Hsr2

Looks like it

A lot of the woods down there (like Shortwood) aren't as treey (is that a word) as when we were kids - the opencasting and by-pass got rid of a lot of them

 

so we not getting a station then?...

 

L€€d$ and Meadowhell I believe.

It won't be able to get through Barnsley quick enough - they're even running it through tunnels so the poor commuters don't hurt their eyes looking at all the 'orrible views


Still say it'll never happen

 

200mph through lundwood,it'll look well if nowt else

 

Well, if it goes in at Blacker Hill and out at Stead Lane/Broadcarr it will never be more than 100 ft down. The highest point on that stretch is Law Stand, which it will pass under straight away then it's downhill to Hoyland Common and the residential bit.

 

Aye we are. Platts Common Parkway

 

All I want is a decent road to Manchester. I'm not sure how many more times I can take being stuck behind a lorry going 30 on the Woodhead.

 

I don't think I'm getting the full PDF with the key. But there is a famous battlefield at Tankersley from the Civil War. Centred around the Old Hall on Black Lane. There isn't much of it left, it's the building in Kes that he climbs to get the bird. That area is total Kes country, Skiers Spring Colliery, the Bell wood, the fields below Law Stand where he flies the kestrel.

 

the pit top scenes were filmed at wharncliffe woodmoor at carlton...my mate is the lad who gives brian glover the rods when he gets sent off,I asked him which pit it was where it shows them getting on and off the cage.

 

Perhaps. But I take the train probably a couple of times a week - from Birmingham to Newcastle, London, Glasgow, Portsmouth, Cardiff and many others. Sometimes even to Barnsley (!). So equally it could be the 21st century equivalent of the 150-year old lines that I and many others use every day. Problem is, by the time we know which it is, the WCML will be full and the ECML will be catching up with it. And then it'll be too late.

Virtual meetings and videoconferencing have a place and I use them a lot, but it would take a step change in quality (say, a movement from screen-based to true VR) for them to replace some face-to-face meetings. And it's difficult to say how far away that is - it could be the logical next step and be commonplace in 2018, or it could be the 21st century hoverboard...

 

I suggest that if it is cheaper then business will decide to make it commonplace if the technology is advanced.

May I ask you if you can envisage a time when the travelling you need to undertake can be replaced by a virtual solution ?

 

"He wants bleeding milking!!"

Skiers Spring is the pit in the scene where Judd walks through the fields to work in this scene.

http://www.filminglocationsdetectives.com/films/kes_page3.htm

The cage scenes may well have been filmed at another location.

 

that mate of urs,his surname isnt glover anall is it?

 

yes.

 

i trained with dave on the buses last year, top guy.....

 

you are right about where judd walks to work,,but the pit top certainly isnt skiers,skiers men used to travel down a drift

 

For sure! As I say, I lot of it is - I use videoconferencing daily, and it's removed a lot of my need for travel. But sometimes (say, if you've got more than about four or five people and a serious deadline), videoconferencing doesn't cut it if you want a productive meeting. And I often need to audit files or look at buildings, and that would obviously take some serious technology to do properly. My point is just that some things work well done virtually, and some things don't. This will certainly change, with more things becoming possible, but I don't believe that not building something based on a gamble that in 20 years it'll be obsolete is a good way to go.

Apart from anything else, I have friends all over the country, live four hours away from my parents and - most importantly - support a football team who play over a hundred miles away from my house. I love to travel for pleasure, and find the train to be easily the most relaxing and pleasant way to do that. More capacity, more competition and more speed will improve my life hugely. I just really don't see where the massive negativity about HS2 comes from - it's not like successive governments haven't wasted far more money on projects with far less utility for the majority of us.

 

last time i spoke to him he told me he was going driving,i think he was after hgv tho'...

who's he driving for?

by the way he ant changed a bit from when he filmed kes,theres no mistaking its him that for sure.

 

Some American or Canadian pension scheme will make a killing out of this for years

 

he was driving for stagecoach but he didnt last long, u know dave, didnt have the patients with the passengers... think he went back to hgv