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[email protected] · **Wires or pantograph down on NLL, 2 June 2010**

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
03:46:27 on Sat, 5 Jun 2010, remarked:
They haven't got any money for any other means of traction, nor the
oil supplies!

Who is "they"?

Second time: Who is "they".

Of course Notwork Rail don't have to find the traction.

But ToCs can finds "the oil" pretty easily. It's down at around 2%
of the country's total petroleum product usage.

And unless the govt agrees to build a lot more nuclear power plants
real soon, then the electricity industry will continue to use about
40% of our fossil fuel allowance.

You are overlooking the argument used to stop the DMUP orders.

Probably, as that's geek-speak I don't recognise.

Please explain what it is and how it applies.

It's been explained to you here already. ROSCOs won't buy DMUs.

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Colin Rosenstiel