Current situation - Kingdom of Cleveland (1983: Doomsday)

Public Transport
In 2001 five working but mothballed coal-powered steam trains are discovered in a North Yorkshire Moors Railway shed outside Grosmont. After extensive repairs the trains start running services in early 2005.

Trains discovered are:
 * Sir Nigel Gresley - an A4 class locomotive
 * Dame Vera Lynn - an Austarity class locomotive
 * The Hartland - West Country class locomotive
 * Richard Maunsell - a S15 class locomotive.
 * George Stephenson - a Stainer Black Class locomotive.

New Railway links
In 2007 the government of Cleveland announces the re-opening of the blast furness at Redcar, it's first order is several hundred miles of Rail lines for the expansion of Cleveland Railway system as well as rail lines for exportation to Northumbria and other states in the former British Isles.

In July 2009 a new line opened between the towns of Thirsk and Harrogate (2nd July), and Harrogate and Skipton via Ilkey (27th July) opening up the town in Rheghed and the Duchy of Lancaster. These new lines bypass the nuked cities of York and Bradford.

In May 2010 a new line opens between Whitby and Scarborough

In early November 2010 the new line to Glasgow from Berwick-upon-Tweed will open linking Cleveland, Northumbria and the Celtic Alliance for the first time by rail. The first journey took place on the 13th November and a full regualr service is due to start in December 2010.

By late 2010 a line should open between Darlington and Kirby Stephen

Train services

 * Route one - Twice daily, Saltburn to Middlesbrough, Thornaby and Darlington ending in Kirby Stephen.


 * Route two - Twice weekly (Monday and Thursday), Middlesbrough to Hartlepool, Alnwick, Northumbria ending in Glasgow, Celtic Alliance.


 * Route three - Daily, Middlesbrough to Ripon, Harrogate ending in Blackpool, Duchy of Lancaster.


 * Route four - Four times a week (Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday), Middlesbrough to Harrogate, then to Skipton, Settle, Ingleton, Kendal ending at Lake Windermere, Westmorland and Furness Alliance.


 * Route five - Twice weekly (Tuesday and Wednesday), Middlesbrough to Thirsk, Pickering, Malton, Filey and Scarborough.


 * Route six - under contruction, expected to be compleated late 2011. Will run from Middlesbrough to Thirsk, Malton, Driffield, and Beverley, currently ends in Hessle will be extended over the Humber Bridge in 2012.

Plans are to extend Route six into East Britain with the help of the local government to Grimsby, Louth, Skegness, Boston and Spalding, ending in the East Britain capital Bourne.

In 2006 work begins on building the first new coal powered locomotives, they will be based on a peppercorn A1 class locomotive from the former London and North East Railways (LNER) from the late 1940's. The locomotive will be built in Darlington. They will be numbered from 60162 which was the last A1 class produced.

As of 2010 there are six peppercorn A1 class locomotives currently in service with the Cleveland Railways these are:


 * 60163 - Tornado - Certified Febuary 2008.
 * 60164 - Queen Anne II - Certified May 2008. Involved in derailment March 29th 2010, Five fatalities, repairs compleated by June 2010, returned to service 17th July 2010.
 * 60165 - The Kingdom of Cleveland - Certified August 2009.
 * 60166 - The River Tees - Certified March 2010.
 * 60167 - Whitby Priory - Certified June 2010.
 * 60168 - Guisborough Priory.- Certified September 2010.
 * 60169 - St Hilda's Priory. Certified in January 2011

One locomotive has been certified for service with Northumbrian Railways


 * 60170 - Kingdom of Northumbria - Certified January 2011

Four more locomotives have been ordered for Northumbrian Railways, they will be compleated between mid 2011 and late 2013.


 * 60171 - King George - Compleated February 2011, certification due by June 2011.
 * 60172 - Provisionally named Lindisfarne Abbey - Under construction, due for compleation July 2011.
 * 60173 - Provisionally named Bamburgh Castle - Under construction, due for compleation September 2011.
 * 60174 - Provisionally named Alnwick Castle - Under construction, due for compleation December 2011.

