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14 pictures to step through...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/im...allery.shtml?1


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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, John Rowland wrote:

14 pictures to step through...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/im...allery.shtml?1


WHAT.

Did i miss Chatham being built on a mountainside?

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Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, John Rowland wrote:

14 pictures to step through...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/im...allery.shtml?1


WHAT.

Did i miss Chatham being built on a mountainside?


It's a cut-price Schwebebahn. Remember the plan for cable cars from East
India Station to the Dome?
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...tml#DomeAerial


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On Aug 23, 4:51 pm, "John Rowland"
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Did i miss Chatham being built on a mountainside?


It's a cut-price Schwebebahn.



Eh ?

How is a Schwebebahn a cut down cableway ?

Thats a bit like saying a footpath is a cutdown travolator - the two
are different applications using different systems for different
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D7666 wrote:
On Aug 23, 4:51 pm, "John Rowland"
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Did i miss Chatham being built on a mountainside?


It's a cut-price Schwebebahn.



Eh ?

How is a Schwebebahn a cut down cableway ?


I didn't say it was, I said a cableway is a cut price Schwebebahn.
The reason I made the comparison is that the Schwebebahn exists because of
the River Wupper, and I suspect that the cableway is being planned for
Chatham because of the Medway

Thats a bit like saying a footpath is a cutdown travolator


Well, it is.

- the two
are different applications using different systems for different
reasons.


And yet, one of the cost reductions in St Pancras Thameslink involved
replacing the planned travolator to the tube with.... a footpath.




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On Aug 26, 9:12 am, "John Rowland"
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OK I see what you mean.

Chatham because of the Medway


But surely even then the schebebahn runs *along* the course of the
river but cablecars tend to go across things ?

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In article , John Rowland
writes
14 pictures to step through...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/im...ateway_futuris
tic_gallery.shtml?1


Number 10 appears to be moving Benfleet station to the Blinking Owl
intersection (where the A130 crosses the A127). That'll be an
interesting project.

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Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article , John Rowland
writes
14 pictures to step through...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/im...ateway_futuris
tic_gallery.shtml?1


Number 10 appears to be moving Benfleet station to the Blinking Owl
intersection (where the A130 crosses the A127). That'll be an
interesting project.


No, they're showing it moving to where the A13 crosses the A130, an even
more interesting project.


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John Rowland wrote:

where the A13 crosses the A130


.... which incidentally looks like a Magic Roundabout... could someone
confirm that before I add it to Wiki's list of Magic Roundabouts. Does it
have a name?


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On 26 Aug, 08:40, "John Rowland"
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John Rowland wrote:

where the A13 crosses the A130


... which incidentally looks like a Magic Roundabout... could someone
confirm that before I add it to Wiki's list of Magic Roundabouts. Does it
have a name?


Yes - Sadler's Hall. (You may like to peruse www.sabre-roads.org.uk if
this is your cup of tea!) :-)

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