UK public transport asset stripped to make way for death, pollution. Tearing up the. Tracks. Index . The social, financial and environmental. So why. is the car so prevalent. Social Engineering in my view. Katherine Boyd Library, Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst North Carolina. Major Twentieth Century Writers. Come to Narcissism versus Psychological Depth. Enter the H ell of New York with selections from Camus, Morrison and Lili Tomlin. It’s one thing to think about studying Earth from above or sending robots and humans to the moon or Mars or conducting experiments in space. Of course rotation is not quite 'uniform motion' in the sense that physicists would currently understand it (constant velocity, meaning constant speed on a. The Fukushima Experiment. A nuclear meltdown survival guide. Japan's Tepco utility executives and government officials are alternately accused of covering-up. No singularities nor dark stuff. In addition to not predicting a Big Bang singularity, the new model does not predict a 'big crunch' singularity, either. Read on for the evidence. Why not here in the U. K.? Answer, subsidies and financial trickery. Rail travel is also much safer, so why subsidise. I believe. powerful commercial interests made sure in the early sixties that commercial. Chapter 8 - The Energy Crisis. The American Association of State Highway Officials ran road surface damage. Welsh Steam Coal wagons at Cardiff Docks in 1. The first place to look is the reports that led to Dr. Beechings railway. Re- shaping Plan'. This plan was. an essential 'justification' for Britain's motorway building programme begun. It was prepared by a ministry. Transport advisory group of industrialists, including Beeching, called. Stedeford Committee . Marples was a director of Marples Ridgway, the road. Chiswick flyover - and much more. The brief. of the Stedeford committee was secret as was the report to the minister. Not one of the Stedeford members had been significantly. Beeching was straight from the board of I. C. I. So, one might expect, in. But government insists rail infrastructure is paid for. When the railways stop returning. The massive overuse of oil that cars bring must be making someone. I begin to smell a honking great rat! Once these unions had the power to bring British. May and 1. 4th June 1. You can't unionise a car, the railway abandonment served. Vaughan. With a combination of infiltration (cf. And many Socialist ideals have been shattered. Pay differentials strike over the. Eden's. Conservative victory at a General Election. Brought British industry to a. British Transport. Commission settled pay claim. Had nothing but trouble since. Mainly oil industry career bother. Politicians argued taxpayers. All industries owned by the nation, are manipulated. You have a transport infrastructure that is far too efficient Where. The OPEC countries are under our control. You will have. to sell it on your home market. If you agree, we will give you the zillions. BUT you must rip up your tracks and build for the road lobby. Here life is not so hypocritical, and not so many. Zionists running the shop. Beeching report thing and although I have only. I can fully understand it and I totally agree with. UK where destroyed only for transport to be shifted. I live in Springburn in Glasgow which was once known as the. Locomotive builders to the world and once built a quarter of the worlds loco's. Glasgow and the whole. Strathclyde area as it was came out not to bad after the Beeching axe fell. Glasgow politicians where and still are i believe. I grew up in a place called Possilpark which is on the. Springburn and out side my living room window was the ex North. British Railway works of Cowlairs, the main erecting shop was only about. I grew up loving railways. I have done. a 3. Springburn from their. I am hoping to put it on a web site in the. The. reason for its closure was given that it was more or less a duplicate of. That was nonsense but it was still closed anyway. Many of the small villages and even the towns. There has. been talk for years of reopening the line as far south as Carlisle and this. I imagine would be a good thing as it would give a rail link to the Scottish. For some reason or other I started to think about a time a. I were in Blackpool. In Blackpool. North station there was a large advert about taking a train trip to Steamtown. Carnforth. We took the train and when we got to Carnforth we found that. When we went into a caf. The thought of. inspired me to write this little poem, hope you like it. Buchanan Street. station was opened on 1 November 1. Caledonian Railway as what was. A large. goods yard was opened beside the station on 1 January 1. Scotland. The termini station was also used for trains. CR opened Glasgow Central station on 1. August 1. 87. 9. The Buchanan Street station was normally quiet with a couple. When the station. Glasgow termini the only real difference. Ardrossan North station in north Ayrshire. Glasgow. The goods yard was closed on 6 August 1. November 1. 96. 6. Buchanan Streets claim to fame is that it was. Gresley A4's on the Glasgow to Aberdeen 3 hour expresses. The. three hour expresses started on 1. June that year. Railway enthusiasts came. I. have memories of seeing them myself on over a half a dozen occasions. This class was infamous for breakdowns and on more than. I remember seeing one or two of them. A4's. Just over two miles from the station. St. Rollox MPD (also known as Balornock shed to save confusion with the. St. Rollox locomotive works) St. Rollox MPD was an average sized shed. Of the 8. 