In late 2010 engineers from the Kingdom of Cleveland will travel north to Northumbria to set up another locomotive building works in Bilton near Alnwick, the building was compleated in early October 2010, machinary fully installed by December 2010 and was ready for the arrival of Northumbria's first new locomotive (Kingdom of Northumbria) in January 2011.

The new Loco works at Bilton will begin the manufacture of a modified version of the M7 class tank engine from 1911 in mid 2011. The first three produced will go the Cleveland in thanks for setting the works up.

The three new Tank engines will be called:


 * 125 - Derwent
 * 126 - Ouse
 * 127 - Humber

General transport


The majority of the general public use horses or oxen pulling stripped down cars and vans as well as newer wooden carts that have started to be made throughout the country.

Emergency, army, navy and agricultural vechicles are run on oil from the oil seed rape plant, commonly called biodiesel, production of biodiesel is due to be increased so that more people can use is particularly for lorries to transport materials to area that do not have railway access. It is hoped that with the production of petrol and diesel from the new offshore rigs in 2015 the number of lorries on the road will increase.

Public Transport
There are several forms of public transport in Cleveland the main ones are electric tramways, built with technical help from the Duchy of Lancaster and horse drawn omnibuses.

Electric tramways operate in several towns across Cleveland, the largest being in the Middlesbrough/Stockton connerbation. These tramways are restricted to town centres and some suburbs.

Horse drawn Omnibuses are based on the late Victorian designs and are used primaraly between towns and villages running on old diesel powered bus routes from pre-DD.

Military
Army

The Army of the Kingdom of Cleveland consists of:

Full time Army


 * A full time cavalry regiment of 50 soldiers riding Cleveland Bay/Thoroughbred cross horses (based at Ormesby Hall) mainly tasked with protecting the Queen, Royal family and Parliment.


 * Two part time regiments of riflemen consisting of 200 soldiers, using jeeps and land rover 4x4's.


 * A company of 75 Marines.


 * 50 Royal Engineers

Part Time Army


 * The Royal Cleveland Territorial Army or TA - every member of the population of Cleveland (as long as they a physically capable) between the ages of 18 and 50 serve 1 year in the Cleveland Territorial army, they are trained in basic hand to hand combat as well as target shooting and bomb construction, they remain part of the military and have to undertake 1 week of training per year. It is estimated that in late 2010 there are approximatley 98,000 serving Clevelanders in the TA.

Royal Navy

Although the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Cleveland is small it is in the process of being expanded due to the expanding merchent navy. At present it is made of small merchent vessels and fishing vessels that have been armed with small guns (4 inch) and have been partially armoured. The Royal Navy currently has 500 men serving.

In late 2009 it was announced that five new vessels will be built specifically for the Royal Navy, these will be built along the lines of HMS Warrior (originally commissioned 1860) which was being renovated in Hartlepool on DD. It is of an ironclad design and steam powered with a back up of three masts and sails. On the new vessels the steam engines and weaponary have been upgraded, they are expected to be called:


 * HMS Tees - completed January 2011, currently undergoing sea trials, expected fit for service June 2011.
 * HMS Durham - expected compleation date of early 2012
 * HMS Cleveland,
 * HMS York,
 * HMS Northumbia.

There are also 200 men in the Royal Navy Reserve, it is similar the the TA in its serving terms.

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) of small helicopter and single engined planes based at the former Teesside international airport (now renamed Queen Anne International), fuelled by biofuel, they fly infrequently and plans are in force to aquire new planes from the Nordic Union in 2012.

Natural Disasters
20th - 21st November 2009 - reports begin to be heard of a massive flood event in western Cumbria, using short and long wave radio the military of Cleveland declare they are sending 200 men to help with rescue, recovery and rebuilding of the area.

