RE: Chinese Freight train on way to London. - 2

#16 by Sheldonboy , Wed Jan 04, 2017 5:57 pm

Quote: Sheldonboy wrote in post #15
Quote: Voltman wrote in post #14
"Because of the different railway gauges involved, a single train cannot travel the whole route and the containers need to be reloaded at various points."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38497997

[URL]http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world
/first-direct-train-service-sets-off-from-china-to-east-london-a3432061.html[/URL]

That is hardly a direct service.
But to be fair in the olden days in this country Goods wagons could be transferred to five or six different trains to get them from one place to another.

#17 by Voltman , Wed Jan 04, 2017 10:34 pm

If we stop buying cheap chinese crap they won't need to transport it at all.

#18 by Sheldonboy , Thu Jan 05, 2017 8:02 pm

Quote: Voltman wrote in post #17
If we stop buying cheap chinese crap they won't need to transport it at all.

They can always take our crap back to China

#19 by Voltman , Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:28 am

Made in Britain
http://makeitbritish.co.uk/directory/leisure-and-technology/

And for everything else....
Made in China
http://www.made-in-china.com

#20 by Voltman , Wed Jan 18, 2017 11:16 pm

It's arrived, worse luck.
Probably full of illegal immigrants, considering where it has been.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-b...KKBN1521XY?il=0

#21 by Slow Jo , Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:16 pm

Saw that train coming in tuesday,about 5 miles per hour ,dread to think what was in those containers.

#22 by Sheldonboy , Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:41 pm

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #21
Saw that train coming in tuesday,about 5 miles per hour ,dread to think what was in those containers.

Rice probably.

#23 by Slow Jo , Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:45 pm

Could be take away's

#24 by Sheldonboy , Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:11 pm

Of course A beef Curry and Rice for everyone in the midlands.

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