Rabbit Thought of the Day

Very quiet at the moment, my work seems to have come to a sudden halt, I am waiting on a few people to email tender documents so that I can review them, was supposed to have them first thing this morning. Now I am sat about twiddling my thumbs waiting for them to arrive.

It appears that the bridge at Liverpool Street Station did not suffer a partial collapse as early reported in the news. However, scaffolding used for overnight engineering work collapsed on to the track. Network rail said in statement that they hoped normal service would resume by 14:00.

This is quite a serious incident, if the scaffold collapsed as packed commuter train was passing it could have dire consequences, yes the bridge is ok (thankfully), but the health and safety implications are very serious. Network Rail or whoever was undertaking the work are in serious breach of their own procedures and who was in charge should be dismissed.

Over the Christmas period Liverpool Street station in London was closed by engineering works to allow for the demolition and installation of a new bridge on the approach to the station.  The work took longer than expected and when the holiday was over the station was still closed because of the overrunning work, the same happened at Easter when engineering work once again over ran.

Today the station is once again closed because of a partial collapse of the new bridge and structural engineers are on site to ascertain the damage. The line operated by National Express East Anglia (formerly One Great Eastern) is known as the miserly line and the customers believe its the worst in the country.

As I drive to work if they are any break downs on public transport or late running trains it is normally this line that’s at fault.

But the latest situation just shows how bad our rail network as become, we know the network is bad but just how bad is it. Under funding by successive Governments has lead to the worlds rail network. Do we have any great engineers such Isambard Kingdom Brunel any more?

Once again I am the first in the office and I have even sorted out my emails and now know which ones I have to address, which this morning is the grand total of one, (maybe I could go home after that).

That should take only a couple of minutes it only involves saving the attachments in a folder and checking a drawing. Maybe I can get on with some proper work today, it took me most of yesterday to sort out the last batch of emails. Mind you I have an idea to stop them, just mark the people who send the most as junk, then you don’t even get them they are deleted before they get in the inbox or I could block them. Somehow though I don’t think that would go down to well, oh well I suppose I will have to continue what I am doing.