VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Edwin|DATE|1362479966|CONTENT|Didn&#039;t get to the end of this one. What should have happened with Beeching was that the railways should have been rationalised, 17 trains a day over three miles of track from Calne to Chippenham in Wiltshire was absurd but use of the car park and a commuter link to Bristol, London and Swindon would be invaluable now.

More interested in the launch of our locally built Bronze Age Boat tomorrow. This is a link to a time elapse camera viewing the boat on the slipway ready for launching. About fifty foot long, weighs five tons, of oak mostly hand shaped with bronze axes and sewn together with yew withies. Original built about 4,000 years ago.

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Now it will never replace the railway but it does remind how important water transport was back then. And its fun to paddle in thepast as I do on my skin covered coracle. 

What I also think of is the lies told about the past as to how religious and superstitious they were which is baloney. My view is that the level of scepticism and atheism has always been high but social pressure then to keep quiet prevents us from quantifying it.

After all shipwrecked sailors could see that prayers and sacrifices did not actually work and what did were the rational analysis of the likely weather conditions, competent navigation and the performance of the crew. And how well the ship-builder had done his job.|EMAIL|aeduin@aol.com|IP-ADDRESS|92.6.74.202|MODERATIONFLAG|