NO PETROL !

[tikay]

What about someone with half a tank of petrol who is making a long journey in the morning?

Are they over 50?

[DaveShoelace]

Question for Tikay

Do trains get effected by the petrol crisis? I understand the modern ones use petrol, but do they have their own reserves of it?

[tikay]

Question for Tikay

Do trains get effected by the petrol crisis? I understand the modern ones use petrol, but do they have their own reserves of it?

Morning Barry.

I doubt  "trains" (or, "locomotives"), modern or otherwise, ever used petrol, it is not a suitable medium for railway propulsion.

Diesel was used for many decades, after steam & pre electrification. There are still plenty of diesel powered locomotives & trains in operation.

However, none of them will be affected by the potential strike by fuel tanker drivers. The TOC's have their own substantial fuel reserves, & these are usually fed by pipeline, direct from refineries, not road transport.

The electrified sevices will also be unaffected.

Here's a photo of a diesel powered & iconic Class 56.

[RED-DOG]

I'm just scared of delaying MahoganyVic for 10 minutes.

[david3103]

Question for Tikay

Do trains get effected by the petrol crisis? I understand the modern ones use petrol, but do they have their own reserves of it?

Morning Barry.

I doubt  "trains" (or, "locomotives"), modern or otherwise, ever used petrol, it is not a suitable medium for railway propulsion.

Diesel was used for many decades, after steam & pre electrification. There are still plenty of diesel powered locomotives & trains in operation.

However, none of them will be affected by the potential strike by fuel tanker drivers. The TOC's have their own substantial fuel reserves, & these are usually fed by pipeline, direct from refineries, not road transport.

The electrified sevices will also be unaffected.

Here's a photo of a diesel powered & iconic Class 56.

Not as handsome as the Deltics

[sovietsong]

Sigh I have an empty tank... When will this have ended so I can fill up?

[tikay]

Could not agree more, David, very little excites as much as a Deltic. If you ever get chance to use, or change at, Derby Station, there is always a Deltic parked at one end of the Station.

As a GWR man, I was always a little jealous of those wonderful Deltics, but the "Westerns" & "Warships" were pretty cool, Dad used to drive both when they were first introduced, & with H & S being less sensitive in those days, I spent many a journey from Paddington to Bristol in the cabs of these.


Anyway, enough of these wonderful pleasantries, we have hijacked the ANGRY THREAD, so we'd better move on.

[tikay]

Sigh I have an empty tank... When will this have ended so I can fill up?

Another bloody panic buyer.......

[AdamM]

I finish work at lunchtime on a Friday and alway fill up on the way home.
Today I'm going to look like one of the panic buying morons.
Will have to stand shaking my head dispondantly while I fill up.

[bobAlike]

There are 4 petrols stations in area which I live. 1 of them is a BP independantly run which is always 2p per litre more expensive than the other 3.
The other 3 had queues many cars deep,the expensive 1 had no cars at all.
This made my day as I needed a fill up for work and paying a premium of a pound or so was well worth not queing.

[TightEnd]

Not angry, by my standards....but hopefully I am allowed a shake of the head at

"Woman suffers 40% burns when petrol ignited while she was transferring it to containers in her kitchen in York"

In her kitchen?

[pokerfan]

Sigh I have an empty tank... When will this have ended so I can fill up?

Just go post midnight.

[bobAlike]

Not angry, by my standards....but hopefully I am allowed a shake of the head at

"Woman suffers 40% burns when petrol ignited while she was transferring it to containers in her kitchen in York"

In her kitchen?

Sounds like 1 for the Darwin awards Tighty.

[tonytats]

ffs. never even considered getting any petrol. got about quarter of a tank and at 13 to the gallon it aint gonna last. joke

What u driving ! A road roller ?

[RED-DOG]

I finish work at lunchtime on a Friday and alway fill up on the way home.
Today I'm going to look like one of the panic buying morons.
Will have to stand shaking my head dispondantly while I fill up.

How do you know they are morons and not just people who finish work at lunchtime on a Friday and alway fill up on the way home?.