'EWS & Daily Mirror'

Just looked at the EWS web-site, where there is a response to a Daily Mirror
article about trains stabled at Didcot-any idea what this is about?
Brian

BH Williams wrote:
> Just looked at the EWS web-site, where there is a response to a Daily Mirror
> article about trains stabled at Didcot-any idea what this is about?
> Brian
>
>

http://tinyurl.com/tx8lq
"MIRROR EXPOSES APPALLING AMMO SECURITY"

"Great Eastern" <ger@ger.ger> wrote in message
news:45abcf21$0$8735$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
> BH Williams wrote:
>> Just looked at the EWS web-site, where there is a response to a Daily
>> Mirror article about trains stabled at Didcot-any idea what this is
>> about?
>> Brian
>
> http://tinyurl.com/tx8lq
> "MIRROR EXPOSES APPALLING AMMO SECURITY"
I thought it might be something like that.. I wonder what the headline might
have been had a member of MoD-plod taken a pot-shot at them?
Brian

Peter Masson wrote:
>
> In view of the threads about Barking, what would uk.r have been
> saying if the reporter and photographer had been mown down while
> crossing the main line?

Good riddance?

In message <1168897950.086084.215250@51g2000cwl.. com>
rannochmoor@ wrote:


>
> All EWS employees involved in these trains adhere to the Official
> Secrets Act. In the ten years EWS has operated these services, there
> has never been a security breach. In addition, any employee in the
> rail industry who is involved in and aware of information relating to
> these services is also covered by the Official Secrets Act.
>
>
> Do ALL railway employees sign the Official Secrets Act, otherwise the
> last sentence is meaningless.
>

You don't have to sign it to be covered by it so the last sentence is not
meaningless.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at <http://www.greywall./rail/index.html>

The message <1168900223.244954.268550@q2g2000cwa.. com>
from D6586@ contains these words:

> Dont they have any home news to be reporting on ?

Some papers need to invent their own "news"...

--
Dave,
Frodsham

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:24:49 GMT, Charlie Hulme
<info@davenportstation.org.uk> wrote:

>Charles Ellson wrote:
>
>>
>> Terrorism Act 2000 ?
>> 58. - (1) A person commits an offence if-
>> (a) he collects or makes a record of information of a kind
>> likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of
>> terrorism,
>>
>> [10 years imprisonment]
>>
>
>And even worse, they have failed to comply with the National
>Rail Guidelines for Enthusiasts!
>
Definitely worse ! ;-)

You would think they would recruit some of the unemployed/able to deal
with such persons ?

Graeme Wall wrote:
> In message <1168897950.086084.215250@51g2000cwl.. com>
> rannochmoor@ wrote:
>
>
>> All EWS employees involved in these trains adhere to the Official
>> Secrets Act. In the ten years EWS has operated these services, there
>> has never been a security breach. In addition, any employee in the
>> rail industry who is involved in and aware of information relating to
>> these services is also covered by the Official Secrets Act.
>>
>>
>> Do ALL railway employees sign the Official Secrets Act, otherwise the
>> last sentence is meaningless.
>>
>
> You don't have to sign it to be covered by it so the last sentence is not
> meaningless.

The only person to sign the Official Secrets Act (or, strictly speaking,
Official Secrets Bill) was Betty Windsor. Mere mortals sign a piece of
paper which certifies that they have read and understood the provisions
of the Act.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
<www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont>
(Remove teeth to reply)
Don't meddle in the affairs of dragons because you are crunchy and taste
good with ketchup.

What are "they" in all honesty going to do with the train?

You can get to it but it's not going anywhere...

In message <1168905254.379228.83620@l53g2000cwa.. com>
"Nick" <nicholasjw181089@m> wrote:

> What are "they" in all honesty going to do with the train?
>
> You can get to it but it's not going anywhere...
>

AIUI the paper claimed they could fit a time bomb to it so it would explode
while passing through Reading. Mind you if it went off passing over the
Oxford Road Bridge it would do everyone a favour.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at <http://www.greywall./rail/index.html>