(08-07-2015, 09:24 PM)Pebbles167 Wrote: The sooner the old boys on the railway retire and take their 70's labour, something for nothing attitude with them the better.
This^
Had a site visit of the tata steel plant in Scunthorpe (almost the same size as scunthorpe) and they said they used to buy all their coal from local mines to support British factories and that. The coal mines in the area striked leaving them with no supply costing them a fortune. The solution was to import coal from canada, have it shipped to Hull and brought in via train.
When the mines reopened and said "okay we'll supply you coal again" they were told to do one as the canada supply was saving the steel plant about 50k a day. The local power plant also took their business else where , loosing two big contracts like that probably led them to being closed
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