Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#21
Victoria to Dover boat trains again, what an advert, what a tonic for the town, and don`t forget, we can now have those high speed trains from St Pancras and beyond. 6 million pounds is peanut`s, and everyone knows it, even in these days of recession.
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#22
Let me just add to this again, steam has a tremendous following, and they`ve run steam trains into Southampton dock`s again over the last few year`s, they attract crowds and they attract money. A trip down here by steam could be an added on option for cruise line passenger`s, but at the end of the day, it`ll all be down to the right people who can see this, and work hard to make it possible. No use some idiot like the Folkestone regeneration clowns, trying to sweep away the Folkestone branchline, and building a yachting marina there. Folkestone`s never recovered from that other idiot from the 60s who filled in the 2 swimming pools, and the rest of it.....Both towns have suffered badly from lack of foresight and imagination.
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#23
£6m may be peanuts to you Colin, but it's a years wages for Fabulous Fabio.
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#24
That sound`s better Sid, I thought it was a month.
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#25
I believe there is a requirement to keep open the option of a Rail Freight line as part of the Harbour Revision Order.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#26
Alright, so far so good. Now let's consider this one: there ARE laws in Britain and in other countries around the world that impose strict STATE planning to curb carbon emmissions. It has to do with climatic change, and can also be considered useful in reducing the cost of importing petrol (freight transport by HGV requires much more carbon energy than by train). Let's not get stuck in an argument into whether climate change is caused by carbon emmissions ot not, but consider that carbon pollution does exist, whether it does or doesn't causes a change in the climate.
Having stated all this, the only conclusion I can come to is that by law, Britain has to increase rail traffic for freight and curb transport by road, otherwise Britain would HAVE to scrap the laws on carbon emmissions! Either one, or the other.
So let's give this one thought and see if it can become a topic for the DHB and Councils in Dover to work on, and if some of our forumites can bring the subject up at the appropriate office!
#27
If carbon pollution doesn't exist, how on earth can it cause a change in the climate?
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#28
Sid, I wrote that carbon pollution does exist! it is the reason why there are laws in our Country and many others aimed at reducing carbon emissions! Ergo, the DHB plan to increase HGV traffic by about 100% in Dover over the coming 30 years collides with laws in place in Britain and also in European countries! Food for thought! Especially here in Dover where so many people are against the Port-sale, it seems to me a good thread to pull on in order to make sure that DHB executives are not alone in making the planning, but that the Gov is aware of all the implications and looks into the planning directly, so as not to do the exact opposite of what the law says, which is to curb and not increase carbon emmissions!
This was one of my points in the feb representation to gov.
#29
Alexander, what you actaully wrote was: "whether it does or doesn't causes a change in the climate", hence my question.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#30
Sid, carbon pollution is a fact that no-one can dispute, whereas not all agree that this pollution can cause climatic change, this the point that I made. Thus, the carbon emmission laws that are meant to curb carbon emmissions and therefore should make unfeasible DHB'S plan to double HGV (heavy goods vehicle) transport in Dover's Port over the next 30 years are in place to prevent climatic change, but as some scientists and people in general dispute that climate change is caused by man, my point is that carbon emmissions are responsible for pollution, and we in Dover are being poisoned by a motorway crossing our seafront and making a number of streets desolate (Townwall, Snargate).
So even if it didn't cause climate change, it still poisons us! Claro?
#31
But Alexander, if it doesn't exist it can't have any impact on anything!
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#32
This sounds like The Titfield Thunderbolt all over again. What could be better for lovers of steam trains, closed lines and neglected stations with the rolling English countryside than this quirky tale of a group of villagers, including the vicar, who decide to run their own local railway line when it is closed by the powers that be? They face a fight to the finish with the local bus and haulage company, pure nostalgia, a Classic Ealing comedy
Now a little competition for Dover characters to play leading and supporting roles.
John Gregson
Stanley Holloway
Naunton Wayne
George Relph
Sid James etc