I posted that map just to give an idea of what the map might look like
after the Underground is added. Obviously, there are quite a few
strange things about this map that hopefully will be changed.

Roland Perry wrote:
Amstrad is still, as far as I can see, doing the same thing (Tim
Campbell's beauty product was from Amstrad), but the PC business was
transferred to Viglen some time in the mid 90's. Viglen is not part of
Amstrad, being privately owned.


They still do that daft phone emailer thing, and still make Sky
Digiboxes, although with the new ones they now look identical but can be
made by different companies.

On Jun 20, 2:51 pm, The Junk Yard Express
wrote:

They still do that daft phone emailer thing, and still make Sky
Digiboxes, although with the new ones they now look identical but can be
made by different companies.

And Amstrad is a shadow of what it was and is mainly a "resale"
company. ISTR it has a staff of about 50 these days.

While Viglen is a separate company, Sir Alan does have a stake in it,
I believe.

Neil

On 20 Jun, 13:51, The Junk Yard Express
Amstrad is still, as far as I can see, doing the same thing (Tim
Campbell's beauty product was from Amstrad), but the PC business was
transferred to Viglen some time in the mid 90's. Viglen is not part of
Amstrad, being privately owned.

They still do that daft phone emailer thing, and still make Sky
Digiboxes, although with the new ones they now look identical but can be
made by different companies.

I very much doubt they make Sky digiboxes. They may well commission a
company in China to make Sky digiboxes for them.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:16:00 +0100, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

I see that although they have all the new names for the stations in the
Shepherds Bush/White City area, the new Wood Lane station on the H&C is
implied as being quite a distance from White City. I know it isn't an
interchange as such, but it would be more accurate if they were closer
together surely?

I think they're using the long established Queensway-Bayswater rule
:-) Predates any Mornington Crescent rules by decades.

Notice too how Hammersmith, the title, is overworked for the 2
stations? Covers both but not in a clear way. Appears that the P&D one
is unnamed. And the WLL runs from WillesdenJn to ShepBush crossing the
H&C to the east of Latimer Road - shurely shome geographical
curiosity (not that the map needs to be accurate to the ground).
--
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So back to cmylod at bigfoot dot com

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, John B wrote:

On 19 Jun, 19:37, Arthur Figgis wrote:

Is it a two-way process: are there any transport or utility companies
elsewhere in the world that are owned by British companies, or is it
all one-sided?

Arriva have franchises/operating concessions/etc in the Netherlands,
Germany, Denmark and perhaps soon Poland. Angel Trains lease stock
across Europe.

FirstGroup have overseas activities in the USA, National Express Group
crop up in North America, Portugal and Australia.

Where do Serco live? They've just got the Dubai metro operating contract.

Serco live in Richmond (.lon.uk, not .va.us); it also runs the
Copenhagen metro. Also, Stagecoach runs commuter buses across the US.

On the subject of utilities, National Grid owns the transmission
network for most of New England and New York.

Tesco's doing well in the US, i believe, and i think our few remaining
banks are holding their ends up.

tom

--
IME the only lousy shags are when she says no! -- John Rowland

"Neil Williams" wrote in message
ups.com...
On Jun 20, 2:51 pm, The Junk Yard Express
wrote:

They still do that daft phone emailer thing, and still make Sky
Digiboxes, although with the new ones they now look identical but can be
made by different companies.

And Amstrad is a shadow of what it was and is mainly a "resale"
company. ISTR it has a staff of about 50 these days.

While Viglen is a separate company, Sir Alan does have a stake in it,
I believe.

Sugar bought out Viglen in 2002 when its shares were on the
floor, and took it private via Amshold his wholly owned
Jersey Company.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08...pany_formerly/


michael adams

....





Neil

On Jun 20, 11:40 am, John B wrote:

3) Paddington (Circle) made accessible - if you were going to provide
accessible SSL/NR interchange at Paddington, I'd've thought the H&C
station would be a better bet! Where's this going to go?


Is Paddington one of the Circle line stations that is going to get
longer platforms (along with Bayswater) to allow 7-car trains when the
stock arrives? Will that make putting in lifts at the same time
*relatively* easy?

In message . com, John
B writes
On the subject of utilities, National Grid owns the transmission
network for most of New England and New York.

Now that *is* interesting. I always though US law prohibited foreign
ownership of utilities there.

--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

On Jun 19, 7:59 pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message

...

In message . com, at
03:52:52 on Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Boltar remarked:
The winner of the London Overground concession is MTR Laing according

Sounds like a sensible decision. Why pick people who already have
years of experience running railways when you can pick a building
firm.

But isn't Laing Rail actually Chiltern, and the construction business was
sold off years ago. The Evening Standard in London is apparently saying
the Chinese have won the bid, though. Not sure what that means.

I looked up Laing's site earlier, and Laing Rail is only a small part of
what they do, and as you say they don't seem to describe themselves as in
construction at all, much more infastructure project management and
operators. I guess they must subcontract any actual building work, I don't
think they actually built any of the Evergreen project on the Chiltern lines
for instance. There is also a Laing Homes - but I can't see any connection
with them at all.


The Laing Group used to include John Laing Construction and Laing
Homes, a major civil engineering and building contractor and a major
housebuilder respectively.

John Laing Construction built the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which
has staged the FA Cup and League Cup football finals for the last few
years while the new Wembley Stadium was built.

The Millennium Stadium was completed on time and within budget.
However, it was a fixed price contract and technical problems meant
that it cost John Laing Construction over £40 million more to build
than they got paid.

This very large loss was more than the company could stand. The
remains of John Laing Construction were sold in their entirety to the
O'Rourke Group and now trade as Laing O'Rourke. Laing Homes was sold
to George Wimpey and continued to trade under the same name (although
that may change as Wimpey has recently agreed to merge with Taylor
Woodrow).

This left Chiltern Railways plus facilities management and PFI
(Private Finance Initiative) projects as the main activities of the
John Laing group.

MTR is the Mass Transit Railway Corporation of Hong Kong, China. MTR
procured and operate Hong Kong's mass transit railway system including
the high speed lines to the airport.