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Main line to the west out for weeks as tracks washed away at Dawlish

Just a GW 125. Where are the wagon-hauled Newcastle to Paignton trains, the sulzer powered trip freights to Newton Abbot, the omnipresent English Electric type 4s? Can you rewind this thing, maybe a couple of decades?
 
I can't believe it took three whole pages before urban managed to turn a thread about a storm damaged railway into a class war issue....:rolleyes:

Back in the day, that would've happened by page one! This is clearly indicative of the inexorable gentrification of u75...:(
I got here as quick as I could :mad:
 
Cameron says that South West is 'open for business'. Because the West Country and its people are only really worth anything if some capitalist shit can make a bit of cash out of us.

Us? Us?! You live in Bristol son. That ain't the West Country ;)
 
Us? Us?! You live in Bristol son. That ain't the West Country ;)
Of course it is :rolleyes:

The People's Republic of the Free West Country spans the area from Tewkesbury to Lands End, taking in the counties of Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and the City & County of Bristol. Herefordshire is considered a protectorate and can be annexed if necessary to save it from the West Midlands which covets its cider. Hampshire is the start of Cockneyland, though we are prepared to consider absorbing the New Forest so long as the rich types are sent into exile to Lundy with the inhabitants of Sandbanks.

The bridges to Wales will be immediately blown and checkpoints set up along the Wye Valley to prevent encroachment via the Forest of Dean. An alliance with independent Scotland sought in order to protect against expansionist London with their Clarksons and that. We need unity on this young man :mad:
 
Cameron says that South West is 'open for business'. Because the West Country and its people are only really worth anything if some capitalist shit can make a bit of cash out of us.

Destroy these vermin
This rather boiled my piss, too. The South West has been "open for business" just fine, thanks Dave. How did the South East possibly cope without us? Oh, you were fine too. Carry on.
 
Splendid. Can't have you spreading division in the interior when we're trying to hold the front line at Ludgershall and Lydney

Can't guarantee I won't form some sort of splinter group once the borders are secure mind.
 
Wales is claiming Flat Holme and Lundy. They've planted daffodils and are digging a mineshaft as we speak. What you all going to do about it?
 
I would have thought a trebuchet full of stale pasties fired from the front at Clevedon might have seen them off, though would the lives of welshmen be worth the possible collateral damage of a few puffins?
 
Wales is claiming Flat Holme and Lundy. They've planted daffodils and are digging a mineshaft as we speak. What you all going to do about it?
Wales is also claiming to be a civilised country with indoor plumbing and literature and that. Doesn't make it true
 
This rather boiled my piss, too. The South West has been "open for business" just fine, thanks Dave. How did the South East possibly cope without us? Oh, you were fine too. Carry on.
As a shining example of the best the South East has to offer, I was not in any way concerned about the South West's recent impromptu isolation. In fact, recent events have got me thinking, and I reckon we should seriously consider having the South West annexed by Russia. And if that all goes to plan, we can offload Wales next!
 
As a shining example of the best the South East has to offer, I was not in any way concerned about the South West's recent impromptu isolation. In fact, recent events have got me thinking, and I reckon we should seriously consider having the South West annexed by Russia. And if that all goes to plan, we can offload Wales next!
That's it, we're cutting off your supplies of trip hop and pasties :mad:
 
The People's Republic of the Free West Country spans the area from Tewkesbury to Lands End, taking in the counties of Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and the City & County of Bristol.

You do realise that you'd be governed by the Liberal Democrats, don't you? Shagger Ashdown for president?
 
No, no, no, no. The People's Republic of the Free West Country brooks no Old Country politics. All them Tory, Labour, UKIP, Lib Dem etc - outlawed. End of.
 
We shall live according to the tenets of our spritual leader Adge :cool:

For you northerners, sure; but he's only your spiritual leader.

We recognise him as an important part of the pantheon, but he's no Charles Babbage. Science and Reason son, Science and Reason. Then cider.
 
For you northerners, sure; but he's only your spiritual leader.

We recognise him as an important part of the pantheon, but he's no Charles Babbage. Science and Reason son, Science and Reason. Then cider.
Forty years since Adge retired to his secret stronghold in Chewton Mendip to await the glorious day...
 
Just a GW 125. Where are the wagon-hauled Newcastle to Paignton trains, the sulzer powered trip freights to Newton Abbot, the omnipresent English Electric type 4s? Can you rewind this thing, maybe a couple of decades?


How about some Castles, Kings and 9F's
 
Update:
Storm-hit Dawlish rail line: Sea wall to be raised

A sea wall which was breached in winter storms will be raised to protect the main railway line in the south-west of England, Network Rail has confirmed.

The plans to raise the section at Dawlish, Devon have been criticised by some residents concerned about privacy.

A walkway on top of the wall is used by thousands of people every year.

In the 1840s, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who built the rail, lost the same battle with a landowner.

The landowner insisted the wall should be lowered so he did not lose his privacy with walkers looking in.

Network Rail said the section of wall would be raised to the same height as the rest of the defence.

A spokesman said, subject to planning permission being granted, it hoped to start work in August with the project expected to be completed by the end of 2014.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-28260795
 
The landowner insisted the wall should be lowered so he did not lose his privacy with walkers looking in.

Network Rail said the section of wall would be raised to the same height as the rest of the defence.

Fucking nimby tosser putting his privacy before the safety of an entire county's only train link to the rest of the UK :facepalm:

There must be at least the width of two train lines and a road between the sea wall and his house. That's probably further than my neighbours across the street are from me.
 
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