Gizo Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 Are the trains burning slack? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-in-man Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 (edited) No, the trains are burning to time, where they can. Edited August 9, 2022 by x-in-man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
360 View Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 DOI has a diesel, doesn’t it? Sense reigns elsewhere https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-62479939 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
english zloty Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 15 minutes ago, 360 View said: DOI has a diesel, doesn’t it? Sense reigns elsewhere https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-62479939 https://www.gov.im/news/2013/dec/11/diesel-electric-loco-arrives/ When you've stopped laughing. One of the justifications for the cabbage was firefighting lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-in-man Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 1 hour ago, english zloty said: https://www.gov.im/news/2013/dec/11/diesel-electric-loco-arrives/ When you've stopped laughing. One of the justifications for the cabbage was firefighting lol For a Diesel it has certainly fuelled a good few fires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxman1980 Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 7 hours ago, doc.fixit said: Why can't we use smokeless cobble, the steam fraternity across has started using the processed briquettes on traction engines and other steam devices and report that there is more ash and the fire needs a little more care but otherwise seems a practicable solution to harder to obtain coal supplies and it seems it is a less polluting fuel. As I understand it the processed briquettes are not effective for every steam engine although narrow gauge steam railways with smaller locos/boilers than the Isle of Man Railways seem to be working okay. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted August 9, 2022 Author Share Posted August 9, 2022 Just put the stoppers on it until Monday when the weather looks like it will break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 (edited) The NPM this morning informs us that over 70,000 litres of water was used to extinguish a grass fire in Port Soderick, caused by the steam railway. Manx Utilities have made a big song and dance production and at every opportunity inform us as to water capacity and shortage. Yet IOMG and it’s Trsnsport bosses insist that it’s Steam Railway operate. I’m very sorry but the steam railway should be ceased immediately, whether it’s vital for the tourist economy or not. It’s also ironic that the eco goons (who constantly tell people how they should run their lives), have kept quiet about the smoke emissions from the trains, and the additional emissions from the trackside fires. In the meantime they will go hell for leather in stopping homeowners using coal and wood in open fireplaces. Considering every year the GMP go through the ‘water shortage’ and hosepipe ritual, so maybe it’s better now that the steam railway is consigned to the dustbin, if only to protect the environment which IOMG claims it loves, and to conserves water stocks? Edited August 10, 2022 by 2112 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 where is the fire going to be today ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 1 hour ago, WTF said: where is the fire going to be today ? No idea. I would be asking, which area of IOMG is going to experience a crisis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share Posted August 10, 2022 2 hours ago, 2112 said: The NPM this morning informs us that over 70,000 litres of water was used to extinguish a grass fire in Port Soderick, caused by the steam railway. Manx Utilities have made a big song and dance production and at every opportunity inform us as to water capacity and shortage. Yet IOMG and it’s Trsnsport bosses insist that it’s Steam Railway operate. I’m very sorry but the steam railway should be ceased immediately, whether it’s vital for the tourist economy or not. It’s also ironic that the eco goons (who constantly tell people how they should run their lives), have kept quiet about the smoke emissions from the trains, and the additional emissions from the trackside fires. In the meantime they will go hell for leather in stopping homeowners using coal and wood in open fireplaces. Considering every year the GMP go through the ‘water shortage’ and hosepipe ritual, so maybe it’s better now that the steam railway is consigned to the dustbin, if only to protect the environment which IOMG claims it loves, and to conserves water stocks? It's not much to ask for it to be suspended until the weather changes. 70,000 litres of water is obscene in the current circumstances. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOR Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 This cabbage thing is turning out to be as much a farce as the Douglas Corporation chewing gum removing machine. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 45 minutes ago, 0bserver said: It's not much to ask for it to be suspended until the weather changes. 70,000 litres of water is obscene in the current circumstances. That's 70 cubic meters, not a massive amount. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevster Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 19 hours ago, doc.fixit said: Why can't we use smokeless cobble It's not the smoke that causes the fires 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share Posted August 10, 2022 35 minutes ago, GD4ELI said: That's 70 cubic meters, not a massive amount. 50 litres to water a garden isn't a massive amount but is banned. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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