The tossers in government would rather bail out the banksters than bail out Cumbria.

You're probably correct, Craig. The main focus of the British Army is concentrated on the Afpak 'front', not Britain. I wonder how many helicopters would be available if they weren't all on the other side of the world too?

Sorry this is off-topic Craig, but just to alert you to this article by Eric Walberg in Al Ahram Weekly, spotted at the very useful "Vineyard of the Saker".

The piece in itself is very interesting but also refers to your own efforts at some length towards, and at, the end.

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2009/11/canadas-guantanamo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_bridge

I grew up un Bournemouth and used to pass MEXE every day on the way to school and see the huge metal structures there.

(www.army.mod.uk/royalengineers/equipment/701.aspx) Royal Engineer Bridging Assets

There still is a corps called REME btw and it has not been pruvatised or outsourced yet!

From the Professional Spokesperson, seconded to the Ministry of Useful Works:

"The courses on bullding bridges, previously of 'A' level standard, in order to be accessible to a wider number, have had their content downgraded to CSE standard and the pass mark lowered to 25 per cent. However, since a degree is worth £500,000 over a lifetime, the qualification at the end has been upgraded to degree level for official statistical purposes. Therefore, to learn to build such high-tech infrastructure, bearing in mind the Health and Safety aspects, the candidates will have to take a Bridging Course ..

I heard on the media over the weekend that the army has offered to build a Bailey bridge Craig, but further 'discussions' were needed.

As an aside, only last year on the A93 to Braemar a new section of road was opened. It was built to avoid the delay caused by traffic lights at a Bailey bridge built in the 1940 after a landslide. This bridge has certainly stood the test of time because there is no other road to Braemar from the south. It can be seen from the new piece of road and will be used by the landowners now. There are no plans to remove it.

This is what happened in Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, after all. Helicopters, equipment and the National Guard had all been deployed in Iraq/Afghanistan.

To be fair, another 4 inches of rain were forecast for yesterday, I think another washout has in the end not happened, but it was probably worth waiting for that to pass before getting going on a bailey bridge?

Seems the Royal Engineers are currently "measuring a possible site for a footbridge upstream of the Calva Bridge."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8377314.stm

Looking with Google Earth the river is a little wider than the 60 metres Wikipedia says Bailey Bridges can do in a single span.

Interview yesterday (25th Nov) on the Today programme at 07:34 with Peter Lloyd the MD of the company that makes the modern version of the Bailey Bridge. The problem is an engineering one: if the foundations of the old bridge are not sound, new foundations and access roads must be built even for a temporary bridge. That takes weeks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8377000/8377863.stm

Limited time to listen again, I suppose.

Bollocks !!!

We will always look for excuses excuses elf & safety, not my job guv etc etc. Its just we are to lazy and to scared to make a decision. Did anyone ever see challenge Anneka on the telly. Put a tv camera on it call it a game show or top gear and half the world would be down there with helicopters bull dozers and the bridge would be up before you know it. This country is paralysed by idiots too scared to make a decision and companies too corrupt to put an honest price on a job adding four zeros because its a government contract. God help us all if we had a real disaster. The blitz spirit has long gone.

"I cannot understand why we are continually being bombarded with news of the plight of the bridgeless people of Workington, and that the army has not been deployed to put up a Bailey bridge or its modern equivalent"

Just like the USA the UK cannot afford to fight illegal wars to make a few people rich and see to the needs of the british people...

http://tinyurl.com/48r8l5

Just finished repairing an old Bailey here in Congo over the Lwizi river,it was made in Manchester in 1943 and shipped out here after WW2, actually stamped with date etc...

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