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« Reply #30 on: March 14, 2018, 18:29:40 » |
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And welcome please - the next arrivals at the Montpelier Tree Surgeons' Ball - Connie Fir and her husband, Douglas...
who cuts down trees skips and jumps and likes to press wild flowers!... |
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« Reply #31 on: March 19, 2018, 00:59:11 » |
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I am enjoying these puns but the person who started them deserves a trunk call from the Special Branch.....
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« Reply #32 on: March 19, 2018, 01:09:11 » |
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Indeed: local police have logged the incident.  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #33 on: March 26, 2018, 23:30:45 » |
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....leave cash in honesty box...
I have quite a collection of those. |
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« Reply #35 on: May 31, 2018, 20:40:24 » |
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.....so why hadn't NR» been cutting the trees back I wonder? Aren't they currently trying to get permission to fell just about every tree standing near a railway line, mainly because they've allowed them to grow out of control? |
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« Reply #36 on: May 31, 2018, 21:19:41 » |
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.....so why hadn't NR» been cutting the trees back I wonder? Aren't they currently trying to get permission to fell just about every tree standing near a railway line, mainly because they've allowed them to grow out of control? Perhaps the article give the answer: It is thought the trees prevented landslips on the steep embankment down to the railway line, and acted as a noise buffer against the noise of the trains. This is a complex area of geotechnical engineering so I cannot be sure what the effect would be in this particular instance. If we get a slip next time we have a wet winter then we might find out. |
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« Reply #37 on: June 01, 2018, 10:46:12 » |
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Perhaps the article give the answer: It is thought the trees prevented landslips on the steep embankment down to the railway line, and acted as a noise buffer against the noise of the trains. This is a complex area of geotechnical engineering so I cannot be sure what the effect would be in this particular instance. If we get a slip next time we have a wet winter then we might find out. It's also a complex area of environmental acoustics. But... surely the people who would suffer most from any increase in noise will be the very people who instigated the felling of the trees? A slight irony there, one feels. |
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« Reply #38 on: June 01, 2018, 17:08:08 » |
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Perhaps a whistle board should go up on the station side of Montpelier Tunnel. Two tone horns dozens of times a day will have the tree butchering residents crying out for a noise buffer. Network Rail can then plant some fast growing foliage to achieve that.
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« Reply #39 on: June 01, 2018, 17:44:49 » |
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Two tone horns hooting a G and E flat mournfully are becoming a thing of the past. I suggest a special Montpelier minor version where the horns sound an interval a seventh and a augmented octave (octave plus half a tone) . I've just tried it on the piano and middle C to B above back to middle C and up to C sharp. There again, I could do it on the organ and choose the temperament ( most modern digital organs offer at least 8 of those) that makes it even more excruciating ! Looking for an emoticon that is covering ears, but couldn't find one, so this one will have to do.  |
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« Reply #40 on: June 01, 2018, 18:41:44 » |
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Subsidence is not unknown in the area concerned 😳 let's just hope that no problems arise from The felling!....
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« Reply #41 on: June 01, 2018, 19:50:39 » |
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Two tone horns hooting a G and E flat mournfully are becoming a thing of the past. I suggest a special Montpelier minor version where the horns sound an interval a seventh and a augmented octave (octave plus half a tone) . I've just tried it on the piano and middle C to B above back to middle C and up to C sharp. There again, I could do it on the organ and choose the temperament ( most modern digital organs offer at least 8 of those) that makes it even more excruciating ! Looking for an emoticon that is covering ears, but couldn't find one, so this one will have to do. When I worked at the B.R. T.C. at Derby one shunting driver loved hooting out 'On Ilkley Moor Bah Tat!' Drove us mad. |
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« Reply #42 on: June 01, 2018, 19:56:34 » |
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THAT'S G CCC G C FOR THE TONE DEAF AMONG YOU ! DOING MY BEST BRIAN BLESSED IMPRESSION !!
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« Reply #43 on: June 01, 2018, 20:33:25 » |
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« Reply #44 on: June 03, 2018, 23:26:51 » |
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It's also a complex area of environmental acoustics. But... surely the people who would suffer most from any increase in noise will be the very people who instigated the felling of the trees? A slight irony there, one feels.
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