Re: Rail bridge across the Dornoch Firth?

In article <f33013d94f%Rail@greywall.demon.co.uk>,
Graeme Wall  <Rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In message <78g2p5x45h.ln2@news.aber.ac.uk>
>          azb@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Robert Breen) wrote:
>
>> In article <3efe8d84f%Rail@greywall.demon.co.uk>,
>> Graeme Wall  <Rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> >In message <uhn0p5xkit.ln2@news.aber.ac.uk>
>> >          azb@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Robert Breen) wrote:
>> >
>> >[snip]
>> >>
>> > > [if you dobt Scottish leverage in a sudden separation, just stop and
>> > > think  who has the Big White Ones in such a case: more than enough to
>> > > persuade  the Bank to keep Tony's codes open to Holyrood]
>> >>
>> >
>> >I ran that through babelfish and I still don't understand it.
>>
>> Faslane and Coulport are in Scotland, so any simple
>> chop-down-the-borderline separation leaves Scotland with submarines,
>> missiles and warheads. "Big white one", like "instant
sunshine" is an old
>> euphamism for what are officially "special weapons", but are more
>> colloqually known as nukes.
>
>Doh, I was thinking oil and trying to work out what it could mean in that
>context.  Instant Sunshine (bucket of) is the more common expression in the
>submarine service I believe, Big White One is RAF apparently.  (Checked with
>an ex-submariner).

Dates back to the V-force, IIRC.

>Tangentially I've just been reading the contingency plans for an incident at
>Southampton's Z-berth.  I'm _just_ outside the 2km precautionary zone.

Run away...

>Even more tangentially, most of the before mentioned buckets of instant
>sunshine are not in Scotland, only those already on board alongside at
>Faslane.

Not that anyone's admitting exactly what's in Coulport or Glen Douglas
(vague uk.r relevence there...).

>>
>> Thus, if Hollyrood want to have Tony Polson[1] continue to pay personally
>> for all rail improvements north of the line, they have an edge in
>> negotiation.
>>
>> [1] It has been remarked before that all railway improvements in Scotland
>> are funded by direct debit from Mr P.'s bank account :)
>>
>
>That bit I got, eventually :-)
>
>I think when Scotland gets independance they should offer Tony honorary
>citizenship.

Oh, I think so.

:)

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