The Anonymous Widower

Even Brunel’s Railway Couldn’t Cope

The Exeter to Plymouth line is one of the UK’s  most spectacular railway lines.  Or should it be was, as eighty metres of it have been washed away at Dawlish?

This report in the Exeter Express and Echo has some amazing pictures.

Brunel generally got his engineering right and seeing that the line opened in the 1840s and I can’t see any reference to a breakage of this nature before he didn’t do too bad.

But it does show how fierce the seas must have been!

Let’s hope that Network Rail had a plan ready for an emergency, such as happened last night.

February 5, 2014 Posted by | Energy, Transport/Travel | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Bob Crow Looks After The East End

The Tube Strike today, is a pain to many Londoners.  But I’ve just been to Canary Wharf and back and things didn’t seem that crowded.

I even changed at Shadwell, which is Bob Crow‘s birthplace, from the Overground to the DLR, with no hassle whatsoever. So perhaps he’s making sure the strike doesn’t affect his part of London very much!

But then, Hackney doesn’t have any Underground lines. And probably never will, as the powers that be, think if you give the plebs in Hackney one, they’ll only want another!

February 5, 2014 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Energy Bill Of The Future?

I saw this advert on the Tube yesterday.

The Energy Bill Of The Future?

The Energy Bill Of The Future?

After checking Mobile Energy’s web site, there are some nice features, but they don’t talk about a smart meter, which is what we all need.

February 5, 2014 Posted by | World | , | 1 Comment

RBS Mucks Up ISAs

My trawl for the Royal Bank of UK Taxpayers, has found this story from the Herald.  Here’s the first paragraph.

Some NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) customers have found themselves short-changed in their monthly interest payments in the latest blunder to hit the banks.

It looks like a computer error.

It’s funny, but it seems quite a few of the stories critical of RBS, seem to be in the Herald. Didn’t it uised to be the Glasgow Herald?

February 5, 2014 Posted by | Finance, News | , , | Leave a comment