At night, when demand is lowest it's probably actually helpful to be pulling a few MW out of the grid to avoid wind turbines having to be switched off.
That’s not the same at all. At any point in time the country needs a given amount of electricity. How the sale of that power is divvied up between it’s sources is purely a paper exercise.
According to O T T Maps, (11.15) 1M11 now 5M11 but still in the same position (UF just North of Queen's Park) that it has occupied since around 0645. Interestingly, DS now shown as blocked, which might be bad news for the trains standing on the DS immediately south of this point (DF shown as blocked for some time).
Mentioned on the previous page in this post here:
With a photo from Twitter of the damaged class 92 here:
It appears , from twitter, that passengers have been taken of 1M11 outside Euston (#Kensal Green ) but without luggage,so how will the luggage be re-united with its owner ? Seems a bit hard on anyone planning to take an early flight out of London or catch early Eurostar ..
The correct analogy would involve a finite supply of vegetarian food. Let's say you and your wife are in Greggs and there are two meat sausage rolls and one veggie one. The person behind you in the queue would prefer a veggie one. 2/3 of you would potentially go veggie but only 1/3 of you can. In terms of reducing meat consumption overall, it doesn't make any difference what your wife chooses.
Been in about 15 mins now. See a colas bringing it in.
It was drs 57307 one of the west coast thunderbird locos was it not.
If I commuted regularly from Garelochead to Kent maybe I'd prefer flying.
The supply of food is no more finite than the supply of electricity. Need more food, grow more food. Need more power, build more power stations.
Would be truly incredible if a Class 91 pulling a Caledonian Sleeper came off the wires on the WCML. That would raise a number of questions.