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11 Dec 2021
New Blog!
Have you ever wondered just how effective the ramp on the front of some aircraft carriers is?
Find out in:
Jumping off the Deck: The Operation of Conventional Aircraft from ‘Ski-Jumps’
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Ships on Fire off Humber River | Containership Solong Struck US Flagged Tanker Stena Immaculate
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Well, now that 2024's over, we can all look forward to another 2024.
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JUST PUT UP THE WIRES I AM LITERALLY ON MY KNEES BEGGING YOU.
31 Dec 2024
Battery-electric trains the preferred option to replace Class 165s and 166s on GWR cross-country route
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30 Dec 2024
Paint Prep's Great.
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I am begging the USA to fully embrace grade separation...
29 Dec 2024
From the Brightline Safety and Security Team: Railroad safety is a community wide effort. For everyone’s safety, never drive around crossing gates when they are down.
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25 Dec 2024
It's not often you get a Christmas gift that's over a hundred years old!
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1 Dec 2024
Today I got to ride HS1.
A quiet, smooth and comfortable modern high speed electric railway.
250m 12 car trains with 680 seats. Awesome.
This is what we could've had from London up to Manchester, Leeds and Scotland. (With 1/3rd longer trains and 35% more capacity.)
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20 Nov 2024
Just a reminder that the RFA has been crippled by workforce issues due to worsening pay and conditions for its seafarers over a decade.
Their total annual wage bill? £96m
0.0017% of the Defence Budget.
The cost to actually fix this would be miniscule. Not doing so is a choice.
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Everyone behaves as if the reasons why defence cannot recruit and retain quality people through a full career are deep and complicated. They're really not.
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I give good odds that these ships are sold to someone outside of NATO and they proceed to operate them for another 20 years.
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If the intent is to abandon any hope of regenerating a credible amphibious capability, we should have divested ourselves of the LSD(A)s and reactivated the tankers to double down on the CSG and NATO sustainment. There. I said it.
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HS2 Phase 2A is *RIGHT THERE*, ready to go.
8 Nov 2024
Transport secretary confirms govt IS looking at the potential for a new rail line up the west coast, including private finance options:
on.ft.com/4hH8fwO
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18 Oct 2024
Lisa Nandy announces plan to restore charities to ‘centre of national life’ theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Here they are, coming to grovel for investment from companies that give not one singular shit about their workforce, or the UK.
DP World sacked 800 skilled UK seafarers to hire in foreign labour on half the UK minimum wage.
Yet we're supposed to bend and scrape for their money?
11 Oct 2024
Rayner and Haigh Wreck £1 Billion of Investment Ahead of International Summit order-order.com/2024/10/11/r…
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They didn't intend to invest in London Gateway out of the goodness of their heart, or out of some fondness for the UK. They were going to do it because they thought it would make them money.
If they want to lose out because they're unwilling to obey UK regulations, their loss.
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I'm not sure why anyone thinks that DP World have a place running UK CNI. They sacked the entire UK workforce of P&O, 800 mariners, and replaced them with underqualified foreign agency staff. They should not expect government to treat them with kid gloves
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P&O, and DP World who own them, did that so they could pay their ferry staff £4.80-£5.50 an hour. The 2023 Seafarers Wages Act will force ships calling at UK ports over 120 times per year (i.e. ferry companies and similar) to pay the UK minimum wage.
Good.
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And, of course, we will now get a couple of days of the usual sort banging on about how the UK might not get an investment in London Gateway from DP World because we *dared* to call their subsidiary what they are: a predatory employer.
Should such a company own and run UK CNI?
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“Give me some fin, noggin, duuuude”🐢 HMS MEDWAY has assisted in the repatriation of 6 loggerhead turtles near the Azores during our transatlantic crossing 🌊We hope that the 6 turtles will be happy being back where they should be
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