Wednesday 16 November 2016

Déjà vu all over again


I happened upon a train having a shower the other day (as you do) and was wondering how I could lever this image into this blog. I need not have worried.
Back in the glorious sixties and seventies when motorways were being built up and down and across the country somehow Hull missed out. No three lane transportation route thunders into one of the UK's largest ports. The M62 would stop many miles west of the city and a two lane dual carriage way was considered sufficient from that point on. Well it wasn't and it isn't. And the city and port of Hull is still suffering from that short sighted penny pinching attitude. Screech forward to today and the track from Liverpool westward (equivalent to the M62) will be electrified but the Government has decided in its infinite stupidity that the rail line from Hull to Selby will not be electrified. So passengers from London or Liverpool will have to switch trains and go back half a century or more in terms of rail transport. Freight will have to be moved by practically antique, in terms of technology, engines. This is a despicable decision from a Department of Transport that is unfit for purpose, that clearly has nothing but contempt for the city of Hull, that has still not even put in place plans to alleviate the mess it caused back in the seventies. Ah well we are unloved but we have the culture ... and the old push-me-pull-you trains will be clean for the next fifty years of service.

4 comments:

  1. Sounds like your city council has some of the same brand of nitwits mine does.

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  2. I remember the 'sprinter' trains from my student days which ran to and from Sheffield (via Doncaster) and Manchester Piccadilly (via Leeds).

    In my first year, I think there was still a service which ran direct all the way to Wrexham.

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  3. For a moment there it sounded like you live in California.

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  4. The U.K. is a third world country when it comes to trains. How can they not be electrified in the 21st century?

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