Farewell To BT Vision
I have not got rid of BT Vision and if I want to watch football that is shown on BT, I now watch it on Sky.
To say I’m pleased to be rid of BT Vision is an understatement.
- BT don’t seem to have any logical channel numbering, unlike Sky and Freeview and I could never remember where something would be shown.
- Often I had to resort to going through the channels one at a time, until I found what I wanted.
- Sky is logical, as all the Sports channels seem to be together and if I want an event, I can easily find what I want, stating from 405 or so.
- Regularly, I don’t watch a match, but listen to it on Radio 5. BT has this annoying habit of changing to a screen of programs that I might watch, if I had an IQ of about 12.
- Sky just gives me information with a useful clock.
Whoever, designed their system should be sent to manage the satellite station on St. Kilda.
West Midlands To Get A New Freight Interchange
This article in Rail News is entitled New railfreight hub proposed for West Midlands. This is the first paragraph.
Plans have been published for a major rail interchange in the West Midlands, which its promoters say will boost the regional economy and could create between 6,500 and 8,500 jobs.
It sounds good to me. Especially, when you look at this map of the location.
Four Ashes Railfreight Hub
The area is known as Four Ashes and it used to have have a station of the same name.
- On the map the railfreight hub will be in the large triangular area of white and grey buildings towards the bottom of the map and slightly left of the middle.
- The site is 250 hectares.
- The M6 runs South East to North in a gentle curve and has a major junction (12!) with the A5.
- the Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line runs North-South to the right of the line of yellow fields (rape?) and the left of the site of the railfreight hub.
- It’s also not the only proposed new rail infrastructure in the area, as a station has been proposed at Brinsford Parkway, a few miles to the South.
It could certainly be described as a big well-positioned railfreight hub.
But will the locals object, despite the thousands of jobs?
The Anonymous Widower 