| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Now the Xrail chickens really come home to roost | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 29/10/09 23:04:00 |
| "People like Isambard KB were the people who really wore the spectacles" Old IKB had his share of rubbish ideas though (he was a useless locomotive engineer, for instance), but people remember the far sighted stuff. One does wonder occasionally what he'd be able to achieve now - quite a lot, I suspect, engineering is still an excellent discipline for the go-ahead young mind. Mind you, I would say that, it's what my degree's in. It would be interesting to put Brunel and Lord Adonis in the same room together. Here's the Noble Lord sticking up for state investment in railways, just to annoy Mr. Veasey: http://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/2009/10/the-state-put-railways-on-the-map/ |