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Still many years of service for HST's phew!
Totally agree with your GWR electrification comment. Why are people so stupid? Electric trains pump just as much carbon into the atmosphere as diesel ones. It's just that with diesel the carbon gets spread out along the journey, as opposed to it going up from one location - the powerstation. Nowadays, politicians can say and do anything just by crying 'CLIMATE CHANGE'!
Off topic slightly, but I read in an article by the founder of Greenpeace Irving Stowe, that Evironmentalism is the new communism. He said after the fall of USSR, all the communists flooded into the green movement especially Greenpeace, because they knew they could use the 'global warming' issue as a front for their communist ideals.
Hopefully if the tories get in next may, the GWR electrification might never happen!
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