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Discussion on ST4776
Portishead Station, John Thorn.
I slipped on this platform with open train doors swishing across my head, until I rolled into the centre, and on one evening returning from school we collided with the end buffer, so much for diesel modernization. The great days were the ones where the steam trains (often collier units hauled in to cover lost other engines) used to move to the back on the side track and hook on again to go back to Bristol Temple Meads. This is one route that should have had a maintained commuter route Mr. Beeching and should now have a steam railway for tourists, of which there are many in this area who do not work here, so our miners can dig coal safely and Portbury dock can be cleaned up, keeping Dowty Mining in work and us in materials and them in decent homes. This is better than subsiding on old coal waste and for the national debts incurred by oil imports and nuclear fuels. We do have people of ability in this country, only the government only lets them out to some fresh air once in a while then returns them to isolation until the next election Spinners. Then it subsided, with the piers standing free and the tarmac collapsed around, proving the state of the old tips and the town industrial history, not much has not subsided since from M5 to the coast levels, Lake and some buildings; so Geotechnical Research has a Long History, as Lil Miz Jocelyn says, and memory and much present day process over which contractors fight for payments from Government office! They call it Environment.