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    Just to be utterly pedantic, the "Elbow" is, in fact, a "Swept Tee"; "Elbow" is piping talk for a "Bend", which in water pipework design can be at angles of 90, 45 or 22 1/2 degrees. Judging by the couplings fitted at either end of the tee, they may well be expecting a bit of movement; given where they are, it seems a wise precaution!
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    Up here (Greater Manchester) all 10 boroughs seem to have had dramatic falls, of 25% per week, from the beginning of lockdown, right through into the tier system. My own has dropped from c400 per 100 000 to 109.
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    So, So,it's funded by bond issues. Do we know how long the term of the bonds is? As for the cost, we will probably never know exactly, especially after the accountants have had their fun. The other thing is, of course, once the project is complete, there will be an asset, with presumably some value. My experience of projects tells me that the spending will be spread over the lifetime of the project; so I take it that not all the gilts are issued in one lump.
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    Which reminds me of when I was in Europoort, in drydock, watching the 1977 F.A. Cup Final on Belgian TV; you could still hear the English commentary underneath as well
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    How much railway can you get for £1 billion?
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    A question has entered my mind; are the government financing the project directly, through bond issues, or out of direct taxation; or is HS2 Ltd., an arms length company able to raise finance on its own account, with the Treasury guaranteeing any such sums?
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    Send us the piccies when they do, in the same vein as the East West Rail thread!
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    That's a different topic. It could be said that the policy towards railways by successive governments, especially after the 1955 plan had worked itself through, was "Managed decline"; a bit like inland waterways and commercial traffic. But that's a different topic as well.
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    We've had this before; the railways were privatised; passenger journeys increased; therefore privatisation was a success in those terms. however, are the two actually related? Passenger journeys had started to increase before privatisation occurred. Correlation does NOT equal causation, especially when the financial terms of reference differ.
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    Are there any newspapers out there which are truly politically neutral? You should be aware if you delve into the Guardian, you're going to get a slightly "pink" view of the world
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    Yes, wheel centrelines. Are these dimensions on the drawing, or are they just stated.
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    13 feet wheelbase, 24 feet over buffers. Four or six-wheeler? Posted at the same time as Micknich!
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    Now that you mention it, it certainly looks a bit Forest of Dean.
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    Correct.
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    Time changes were also a thing on board ship. The hour on, or back, was usually shared between the night watches, who gained or lost 20 minutes as appropriate. It could get to every other day or second day when heading nearly due East or West.
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    It puts thoughts on policy into the minds of Conservative Party politicians, though. Some of the writers, bloggers, etc., become MPs (see Geoffrey Howe)
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    As mentioned by John Mills, when they were filming the bar scene in "Ice Cold in Alex" . The beer really was Heineken, and the gulp scene took six takes, by which time "We were quite squiffy"!
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    300 pennies. You get a lot of stuff like that from times past. Other favourites might be 3s 4d (40 pence) 6s 8d (80 pence) and 8s 4d (100 pence) as payment of legal fees or fines, and so on.
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    Hazell is being repeated on Talking Pictures on Monday evenings.
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    Tameside MBC trialled an electric (battery powered) bin wagon 35 years ago. It obviously wasn't a success
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    I'd say it was, too
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    I think Gresley introduced the buckeye on the GNR in 1906, along with all-steel underframes; but only for gangwayed stock.
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    Don't quite know why, but it reminds me of the CGI for Star Guitar by The Chemical Brothers
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    When you think about it, railways are extremely dangerous; that's why we have all the various rules and regulations for running them.
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    Not the LMS, of course, but the London and Birmingham.
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