It has been just a few weeks since our ‘bridge bashing’ series, but unless this has been an exceptional seven days, there have been a further twenty-five strikes. None of them were like this though. It’s not every week that the British armed forces are caught out, taking out a bridge in Scotland. Taking out three in fact. In the light of those startling Network Rail figures, maybe this is worth a mention, harking back to the milder, brighter days of summer.