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New Haven Neil

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  1. Ah, great memories. I was about to ask if you knew the tour manager from GRJ we had when we went to Switzerland on the Glacier Express tour, then thought....that was for my 50th, and ....err.....I'm 65 in 10 days. He'd be very lucky and very old if he's not six feet under currently, a retired Scottish railwayman.
  2. Ah yes, I should have said it was 358 in Liverpool and Crewe!
  3. +1 on that, I was once next to the cylinder heads of a large marine diesel (90cm bore, 25,000hp) when a cylinder relief valve lifted as the engine started - total loss of hearing for a few seconds, then tinnitus turned up to 11 for a minute or so afterwards, you can't hear a thing. It was a BIG bang, and my hearing was never quite the same.
  4. Summer 76 - Brizzle of course, but lookee here, green 03's (withdrawn?) and the Co-Bo. Awful photo sorry, cheap and nasty camera, cheap and nasty 300mm, with , yes, cheap and nasty 3x converter. Guessed (bad) exposure. But interesting.....
  5. Yup, I went to the kollege of nollege in Liverpool that September and it rained every day that month, hence the shot of the 47 at Grime Lime Street being so wet! This 350 (08 to the young) was often pilot in Lime Street then too, also still in green. Late 76 again.
  6. Lime Street, late 76. My photos, poor as they are! Crewe, summer 76.
  7. Agree - although it's in Longbenton, but Newcastle is close enough! I also don't have to moderate my accent when dealing with them, although last time the guy was Italian, we had a good laugh about accents. They understand exactly the issues dealing with us in a Crown Dependency, unlike the one that actually lives here. As for the electricals dealer with the spicy name, they are worse than useless here. They're good at fiddling with their phones instead of helping folk though. Stock? No chance, no warehousing here despite having a huge place. Two deliveries a week they say, it'll be here on Tuesday - aye, like the cheque's in the post mate. I'll not mention the other line.
  8. Presumably this is one - no idea where this clip from a bigger image came from in my 'interesting things' box so apologies re copyright, will remove if requested. The green coach is a 64 footer, the maroon, who knows!
  9. Indeed - Mrs NHN recently had dealings with a professional here in the govt. tax office, who gave her totally incorrect advice and also bunger £8k on to her tax code - because she did not know her job. Worse, she was teaching a new starter too, who was sitting in. Mrs H had to speak to a higher manager the next week and get it all sorted out, superannuation lump sums are tax free, their own website even states that. Much growling was heard. Back in my NHS HR days I worked closely with payroll, and found most payroll officers to be very good, with a small handful deliberately obstreperous looking for any reason they could think of to delay a payment or otherwise cause trouble where a simple query could resolve an issue. Luckily the big boss was very good.
  10. No need to worry on that front Gilbert, all in fun and taken as such. Thankfully dementia is one thing that has not been diagnosed this month!
  11. #peeks around corner# Oh, not banned from the topic then...... On a slightly serious note, there are not many locomotives I don't like in some way, but the V2 is right at the top of my list. I also like A3's with double chimneys and Witte smoke deflectors (preferably with a GN tender too), so my slide into dementia is possibly confirmed also. Given the medical disasters around here for us both this last few weeks, this does not surprise me!
  12. A Claud and a V2 together, lovely. Two of my favourite classes. You can keep your A3's, Galloping Sausages (A4's) and B17's, a V2 floats my boat! A better balanced locomotive by far. Your mileage may differ, other opinions are available. #ducks#
  13. I put a curtain rail up for friend Jayne when she rebuild her cottage, dead level with the help of appropriate devices. Looks awful as the floor runs off really badly.....the whole place is a parallelogram. It is VERY old, proper Manx stone cottage. She insists on leaving it as a 'feature', it drives me mad.
  14. Seconded. Only slight, but it is damn awkward (I'm 64). Genetic presumably, mum had it really bad.
  15. The end of the bridge doesn't bother me, my brain (such as it is) is happy to accept the suspension of reality that is the necessary compromise of our modelling activity. I get more upset about shiny wheel rims and daft stuff like that! Oh, Romford wheel nuts are another....maybe it's just me!
  16. Flamme, perchance? I think they made them just to annoy Mr Whyte of wheel arrangement fame.
  17. Cheeky &^%$er. Anyone with an interest should buy the books anyway, they are excellent. That's £20 thanks, Dave. ;-) And I don't even model the MR/LMS, but they are incredibly interesting to anyone that is a locoholic. Seriously though, did they really expect you to do that? Words fail me.
  18. No, not really, corner speed on a Motard is high - that was a good handling and nimble little bike on sticky 17 inch tyres, you could cut under heavier bikes on corners like the Gooseneck. Slow to approach and leave the corner, yes, as it was only a tweaked up CRF250 - 280 bore, Joy cams, full Yoshi system and a Power Commander EFI tweaker. It was good for 95 on the flat, ran out of revs, heaps of fun to ride in the twisties but a bit slow on the mountain. Awesome for wheelies too #cough# off road of course. Sold it a couple of years ago, it's still about on the island.
  19. Bungee hook. And digging holes in your leg when you fall off.
  20. PS - the size of the belly is a give-away too!
  21. My helmet....with middle aged hooligan inside.
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