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Post by ramseycampbell on May 15, 2023 13:15:20 GMT
I was not kidding about driving on the left side. This trip will surely be challenge, in many ways. When Kirby McCauley was first here, he forgot. We survived, and with a chortle he said "Did I frighten you?" |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 15, 2023 13:42:56 GMT
  Dagen H. The switch to right hand side driving in Sweden, 1968. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 15, 2023 13:50:09 GMT
This made me think: When you invade another country with a different road system it must cause problems. I'm thinking about the liberation of France, and actually the fact the various allied armies drove on different sides of the road. Did this cause much of a problem with planning?
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 15, 2023 14:17:26 GMT
I was not kidding about driving on the left side. This trip will surely be challenge, in many ways. When Kirby McCauley was first here, he forgot. We survived, and with a chortle he said "Did I frighten you?" But did you actually survive Ramsey Campbell? Or could it be you are actually... a ZOMBIE! Please answer the following question truthfully: When you see another (not zombie) human being does it make you hungry? |
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Post by Shrink Proof on May 15, 2023 15:07:32 GMT
This made me think: When you invade another country with a different road system it must cause problems. I'm thinking about the liberation of France, and actually the fact the various allied armies drove on different sides of the road. Did this cause much of a problem with planning? Not that much, everyone used the Continental system of driving on the right. The real problem, in WW2 at least, was the railways, especially on the Eastern front. Russian railways are built to a wider gauge (5 feet 0 inches) than those of most of Western Europe (4 feet 8.5 inches). This meant that when the Germans advanced into Russia in 1941, none of their locomotives and rolling stock could be used on lines in areas they'd captured. As the retreating Russians had withdrawn, blown up or otherwise disabled any of their own locos, trucks and carriages, the only way the Germans could use the captured lines was to laboriously rebuild them to the German gauge. This was a slow process and the Wehrmacht advanced much faster than the tracks could be rebuilt. As a result they outran their supply lines and this was one of the (many) reasons that their advance ground to a halt. |
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Post by helrunar on May 15, 2023 17:18:34 GMT
Sam, I had to laugh when you wrote
You can pick up bricks and stonework from the monastery and the old town along the beach slopes.
The inevitable caveat is--if you find a weird looking old whistle-thing with strange Latin letters on it--DON'T BLOW. LOL
Oh, and anywhere near a Cathedral, watch out for the kitchen cat!
cheers, Hel.
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Post by samdawson on May 16, 2023 10:13:22 GMT
You're quite right of course. Our rockery is a James-ish invitation to doom, made up of fallen masonry from ruins, Roman tiles, animal skulls and the like. I think the thing is that if you're curious, then you simply won't be warned
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 16, 2023 16:06:54 GMT
This made me think: When you invade another country with a different road system it must cause problems. I'm thinking about the liberation of France, and actually the fact the various allied armies drove on different sides of the road. Did this cause much of a problem with planning? Not that much, everyone used the Continental system of driving on the right. The real problem, in WW2 at least, was the railways, especially on the Eastern front. Russian railways are built to a wider gauge (5 feet 0 inches) than those of most of Western Europe (4 feet 8.5 inches). This meant that when the Germans advanced into Russia in 1941, none of their locomotives and rolling stock could be used on lines in areas they'd captured. As the retreating Russians had withdrawn, blown up or otherwise disabled any of their own locos, trucks and carriages, the only way the Germans could use the captured lines was to laboriously rebuild them to the German gauge. This was a slow process and the Wehrmacht advanced much faster than the tracks could be rebuilt. As a result they outran their supply lines and this was one of the (many) reasons that their advance ground to a halt. Interesting. There were different gauges in the UK in the early days of railway. Brunel used a 7 foot gauge. didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/article.php/20/brunels-broad-gauge-railwayHere is the first victim of a railway tragedy: rainhilltrials.co.uk/william-huskisson-and-the-first-railway-tragedy/#:~:text=William%20Huskisson%20(born%20March%2011,injured%20in%20a%20railway%20accident. |
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