Re: Edinburgh Waverley station improvements

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From: BH Williams
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<angus_creech@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> I doubt it. Such pictures might reveal Network rail's latest
>> "bright" idea; rail joints "secured" with fisplates, which are
>> "held" by three clamps. None of these namby pamby nuts and bolts to
>> secure fisplates and rails together.
>>
>> No doubt I am old fashioned when I look at this and wonder, though
>> the line concerned is a low speed one.
>
> Network Rail? Don't Scottish railways come under the jurisdiction of
> the Scottish Government?
>
> Angus
>
Network Rail is still the infrastructure operator- the Scottish Assembly 
replaces the government tier above (whatever the Department of Transport has 
been subsumed into) and its agent, the Office of the Rail Regulator. A 
similar situation obtains in Wales as well, I believe.
Brian

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From: "BH Williams" <bhwilliams@letra.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Edinburgh Waverley station improvements
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 16:16:58 +0100
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