occasional use of that wharf, but fairly steadily in 2015-6. Most of the ships using it seem to be about 2000 to 4000 dwt. I suspect if rail was used to transport the loads (aggregates? grain?) you'd need one or two trains running as required for every ship.
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    At the very minimum!
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    Wasn't called Skimbleshanks was he?
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    In 1980 and 1981, there were several; you could hear them coming up the Tame Valley for miles. I think it was weekdays only though; I was a regular at the Stalybridge Station folk club which was in the Buffet Bar, and ran until the station closed after the York train had left (sometimes at quarter past midnight). It always seemed to be a 37 or 40 then
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    Sadly! Agree with everything you say in the last paragraph as well
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    The bottle of Lees' beer from Jimmy Frizzell when we finished was partly compensation, though! I've done something similar at Stalybridge since, only I think the result was better!
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    Ah, so the existing railway is getting an upgrade; best not tell the anti - HS2 brigade!
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    No league in the NLS below the National North and South is playing. There was a rumour about the Northern Premier starting in December, but obviously, that hasn't happened.
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    At least you're playing now and again; my club (Stalybridge Celtic) haven't played since the end of October, in common with most non-league clubs.
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    And very few people ever mention Joseph Swan
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    Rule one! In your world, might not some person or organisation have saved one from the gas axe?
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    First one; Crabtree Manorway, between Belvedere and Erith? If so, almost on my home turf. Which, trainwise was West Street Crossing, just up the line
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    I think I can remember the IB distant was visible in the distance from Horsemoor? You could certainly see one a long way off towards Ely
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    Bleak!
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    Claud Hamilton 4-4-0
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    I was with an umbrella company at one point. They took an inordinately large amount of my money for doing next to all. Then they tried the "Directors' loan tax liability" scam on me (I was limited company), so I ditched them. My wife also pointed out to me that as my turnover was less than £2 million, there was no compulsion on me to employ an accountant, so she did my books; there was nothing stupendously complex, so that was even more cash in my pocket. Result!
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    Most of the organisations I worked for were international; Jacobs Engineering, for instance; Bechtel; Bilfinger; and so on. It was just the way that these outfits ran their UK operations. You took the risk, if something went wrong, and the company just sailed blithely on. The Twenty-first century equivalent of lining up by the dockyard wall hoping for work.
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    Not if the person doing the work is a subcontractor. That then becomes their own responsibility. I had to fork out for stuff like public liability and other sorts of insurance to work.
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    That's not necessarily correct, and the work that children did wasn't necessarily as strenuous as it was in factory settings. you here stories of some independent workers completing their work in four days, and spending the rest of the time in taverns. In mills, for instance, before the Ten Hours' Act, it was 12 hour days, six days a week for children.
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    Working from home was the norm 200 years ago. It's only since some people realised that the way to maximise profits and rewards for themselves was by concentrating the work to be done in one place, that travelling to work has become a thing.
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    Ely North Junction?
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    About the same as a smidgin, no?
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    On the top of the sheet: Unless Otherwise Stated, all Dimensions in Millimetres. Having said that,one draffy I know was bollocked by the D.O. supervisor for drawing a piping isometric to the nearest millimetre; the nearest 5mm was close enough!
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    My impression from that was that the bankers were going flat out just to keep up!
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    Might it not be Fairfield? There were six lines there; or do we mean the same station?
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