Meanwhile. On the Ukrainian border.

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GeoffCapes said:
When I lived in Essex, my parents house was near to the Southminster branch line where once or twice a month at silly o'clock in the morning the 'nuclear train' (as we called it) would take waste from Bradwell power station to Sellafield (I think) for re-processing.

On coming home from an impromptu mid-week party we were crossing the line when the train came through. The train had a carriage either side of the waste wagons and was filled with soldiers.
Quite a sight at about 4am when you're p*ssed as a fart!
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Similar on the North Wales line, but never saw soldiers, just the nuclear waste flasks. It was a heavy old train though, you knew what it was without seeing it.
 
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Why does this not surprise me in the slightest?
www.thesun.co.uk

Bernie Ecclestone in huge U-turn after saying he'd 'take a bullet for Putin'

BERNIE Ecclestone has been slammed for claiming he’d “take a bullet” for “first class and sensible person” Vladimir Putin – while dismissing Ukrainian president …
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This war is just a 'business mistake' ...ok fair do's... Any chance of undoing this mistake? Like rebuilding half of Ukraine, returning the stolen grain and other lootings. Oh and what about the thousands dead on both sides. I'm sure the Russian Mother's will miss their sons as much as the families of the bereaved in Ukraine.

Prize tw@...the sooner he is removed from his mortal coil the better...like that Putain
 
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sionie1 said:
Similar on the North Wales line, but never saw soldiers, just the nuclear waste flasks. It was a heavy old train though, you knew what it was without seeing it.
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I think at the time there were threats of terrorist attacks on the trains.

Have seen the train a few times since, but never with soldiers escorting them.
 
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GeoffCapes said:
I think at the time there were threats of terrorist attacks on the trains.

Have seen the train a few times since, but never with soldiers escorting them.
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A couple of weeks ago I was working a train out of Wembley Yard, just as I was about to leave the flask train pulled up in an adjacent road and four security guards appeared from nowhere to keep an eye on it. As for the weight of these flask trains, they're usually no more than two or three hundred tons including the loco(s), the aggregates trains that I usually drive are normally ten times heavier ;).
 
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P5Nij said:
A couple of weeks ago I was working a train out of Wembley Yard, just as I was about to leave the flask train pulled up in an adjacent road and four security guards appeared from nowhere to keep an eye on it. As for the weight of these flask trains, they're usually no more than two or three hundred tons including the loco(s), the aggregates trains that I usually drive are normally ten times heavier ;).
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We were doing a job just outside Kingsbury by the airport fuel depot. Apparently we set off some sort of detectors as two car loads of armed officers just turned up out of nowhere.
 
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Oneball said:
We were doing a job just outside Kingsbury by the airport fuel depot. Apparently we set off some sort of detectors as two car loads of armed officers just turned up out of nowhere.
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A few years ago I was shunting some stock into the sidings at Wolverton Carriage Works, the shunter who was with me wandered off to have a shuftie at the Royal Train in one of the long sheds, within seconds he was surrounded by armed rozzers, they scared the **** out of him!
 
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This little fellow would fit in my car, a Skoda superb, if I put the back seats down.
Just the notion of it sends a chill all the way down my spine. It's so small. It's a cold war era British nuclear bomb.
You don't need big lorries. You could fit half a dozen of them in the truck with the troops. Or one in the wing commander's car.
Terrifying.
And presumably, this year's model is even smaller.
 
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This little fellow would fit in my car, a Skoda superb, if I put the back seats down.
Just the notion of it sends a chill all the way down my spine. It's so small. It's a cold war era British nuclear bomb.
You don't need big lorries. You could fit half a dozen of them in the truck with the troops. Or one in the wing commander's car.
Terrifying.
And presumably, this year's model is even smaller.
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There's no need to go to extremes, gentlemen, just one bullet in Putin's head would suffice and all of this would blow over...OK maybe the whole magazine to make sure the cnut is dead.
 
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