Today in Spain 🇪🇸

Limechase

Limechase

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We had temps over 42c on the coast, god only knows how hot it was in Seville, or Granada...

Trains all ran on time, no panic anywhere.

How the hell We built railways in India, 100yrs ago, without rails buckling etc....

Yes its warm, but in the UK, its guaranteed to rain & need the heating on by weekend

But the press do love a bit of hysteria

Me I like my Hysteria by Def Leppard

Chill...... 🤣
 
Limechase said:
We had temps over 42c on the coast, god only knows how hot it was in Seville, or Granada...

Trains all ran on time, no panic anywhere.

How the hell We built railways in India, 100yrs ago, without rails buckling etc....

Yes its warm, but in the UK, its guaranteed to rain & need the heating on by weekend

But the press do love a bit of hysteria

Me I like my Hysteria by Def Leppard

Chill...... 🤣
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Just wait til it starts blowing and raining!!!
Oooh leaves on the lines😳
 
poolseasider said:
Health and Safety and the Claim culture is killing this country meanwhile the rest of the world cracks on.
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Or maybe that it's more how we're not set up for extreme temperatures as much as those countries that regularly experience them while also having the same health and safety laws?

And possibly that the country requires major infrastructure investment but we keep voting for lower tax governments?

We could invest some of our hard earned taxes on preparing for the handful of heat or snow days a year? Although there's not much to invest since all the profits from our utilities go to the foreign concerns that now own all of them since they were sold off to the highest bidder?

How about that that those who keep the services running know that they're run on Sellotape and blu tack so would like to inform it's users that anything out of the ordinary may break the system?

Possibly more pressing reasons than 'health and safety gone mad'.

Shit don't fix by magic innit.
 
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Costero Poderoso said:
The Spanish press is pretty hysterical as well to be honest, 42 on the north coast this afternoon.
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Not here on the Costa, massive wild fire in the hills behind us in Fuengirola, fire boat plane landing /refilling in front of us on several trips to douse the fire just another day in southern Spain
 
Limechase said:
Not here on the Costa, massive wild fire in the hills behind us in Fuengirola, fire boat plane landing /refilling in front of us on several trips to douse the fire just another day in southern Spain
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Trains all run on time but the country is on fire?

Sounds fine...

 
Nothing out of the ordinary, no one lives on the mountain, they just get on with it, no hysteria like in the UK, with 1.2cm of snow, or two warm days... 🤣 Then everything stops

Got to agree with Lytham Fy8 tho, spot on.....
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Or maybe that it's more how we're not set up for extreme temperatures as much as those countries that regularly experience them while also having the same health and safety laws?

And possibly that the country requires major infrastructure investment but we keep voting for lower tax governments?

We could invest some of our hard earned taxes on preparing for the handful of heat or snow days a year? Although there's not much to invest since all the profits from our utilities go to the foreign concerns that now own all of them since they were sold off to the highest bidder?

How about that that those who keep the services running know that they're run on Sellotape and blu tack so would like to inform it's users that anything out of the ordinary may break the system?

Possibly more pressing reasons than 'health and safety gone mad'.

Shit don't fix by magic innit.
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Nope everything now is a risk assessment filling out forms just to go about your daily work it's bollocks.
Everyone is frightened of being sued so easier to shut everything down.

Someone yesterday was telling me a company meeting has been cancelled for today because of the heat it's in Kirkham FFS.
 
Limechase said:
We had temps over 42c on the coast, god only knows how hot it was in Seville, or Granada...

Trains all ran on time, no panic anywhere.

How the hell We built railways in India, 100yrs ago, without rails buckling etc....

Yes its warm, but in the UK, its guaranteed to rain & need the heating on by weekend

But the press do love a bit of hysteria

Me I like my Hysteria by Def Leppard

Chill...... 🤣
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Railway lines worldwide are built in general to cover a 45 degrees celsius temperature variation and the associated expansion/contraction. So in Delhi it will probably be 10 to 55 degrees, Spain (probably dependent upon region) maybe 0 to 45 degrees and the UK -10 to 35 degrees.

Go outside those extremes you are asking for trouble, more so on the high side as expansion is more likely to cause long term damage and contraction more operational restrictions.
 
A simple answer for leaves on the line.

In the days of steam, all engines had a sand box fitted, this could be used to provide more traction when needed. Modern all singing all dancing diesels and electrics don't have them.

A for the rail infrastructure and health & safety, Lytham hits the nail on the head.
 
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