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Looks like time to visit your local steam railway have you been on one.... think ive done Bodmin paignton

His company runs trains more than 30 times a year. “On May 26 we are running a train down to Minehead. But after that we don’t have any coal left and we are concerned. “The issue is once we run out will people still use heritage railways which in many towns are a key part of the tourist economy,” Nick Ralls, said his company, the Severn Valley Railway, which carries 250,000 people a year was coping in recent weeks after a difficult period. “When Scottish coal sent under we were scratching around for anything which was suitable for steam trains. “We were trying to find anything which was black and burnable. There was some Russian coal and we had first dibs on that. We believe we have found a long term supplier, but if we hadn’t we would have had to shut down over the summer.”

We are managing to get supplies, but it is far less certain than it was. “If the prices become astronomical, it will be a threat to the businesses. But the problem is tourism is very low down the food chain.” Bob Meanley, general manager of Vintage Trains, which operates from Tyseley, near Birmingham is particularly pessimistic. “Now There is no supply. We were using coal coming out of a pit in South Wales, but that is no longer available. Everyone was trying to get that coal. “Everybody is experiencing difficulty in sourcing coal from the UK."

“Until recently there were four different places where you could get coal which was suitable for steam trains. “It was coal which gave off a lot of heat and little smoke, unlike household coal which gives off a load of ash.” “Going down from four to two suppliers is worrying. I think it is getting close to some railways shutting completely and others using diesel engines, “Some are historic but most families want to see steam engines.” Now railways are relying on imported stock from Poland and Russia. “We are having problems with supplies which is having an impact on price,” said Philip Benham, general manager of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which carries around 350,000 people a year, generating around £30 million a year to the local economy

A fire at Daw Mill in Warwickshire and the collapse of Scottish Coal last month have left heritage train companies frantically scrambling for supplies as they prepare for the summer surge of tourists. In all there are around 200 historic railway companies who attract millions of enthusiasts a year. But while some have managed to secure coal for the next few months, others are in a parlous state especially as the coal shortage is likely to drive prices up. “There are a lot of worried people out there,” said Paul Lewin, a director of the Heritage Railway Association. “Like any business, we need to know our source of supplies and materials are secure.

stan, thompson, dougal, VW above are frr reg posters as per arsneal

Redundancy and opencast coal mining, Thoughts on the possible demise of UK Coal

If taxpayers can bail out banks then Govt should do what it can to support and save UK Coal thru Coal Authority

There will undoubtedly be some difficult decisions as we have had to look at all possible options, but there is a good business here with 2,000 families depending on our workforce and I am confident we will be able to announce more news in the coming days.”

gr8 idea get him on tweets u can direct chat without sharing the ideas you dont want to tell the game players i need a little help from 2 or 3 clever but 'virgin investors' your cres and frr should be the start of making a lot of dosh..... somehow feel like ive stumbled into a party in a forest clearing with these boards and money makers,,, tweet kenstaff.................ps i ve only put twitter on last week for business purposes so theres no private info. as you just dont know who these investors are...............and they get a bit hot under the collaras we know:?->

http://www.coalguru.com/other_region/ukgovernment_pay_usd_172_million_to_compensate_for_carbon_price/9831

ha will have to filter them then :-> ive got 50 on my watch list so going to find the daddy on each site (queen ant) then army ants.... nice going keep up the gud work

yeah pimms it is..... hope fully, :-< just had to bribe someone to get my new kitchen order done speedily its like the phillipines !!!! Bridgo haev you worked out who is the 'Daddy ' on Frr ??.......on each company there is a team working a 'shift' to keep the board in there control

i think we will be ok, best hope we will get is a re rating 20 pence? doesnt seem to be anyone wanting to play around with the sp then can look to invest elsewhere my best stock is amur only a bit in bit 34% increase.. cres pulling the lot down at the moment im getting to grips with whoes who on lse at mo great fun watching solgold SOLG up and down and the charade that is going on with the blogs think theres many poker players on their ,and a couple of story tellers im in though, small holding at 2.7 pence basically 2 main investments one is in a gold producing volcanic area of aus.... see ya

The cats out the bag clocks ticking for the MInes.... Will Favier get a timely answer or is Jones biding for time ?????

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Pensions Guru lays it on the line Quote from Fallon I need a very quick response from you so we can either decide to proceed with the restructuring or not before events overtake us and a compulsory liquidation is the inevitable consequence."

ownership of UK Coal http://www.professionalpensions.com/professional-pensions/news/2269851/ppf-explores-taking-ownership-of-uk-coal-reports

http://libreprensa.com/k/_/535799#s/628442

ccs carbon capture this is what the germans are doing so they can burn Thermal coal for energy needs as they've shutting there nuke power stations