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Coryton
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1 minute ago, dnks34 said:
No offence but I sincerely hope the Feb closure costs the railway some customers considering 2/3 buses run to Norwich hourly anyway and at £9.60 for your cheapest off peak return on the train the bus is considerably cheaper and probably only takes 10 - 18 minutes longer on most Journeys.
However, many people will use a train when it's convenient but would never think of getting on a bus even they don't mind a longer journey, so in your world where the railway is closed down for the greater good you may not be waiting at level crossings but there's going to be more cars on the roads.
Also, some people use local trains as part of a longer journey where having to change from a train to a bus is not very convenient and likely to be more expensive than travelling by train throughout.
I'm not sure what you're hoping for. That the closure costs so many customers that the line is forced to close? Otherwise what you'll end up with is more taxpayers' money going to the railway, or possibly ticket prices increasing which won't make you spend any less time at the level crossings.
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29 minutes ago, dnks34 said:
Still, its going to be lovely while the railway is out of action in Feb for anyone who usually wastes a lot of their time every day sat waiting at one of the 40 odd level crossing closures.
But not so much fun for those who rely on trains and will have over a month of bus travel instead.
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3 hours ago, Bytheriver said:
There is some hope that reliability of the bridges could improve when some of the equipment from the 1940s is replaced during the closure at the start of February 2020 (additional information from Greater Anglia Management)
Although I don't think that will help in hot weather.
It looks as if they are updating the equipment used to prove that the bridge has shut properly and is safe for trains to proceed (going by the usual use of the word "detection" in a railway context)
2 hours ago, grendel said:and reduce exhaust emissions at the crossings.
Which could also be done by people turning off their engines while waiting...
2 hours ago, grendel said:i seem to recall hearing they were closing the line for a short period to do level crossing work and repairs to the bridges.
Yes - as referred to in Bytheriver's post.
The main purpose of the closure though is to commission the new signalling system which will replace the current Victorian-era one.
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14 minutes ago, dnks34 said:
I wonder if anyone will be stuck for getting back through after the bank holiday weekend at Oulton Broad. I imagine it could have put some off going by river altogether.
What happened to the NYA looking for support to take action last year, nothing seems to have improved and it must still be affecting business.
I don't suppose there's an easy solution.
Leaving the bridge open and putting rail passengers on buses would sort out the river problem and everyone would still get where they need to be, but would inconvenience a lot of people.
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Too hot?
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The Broads are marketed as having 125 miles of navigable waterways.
We bought a tea towel which seems to be a copy of an old railway poster. It mentioned LNER and LMS so (assuming it was a real poster) must have been between the wars or just after.
It mentions 200 miles of safe inland waterways.
I know that there are abandoned locks which increased the navigable areas - but have the Broads really lost 75 miles?
I don't think it's a confusion between miles and kilometres...
Or is it like Heinz 57 varieties?
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2 minutes ago, Boaters said:
Did that stretch when we bought a boat fron Naburn and then brought it back to the Brovads .it originally came from Wroxham. Nice river ,but like the Broads best.Would not see much in half an hour ,for £40 ouch
No - I can see half an hour makes sense on a rowing lake, but I think in York I'd spend the extra £10 for the other half hour.
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Could be fun.
I've seen electric day boats for hire in the Netherlands where the hire is totally automated, like a city bike scheme.
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You had me confused for a moment there when I saw the wording from the post without the picture.
What has four legs and 16 hands...?
Great photo.
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On 14/06/2019 at 10:58, tim said:
The one that Richardsons used to give you is great, unfortunately being paper they don't seem to last
The one we got given by Swancraft was pretty much useless
The one supplied by Richardson is by Heron Maps (picture below) which you can buy from outlets around the Broads, I got a copy from the shop at Womack a few years ago
However you can get them online see link below, at £5.99 if it's the same one as HW supply I would suggest they subsidise the cost or get a big discount for bulk buying
Well, for what it's worth I can now reveal that the map Herbert Woods give you when you hire has £4 as the cover price.
It's paper, and after two weeks hard use it now contains lots of holes at the folds, but is still just in one piece.
It seems to be their own production because the photos inside are credited to Herbert Woods.
But I'm sure they don't do their own mapping and indeed the mapping is clearly the same as seen in the photo above from the Heron Maps one.
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I'd say the quality of food is more important than menu size, so long as there is some variety.
I have no knowledge of catering but I've always assumed that a small menu lets them concentrate on making what they do have on the menu really good.
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3 hours ago, SPEEDTRIPLE said:
I suppose the White Horse (at Neatishead i presume?) is great, providing you can get a mooring at the staithe, or the very least "Gaye`s staithe", but then with a fair walk?.
The walk from Gaye's staithe didn't seem too far. And there is a place on the way selling home made fudge with an honesty box.
Mind you, we were just pleased to have been rescued from our little lack-of-steering incident.
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7 hours ago, SwanR said:
Really enjoyed reading your tale and seeing your photos. Having hired the same boat myself always seems to add an extra spark of interest to see what someone else has been doing with "my boat"!
