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In any professional sport, players will always test the referee and see what they can get away with. Sadly, this applies to much amateur sport also.

I too can remember travelling through it once. Did we board a no 35 tram in Archway? My Dad's old carpentry shop had a hand-cranked grinding wheel to sharpen chisels and planes, which could be used to create a sound like a tram accelerating.

Watchet!

My 8 year old granddaughter liked that. I had to explain it to her Granny!

Hands trembling with excitement, I checked the numbers again 09-15 -21-07-23. I was in shock, after all this time, I'd finally got a doctors appointment

That creates a good looking surface, shame the track in my goods yard is already glued down! Looks easy enough on a small diorama board, but would a decent sized goods yard present difficulties apart from the number of tins of Humbrol required? There may also be a need to represent where foot traffic, vehicles and, according to period, horses pass.

I think you misunderstood my post. The public consultation relating to options ran from 31 March - 9 June 2021. My post related to the apparent lack of comment following publication of the preferred option.

I have to say I am surprised that this has escaped previous comment from both local politicians and those who follow this thread.

The Bedford - Cambridge route choice has taken all the headlines but the Eat - West Rail website also contains news on the Bletchley - Bedford section. Rather than replacing existing stations with a smaller number of new ones and tackling the level crossings, it is intended to maintain the existing stations. The number of trains per hour will be reduced from 4 -5 down to 3 and the planned line speed on this section will no longer be 100 mph, though it should be higher than the current 60 mph. The level crossings can then be retained. Maybe a pragmatic solution, but perhaps somewhat different from the earlier vision of a fast 21st century link between the two Varsity cities.

You had a road?

Now maybe, but not in the late 50's.

No point in posting this to read at 7.50pm on Saturday! And my son runs a cottage industry board game company.

To be fair to Steve Banks, there is a section on his web site which gives details of some of the errors in volume 1, though it is undated and I don't know how comprehensive it is. Clearly, it requires that he who spots an error to report it, and that the (verified) information is added to the web site. I think this sets a precedent which could be followed by other authors/publishers.

Torn loyalties today. I went to Salford Uni but lived in Didsbury so knew Stockport well. Being a City supporter, Stockport just edged it, along with the game. Anyone remember "Friday night is County night"?

Upon hearing that her elderly grandfather had just passed away, Katie went straight to her grandparent's house to visit her 95 year-old grandmother and comfort her. When she asked how her grandfather had died, her grandmother replied, "He had a heart attack while we were making love on Sunday morning." Horrified, Katie told her grandmother that 2 people nearly 100 years old having sex would surely be asking for trouble. "Oh no, my dear," replied granny. "Many years ago, realizing our advanced age, we figured out the best time to do it was when the church bells would start to ring. It was just the right rhythm. Nice and slow and even. Nothing too strenuous, simply in on the Ding and out on the ." She paused to wipe away a tear, and continued, "He'd still be alive if the ice cream van hadn't come along."

Round toits?

I see a type 45 is moored at Greenwich as guardship for the Coronation. I wonder if we will see a similar deployment to Liverpool for the song contest?

A young boy comes down for breakfast. Since they live on a farm, his mother asks if he has done his chores. "Not yet, said the little boy. His mother tells him no breakfast until he does his chores. Well, he's a little ticked off, so when he feeds the chickens, he kicks a chicken. When he feeds the cows, he kicks a cow. When he feeds the pigs, he kicks a pig. He goes back in for breakfast and his mother gives him a bowl of dry cereal. "How come I don't get any eggs and bacon, and why don't I have any milk in my cereal?" he asks. "Well," his mother says, "I saw you kick a chicken, so you don't get any eggs for a week. I saw you kick the pig, so you don't get any bacon for a week either. I saw you kick the cow so for a week you aren't getting any milk." Just then, his father comes down for breakfast and kicks the cat halfway across the kitchen. The little boy looks up at his mother with a smile, and says, "You gonna tell him or should I?"

East West Rail: Keeping You Connected - Edition 9 now available on the website.

A pleasure to watch a successful England team run and pass the ball. Also a pleasure to have commentators content to describe the action rather than arguing amongst themselves about past "triumphs" and this week's interpretation of the Laws of the Game.

I think it depends upon why you want the locomotive. I bought a kit built K's O4 back in 1989 and it was my turn-to heavy goods loco for 20 years. The white metal body means it can haul decent loads up quite steep gradients. The Bachmann version is a better looking loco but couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

No surprises but he didn't comment on the low levels of stores and ammunition provisioning even in 80's/90s.

Good to see them running. I still have mine in the loft, together with some auction additions, but sadly cannot now see it will run again.

Well worth the membership fee!