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  1. 15A.  

    1. 30368

      30368

      Bravo Sir! One more step back to civilisation....

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      I don't really understand but I wish His Duckness all the best anyway.

    3. vaughan45
  2. PLEASE stop using Status updates as a Tinder site. I want to know about White Rabbits and folks' Cats. 

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    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Changed to Grinder, so it's OK.

    3. woodenhead

      woodenhead

      Yep much safer and more respectable. 🧔🧸

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      If the rabbits and cats are in danger of losing out to the "personals", then just post more cats and rabbits (or whatever) to push the "personals" off the bottom of the list ASAP...

       

      Simples!

       

  3. With huge respect, could the Status Updates be separated from the PM facility. It's getting silly.

    Thanks. 

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    2. Tony Teague

      Tony Teague

      I doubt it would be missed if it was removed.

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      It is also a What's on your mind feature in another choice that comes up!

      I know it's petty, but recently someone slagged off Andy and it was on there for all to see. Andy doesn't need any more crap to deal with when he is monitoring me 24/7.

      I suppose it means a change to the website but on Profiles the two need some sort of 'Warning Notice'.

      Like; this one's Private and this (other) one is PUBLIC for all to see.

    4. Dungrange

      Dungrange

      Well if you type in the 'What's on your mind' box, it doesn't highlight that it's a public message (but one would assume that no-one thinks it's private), but if you go to someone else's feed to post a message to them, the box does clearly state that it's a public message, but it doesn't stop some people using it to post something that really should be private.  I think the problem is that it's the more obvious contact option and some people either don't read the word private, or alternatively they don't care.

  4. Sometimes it's best not to write about your issues in a public place.

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    2. Coldgunner

      Coldgunner

      I shall continue to write "WILLY" in a humorous and comical way! Not you, the police, the judge, my therapist, the nurse or the court system will stop me!

    3. St Enodoc

      St Enodoc

      I don't really see why we need the facility to send messages through Status Updates at all.

    4. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      People don't seem to realise. It's been mentioned, mocked and reported loads of times but the system stays the same. 

  5. Dawlish Webcams are interesting this morning.

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Looks a bit "splashy"....

       

    2. woodenhead
    3. Philou

      Philou

      At least the new sea-wall seems to be keeping the station area 'relatively' dry.

  6. Is there anyone on here that is involved in the Southampton Model Railway Society?

    If so could you please contact me by PM.

  7. Just had some U Tube reviewer of new products groupy tell me that a USA 0.6.0. is a Pannier Tank as it looks like a BR WR 15XX. Grief!

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    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      The Groupy was typical of the sort that follow U Tube Reviewers. I don't normally watch any of that cra#, but had the misfortune to see a well known UTube person reviewing a not very good sample of the 15XX. The review was unbelievably confusing, rather niaeve and cringingly verbose. First it was super and then it was poor and that took over 30 minutes.

      Absolute bollox really. Put loads off even buying one to try out!

      I'm afraid I also told the bloke that Railway Engines don't have Funnels!

    3. JimC

      JimC

       

      > The GWR only built the 15XX as the S100s they tried to buy from Newbury were poor quality.

      And yet according to the records at the NRM the GWR were already designing the 15xx in Jan 1944, long before the SR bought any.

      The difference between a pannier tank and a side tank on a locomotive without a footplate can be regarded as somewhat notional. Even more so if it has outside cylinders and valve gear. Some people get very excited about it, making claims about where the weight is supported makes a difference, things like that, which at times verges on angels and pins territory.
      For my money if the top of the tanks are roughly on a level with the top of the boiler its probably a pannier tank, and if the bottom of the tanks are roughly on a level with the bottom of the cab sheeting its probably a side tank, and the existence of the 97xx condensing tank engines nicely demonstrates how futile it is to get excited about rigid definitions.

    4. woodenhead

      woodenhead

      When you wrote "I don't normally watch any of that cra#," I actually throught you meant craft at first 😄

  8. Geez. Just has some supposed 'enthusiast' on a UTube Review thread telling me that the USA 0.6.0. Tank is a Pannier Tank as it has the same look as the 15XX!

    I'm obviously wrong! I give up. (Now someone on here will tell me the USA is actually a Pannier!)

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      It's really a fruit scone.

       

  9. Have decided intelligent life has left the UK as people on Social media think recent Electric Storms in Clouds, are Alien Invaders. 

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    2. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      "Pods". So them Aliens like comfy shoes then. Is that an easy way to spot em or did you mean the GOP?

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Lizard people are controlling the World I'm told frequently, but then I do live very near Worksop!

    4. MarshLane

      MarshLane

      @Captain Kernow That is very true .... the idiots on social media I mean, not the alien invaders!! 😂

  10. Just discovered that Howard Jones of the Wolsztyn Experience died in June.

    Info on the Experience Web Site.

    Very sad and RIP both him and the Experience which closes on August 31st.

