Nick Gallop

Helping find greener, leaner ways to move goods and people, in an industry that often takes itself far too seriously. Opinions personal. May contain nuts

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@Madz_Grant Record, post, cc his employer in…

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@railnigel Maybe this could (in deference to Private Eye) become a regular feature - Heidiballs… a rich seam to be mined at present

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@BMLBod It lives! Go to Haywards Heath and position yourself close to the facilities on the platform, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and suddenly it’s the 1970’s, strikes, sandpaper for the derrière and green soap to try and wash away the stench of abject failure and decline

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

When left to their own (digital) devices…

[Nigel Harris @railnigel]

Because they cannot see an ideological drum without beating it to within an inch of its life. Alex to his credit notes this as a stepping stone to GBR, not that this development is any kind of an achievement. When there isn’t a rapid massive improvement this will bite back

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@BMLBod Freight? Yes if you’re DRS and DB Cargo (the latter owned by the German people BTW), but the rest (traction & rolling stock) very much remaining outside of direct state / civil service ownership or control. But everything ultimately still determined by industrial relations.

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@Captain_Deltic @JeSuisUnDan I interpreted and remagined the original using a combination of lunch break and Photoshop

Unreimagined original at https://t.co/HAqd3f2jLl

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@Captain_Deltic @JeSuisUnDan Course, they didn't always get it right

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@Captain_Deltic @JeSuisUnDan I refer you to my previous written answer

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@NoelDolphin They could join the other villas unwittingly allegedly paid for by the project. Next update probably needs tweaking the text to expand its scope to include the Costa Brava, Amalfi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Bali.... But who's the "individual" who's benefitted - a bat tunnel expert?

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

Ok folks can someone translate latest LinkedIn cliche-speak:

“we have a client who’s interested in your vertical”.

It was apparently a business enquiry but I’m buggered if I know what they referring to.

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@philatrail Smart move that - commit to the document rather than its contents. Great swerve!

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@Captain_Deltic @cmpd_date @WyverLane @Dominic_Noades @DriverPotter Oh Roger will they ever learn #ThirdRailRules

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@ZengoMay 75mph up to 90mph…

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

It’s one small step for a train, one giant leap for intermodal #GoExpress

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@Glutenfreescone Bristol Port Company (with a bit of help) reinstated 6 miles from Bristol to Portbury in 5 years. Focussed client-driven determination. Single round of feasibility studies. Engaged hard with DfT and BRB/Railtrack. They JFDI, i.e. Did It, as opposed to Dithered Indefinitely.

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@Captain_Deltic @Steven_Swinford French approach on high speed rail:
a) it's in the national interest - end of debate
b) if genuinely affected - generous compensation
c) if you're not - none
Contrast with our hand-wringing uber-pandering optioneering and mitigation, regardless of locus, location, cost or time

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@BB27000 Was the inspiration for Great Western electrification - built with girrrderrrrrs

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@matthewhodg Strip everything out, then build the world’s biggest plastic tube manufacturing machine, insert tube and put everything back again…

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@TBrit90 Only problem being that like HS2 most of it would have to be underground to avoid annoying anyone within a 100 mile radius. Even James Bond villains already twigged that

[Nick Gallop @IntermodalityUK]

@NoelDolphin Perfect Curve-style marketeers standing by to “interpret” their way through buckets of public money with random shapes and colours with zero elegance and style. I’m almost hoping the graffiti artists will be able to do a better job afterwards