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He is from poor Anglo-Irish stock and worked on building sites before the railways. He has worked on the railway side of things for almost 20 years. That will be far more than any government minister tasked with sorting the strike issue.
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Who really owns Britain’s trains? | Rail.co.uk WWW.RAIL.CO.UK Published: 28th February 2015 Rail Railway infrastructure—things like the tracks, signals, level crossings, bridges, and tunnels—is run by Network Rail, which describes itself as a “public company, answerable to Government”. Trains, most smaller stations, and routes are split into franchises run by different companies. Around a dozen of the franchise holders are linked to governments in other countries. A German company, Deutsche Bahn, runs several UK rail franchises—Arriva Tr
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Imagine buying a train set from the shop. Before you use it you find that you don't actually own anything. The trains and rolling stock are owned by leasing companies and you have to pay them if you want to put a train on your track which isn't actually yours and you also have to pay to use it. The maintenance of the track and signalling equipment is out of your hands too so you might find you can't run the train because of their problems. You can't extend the track or change where it is going either. Those decisions are made by somebody else. And you can't not use it. You are bound to run ser
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That side of it should be sorted. I used to go to London from Sth Yorks for hospital appointments. The fare offered by the train company was four times that I paid via an agency. And if I got done early and went to buy an earlier return they wanted ten times what I had paid for the return ticket. Madness! Privatising railways was not a good thing especially when that ginger cnut Bransom got involved. The train companies don't own the trains or rolling stock. The tracks belong to someone else and tickets are bought in bulk by agencies who then undercut the train companies. The loser is th
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Anyone holidaying in Spain next couple of months
Nicepix replied to mushroom's topic in General Talk
We put €120 worth of beef, lamb and Scotch pies in last Saturday. Then there is all the fish and chicken and my fishing baits. The biggest problem though is getting rid of it. The fortnightly black bag collections aren't until a week on Tuesday and all the communal black bins have been removed from our village. You can't dump it at the council dump as they only take recyclables so some tucked away little hamlet that has a communal bin is going to get two extra bags of food waste this evening. ?️ -
Anyone holidaying in Spain next couple of months
Nicepix replied to mushroom's topic in General Talk
It has been 37C where we have been camping. I had the MH under deep shade, so deep the bleeding solar panel wouldn't work, but it was still 40C inside on an evening. Loads of river swimming to keep cool through the day. Still sweaty hot going out for a meal in the evening though. Then got home today to discover that the leccy had gone off on Tuesday during a storm. Three freezers to empty and bin the contents. -
No. They 'liberated' it. The area had some pro Russian support and they used that to justify 'liberating' it from oppression. Strangely they don't regard the anti Russian support in other regions as being valid.
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Tried out the spinners today. About 20 minutes in each of two locations between heavy showers. No takes at all. 2 beautiful locations, but not a fish to be seen.
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Fried Frog's Legs WWW.ALLRECIPES.COM Simple recipe for delicious frog's legs that are breaded with cracker crumbs and cornmeal, then fried in oil.
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Yes, me too. Not seen that arrangment before. Hopefully on Wednesday I will have chance to try them out
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The mount fits any camera tripod. If you intend to use it while standing you'll need a tripod that extends high enough and is sturdy. In the past I have used a scope on a monopod. You have to hold it very steady, but it allows more freedom of movement for searching.
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Two deadbait mounts for minnows came with the collection of spinners. Funnily enough they are called deadbait mounts ? These were popular around sevenrt to eighty years ago, before fresh sea fish was cheaply available inland so you had to catch your own deadbaits.
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These were popular for trout and salmon from the early 20th century. By the end of WW2 the use of the flying trebles diminished and they tended to be a single, larger treble on a mount with interchangeable bodies. There are collectors of these old spinners all over the world and some fetch good money.
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So what you are saying is that you don't trust your own government, but your country has spent the best part of the last 70 years overturning other country's governments and installing the process of democracy that you don't trust? ?
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Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it infamy
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I heard one on March 19th, then heard and saw another one a few days later. The cuckoos beat the swallows by a month which is a first ever in my experience. We normally get hoopoes at the end of May, but this year we heard one calling daily from March 20th and saw it three days later. It has been a very strange spring.
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I'm pretty sure that you could do it in Cyprus too.
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The Lawrence enquiry has little or nothing to do with it. The problems started with New Liebour's zeal for multiculturism and embracing every minority into the system. They didn't understand the minority meant that these groups of people were not mainstream. So they pushed for more BLM in the police even if they were less suitable and able than white candidates. Then they included the gay community in the fast tracked recruitment and also decided to overturn the average 6 male police officers to 1 female. They chose to do this as quickly as possible by recruiting 6 females per 1 male. That le
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I agree. But you also have to look at who selected them and why? The whole ethos of recruitment is biased towards sociology, not public safety. Many of the people the modern police forces are recruiting are not prepared to do the job at its dirtiest. In one midlands force they were losing new recruits within weeks of them going on the streets. Some of them didn't realise they had to work weekends and night shifts. How the hell can these people be chosen, equipped, trained and not know that they have to rearrange their social diaries to fit in with the job? To put it it perspective ; that
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It isn't in them. The days of recruiting people who would be prepared to put their lives on the line ended two decades ago. Now it is all about understanding criminals and being able to counsell victims and their families. The days of the ex squaddies joining the police are long gone. It is all about bringing in the sort of people who won't put their promotion hopes on the line never mind their lives.
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Obviously the one warrior per hundred recruits wasn't at the school that day. The way I saw it; if we don't do it who will? But the way recruitment has gone in the last 20 years or so that 1% won't be there much longer.
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Which is what I posted earlier. These days it takes a maverick or loose cannon to take the right course of action while everybody else is sticking to the right procedure and staying safe.
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That is so very true. The people making the decisions are shit scared of ruining their promotion prospects or being sued for negligence so they go by the manual of guidance. That would have been written with litigation avoidance iin mind. It was the same in my previous life. On route to one job, a knifeman holding the police at bay I was told that there was a trained negotiater on route, eta one hour. My response was that I had a trained negotiater in the back of the van and we would deal in minutes. The Force Incident Manager nearly sh@t herself, but it was over in less than five minutes
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Everybody these days seems to use soft lures mounted on jig heads. The fish must be sick to death of seeing the same things being put before them. So, when I spotted these online off for little money I pressed the Buy Now button immediately Most of them are Mepps 1, 2 or 3 with a few other makes thrown in. Over 25 useable spinners, 2 minnow dead bait mounts and a couple of very useful boxes for €30. Perch beware!
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A couple of years ago we visited the site of a former concentration camp in France. There was the remains of a hut that used to hold over 60 inmates. The footprint was only a little bit bigger than that of our 2 berth motorhome.