26th November 2009 - Cleveland military reach western Cumbria discovering many roads destroyed and towns severly damaged, worse hit are the market towns of Cockermouth and the fishing port of Workington. many bridges have been washed away, locals say its the worse flooding in their history, Prime minster Mallon declares that Cleveland with begin rebuilding the bridges in the new year using steel from the Redcar steel works and designs from Cleveland Bridge PLC.

2009-10 winter snowstorms

Between December 2009 and Jan 2010 a massive snow storm hits the entire east coast of Cleveland and Northumbria. Snow begins to fall on the 19th December 2009 and continued until January 27th 2010, in many areas upto five feet of snow fell and the snow stayed on the ground for nearly a month, the temperature in the town centre's fell to -16 Celsius in the countryside it fell to -27 Celsius.

Meterologists believe that this is the worst snowfall in thirty years, many of the general public believe it is the worst snowfall since the winter of 1947. Death toll so far is recorded at 117 however many peoples bodies may not be found until the snow melts.

The final death toll was 122.

March 2010 flooding

In late March 2010 unexpected heavy snowfall on the hills and heavy rain in the lowlands cause severe flooding along the River Tees, three people die when Leven bridge in Yarm collapses with 25 people on it while viewing the flooding.

Five royal engineers die when the train they are travelling in hits a landslide on the east coast mainline they are repairing just north of Berwick.

11th to 12th November 2010

A major storm blows across the Kingdom overnight causing significent structural damage to building across the Kingdom, several people are killed in Middlesbrough as chimneys collapse onto houses and many major roads and rail lines are blocked by fallen trees.

2010-2011 winter snowstorms

On 24th November 2010 snow begins to fall across the entire country, unusually the wind turns and comes from the east for over a week bringing snows and below freezing temperatures across the county. By 5th December the Captial Middlesbrough had been buried under over 4 feet of snow and daytime temperatures had dropped to -10 degrees celsius. in the Cleveland hills and Pennines the snow built up to over ten feet with drifts of over twenty five feet. Temperature records across the area were broken unoffical temperatures from the high Pennines were recorded at -29.3 degrees celsius. The snow did not start to melt until mid January 2011.

Death tolls are currently being assessed but it is known that over 100 people have died so far and as with the 2009-10 winter storms the death toll was not known until the spring thaw, the final death toll was 156 people.

Anglian Pirates
In early Feb 2010 three fishing vessels from the port of Staithes vanish over four days, the weather was fine and the wind low so suspisions begin almost immediatly. On the 17th Feb 2010 the 'Lady B' limps back to port in Scarborough of the four crew members only one survives and tell a story of being attacked by a small group of fighing vessels flying a strange flag, these boats surrounded the 'Lady B' and it's sister ship the 'Johnny B' the crew of the 'Lady B' fought off the boats usuing an old rifle and poles but the 'Johnny B' was captured with all hands.

Head of the Royal Cleveland Navy (RCN) Sir James Martin announces that two of the intruders boats were captured on the 22nd Feb 2010, they are Anglian pirate travelling north along the coast. The RCN are sending five armed patrol boats south to find the base of operations for the pirates and to search for any survivors from the attacks in early Feb.

After travelling along the former Linconshire coastline the RCN discovered the base of the Anglian pirates at Burnham Deepdale. After landing to the east of the village 35 marines assalted the harbour and relesed captured boats and crews, after returning the sea and giving the captured boats a 2 hour head start Sir James Martin and 20 other men return to shore to negotiate with the pirates to stop the attacks.

After four hours of talks an agreement is reached with the village council for a trade route to be set up from the Kingdom of Cleveland and Burnham Deepdale, 10 wind farm generators will be sent to the town to generate electricity, also contact will be set up between the Celtic Alliance and Burnham Deepdale.

While this far south RCN commader Sir James Martin makes contact with any other survivor communities, he contacts Woodbridge and East Britain and Essex. He leaves radio's with all three and heading back home.