Here in Stockport there was approximately 5 seconds of lateral shaking which was very apparent, the only sound was a light fitting next to me rattling.

Below is the USGS automatic incident report. I would agree with its general findings

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

Sky News is now trying to string this one as far as it will go from the sensible to the whacky.

The piece on the news was the MoD owned rail storage depot, used to store all sorts of old stuff from locos to old coal merry go round wagons and coaching stock.

A huge amount of remediation would work would need to be done on the site and everything stored there would have to moved out, no easy task since some of the locos haven’t moved (I don’t know about engines turning over) for years.

It looks like the access cover over the socket to receive power from a starter battery or other form of ground power, they wre similar in size and shape.

I can’t be definate though, but it a good starting point.

Are there any numbers and inspectors stamps, these should say which company made the part.

Yet again the UK goverment and its transient glove puppets are out to tar all with a single brush.

While I don’t have any de-activated guns (or live ones for that matter) I can see this idea causing a lot of trouble.

We carry out licenced excavation (under the Protection of Military Remains Act) and often find guns in varying states of dis-repair from almost perfectly straight to banana like 20mm cannons. At present we have to declare them to the local police and then have them deactivated. This included welding a rod into the barrel and also welding the breach. I would like to know how you go about reactivating that as the distortion caused by heat from a welding torch is enough to mean it could never be fully cleared of weld and damaged steel.

But then we can trust our elect representatives to make a mess of everything.

I never knew there was anything that far from the site, it must have gone a long time ago.

No, identities have not been confused, there are two projects on the go. One is Elliott’s and the other is by Mark Evans.

Parts were recovered from BD232 in the 80s and it was 2003 when most of the remains from N1498 were recovered.

Gordon

I see from your latest addition to your site the crew list (apart from the ages) is identical in format and detail to the one I produced for XF702 after a fair bit of research, no one source gave all of the details so I know it wasn’t looked up easily. I had to use the accident report, newspaper articles and the new armed forces memorial, that helped iron out a couple of errors in the accident report with service numbers.

By the way Iain C. MacLean (the only crewman you don’t have an age for) was 20 at the time of his death.

For Sqn Ldr Harry Harvey the accident report records RAF Kinloss Wing AE Ldr though on my site I only put RAF Kinloss Flying Wing.