{"id":96,"date":"2012-12-06T15:18:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T15:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/?p=96"},"modified":"2012-12-06T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T15:18:45","slug":"from-newcastle-to-darlington-and-back-againa-tale-of-infrastructure-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2012\/12\/06\/from-newcastle-to-darlington-and-back-againa-tale-of-infrastructure-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"From Newcastle to Darlington and back again\u2026a tale of infrastructure failure."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two members of the Geospatial Engineering team (David Alderson and Craig Robson) were due to present their current infrastructure\/network-related research at the recent ITRC Early Career Researcher&#8217;s conference, held at Cambridge University on November 27th 2012.\u00a0As such both embarked on a journey, departing from Newcastle at 0556 on the morning of the 27<sup>th<\/sup>, that would end having only reached as far South as Darlington\u2026approximately 6 hours after departing! The cause of being only able to travel a few miles in that time\u2026a flood-related failure of the rail network leading to a loss of power to the train and line between Durham and Darlington.\u00a0 A set of images taken on the day of the failure illustrate the researcher\u2019s plight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannysavage\/status\/273380288233631744\/photo\/1\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannysavage\/status\/273380288233631744\/photo\/1<\/a> &#8211; the train being towed (or not) by a DIESEL-powered engine<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannysavage\/status\/273383744277184512\/photo\/1\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannysavage\/status\/273383744277184512\/photo\/1<\/a> &#8211; the train being stuck\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/i\/1b2Ji\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/i\/1b2Ji<\/a> &#8211; the water rises<\/p>\n<p>The presentations that were due to be delivered are now available, along with a recording (cringe) of each presentation given by <a href=\"http:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer\/Default.aspx?id=271d33df-8b67-4b7a-b2c9-f47e07a90d30\">David<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer\/Default.aspx?id=19f0cbdd-94a1-4f09-9376-032312ae563a\">Craig<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two members of the Geospatial Engineering team (David Alderson and Craig Robson) were due to present their current infrastructure\/network-related research at the recent ITRC Early Career Researcher&#8217;s conference, held at Cambridge University on November 27th 2012.\u00a0As such both embarked on a journey, departing from Newcastle at 0556 on the morning of the 27th, that would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2012\/12\/06\/from-newcastle-to-darlington-and-back-againa-tale-of-infrastructure-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Newcastle to Darlington and back again\u2026a tale of infrastructure failure.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4970,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-events","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4970"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}