Justin Palmer(justin@briareos.demon.co.uk) added

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> >> 	Please, gawd, no, don't get started on that, I'm close enough 
> >> to shooting the next person who says "But I could fly to 
> >> <insert  European country here> for that!" as it is...!

> > I suspect that the ever rising cost of oil is going to stop, or 
> > at least reduce, that sort of comment at some point.
> >  
> 	Possibly not - I work on a line fed by diesel, 

Around here the trains are electric (3rd rail stuff).

> though hopefully our R&D departmetn will make the crucial
> breakthrough and develop a train which can run on the same bio-fuel
> as the drivers - tea...  ^_^

If the R&D people ever succeed in that you can be sure that the government will
put an exorbitant tax on tea!
 
> >> 	And as you know, I know where the Really Big Guns are...
> > 
> > Yes, we know you have a rail gun. ^_^
> 
> 	And, unusually, it has an excellent tracking system too... [1]
>   ^_^

The tracking system round here isn't good, they close one line or other every
weekend and bank holiday to do yet more work on it.
(not that I'm really complaining, it's about time some money was spent on
maintaining the system, it was left to rot for far too long)
 
> 	[1] Insert "except when it snows" comment here. So I know who to 
> fire at first.

You've left yourself wide open there...
You know what's coming next don't you...

"It'll be the wrong sort of snow."  ^_^



== Peter ==
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"There is no such thing as a coincidence 
in this world. There is only necessity."
(Kaho Mizuki: Cardcaptor Sakura)

Peter Boulter wrote:

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>>> I suspect that the ever rising cost of oil is going to stop, or 
>>> at least reduce, that sort of comment at some point.
>>>  
>> 	Possibly not - I work on a line fed by diesel, 
> 
> Around here the trains are electric (3rd rail stuff).
>
	The only railway category in which the UK holds a speed record - well, 
unless you count the Mallard...

>> though hopefully our R&D departmetn will make the crucial
>> breakthrough and develop a train which can run on the same bio-fuel
>> as the drivers - tea...  ^_^
> 
> If the R&D people ever succeed in that you can be sure that the government will
> put an exorbitant tax on tea!
>  
	Not if the MPs don't want a shunting pole placed somewhere sensitive, 
they won't...

>>>> 	And as you know, I know where the Really Big Guns are...
>>> Yes, we know you have a rail gun. ^_^
>> 	And, unusually, it has an excellent tracking system too... [1]
>>   ^_^
> 
> The tracking system round here isn't good, they close one line or other every
> weekend and bank holiday to do yet more work on it.

	Tell me about it. I can't actually remember a date now when we *didn't* 
have weekend alterations...

> (not that I'm really complaining, it's about time some money was spent on
> maintaining the system, it was left to rot for far too long)
>
	...and therein is the problem. I've always found it an odd coincidence 
that the three networks usually held up as paragons of railway virtue 
(Germany, France and Japan) were the three that had the most attention 
from several dozens of thousands of tonnes of bombs once...

>> 	[1] Insert "except when it snows" comment here. So I know who to 
>> fire at first.
> 
> You've left yourself wide open there...
> You know what's coming next don't you...
> 
> "It'll be the wrong sort of snow."  ^_^

	Make your time. Quickly. ^_^

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Quoting  Justin Palmer  :
>The only railway category in which the UK holds a speed record - well, 
>unless you count the Mallard...

... and why not?

I read that Sir Nigel Gresley holds some post-war steam speed records,
too.
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David Damerell wrote:
> Quoting  Justin Palmer  :
>> The only railway category in which the UK holds a speed record - well, 
>> unless you count the Mallard...
> 
> ... and why not?
> 
	Sore losing on the part of the Germans? ^_^

> I read that Sir Nigel Gresley holds some post-war steam speed records,
> too.

	I wouldn't know, but I've just been reading a book about the Mallard - 
I like engineering stories...

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