Land Train

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  14 August 2016     14:46316720
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  Saw this in Folkestone and thought we could have one along the promenade in Summer.
  
  

  
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• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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  14 August 2016     15:43316724
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  A great idea Howard.
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• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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  14 August 2016     18:39316728
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  DTC are down to deliver similar in their Ambition Plan, I believe.
  (Not my real name.)
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  14 August 2016     18:47316729
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  A few years back they decided to run a bus service that took in all the places of interest in and around the town. They put it out to tender in March to start in May surprise surprise no company put in a bid.
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
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  15 August 2016     10:40316743
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  I believe Deal was thinking about having a land train on the promenade but it has been turned down on Health and Safety grounds as much of the time it is far too crowded with happy visitors.
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  15 August 2016     11:01316744
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  Dover tends to attract the more discerning visitor rather than the unwashed masses.
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• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
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  15 August 2016     11:16316746
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  That's exactly what I thought as I walked up Cannon Street the other day, having taken out a 'short term loan' at the Money Shop before having a pint or ten in Wetherspoons, a harmless 'flutter' in one of the many arcades and paying off this weeks instalment on my ten foot TV from Brighthouse (would you shop somewhere whose name rhymes with lavatory?) before wandering over to the Job Centre to 'sign on' (which is a bloody cheek since they know damn well I am unable to do most jobs due to suffering from obesity).
  
  At least the masses in Deal realise they are unwashed - presumably all those in the sea yesterday were trying to wash off the grime?
  
  
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  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson