Jonboy

Do the BBC mean the person or the limb?

Do you think that if I start a community protest about the same spans towering above the town of Didcot across the embankment and demanding changes to all the masts, per the precedent being set in Goring, that NR would see some kind of sense against wasting public funds to this extent?

Could then go onto protest the ruining of the view from the Ridgeway, The Clumps, Great Western Park, White Horse Hill etc...

Or do they intend to stall the Goring residents for a while, and then claim the failure to act as promised is all the fault of the next CEO or significant figurehead to fall on their sword over the project, and that its now too late to act without significant disruption/cost? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORq6O5x0zOQ

but then I like my pop cheesy...

Why bother spending on studying the traffic when you can just announce what you intend to do, and then analyse the howls of complaint to see if there are any genuine concerns built on local knowledge?

I notice a larger number of the poles are going up through Didcot, particularly alongside Aldi.

That was much later and wasn't Minic Motorways, nor was it compactible with normal Hornby railways.

 

Essentially there was a special reversible plastic road/track (railway track on one side/road on the other!) plus a level crossing and a bridge, and a battery powered Thomas and Bertie. The track could be laid out in any configuration - the reversible nature of the track meant the two circuits didn't have to be equal lengths! - and the crossing gates were arranged in such a way that whoever got there first pushed the gates open and held them that way (holding the other vehicle back) until the first had passed through. 

And it came in such a big almost flat box that when given one for xmas at 4 years old I didn't realise it was there in its wrapped form and sat down on top of it to open my presents...

Nah the one that gets on my nerves this week is the drivers that expect a thank you on a silver platter simply because they fulfilled their legal obligation of giving way at a zebra crossing...I would rather pedestrians just thanked me by making their way across as swiftly as they can...

Then you get absolute lunatics like this family.

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/batman-family?bftw&utm_term=4ldqpfp#.gtqvyYBGQ

 

Check out the 'ratings' of the photos, with most votes for 'love' & 'cute'!!!!!!

 

Elsewhere its been reported that the mother, has received death threats for potentially putting her son at risk.

 

OK sorry, off topic as nothing to do with crossings!

Where is the "Why TF are these people allowed to breed" button when you need it....

 

 

Kev.

(Even on London's Red Routes you are not penalised if the car stops in front of you!)

No but try it on a London yellow box junction as our company van driver found out a few years back....

Don't worry Phil I thought your recent post was bang on the money.

Indeed I have driven around 10,000 miles in the last 12 months and the only level crossing I have been over is the one over the bunk line in Wallingford, not exactly a hotbed of activity, although the wife finds it funny how disappointed I can get at not being stopped

Have the actual final production weights, opposed to the design spec, been released into the public domain? I understand from comments on another forum that Hitachi are being a bit coy about them and the test unit didn't have them printed on the end of the vehicles. This may make any power to weight comparisons subject to revision?

I saw the CCTV footage before it got pulled from YouTube and can say that the car involved was third in a line of traffic, and it did stop immediately and the drivers door opened before the footage ended.

If I were to speculate I would suggest the driver had assumed they were ok for the crossing as part of a group of cars and was therefore looking out towards the right hand side of the vehicle to check for oncoming traffic coming round the white building and turning opposite, as the gate started to swing in from the left.

My first thought on reading this debate is fair play to the members who have still turned out to help the event even though they don't support the traction - it can be all too easy for volunteers to find alternative plans if they don't like a planned activity....

Something people may or may not have noticed is Royal Mail introduced a "tracked" service for businesses that send a lot of parcels out a few years back. This is a service where the postie signs to confirm they have delivered it to the addressee, a neighbour or a safeplace rather than the receiver signing for it. They also changed the rules to allow delivery of "signed for" parcels to a neighbour.

Frankly the only issue that has stopped me pledging was the time window of the Kickstarter process - running it across the xmas period (Nov through Jan pay periods) with all the pressures that brings on the home budget meant it was a regrettable no-go.

(On the flip side I can see the fact that it was open across the xmas holiday may have increased the audience size online....)

It had crossed my mind a few days ago he had vanished.

Reading West had loads of large but no small yesterday afternoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3umMl49XEg

I was wondering about the spraycrete too. On its own its just a crust, presumably to stop more of the ?soil/sand being washed away after the containers have already taken most of the energy out of the waves. Without steel mesh or rebar in it, I can't see it supporting itself let alone preventing movement behind it.

Didn't the Network Rail Press release say it was a sacrificial layer, which would suggest it is not designed with this in mind.

Edit - Press release link http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/News-Releases/Network-Rail-engineers-begin-work-to-try-to-stop-further-damage-at-Dawlish-1fd2.aspx

Out of curiosity what is the cost of delay minutes to NR in this sort of situation. How much would they save if a cap on payments was written into the next GW franchise on the basis of an alternative route being available (e.g. a cap of 120 minutes and no payment due for trains sent via the alternative route).

(Just trying to get a fell really for how the finances would stack up if you treated Seawall and alternative route as one cost centre over the year, rather than two distinct routes.)

If I can play Devil's advocate (contentious-moi?). If this railway is so vital then we should fix it in days, not weeks (this was done back in the 50's). If we can manage without it for months then I would suggest we don't need it at all.

 

 

 

Ed

Having enjoyed full and standing HST's to Newquay in the summer a couple of times I would suggest there is a bigger picture than a few weeks in January/February...

The joy of the local Facebook spotted pages....

 

 

and, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a business seller subject to distance selling regulations and have to pay return postage?

The seller has to pay the return costs if you cancel under distance selling regulations unless they clearly state up front or in T&C's you agree that the buyer must pay them.

They should always refund the cost of sending the goods to you initially.

They should also refund return cost if item is faulty as then it is Sale of Goods Act issue, rather than distance selling.

Now if you ask the likelihood of any of the aforementioned gears working on the other hand.....