With this method, balls are formed from heads of scrap railway rails.
Many of the class have survived into preservation thanks to the high workload of Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, which found it easier and more commercially lucrative to scrap railway wagons, keeping the more technical steam locomotives for a down turn in workload.
Rives works largely with scrap metal, discarded railway tracks, that sort of thing, to produce works you probably wouldn't want in your garden, let alone your living room.
It would spend money on new roads and railways, and would scrap HS2, a fast passenger railway from London to Leeds and Manchester, pouring funds instead into railway capacity on the fringes of big cities, where the jams are worst.
Gerry Doherty, general secretary of the TSSA union which represents around a third of GNER staff, called for the franchise system to be scrapped and the railway effectively renationalised under the control of Network Rail, the quasi-public organisation that runs the government-subsidised British rail system.
While somewhere in a smoky backroom full of trade unionists the party was preparing to renationalise the railways, scrap tuition fees and build a million houses, in front of the cameras they were parroting the old "we don't comment on leaks" line and talking about how "no ads for Curly Wurlys before 9PM" is imperative for the better world they are fighting for.
But he is likely to remain steadfast about his economic program, which includes reversing some of the spending cuts, nationalizing the energy and railway companies, scrapping college tuition fees, and setting up a national investment bank for housing, infrastructure, and new industries.
The government scrapped planned electrification of railway lines in Wales, the Midlands and the North in July, which shadow rail minister Rachael Maskell called "a slap in the face" for commuters and businesses in the North.
The relatively early withdrawal of the N1s pre-dated the era of preservationists buying withdrawn locomotives from scrap dealers or British Railways, and consequently no examples of the N1 class survived into preservation.
They want a big gesture: an ambitious council housing programme, renationalisation of the railways, scrapping Trident, something to grasp hold of – something that says: this is EdMilibandian.
By 5pm on Wednesday he had accepted, and less than 24 hours later ministers were publicly admitting the depth of the crisis in the railways, scrapping pledges of major upgrades and announcing the new faces being parachuted in to run the system.
