NHS

[RodTungsten]

Quite some thread drift here so I will veer a bit more. We are making the mechanicals for locomotive speedometer calibrators with a local specialist firm.

We are told that sensors are taken off wheels and stuck onto these calibrators to be rotated at various speeds. Calibration is then completed by reading indicated loco speed off a chart of wheel diameters and twiddling something in the cab to correspond. Needed because wheel/ tyre diameter changes quite quickly.

 

[Oneball]

Given the limitations of working within our little island, what's your professional view of HS2 as regards planning and execution thus far?

With my railway engineers hat on;

They didn’t account properly for risk with interest rates which is a construction industry and government wide problem which I never understand, you’ve only got to look at a graph of the last 40 years on Google to work that one out.

There were major NIMBY issues fanned by MPs who have their second homes in the Chilterns which added billions to the initial white paper estimate but this was included in the final pre construction estimate of £40bn. They live in a man made landscape shaped by the first industrial revolution and they moan about a train line. In the same way as the landed gentry did in the 19th century. If this was France they’d have told them to **** off.

Construction is on schedule but there’s significant resource issues across the industry and other rail works are loosing out and as we move from heavy civils to track, E&P and signalling I fear it will slip.

As civil engineering achievement it’s right up there on the world stage. It is the largest civil engineering project in Europe.

 

[midlifecrisis]

HS2 goes nowhere near the Cotswolds.

 

[Oneball]

HS2 goes nowhere near the Cotswolds.

I should know better as Ive lived in both! I meant Chilterns.

 

[Phil H]

HS2 goes nowhere near the Cotswolds.

Give it time.....

 

[midlifecrisis]

I should know better as Ive lived in both! I meant Chilterns.

Oh the 'other Cotswolds'

 

[Oneball]

Oh the 'other Cotswolds'

Sheep, Range Rovers, Tory MPs, difficult to tell the difference!

 

[Delmonte]

Get on to your mum in law’s county council’s social services (google the number) and tell them she is an emergency case and needs help immediately. You should also be able to fill in an online form for her for a referral to adult social care. The county council should be able to arrange care until you either employ someone privately to help her or she is means tested and can get it for free.
Also call Marie Curie and ask them for advice about emergency help. There is a lot of assistance out there, the hard bit is finding out how to get it. I had to do it for my parents.

Great thanks Harry. We've got a bit further and she is now regustered with SS. Been on to Macmillian also but didn't think of Marie Curie so ta for that.
Mrs D is back home for one day only (but employers have been very understanding letting her work remotely) and were starting to see a way forward.
Ta so much for this.
John