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Vic said:
Platforms? Different heights goes back before 1948 nationalisation. This is trains that can't rescue another because couplers are at different heights.


I'll check the new one I heard about, but companies have had to have "Thunderbird" locos stationed at various places to rescue failed trains, with adaptable couplers.

BR "standard" locos were designed by R A Riddles, largely based on LMS designs, but using standard components so you didn't need separate stock for each design.

The main deviation came with diesels, when every region went for diesel-electric, except the Western Region which went for diesels with hydraulic transmission. But you could still couple them together. This "AI generated" story must have been written by a Western Region AI system: "The mechanical skills required for maintaining hydraulic transmission are more similar to those available in the mechanical sector. This made diesel-hydraulics more appealing than diesel-electrics in Britain, which would have required a new discipline of electrical engineering."
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The incompatibility mentioned was that the long-distance class 800 and 802 on Great Western aren't compatible with their class 387 outer suburban services - all operating out of Paddington, but couldn't couple up to push a failed train of the other type.
 
I wish journalists would question politicians over some of their announcements. I can't for the life of me see how Labour are going to get this country to build 300,000 homes a year for the next five years. There has been no explanation of how this will be achieved apart from some arbitrary changing of planning laws which happens every few years anyway. Affordability sells houses and I can't see that changing in the next year or two.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
I wish journalists would question politicians over some of their announcements. I can't for the life of me see how Labour are going to get this country to build 300,000 homes a year for the next five years. There has been no explanation of how this will be achieved apart from some arbitrary changing of planning laws which happens every few years anyway. Affordability sells houses and I can't see that changing in the next year or two.
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I hear that they’re gonna increase immigration to steal all the Asian and African brickies and plumbers.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
I wish journalists would question politicians over some of their announcements. I can't for the life of me see how Labour are going to get this country to build 300,000 homes a year for the next five years. There has been no explanation of how this will be achieved apart from some arbitrary changing of planning laws which happens every few years anyway. Affordability sells houses and I can't see that changing in the next year or two.
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Affordability certainly hasn’t been helped by the inflationary pressures generated by the Budget, which just serves to highlight the contradictory nature of their thinking.

But the Plan for Change will no doubt change itself by spring anyway, when another reset is required (perhaps after Reeves is given the boot).

We should expect several iterations. Plan for Change will become Prepare for Change, About to Change, and so on, with new lists of increasingly nebulous targets being provided at each turn. They do love their lists.
 
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Brewster's millions said:
Affordability certainly hasn’t been helped by the inflationary pressures generated by the Budget, which just serves to highlight the contradictory nature of their thinking.

But the Plan for Change will no doubt change itself by spring anyway, when another reset is required (perhaps after Reeves is given the boot).

We should expect several iterations. Plan for Change will become Prepare for Change, About to Change, and so on, with new lists of increasingly nebulous targets being provided at each turn. They do love their lists.
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Is that last sentence similar to the Tories liking their leaders
 
MellowJoe said:
He ain't much better, but at least he appears to semi human. Starmer behaves like a right twat, no redeeming features at all, what's his personality?
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I’m not bothered about personality more interested in what Labour achieve and am willing to give them more than a few months, particularly considering the shit show they inherited.

Johnson had personality, but was a waste of space
 
MellowJoe said:
He ain't much better, but at least he appears to semi human. Starmer behaves like a right twat, no redeeming features at all, what's his personality?
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I'd argue Starmer has far more 'human' redeeming features than Farage. The former has a history for sticking up for people beaten up in the LGBT community, winning human rights awards for preventing thousands of prisoners (and plenty innocent) being sent to their deaths around the globe.

Give me that over a commodities trader who spent the next 30 years of his life whipping up hatred & division everywhere he could & then walking away from the consequences.
 
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