Herculaneum – the other town buried by Vesuvius: interactive | Science | guardian.co.uk
Herculaneum. I went there in the 1970s, and remember crawling through an excavation looking at "finds", still in situ and unexcavated.
Sunday, 24 February 2013
Friday, 22 February 2013
Landslip affecting railway between Scunthorpe and Doncaster.
Aren't I glad that I am no longer commuting along this railway line!
Sunday, 17 February 2013
First Capital Connect voted worst train operator by commuters
First Capital Connect voted worst train operator by commuters | Business | The Guardian
My experience of First Capital Connect has been fairly good. The commuter time services to and from London are very busy. Train operators can't be blamed for signalling problems and broken down trains of other companies. Often announcements about broken down trains are coy of announcing if the broken down train you are travelling on belongs to the train company you are travelling with, leading you to suspect that it is. My main grumble with First Capital Connect is the number of times lifts are out of service, not with the trains themselves.
On train surveys, I remember quite a few years ago being on a train when a survey was being carried out. It was an inter city service on the East Coast main line, and I forget who was then operating that line. The people carrying out the survey were only interested in the people with seats. Those of us standing in a crowded lobby were not surveyed!
My experience of First Capital Connect has been fairly good. The commuter time services to and from London are very busy. Train operators can't be blamed for signalling problems and broken down trains of other companies. Often announcements about broken down trains are coy of announcing if the broken down train you are travelling on belongs to the train company you are travelling with, leading you to suspect that it is. My main grumble with First Capital Connect is the number of times lifts are out of service, not with the trains themselves.
On train surveys, I remember quite a few years ago being on a train when a survey was being carried out. It was an inter city service on the East Coast main line, and I forget who was then operating that line. The people carrying out the survey were only interested in the people with seats. Those of us standing in a crowded lobby were not surveyed!
Thursday, 14 February 2013
BBC News - Colliery landslip suspends rail services
BBC News - Colliery landslip suspends rail services
Question 1 - why was there a large unstable slag heap next to a railway line?
Question 2 - how many other hazards are there near railway lines?
Question 3 - what lessons have been learned since Aberfan
Question 4 - This mess won't be cleared up quickly. what more can be done to help passengers? From the comments on this video it seems that not enough coaches are being provided.
Read about Hatfield Colliery on Wikipedia.
Question 1 - why was there a large unstable slag heap next to a railway line?
Question 2 - how many other hazards are there near railway lines?
Question 3 - what lessons have been learned since Aberfan
Question 4 - This mess won't be cleared up quickly. what more can be done to help passengers? From the comments on this video it seems that not enough coaches are being provided.
Read about Hatfield Colliery on Wikipedia.
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