So now you have a gold-plated pension paid by the rest of us, and FIT's, also paid by the rest of us.
I well remember, as a kid, having a visit from a South Wales Electricity electrician who replaced two light fittings in the kitchen. He made a mess of the ceiling which then required repair, and didn't even bother to bring a step ladder. He just stood on a kitchen stool with his muddy boots. Total pillock.
Nothing wrong with Southern, apart from the RMT-inspired warfare over who presses a button.
Andrew was thinking very hard :
Or 600 tons of sand, with no rush to be got there.
Wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. Graduates -yes.
Remember the railways were nationalised anyway because they weren't making a profit.
AMI, when did they start using pairs? As a child I remember bare wires and rows of pottery insulators. (And getting a 'phone straight away because of parent's employment.)
They were nationalised because of socialist dogma. The fact they were completely knackered after the war just made the process easier.
True, but what I can't then do is concentrate on either. Background music (R2) would probably be OK.
I always chose my residence to coincide with the end of the line. That meant I had a longer journey than many, BUT I always had a seat, at least all the way in, and for most of the way home.
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Interesting to note the different attitudes in the US, where freight ALWAYS has priority, whereas here, it is the freight that gets shunted out of the way to clear the line for passenger traffic. Presumably because, in the US, even a perfect passenger service would only generate a fraction of the freight traffic revenue.
Perhaps they need to build some roads on the east coast, then?
While you're at it lets just remember St Maggie who sold off state assets at well below the marker rate.
But I'd guess that's where you got your house from.
Roger Hayter brought next idea :
They were still working under the post war austerity, even into the late 60's. No investment, then suddenly bang - along came all the new developments.
Privatisation has brought a lot of investment and new equipment.
They have always used pairs, until the point where they were so short of them, they resorted to sharing lines. Then the developed an electronic gubbins, which improved the sharing, but then wrecked broadband use.
Yes. The RMT decided to go on strike over who presses a button all by themselves. After all, the prime purpose of a union is to stop their members earning their living.
Odd the way you right wingers only see politically caused industrial disputes when you read about them in the Mail.
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Much longer distances and much more freight traffic.
In the US, they drive short distances and fly long ones. No-one travels long distances by train.
In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
You're learning
You're learning
So you admit they exist.
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Telephony side was subsidising letters.
I thought the original telegraph used a single wire with an earth return.
The only one of my colleagues, at, I supect, the same organisation, who regularly arrived late lived less that 5 minutes walk away. (just across the park)
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