42 Black fives built only four originally carried names and. The loco's were 4. Ayrshire. Yeomanry, 4. Lanarkshire Yeomanry, 4. The Glasgow Highlander and. Glasgow Yeomanry. The Stedeford Report was not available in. Beeching and Stedeford had frequent disagreements. He managed to stay in office a record five years to make absolutely. What was published was what became. Beeching Report which bore no relation to Stedeford's earlier. The BRF, comprised not only the haulage industry, but bus & coach. AA and. RAC. Because of the subsequent pressure they exerted, the 1. Transport. Act only licenced freight operators but did not restrict what they could. Between 1. 93. 2 and 1. BRF became. very powerful then the war intervened. After the war they reformed and were. Marples in place. During that government well. MPs had . It's a company car. I personally get taxed again on the value of the car when it was new. Tax. Grabbers a hefty stipend from my paycheque for the pleasure of using it. Emissions tax for the engine. In order to make it work I have to put. As its impossible to service modern cars without the. After all this. I can drive myself to wherever I want to go. Can you imagine. what would happen if the railways were the first choice for everyone wanting. All those hundreds and thousands of people getting to move about. Switzerland invests something like . So that's why we're forced out of trains and into our. Wales, opened in 1. Beeching was. able to sell vast amounts of British . Thus, what Beeching in fact had to do was close enough track in. Hungarian railways, and therefore the. As long. as he could get his hands on enough track then the deal was secure. The Oil Lobby have succeeded in quashing Electric railways in the. NAFTA region (look at the trashing of the Mexico City- Queretaro Electrification. KSC and UP buying 4. DOH!! With the coming oil crash, business is going to go on as usual until. No more oil! The Sociopaths hold the sway and their apologists bury. Only. operational for 9 years. Down Yard was made up of 1. Up Yard was 8 reception, 4. Down side was 5. 90 reception. On the Up side the figures. Recent events have starkly demonstrated the massive failure of. Britain. In response to this beligerant attitude. I must ask the question . I sincerely. hope that this is merely the start of a sweeping programme of contracts being. The fact remains, that in order. The same ethos should be rigourously applied to the. Separating wheel from rail was never a good idea. It is these people whose hands are now stained with the blood of. Southall, Ladbroke Grove, Hatfield, and most recently. Potters Bar. Safety is paramount, and as such should never be. This would complement the current PTEs, whilst. These would include areas such. Kingston Upon Hull & East Riding of Yorkshire - Northern Scotland. Dundee, Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness) - West Country areas including Westbury. Exeter, Paignton, Plymouth - Coastway area covering Eastbourne, Lewes,Brighton. Hove, Shoreham, Worthing, Littlehampton, Barnham & Bognor Regis. Chichester. The other big win is that these PTEs could ensure. Bus departures timed to coincide with train arrival times at. In essence, to take the commercial element away from the railway balance. Uckfield - Lewes line, the Hull. Paragon - Sutton on Hull, Patrington, Withernsea, and the route from Hull. Paragon to Hornsea to name but three, as well as numerous proposed light. Oxted - Uckfield. I do believe that with. Here would also be an excellent. In little over a year the workshops were closed, one. Beeching was buttoning his lip so as not to spoil. The section. that really caught my eye was the piece on the dismantling of Britain's PT. It's a fact of life that things progress (in the 'linear'. Britain. was ready for the automobile at that time, and no amount of free buses would. That some (if not all) of the. No, the true worth of all this lost infrastructure. How different would the UK have. You only have to look. Because certain groups, such. Cast your. mind back a couple of years to the petrol crisis in Britain, when no tanker. And who did they see as unlikely. Remember sitting for three hours on the M6, behind a. Many years ago I was talking to a former. Stationmaster on the very scenic Wells- Cheddar- Yatton line, which was much. Bristol. He told me that the most important peak- time. Yatton were deliberately severed prior to the taking of the. He tried to raise this fact at the public meeting before. His evidence was. Afterwards he received oblique. They. contributed to several motorway projects during the fifties and sixties and. Hammersmith flyover in London. When it was pointed out. Marples- Ridgeway - to his wife! Telling the ill- informed self- interested short- termist hauliers. Chucking people off former railway land to re- open has to be cheaper. Ultimately, this. They did help of course. The attitude towards the railway at that time. Today the railway is seen as the way forward in reducing. Then the railway was a leftover with quaint steam. Even the rail unions didnt fight. Beeching cuts. Railway mania saw railways built. Note that of all the. People. equality and rights were also different in those days. It is interesting to note that were BR did re- establish. Money talks and we live in a world. MONEY thats why railways were built in this country in the first.
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