Graham Davis
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Mr Ho, all that willy waving proves as that you know sweet fanny adams about inland boating
And quite frankly makes you look exceedingly childish.
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Insulting post #3 from Mr Ho.
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Mr Ho resorts to more insults!
I can assure you Mr Ho, that Gumpy has more experience of all sorts of boating than you hold in your little finger, as he has proven numerous times on this forum.
Perhaps you could learn much from him?-
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50 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
Have you ever been in charge of a boat other than a seaside pedalo?
30 seconds investigation just on this forum would have shown how much experience Gumpy has, but no you have to be insulting.
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I suspect the gas locker is the small box to the side of the rear door, and as said only suitable for the small Calor bottles
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A few years ago now, but we were invited to take an empty mooring at Cuckoo Wharf late one afternoon, just as a overnight mooring.
Had a decent breakfast bap thew next day from a caravan in the car park. -
7 minutes ago, Ronaldo47 said:
McDonalds is usually good for free WiFi!
And a McPee
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1 hour ago, magnetman said:
The postcode for the campsite there is GL7.
Postcodes have no relationship with counties.
My postcode is SY (Shrewsbury) but I live in Powys, and as is Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.-
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19 hours ago, Slim said:
But I know the hospital in question and it has both (it's less than 1.5 miles from my front door)
And were the required specialists available at the time of the incident at that hospital?
Did it happen that the air ambulance was in the area anyway?
Were the injuries sustained suitable for carriage in a road accident?
I can assure you that there are more questions asked by the experts than you can ever know.
13 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:Don't they have a doctor onboard?
Not always, they may have an extended trained paramedic instead, who can basically do everything a doctor can do.
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21 minutes ago, Tonka said:
Now I know that is not true. The default speed limit in Wales is 20mph. Don't think it has been changed back to 30mph
And another thing you've got wrong.
If I was you I'd give up.-
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14 minutes ago, Tonka said:
But this happened in Wales
So what?
English Law applies to both England and Wales. It is only Scotland that has some different Laws
Frankly, your ignorance is astounding.-
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14 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
But the pinched money from the government thats far worse than killing people . At least she has held her hands up and accepted responsibility
Making a guilty plea will nearly always reduce the sentence impossed. That is written into English law.
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Biggest problem is crossing the road at Llynclys junction, where there are regular accidents.
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Just now, ditchcrawler said:
The plot thickens, this was put outside the marina maybe a couple of weeks ago (1) The Friendly Narrowboat And Waterways Group... | Please look out for a stolen boat details below | Facebook
Can't read it without joining the group
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1 hour ago, LadyG said:
No safety Certifucate? Where is it?
It looks like a narrowboat, contact the ad for clarification.
Could be a chancer, could be someone unable to cope with modern websites...
Try reading the advert and this thread!
It states it is an ex-hire boat, still currently based on the Mon & Brecon Canal in South Wales, for which it was specifically built since that canal has slightly wider locks. -
48 minutes ago, Jonny P said:
See my edit. I read an accident report recently - where an assisting locomotive ran into back of the failed train - that seemed to suggest two sets of detonators were required in that circumstance.
It’s correct.Drivers are required to bring their train to a stand upon exploding one or more detonators.
I was thinking about the failed train and assistance situation, since that is what we had to deal with most in the Box.
Laying dets for a Line Block (Engineering) was the PICCOPs job. All we needed to know was that it had been done and the paperwork signed. -
1 minute ago, Jonny P said:
Is it just 440 yards?Trackworkers are taught a mile and a quarter - subject to specific rules for junctions and tunnels if those are encountered first - and I always understood that is because a design requirement of all rolling stock is that the emergency brake can stop the train within that distance (on a level gradient??) from the maximum design operating speed.
You've got me wondering now about the distance; it is 7 years since I read the Rule Book!
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4 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
I understood it was one of the guard's duties, in the event of a train breakdown/derailment/accident, to walk back along the line a specified distance and set detonators on the track. I also think they had duties involving shorting bars of three rail electric railways. Maybe the powers that be think signalling and train to signaler communications are so reliable such measures are no longer needed, but this is why I have never understood how driver only operation can be allowed.
In the event of a train failure or accident, then either the guard or the driver has to walk 440yds back from the train, and lay 3 dets roughly 10 yards apart. If a rescue unit is expected to approach towards the front of the unit then dets have to be placed likewise. If a rescue unit is going to come from either direction they have to be met at the first det by either the guard or driver. Even if the driver has contacted the signaller they are still required to place dets. Contacting the signaller should always be their first action anyway. If there is a junction prior to the "problem" things get a little more complicated!
Trains also carry a bar that reaches from one rail to the other so that it "shorts out" the track circuitry, which should give a notification to the signaller that there is a problem, although not all areas are track circuited. My Box only had short lengths of track circuits on the approach to a couple of signals protecting the level crossing.
In DOO (Driver Only Oprations) then the driver has to do all the above, which was one of the reasons the Unions were so against it, To be honest, since the introduction of the specific railway moblie network, GSM-R, communiction across the network is very good and there are very few black spots.
In the 10 years I was signalling I only ever remember dets being placed once whilst I was on duty, and what failures we did have generally managed to keep going far enough so that they could be looped out of the way. I was once taking a trip down the Heart of Wales Line where the unit failed at a remote station and we were picked up by a bus. On the return journey the unit I was one was going to be the "rescue unit" and we set off the dets after meeting the failure driver, and they were bloody loud! No-one ever seems to bother unclipping them off the rails. -
4 hours ago, Chris Lowe said:
You could consider railway detonators a health & safety device from the past.
They are still in use.
All trains still carry a tube of (I think) 12 and we had a small supply in my Signal Box.-
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It says it is a BMC1500, not 1800!
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I'm sure I remember, when we did the Oxford, there were handmade signs on some of the moorings at Cropredy, where moorers had painted boat names on the armco, saying something like "on holiday, you can moor here overnight".
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1 hour ago, MtB said:
We did the same.
After maybe two years of looking for a boat that fitted our requirements we gave up and compromised. Bought one MUCH longer than we wanted with the wrong sort of engine and finally got on with doing some boating!
Its a mistake I see newbies making all the time. Making a list of requirements and only viewing boats meeting the list. My advice is look at all boats for sale within geographical reach in order to get educated about what you do and don't want. Eventually a totally unsuitable boat will grab you by the lapels MAKE you buy it, and the two of you will live happily ever after.
It has been said many times here that you don't find the boat, the boat finds you.
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2 hours ago, David Mack said:
Which side of the breach is your boat? There are boatyards on the Bridgewater with hardstanding. Can you move (or get a friend to move) the boat to one and put it on hardstanding. You then no longer need a licence or BSS, and the boat can be inspected by prospective buyers out of the water.
Also, the Waterway Chaplains help boaters with difficult personal situations. Don't know if they can help on non CRT waters, but worth enquiring.
Problem is he would still need to pay something for the hard storage.
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18 minutes ago, jacko264 said:
But there has been plenty off bus engine fires so it can happen
Have there?
Perhaps in London but I've seen none reported in Wales.
Water Shortage - not just the leisure network
in General Boating
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Been reported that they are having to release water from the Elan Valley dams to keep the level of the Wye up, and make sure that it's water quality doesn't deteriorate to much.