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Oh that's so sad.

  11. I smell Gammon.

  12. "...Bing Bong..."

    This is Euston. The Train due to arrive at Platform 13 is reported as running 15 Years late. We CBA to apologies to passengers and don't care if you are inconvenienced. See it say it sort it.

    1. woodenhead

      woodenhead

      Thought it was See it, Say it, Sorted

  13. Flying Scotsman looked superb this afternoon. What a machine.

  14. Calling Tinker. Thanks for the Books; surprise!

  15. I see the anti Railway Press (you know which ones) are shouting that hundreds of Train Drivers earn in excess of 100k all the time.  Really?

    1. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Some of those rags say the same thing about everyone - in all lines of work - especially when they go on strike.

      With a number of employers / lines of work, the reality seems more like one or two big bosses seeing those rates - and the majority of people who do the real work being expected to aspire to something close to the legal minimum wage, with unpaid overtime or split shifts.

       

      Sometimes, there appears to be an element of trying to destroy public sympathy by presenting ridiculous claims as "established fact".

       

      Round here, a well known bus company recently pulled a similar stunt - paying a local rag to print a piece full of claims that had already been debunked. Eventually, the piece had to be retracted.

  16. Raab...C. Nesbit would be chuffed. Cheerio.

  17. Just tried to dye some Teddy Bear Fur. Failure...it died instead of dyed. Pah!

  18. In 1964, the Mini Skirt ruined my interest in Trains. Pah!

    1. 30368

      30368

      Me too thank goodness........although my journey to work on the Eastleigh Flier (WC/BB or BR5/4 or N or U on the front) became more interesting as the 1960's progressed.

       

      Mary Quant was though a great designer and certainly a great influence on the 1960s and beyond. Attractive and interesting women too. RIP.

       

      30368

  19.  Seasons best to all. Thanks for tolerating my frequent rants.

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Happy Christmas, Mr Ducky!

    2. Ian Hargrave

      Ian Hargrave

      TV on record later. Great music in a wonderful setting. Enjoy.

  20. Lessons and Carols at Kings. My Christmas can now begin.

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Happy Christmas, Mr Ducky!

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      I noticed thst the third reading was word for word, pinched from Handels Messiah.....  🤔

       

      (Ok, ok.....   🤪)

       

      Happy Christmas!

       

  21. We wuz robbed.

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    2. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Probably millions of them - watching on TV.

       

      I must admit, though, that I wasn't watching - wrong sport - wrong country.

       

      This doesn't stop me agreeing with some comments here, though. It's obvious that the English soccer team with Gareth Southgate are a class act - they know how to play - and they know how to behave. Long may they continue.

       

       

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Hugh, it is a real pleasure to see how Southgate's attitude and approach to Management and Tactics has produced such a decent looking bunch of Players and Staff. We may not be best but we certainly are great ambassadors to the Game at last. 

    4. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Certainly earnt my respect - and that takes some earning!

       

      The part of Wales I live in - and went to school in - and where a number of my relatives (including some of my ancestors) were born - has switched back and forth between England and Wales a number of times over the years.

       

      Some people might view this as akin to "dual nationality". All I know is that I'm proud to be Welsh - but I'm not anti-English.

       

      In international sport, I want Wales to do well, but I also want England to do well - and to be worth cheering on.

       

      Gareth Southgate has brought respect to the English soccer team - I can't remember anyone else achieving this. I hope he sticks around and - despite some very "variable" refereeing - I also hope he gets the team to the point at which they win the European and World Cups - they deserve it - he deserves it - and I'd like to see it happen under his "watch".

       

       

       

  22. Rashford regains his confidence. Great to see him smiling.

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      On the other hand....

       

      Drat!!!  England got through the Group stage.  🤪

    2. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Nothing against England - except that Wales got knocked out.

       

      As for the England team - and their boss - who come across as decent people basically setting out to do the decent thing - well, I've definitely got nothing against them ... .

       

       

  23. What's a Polish Air Force Hercules doing flying east over 36E at 19.20 on 21/11? Route from Dublin.

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    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      I believe it may well have been returning Ukranian Pilots, who had been learning how to fly 'redundant' Copters in Ireland. Three have been sent over to Ukraine; why when they are so vulnerable to missile attack? 

    3. Off Tackle

      Off Tackle

      The Ukrainians have shown a remarkable capacity to imaginatively utilise anything they're given, and I've seen cockpit video of Ukrainian MI-8s flying so low over arable fields that I've found myself clutching my chair when they approach a tree line. As they won't be using these as weapon platforms I reckon they'll either be using these for insertion/recovery, heavy lift, or depending on the sensor package, possibly anti-sub work where MANPADS are less of an issue. My main concern is mass - if we're adding yet another logistical burden, hopefully we can give them more than 3

    4. Accurascale Fran

      Accurascale Fran

      We hired it to fly in our 92s. We needed something big! 

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