Michael Hodgson

There is a village in Monmouthshire whose nameboards on the different roads in used at least three spellings - Trelleck, Trellech and Trelech. I think they've now standardised on the last of these, but you will still the other spellings locally.

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They're not fussy. They'll treat dogs as food given half a chance.

This was the Swedish Scrubber .. https://www.departmentals.com/departmental/977695 Not to be confused with the cleaning lady from Stockholm ... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262704/Female-cleaner-steals-train-drives-apartment-house-exclusive-Stockholm.html And this may notnecessarily be what one expects to find by googling Grinder!

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I understand the man responsible got the nickname "Stacker"

Yes, they could have used the Chelmer to get through town, but it might have bashed this bridge instead

Or the WCRC's winter timetable

You can get a fibreglass repair kit for about a tenner. Or if you use this stuff you can glue it to a brick viaduct

Perhaps it should gae been fitted with whiiskers, like a cat?

Boats are even narrower at the sharp end.

Probably better than Malla Shite.

What strikes me about this photo is the extremely tall telegraph pole in the centre, although we can't see the wires. I really wouldn't fancy climbing that one to do the wiring!. There seem to be too many arms/insulators for them to run to the other poles in in the photo. Such height would usually be used where it was needed to clear a very tall obstacle or cross a longer gap than usual (such as to the other side of the canal but the arm are not correctly oriented for that). Presmably there is another pole out of view just to the right of the photo, and lines cross the road in the foreground.

Rails sometimes ask for a non-refundable deposit, sometimes not. When they don;t you still have to go through the deposit payment ritual of paying them nothing in order to validate the credit card they will charge in due course (if it hasn't expired by then!) From what I've seen the nil deposit is usually on models which are announced but the price is not yet fixed, although in this case they have been given an RRP. They generally include the option to pass on any increase in price if the manufacturer moves the goalposts, with your retaining the right to cancel in these circumstances and get your deposit back.

Just like the real S&DJR then.