Serial Cooking – Roast Sausage And Lentils With Wild Rocket And Cherry Tomatoes
This recipe is another from Lindsey Bareham in The Times.
The main ingredients, are 24 M & S gluten-free cocktail sausages, a 250g sachet of cooked lentils, 125g of sliced chorizo and 400g of cherry tomatoes.
It is exceedingly simple and is shown in these pictures.
It may be quick, but it’s gorgeous.
Will Another Of Beeching’s Closures Be Reversed?
Lord Beeching wrote his infamous reports about Britain’s railways in the 1960s and died in 1985.
He gets a lot of blame for today’s rail problems, from various interest groups, but to be fair, the problems were severe at the time and some managers cut a lot harder than he recommended.
I think that for example in Scotland and other places, rail lines were closed in such a way they could be reopened, whereas in others, the land was sold and to reopen the line would be impossible without spending billions.
In the last thirty years two things have happened; there are a lot more of us and we’ve discovered that trains are an increasingly useful method of transport.
So sometimes the reason why the Victorians built a line, is even more valid today. The soon to be reopened Borders Railway is probably more needed now, than it was when it was built, because leisure and tourism is so much more important.
The Borders Railway was a victim of the Beeching Cuts and will join a long list of lines and stations that have since reopened.
That list will continue to grow.
The latest possible reopening is detailed in this article on Global Rail News entitled Milestone for Portishead-Bristol line restoration. The article describes how the Portishead to Bristol Line could be incorporated into the Greater Bristol Metro or MetroWest.
If all goes well, it could open in 2019.
More Class 68 Locomotives On The Way
So far there have been twenty-five orders for the new Class 68 locomotive and as there is no adverse criticism of the new locomotive on the web or in the railway press, it has to be assumed that they are working fairly well.
So it was no surprise to see this article on Global Rail News, with a title of DRS orders further seven Class 68 locomotives.
Let’s hope when the related Class 88 locomotives from the same manufacturer generate such a small amount of negative publicity, when they are introduced in the next year or so.
Whitechapel Station – 29th July 2015
They have been busy at Whitechapel station over the long weekend.
There’s even a bridge going across the Overground tracks at a high level.
Custom House Station – 29th July 2015
More progress at Custom House station.
It does look that they’re starting to lay the railway on the London-bound track.
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