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Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win - Beastie Boys

You come across this young lady, Clive? I hadn't, until I heard an interview with her husband on the World Service the other night. It certainly takes all sorts.....

Impressive sausagery.

There's A Barbarian In The Back Of My Car - Voice of the Beehive

That's what going on holiday with El Jobbo will do to you. Mind you, playing trains with Clive until all hours probably didn't help either.

We were honoured and very pleased to be loaned some locos for York by Eric Fry, series editor of the RCTS Green books and something of an LNER legend. I took time on Monday to make sure we recorded them: C1 4433, one of the four allocated to Leeds Copley Hill specifically for this working, on the up Queen of Scots. This glorious pair of B16s - 2372 is also in my collection, but I was very happy to concede the place for the weekend. .. and this equally beautiful D20. A more duplicitous photographer would have photoshopped that bogie wheel. I'll just say that I had to move the loco so I could get the perspex screens out of shot and clearly I wasn't paying enough attention. If I can find out any more about the origins of the models I'll update this post.

Some action shots from Chris H on Day One: Perhaps Steve and Graham can tell us what they're so intent on here. It's not the A4 either coming onto or going off shed: an errant road vehicle or misbehaving signal? Steve and Graham have moved, but the A4 hasn't. We can now see that it's Union of South Africa. Shedmaster Adam doesn't look too perturbed by its immobility. The North End pilot (J54) has moved out of its usual berth into Platform 4 - that probably tells someone who takes more notice than me exactly what move we're on. I appear to be completely AWOL here, which seems to be the case in an alarming number of layout photographs. I'm back and the A4 has made it right down to the far end of the depot. The Quint set hasn't set off for Nottingham from Platform 5 yet, though. There's a J3 leaving the old shed to go off on some duty or other (possibly the Up goods Tom is shunting in the background), but more importantly in the background, Graham has just remembered he left the iron on.

Time for some photos from York. I didn't take too many, being busy fiddling round the back, but here are a few of mine, then some borrowed (I hope he doesn't mind) from the excellent selection posted on Flickr by Chris H (Gilbert of this parish) which can be found here. All very calm before the punters (and operators) turned up. Locked and loaded round the back, but not quite in starting position: the Stirling Single should be on the down ramp out of the Nottingham fiddle yard, the 1938 Scotsman set should be on the main line and someone's put a loco on the Leeds which needs to come off (the train includes the Cinema Car and is too long to allow the preceding Junior Scotsman to pass if fully made up. The actual loco and cinema car are in Road 9, beside the Coronation and will couple up after the Junior Scotsman has left). Some things, unfortunately, don't change, just get worse... I blame the Convict for leaving his Beaver behind when he visited and then encouraging me to get it out and play with it.

These Boots Are Made For Walking - Nancy Sinatra

Underneath The Bottle - Lou Reed

We all ducked!

Respect Yourself - The Kane Gang

Well done for capturing the simultaneous 1888/1938 Flying Scotsman departure. We've filmed it, but I'm not sure anyone has caught it at a show before (or if they did, they didn't share). The guest appearance by the P1 is also a good catch, I think it only ran round twice and was only with us on Saturday.

Excellent. Do you mind if I link to some of those on the Grantham thread as i took very few and none of us actually running?

I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again - Buffy Sainte-Marie

Thanks, Ollie. Good to see you and have a quick chat yesterday. Very pleased to see a good shot of Mr King's Iron Ore train making its guest appearance as well.

2548 Galtee More and 2577 Night Hawk are now mine and will certainly be on Grantham. 2550 Tracery now belongs to Graham Nicholas and can also be seen. I did acquire a couple of A4s from Tom, but 4901 was not one of them and I can't say where that one ended up.

Sweet About Me - Gabriella Cilmi

I'll Be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground

It's been disturbed again... ... and now downstairs awaiting the van.

Proud To Be A H o n k y Woman - Vinegar Joe

Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions - Graham Parker and the Rumour

Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams

Where The Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue

Unlike this country, the drivers don't mind you watching where they're going either: Photo Dave Jobling