hackey lad Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Just now, makapaka said: Eh? Uh ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 8 minutes ago, makapaka said: Eh? Can you please tell us the bad impact these last few days have had on your life ? Maybe then we could understand your griping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest makapaka Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 4 minutes ago, hackey lad said: Can you please tell us the bad impact these last few days have had on your life ? Maybe then we could understand your griping They haven’t had a big impact on my life. lost a days pay but won’t bankrupt me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 1 minute ago, makapaka said: They haven’t had a big impact on my life. lost a days pay but won’t bankrupt me. What are you moaning about then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, echo beach said: If I have one regret, it's that an opportunity was missed by not transporting the Queen's coffin from Edinburgh to London by steam train. What a sight that would have been and it would have given so many more folks up North a chance to pay their respects. I mean, I dont disagree, but the British public proved when the Flying Scotsman made its trip up (or down?) the ECML that they cant be trusted, there were numerous trespass incidents on a live electrified line. Now if this happened for a train, imagine how many there would have been for the Queen on a train, and add in how many police this would have needed. And I havent even mentioned the disruption to other rail traffic yet. Edited September 20, 2022 by HeHasRisen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chekhov Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 8 hours ago, echo beach said: If I have one regret, it's that an opportunity was missed by not transporting the Queen's coffin from Edinburgh to London by steam train. What a sight that would have been and it would have given so many more folks up North a chance to pay their respects. Or indeed any type of locomotive. It did strike me a strange that the body was flown down, if it'd been down by train (or car) hundreds of thousands more people from the North and Midlands would have been able to see it. I suspect they did not want it to come down by train due the modern obsession with ensuring nobody encroaches on the tracks. Rather different from Churchill's funeral train : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 (edited) Yes I cant imagine why they didnt want millions of people trying to access a live, now fully electrified, railway. An absolute puzzler that one. Edited September 20, 2022 by HeHasRisen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim117 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 23 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said: Yes I cant imagine why they didnt want millions of people trying to access a live, now fully electrified, railway. An absolute puzzler that one. Fair point but the M25 was shut down for the occasion so I presume we could have shut down the electricity that a steam loco didn’t need. Even better if we could live in an age where personal responsibility was still a thing and we didn’t need a bloke in a hi viz to ensure our survival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Jim117 said: Fair point but the M25 was shut down for the occasion so I presume we could have shut down the electricity that a steam loco didn’t need. Even better if we could live in an age where personal responsibility was still a thing and we didn’t need a bloke in a hi viz to ensure our survival. Was it? When? The whole motorway for a entire day, or a small stretch for an hour or less? I will admit I nipped out yesterday between the two services, the hearse wasnt scheduled to go on the M25 by what I saw, is that when it was shut? As for "turning the electric off", so your plan would have been to shut an important 393 mile railway off from all passenger traffic for a good 10 hours or so? I can easy see why they decided it was much easier to fly her down. Edited September 20, 2022 by HeHasRisen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna B Posted September 20, 2022 Author Share Posted September 20, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Jim117 said: Fair point but the M25 was shut down for the occasion so I presume we could have shut down the electricity that a steam loco didn’t need. Even better if we could live in an age where personal responsibility was still a thing and we didn’t need a bloke in a hi viz to ensure our survival. Yes indeed. I don't know when or why this sort of personal responsibility stopped being a thing. Edited September 20, 2022 by Anna B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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