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Harlequin

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  1. #allthestations are doing Aberdeen to Penzance #longestday #longesttrain

    1. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      National Rail are streaming live(ish) video from the cab.

  2. The phone scammers are now pretending to be the Telephone Preference Service...

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    2. sharris

      sharris

      Priority access to emergency services. Do you only have to dial '99'?

    3. vaughan45

      vaughan45

      Can I have mine with a flake?

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Do you have to pre-order priority access now?

  3. Agh! No Bargain Hunt!

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    2. GD

      GD

      At least Escape To The Country is still on....and today's young couple have a budget of £900,000....really?

    3. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Not to worry folk - there's still Channel 81 as a football free zone and often with lots of scenic information for those modelling the '50s and '60s.

    4. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      "Chris and Sheila decided not to buy any of the million pound 16th century manors in Wales we showed them and instead moved to a high-rise condo in Singapore"...

  4. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century...

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    2. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Can anybody else remember the real Heinz sandwich Cream - luvverly stuff!

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      That grown men would play with toy trains ...

    4. sharris

      sharris

      What are the chances of that?

  5. Yes! That would be an ecumenical matter.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I hear ye're a racist now, Father! How'd ye get into that type of thing? Should we all be racists? What's the official line the Church is taking on this?

    3. chris p bacon

      chris p bacon

      I blame the Greeks for inventing 'Gayness'

    4. DonB

      DonB

      I thought that is a boozy drink from Ireland

  6. Fork 'Andles...

    1. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      How many candles was that?

  7. Hmmm... King Lear or Car Share? It's a difficult decision!

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      They filmed part of it in Stevenage!

    3. davefrk

      davefrk

      Kennedy changed his mind as usual, he played hendrix instead.

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      He had some tunes there that Johnson should have heard...

  8. OK, Who's gonna tell him?

  9. Unexpected package in the post. Sender not stated. 771.11 grams. Don't want to destroy the mystery by opening it!

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    2. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      It was book sized, book weight and inert, like a book. It was...

      A book that I had forgotten I'd ordered about the Taf valley.

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Its so easy to forget....

    4. MarkC

      MarkC

      I know that feeling - a copy of "I tried to run a Railway" appeared at home a few days ago. Turns out I ordered it some 15 months ago...

  10. Speak to me of summer

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    2. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      Guess what album you encouraged me to dig out today...

    3. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Absolute Classic. Enjoy!

    4. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      It's one of my all-time faves, even got it on vinyl a while back.

  11. Avatar collision!

    1. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Virtually catastrophic...

  12. Could be a classic snooker final. Late night ahead?

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    2. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      Not so sure about the press conference, though ...

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Certainly TMI there....

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      That's the naked truth.

  13. "In and out of baulk" :-)

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    2. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Possible Bank Holiday drinking game?

    3. sharris

      sharris

      length of a snooker cue is just a bit over (~1-3") standard gauge. You'd be needing an extension for broad gauge.

    4. DonB

      DonB

      I'd still be useless at the game even if they had Broad Gauge pockets.

  14. When did jumping on the spot while glitter cannons go off around you become a recognised celebration?

    1. chris p bacon

      chris p bacon

      When I got the latest chassis to work first time.

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      When Americanised lunatics took over the asylum

  15. Annoyed at Pinterest for trying to wall-off useful info.

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Monetisation is everything.

  16. Just found "The Observer's Book of British Steam Locomotives" on a bookshelf. Should be fun to read this potted history.

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    2. tigerburnie

      tigerburnie

      I've still got my 1957 British Railway Loco's one I had when new.

    3. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      1974 edition. Price £1.10.

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      I've the '57 and '64 editions of BR Locos ed HC Casserly. The depletion of steam locos in the '64 edition is a really sad coda to main line steam.

  17. Postlady arrived with a small parcel. Barclay? No, nematodes for the greenhouse. Not quite so exciting but still...

    1. 7007GreatWestern

      7007GreatWestern

      Organic pest control. I'm impressed...though maybe not excited!

    2. BoD

      BoD

      Was the postlady impressed though.

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      I thought you weren't allowed to send livestock through the post?

  18. Sunday Brunch - Oh dear!

    1. farren

      farren

      Hopefully at a pub!

  19. Plastic sleepers on the Blaenau Ffestiniog - Life imitating Art?

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    2. sharris

      sharris

      I had to laugh the first time I saw a sign on a main line track saying 'Caution: ballast gluing in progress'.

    3. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Were they that recycled plastic they sometimes make park benches out of?

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Is C&L supplying them....?

  20. We must draw lots! Eccles, write your name on a piece of paper and put it in this hat.

    1. locoholic

      locoholic

      There now. What does is say? "Mrs Phyllis Quatt".

    2. TT-Pete

      TT-Pete

      I don't like this game.

  21. We demand rigidly defined areas of Doubt and Uncertainty!

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Things just happen, what the hell.

    3. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      Precisely how vague do you want to be?

    4. Pacific231G

      Pacific231G

      A nationwide strike by the union of philosophers, sages and allied luminaries would br disastrous. For a start there wouldn't be any trains running because trains are certainly uncertain and with nobody to speculate on whether a train might exist, since it couldn't certainly exist then it certainly wouldn't exist. You might be able to ask Deep Thought but who would wait 3.5 x 10^6 years for the next train.

  22. I found a copy of "GW Auto Trailers - Part Two"!

    1. Ozexpatriate

      Ozexpatriate

      I take it there is no sign of part one?

    2. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Part two is much rarer than Part one, for some reason. Been looking for ages...

  23. I'm going up the garden to my shed to make baseboards. If the snow sets in and I'm not back by lunch time please send a rescue party.

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    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Funnily enough my garage (separate from house) has its own ring main with 60amp power so I could in theory install a cooker

    3. bgman

      bgman

      You'll probably get a clown in a box.....SUPPLIES ! Speccysavers

    4. Harlequin
  24. The sun is shining, birds singing, remote workplace has gone offline. What to do?

    1. johnb

      johnb

      Some modelling???

    2. Free At Last

      Free At Last

      Pocket billiards?

       

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Beer o'clock?

  25. Email from Axminster Tools: "Why Jamie went Spiral"... Didn't know they read RMWeb!

    1. sigtech

      sigtech

      Thats the end of all that- i hope!

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