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Re: Rail bridge across the Dornoch Firth?

In article <4d10f130-bb3a-4aaa-937e-c56690d78465@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
The Real Doctor  <ian.groups@btinternet.com> wrote:
>On 3 Sep, 20:53, "tim....." <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> The latter is certainly not true, they are only in Scotland in the first
>> place to win votes for the government, I'm sure that the Government would
>> want to win votes by moving them to Plymouth/Portsmouth or Chatham
>
>You might put the submarine there, but I suspect it would be a little
>harder to persuade the locals to accept a nuclear arsenal.

Chatham Dockyard is long gone - closed in the early 80s as part of the
Nott cuts, IIRC. Not an awful lot of spare land at Pompey, especially now
that the whole Gunwharf/_Vernon_ side has been sold and redeveloped.
Devonport would be about the only possible site, and IIRC it was where the
refuelling facility for nuke boats was built. As Ian points out, though,
there might be resistance from locals outside the town but within a
plausible blast radius.

Ob.uk.r: All the dockyards had extensive intrnal rail systems. Chatham was
the first with one - Marc Brunel's 7' gauge wooden man-powered railway
(the design of which - albeit with iron running surfaces to the rails
- was rather unimaginatively used by his son for steam railways) was
in use at Chatham in IIRC the late 1820s (there was also a monorail in use
there around the same time - again man-powered). Steam - on standard gauge
and iron rails - came later, and there are some wonderful photographs of
railways on temporary staging around the berth in which HMS _Achilles_ was
building in the early 1860s.
Devonport and Keysham dockyards had separate systems to begin with, later
linked by running through a rather constricted tunnel. In many ways, I'm
surprised I've never seen a Naval dockyard railway modelled...

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