[alastairq]

perhaps a couple of 08s with a fancy paint job?

Won't be MUCH slower than the other options?

 

[alastairq]

QUOTE BTW Alastair why no mention of steeplecabs recently?

nothing sinister, I assure you.........

 

[alastairq]

I'll stick with the ferry then?

 

[alastairq]

QUOTE Dead Eurostars, what's used for failures?

buses?

 

[alastairq]

whilst on the topic of buses....why is it, that when today's train services collapse, and buses are run between stations...do the railcos hire the scrappiest, most untidy, scruffy old heaps they can find?

Are the railcos seriously afraid of using the biger companies, with the fine, comfortable vehicles?

In case the rail passenger suddenly realises, the bus is in fact more convenient?

[when I worked on the buses, the railcos were insistant we did NOT drop passengers off at convenient[for them] points....but took them all the way past their homes, to the station!......we used to activley canvass for passengers on these occasions....hoping to 'pinch custom' from the competing trains.]

 

[alastairq]

I/we ALWAYS made a point of dropping folk off where they wanted....within reason......helped them realise how very much more ''convenient' the bus was?

Not any more, alas....this ws in the days of teh NBC and the 10 years after privatisation....