Indeed.
I want to know what people have been doing with "our boat" since we left it in Potter Heigham...
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2 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:
Worth a punt!
Definitely!
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Hope you have a great time.
Looks as if you're going to have good weather for it, at least this weekend.
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2 minutes ago, Kron said:
That's exactly what we said, we knew what to do if we could have gone backwards!
There were a few times I was quite glad of a front rail on the boat to lean on while heaving on the mud weight rope.
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7 minutes ago, dnks34 said:
Park ahead of the gates and walk in as long as you don't have a car full.
Can't do that in Cardiff - you have to turn up in a vehicle - health and safety.
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34 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:
My non recyclable bin last week was left un-emptied and when I phoned to complain I was told it was because it had builder's rubble in it. Really? I'm no builder but I had picked up three small bits of concrete from the road outside my house, all picked up with one hand, and disposed of in my bin, it seemed to me to be the right and decent thing to do. I explained that to the articulate gentleman who'd taken my phone call but to no avail, I must take it to the local council tip. Our local tip is the absolute pinnacle of appalling customer management & fine if you have a hour or more to sit in a queue so what should I do? I know, fly tip or better still dispose of it in those handy bins at the Yacht Station. I have every sympathy for those of who abuse the present system, the system itself being patently at fault in that it does not cater for the needs of us as human beings, at least to my way of thinking. Granted that we shouldn't abuse the system but there are occasions when that system does not cater for the very people for whom it was created. No excuse, I know, but perhaps understandable.
Try getting to the tip if you can't drive there.
Ours won't even let you in on foot.
Official council advice? "Get a neighbour to drive there"
We had a problem with a bin not being emptied. We were told it must have been overloaded so the contents wouldn't come out when it was tipped. Their staff never ever make mistakes so it must be us that were in the wrong.
An email to our local councillor worked wonders though.
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1 minute ago, SPEEDTRIPLE said:
I remember reading a thread on here some time ago where a boat hired from Barnes Brinkcraft was taken over by a group of lads, some already smelling of alcahol, who promptly filled the boat with crates of beer. I don`t think they were on bird watching holiday
Depends what you mean by bird, I imagine...
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1 minute ago, SPEEDTRIPLE said:
Shame they Don't adopt that policy to drunken yobs then is'nt it?.
Maybe some of them cheat by not being drunk when the boat is handed over?
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37 minutes ago, TheLaird said:
Back on the topic of boat electrical for a moment ....
It is important to protect all the electical equipment on our boats. Overheating wires wrong fuses etc.
A fire on a boat is disasterous, there is nowhere to run!
Below is a usefull guide to fuses and thier handeling currents.
Please all, be safe.
I like it.
Many years ago I traced an ominous burning smell in the lab I worked in to a mains fuse where, in the absence of a fuse holder, someone had somehow managed to fit the fuse directly into the socket the holder should have gone into.
They must have got away with it for several years, but over time the contacts become more resistive, and had reached the point where they were generating enough heat to start to melt the surrounding plastic.
Fortunately due to the smell we were able to take action before the lab caught fire. It was underneath some custom hardware that had taken a long time to build and would not have been quick to replace.
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2 minutes ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:
Didn't they say that when the first gas street lights were lit😂
Well it probably did make life interesting...
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27 minutes ago, grendel said:
Actually that isnt the direction we are headed, eventually all natural gas appliances will be converted to run on hydrogen, and the gas pipes will contain hydrogen, that is the position we are looking at going forward, but that may still be some time in the future as they have to make the delivery systems idiot proof before we get houses exploding left right and centre.
Goodness. That could certainly make life interesting, to put it mildly.
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18 minutes ago, dnks34 said:
The bit I find difficult is sexuality (whatever that is to an individual) ought to be an incidental part of existence in this world. Why does the LGBT community feel they need to have be so honest about anything?! Isn't anything private anymore!
Its nothing to be ashamed of but why should anyone need to be honest about their sexuality in the work place or otherwise.
I think most people don't take privacy to the level that they never mention their boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife/etc. to their colleagues.
So if someone is in a same-sex relationship, it generally takes some rather contorted English not to reveal that.
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Perhaps they should.
But I don't imagine it would change the decision to leave the bridges closed across the river on hot days - I think it would take a lot of £20's to match how much Network Rail would have to pay in compensation to Greater Anglia for the line being closed.
Well I very much hope that doesn't happen.
But as for fair....you are suggesting closing the line because it would benefit more people than it would inconvenience. Now I don't have any numbers for this, but my guess would be that if we applied the same "greater good" argument to the swing bridges they would stay firmly shut across the river. Number of rail passengers per day vs occupants of boats requiring the bridge to swing? Quite a lot larger, I would have thought.
I am also not convinced that Lowestoft would be a more prosperous place if the tourists who currently arrive by train either turned up in a car and had to find somewhere to park, or just didn't bother coming. It is well established that when you close a railway line passengers don't just all shift to buses, no matter how good the service.