Good news for fans of the new North - South Railway.
Today's small demonstration in Parliament Square against the vital project even witnessed some Damascene conversions!
The lady on the left is apparently conveying the message that High Speed One is a success.
Whilst her colleague on the right, evidently won over by capacity
arguments, is making the internationally recognised symbol
demanding a second High Speed route, or something...
People, let's try and respect deeply held views out there...
UPDATE: This from @TransportNathan...
Possibly so!
So. The Government has published the HS2 Bill for phase 1 of the new North - South Railway.
According to the National Farmers Union...
The record-breaking 55,000-page Bill details exactly what ministers want
to build and what the expected impact on the environment might be.
Fifty five thousand pages?
Compare and contrast!
Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum, here is Churchill's 1942 memo on the construction of another project with national significance - the Mulberry Harbours for D-Day:
Less really is more!
UPDATE: This from Deep Stoat...
55,000 pages. Certainly not our idea.
But less than 60 protestors standing in Parliament Square, versus the 4000 people standing on trains into Euston this morning?
Now there's a number we want to bring down.
As Winston frequently said... "we must just KBO!"
UPDATE: This from Lord Derby-Bypass...
Deep Stoat makes the case for HS2 based on the '4000 people standing on trains into Euston'.
And quite right too.
But isn't it supposed to 'balance the economy' by creating jobs in the Midlands and North?
Rather than help get even more workers into 'The Smoke'?
This apparently from Barrett Homes...
Noted on an East Midlands Trains Class 153 Sandbox Lid at Lincoln
earlier this year.
Why would anyone think to use anything other than 'dry
sand' or do E.M.T. consider their Fitters to be somewhat challenged?
Speaking
as a former Railway Fitter it makes me wonder.
UPDATE: This from Dogboxdriver...
The signs were fitted after a number of EMT's 15x units were failed by
drivers during preparation over the last year owing to non-working
sanders.
The reason for the non-working sanders?
You got it: they'd been filled with wet sand...
This from Siemens...
In an email headed: Change of location for Siemens plc's Rail Systems Division from
Westminster to Euston, we discover...
Siemens' new home at 24 Eversholt Street is of course better known to old railway hands as Euston House, the former HQ of the British Railways Board!
With one symbolic action the German takeover of Britain's railways is now complete.
This from Flora McDonald...
From the ScotRail draft ITT:
"The train should contain appropriate tourist information, in an ambience that promotes the local heritage, scenery and tourist attractions with the aim of capturing the imagination of and leaving an impression of Scotland on the passenger."
Perhaps a saltire shaped lump in every seat cushion?
