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2024-04-25T18:03:03Z

My Wife has a Fiat 500X. It`s smart enough to tell you if there`s a problem with tyre pressures, but not which tyre is faulty.

2024-04-24T23:51:38Z

One of the captions on flickr says its Knowsley Street bridge, which is Bury. I think the view is of Bolton West Junction, taken from Soho St. bridge looking towards

Newport St. Trinity St. Station is beyond the bridge.

Monday at 00:12

Rock the Nations, Saxon

Saturday at 07:22

Have you tried the Derby Sulzers wesbite, there`s a section on it that covers 26s and 27s.

Friday at 23:54

Nantucket sleigh ride, Mountain

April 9

Mr Crowley, Ozzy Osbourne

April 8

2-4-6-8 Motorway, Tom Robinson Band

April 4

Oxford Road already has a platform 5. Why would it need another?

March 31

If You Have Ghosts, Ghost

March 29

Wildest Dreams, Asia

March 21

Strangers in the night, Saxon.

March 21

The would normally be MK4 coaches, class 91 loco and a DVT at the rear. It is possible that a HST power car could be on the rear.

The buffer fitted ones initially worked with the 91s before the DVTs were built.

March 17

Restless gypsy, WASP

March 13

S0 if" A railtour is anything that isn't part of the normal passenger timetable" what does that make rail replacement buses?

March 13

Cat scratch fever, Ted Nugent

March 12

Lights out, UFO

March 9

Rock and roll children, Dio

March 5

Long long way from home, Whitesnake

March 4

Western Ranger had red backed nameplates during its last few months of service. It was withdrawn at the end of February 1977, so the photo would have been taken in the locos first year of preservation.

March 4

California dreaming, The Mums & Dads

March 4

Heartbreaker, Pat Benatar

March 2

My apologies, I meant to say the Mumbles Railway was electrified in 1928. The original horse drawn line did, as you say open in 1904. Steam traction was

introduced in the 1870s.

March 2

I have found a video on Youtube filmed from a train leaving Swansea Victoria heading for Pontarddulais. The esplanade seems to run parallel to the line from

Swansea Bay Station, its not on an embankment, more of a low sea wall. The track is covered in sand, blown from the beach. On the landward side there is a grass

area then a road. It aws filmed in 1964, which would be after the Mumbles Railway closed.

If the original photo was taken a few years earlier than first mentioned, the Mumbles Railway wouldn`t be there because it didn`t open until 1928. As for the view

across the bay, how big would Port Talbot steelworks have been in the 1920s. I really wouldn`t have a clue as to its size. I would assume it would have opened in the

late 19th or early 20th century. There may not of been that much to see from a distance.

I think the buildings and signals visible in the background are Swansea Bay Station rather than, St Helens Road Station, which had a large footbridge at its western end.