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Title: Coal shortage
Post by: davieb on May 27, 2013, 08:41:45 PM
Thought I would post this just in case anyone missed it on the news today  :doh:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22681141 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22681141)

dave  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Coal shortage
Post by: MikeDunn on May 27, 2013, 09:12:48 PM
Yeah, BBC WM had a spot on @ Vintage Trains too ...  :(
Title: Re: Coal shortage
Post by: Greybeema on May 27, 2013, 09:14:52 PM
Plenty of it under Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Kent.  If only we had a Coal Industry... :hmmm:
Title: Re: Coal shortage
Post by: guest311 on May 27, 2013, 09:27:45 PM
Quote from: Greybeema on May 27, 2013, 09:14:52 PM
Plenty of it under Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Kent.  If only we had a Coal Industry... :hmmm:

hold on, next you'll be suggesting we actually MAKE things here  :smiley-laughing:
Title: Re: Coal shortage
Post by: Greybeema on May 27, 2013, 09:29:19 PM
Quote from: class37025 on May 27, 2013, 09:27:45 PM
Quote from: Greybeema on May 27, 2013, 09:14:52 PM
Plenty of it under Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Kent.  If only we had a Coal Industry... :hmmm:

hold on, next you'll be suggesting we actually MAKE things here  :smiley-laughing:

No - Not make it - just dig it up...
Title: Re: Coal shortage
Post by: guest311 on May 27, 2013, 09:38:39 PM
Oh go on, if we're going to resurrect the coal mines, lets go the whole hog and do the steel works as well, then make our own trains .... who knows where it might end  :hmmm:
Title: Re: Coal shortage
Post by: EtchedPixels on May 27, 2013, 11:35:27 PM
Quote from: class37025 on May 27, 2013, 09:38:39 PM
Oh go on, if we're going to resurrect the coal mines, lets go the whole hog and do the steel works as well, then make our own trains .... who knows where it might end  :hmmm:

We've still got steelworks - several of them. We did sell them all off to Indian companies but they are still running.

Alan