(19-03-2021, 05:32 PM)SeaCol Wrote: Bring back coal fired steamers, quicker and cheaper.

Health, safety & minimum wage nowadays!




No point in going any quicker unless you can gain another round trip in the 24 hours, to maintain a regular schedule.

Otherwise it wastes loads of fuel and strains the engines and they cannot keep to it in rough weather which makes a mess of the punctuality figures.