In message snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk>, newshound snipped-for-privacy@stevejqr.plus.com> writes
I used to live on the east side of Doncaster. On a good night, you could see glow from Scunthorpe, which was 20 miles away.
Adrian
OT: 300 years of coal in UK ?
Feb 11, 2021
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rail track has a life of about 50 years
so in a 20 year period, about 40% of the total network should have be relayed with new track
it's been *confidently* 5 years away, every 5 years, for the past 50 years
none of the previous 10 predictions of 5 years away has been forthcoming
why should the current one?
a much higher level of automation (and consequently safety) is possible
if that's your aim
but it's still a fundamentally dirty fuel
looking at it from the pov of the steel works
it is
I hope you mean relaid. If it had been relayed I'd be wondering where to.
In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, Tim Streater snipped-for-privacy@greenbee.net writes
Sidings, heritage railways.
Track which isn't up to being used for 100+mph or heavy services may well be OK for relatively light use.
Adrian
50 years ago, it was at leats 20 years away.
Perhaps because we are actually getting to the point where governments are investing serious money into projects that might just produce more energy from fusion than they consume to create it.
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