Or those nice trails made out from the old railway lines to the pits being reopened as a railway... ;) (View Post)

Reopening coal for power is stupid on so many levels. Bad for the environment, expensive, and so backwards-looking as to make me wonder when Farage is going to call for young boys to become chimney s… (View Post)

There are several aspects to this. One is that these parallel routes are often needed for maintenance access, and opening it up to the public *really* inhibits that - as the public don't like &#… (View Post)

As an aside, when I was younger I wanted to go into tunnelling (*). One thing that amazes me still is that they can drill tunnels for many miles and end up only a few centimetres out of line. Even in… (View Post)

The "elsewhere" was 150-200 metres away. That is, to all intents and purposes, adjacent. "Elsewhere" makes it sound like they were miles away. (View Post)