Snows Past
In reply to Michael W., who has lived away from the UK for twenty years and asks if we still get the kind of snow where we can go sledging, as he once did at Gotts Park in Armley: the answer is No. Well, hardly ever.
Snow was promised for yesterday and about three flakes of it fell in the South-East, so, of course, "Hundreds of trains were delayed and dozens cancelled as the rail network was blighted by frozen points." (The Times)
How do other countries manage? Doesn't it sometimes get a bit chilly in, say, Siberia? And yet there is a railway called the Trans-Siberian Railway and yet it isn't called the Trans-Siberian Railway - Open Only In August. Isn't there a railway right across Canada, in amongst the moose and fir trees and scary wolves? How come it doesn't break down every other day? How come there aren't weekly headlines "Three Hundred Stranded Passengers Devoured by Wolves"?
If you know, please tell me. Perhaps we in Britain just have the wrong kind of snow, permanently.
Snow was promised for yesterday and about three flakes of it fell in the South-East, so, of course, "Hundreds of trains were delayed and dozens cancelled as the rail network was blighted by frozen points." (The Times)
How do other countries manage? Doesn't it sometimes get a bit chilly in, say, Siberia? And yet there is a railway called the Trans-Siberian Railway and yet it isn't called the Trans-Siberian Railway - Open Only In August. Isn't there a railway right across Canada, in amongst the moose and fir trees and scary wolves? How come it doesn't break down every other day? How come there aren't weekly headlines "Three Hundred Stranded Passengers Devoured by Wolves"?
If you know, please tell me. Perhaps we in Britain just have the wrong kind of snow, permanently.
posted by Daphne at 4:42 pm
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Oh, come now, Daffers, it's money. It costs less to lay track that's partially unusable because of snow a couple of days a year than it does to lay track that isn't - even taking into account the loss of revenue, which frankly wasn't much compared to the losses they usually make.
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I live in Sydney now and we don't get much snow here. We did have a hailstorm about two years ago, but I still thought that Yorkshire did have snow, some times. I do remember the 45 bus from school [I went to Aquinas in Meanwood] struggling to get up Armley Ridge Road. If that doesn't happen any more then Global Warming is reality.
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