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Listed below are comments made by gordonsc4lk between Thursday, 28th May 2009 and Wednesday, 1st July 2009.

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I could operate trains 4:08pm on 01 Jul 2009 New boy here (well 3 posts) I can't help thinking that of the 125 posts to this blog a high proportion of them seem to be people trying to score points from each other. Reminds me of the small town newspaper web sites where they are monopolised by 2 or 3 sad people who convince themselves that they are really working hard and know everything etc. and have actually lost sight of what the original blog was for and just want to pick off the others. Robert can you not remove these posts so that people can get on with putting forward their points of view on the item in discussion which will obviously differ but make for a much more interesting blog.
I could operate trains 12:05pm on 01 Jul 2009 With regard to Lord Adonis and his apparent fit of Pique (If you wo'nt play nicely with my East Coast Train set then I'll have my other sets back)maybe he has the right attitude.
OK so this was a special vehicle set up for the East Coast Mainline but it has been "Sold" to the public as National Express and where on the picture does it show the words "East Coast" on the trains. In fact as someone who has travelled many times on this service I can say that no-where will you find the words "East Coast" on Menues or other literature. Perhaps the real litmus test should be whether any engine, carrage, member of staff or any item leased to or owned by National Express East Anglia has ever been used (Rented, borrowed, hi-jacked or simply strayed) on the East Coast Mainline. If so then surely they are trading as a single company never mind the legal niceties. Why do I sense fat lawyers starting to rub their mid-riffs with sorting this one out at taxpayers cost.
I could operate trains 10:08am on 01 Jul 2009 No Robert we don't need you running a railway, we need you as the Minister for transport. Yet again a bunch of MP's and Civil Servants have been found wanting when it comes to looking at the T&C's of these bids allowing the private sector to run rings around the Government. When there is money to be made they will take it but it the whiff of a loss then "We're out of here" seems to be the moto. Having said that, if Bob Crow and his Lackies get their way then the sole reason for the railways will be to provide employment for "The membership". Looks like the jobs yours.
Have you heard a cuckoo? 9:34pm on 28 May 2009 First heard this years Cuckoo at 17.08pm on the 1st of May in Icklingham Suffolk. This was about 3 days later than in previous years.
Heard the first one in the Kings Forest at North Stow Suffolk on the 28th of April which is 5 days later than normal.

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