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Lost for Words



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ARC99 wrote:
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Leaving Tweedbank in 25 mins: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54202/2016/05/15/advanced Thumbs Up


How did you manage that, when I had a look it had the times removed?


I just went straight there and there it was?

Edit: Could it be that the times had been activated in TRUST perhaps? Visiting from DISCO3.CO.UK
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Lost for Words



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I think it says a lot that the 60s road bridge has such issues now while Network Rail have estimated the 1890 Forth Bridge to have over 100 more years left in it. Thumbs Up Visiting from DISCO3.CO.UK
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Network Rail have estimated the 1890 Forth Bridge to have over 100 more years left in it.


Yeah well they would do wouldn't they? Can you imagine the expense of building a new one!

Point taken though, a beautiful piece of engineering. Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197

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ARC99



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Lost for Words wrote:
ARC99 wrote:
Lost for Words wrote:
Leaving Tweedbank in 25 mins: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54202/2016/05/15/advanced Thumbs Up


How did you manage that, when I had a look it had the times removed?


I just went straight there and there it was?

Edit: Could it be that the times had been activated in TRUST perhaps?


That could one possibility, I have since found out from a friend on the footplate that the times were kept very close to the chest before the run. Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place,
so it doesn't take much to Censored us off.

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jomara wrote:
2 amazing pieces of engineering form when the UK led the world Bow down

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Photo from http://www.forthbridgeexperience.com/

What a brilliant, gloriously traditional, "British" image that is.
Thanks, Pickles.
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shaggydog wrote:
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Network Rail have estimated the 1890 Forth Bridge to have over 100 more years left in it.


Yeah well they would do wouldn't they? Can you imagine the expense of building a new one!

Point taken though, a beautiful piece of engineering.


It is worth remembering the circumstances of the time the Forth Railway Bridge was built. Construction started in 1882, which was three years after the infamous collapse of Bouch's Tay Bridge and the significant loss of life that that entailed. Fowler and Baker, the engineers responsible for the Forth bridge, intentionally overengineered the structure to provide reassurance that it would never suffer the fate of the Tay bridge. It is highly likely that it would have been a less substantial structure if the earlier collapse had not occured.

I believe that Bouch had actually submitted a design for a Forth crossing, but strangely he fell out of favour after the collapse of the Tay Bridge.
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