A rare "well done" for Network Rail

[Dedworth]

The main railway line through Dawlish in Devon has reopened after part of the track was destroyed during winter storms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-26874503

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10743815/Dawlishs-storm-damaged-railway-line-reopens.html

[grahamw48]

Yes I agree.

It shows what can still be done in this country when people just get on with it . :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[KeithD]

I see that idiot Cameron, and the local MP are trying to get credit for it. Bloody bum holes :action-smiley-081: .... go back to smoggy London, and stop polluting the countryside with your hot air. :biggrin:

[Michael Parnham]

Also we do a better job than most other countries in the world!:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

True....and even better if we weren't smothered by EU interference and nonsense regulations.

Once upon a time everything running on those lines was manufactured in the UK by British-owned companies...not to mention the actual rails. :NoNo:

[Dedworth]

True....and even better if we weren't smothered by EU interference and nonsense regulations.

Once upon a time everything running on those lines was manufactured in the UK by British-owned companies...not to mention the actual rails. :NoNo:


And the fact that this country invented steam locos and was the first to have public railways

[grahamw48]

Exactly.

And now there are those doubting whether we're capable of standing on our own feet outside the EU losers' club. :NoNo:

[Dedworth]

Exactly.

And now there are those doubting whether we're capable of standing on our own feet outside the EU losers' club. :NoNo:

Quite right although the Great in Britain is being rapidly diluted by the alien trash, chancers and criminals the deluded fools are happy to have living amongst us

[Terpe]

Yep....great work getting the back in business. :Jump:
It's a lovely line and I've been lucky enough to have travelled along it many times.

Unique. Long may it last :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Trefor]

Sorry but they should have built a stronger sea wall/protection BEFORE the storms.

[Dedworth]

Sorry but they should have built a stronger sea wall/protection BEFORE the storms.

It had been there since Brunel built it and no doubt the army of risk assesors, equality officers, 'elf & safety commisars etc employed by Network Rail & the HSE had given it the all clear to withstand recorded conditions plus a safety margin. They should be sacked :smile: