FarrMan

I remember it well! Lloyd

Try living on Skye for regular rains! Lloyd

I like the new buildings in Station Road, but have no memory of them at all. Whenever I was walking along that section, i must have been looking the other way for some reason, if only in hope! Lloyd

Its so much easier in Hebrew - they only have two tenses, past and future! They also have a word pronounced 'he' that means 'she', though. Lloyd

Been away from this for a few days. Congratulations, Tony, on your first Decade. I calculated that it would be an average of 19.825 posts per day. No wonder it moves so fast. It is not just the quantity though, as the quality of most posts (my own being the main exception) is so high. What a wealth of wisdom is to be found here. I wonder if anyone has thought of cataloging it. I have, but the thought horrifies me. Lloyd

Going back to the alcoholic stuff, I remember hearing of an old female teetotaler who had made homemade wine. "But I didn't put any alcohol in it" she said! Lloyd

When using MDF, remember that the saw dust can be carcinogenic. Best done outside if possible, with suitable respiratory protection. Lloyd

Not sure about acrylic, but perspex is best done with a sharp knife along the line of cut and then bend it over a rigid edge. It just snaps off along the line. Use knife firmly, as you want to do a bit more than just score the surface. If you have a wee bit spare, you could try it and see. If you need to use a saw, then I would think as fine a tooth saw as you can get. Again to avoid getting it too hot, do it in short stages, or cool the blade frequently. Talking of avoiding undue heat reminds me of a story I heard about a contractor cutting up an old underground petrol tank (i.e. BIG). He should have been using a hand saw, but chose to use a power saw instead. The Petroleum Officer was just around the corner when he heard the explosion. The contractor went up to an altitude of 15 feet - he went up white and came down black! His first words to the Petroleum Officer were 'Does this mean that I am taken off the list of approved contractors?' Lloyd

I would suggest a bit of drafting tape (or masking tape) either side would reduce unwanted breakout and give a better grip to the point of the bit. Too fast a drill speed and you will melt the perspex, so a slower speed would be preferable. If it is a large hole that you need, start with a small bit and gradually work up to final size. Hope it works OK for you. Lloyd

Ah yes! The sound of these rushing UP Stoke Bank with a heavy train, then braking for the 90mph speed limit through Stoke Tunnel, or the sight and sound of them accelerating away from Peterborough North with a heavy train, and I'm back as a slightly less than 16 year old. I would have been 13 in 1962. Lloyd

If you thought that the second 'R' was a 'T', then you were were probably quite accurate! However, Farr is where I live. I have never heard it called Far(t), though if you did, you might miss it! Lloyd

A different way of hitch hiking. (for those who remember what hitch hiking was!) Lloyd

If it is going via March, is it not facing the wrong way? Would it go from March via the Ely junctions, or reverse at Wisbeach? Lloyd

Is there any other way of identifying what PO wagons would be used on a specific service or route other than studying photos? Lloyd

Ah memories. As my (now) wife lived at Worsley Hall Estate, our favourite walk used to be along this canal a bit further along. A lovely walk - past the sewage works, along the canal and back by the baked bean factory! I believe it has changed in the last 50 years, though! Lloyd

I was using the terminology used when I was (attempting to be) teaching the subject. Incidentally, I had been reprimanded for using the term Highway Engineering as it was an English term. In Scotland it should be Road Engineering. Australian english probably has a different term again! Lloyd

But this is what was actually there. It may not have been photographed so often, but for those who were there at the time, this is what would have been seen. Similarly your plonk at twilight shot shows fine detail of something that was probably not often photographed, but was the sort of thing that those on the platform would probably be looking at between trains. There were gaps when there was no train in the station, after-all. Your plonks show us lesser mortals the fine detail that abounds on your model. It is not only the trains themselves that give your model such interest. Lloyd

Many thanks, Gilbert. I do not remember that, but after 60 years and with out a good memory anyway, I must have been wrong on this one. I certainly remember the steep decline to ground level, especially in the eastern (i.e. GNR) side. That side had almost a standing start at the bottom as well. At least I could take a bit of a run on the Midland side on my push bike. There were very few hills slopes in that area, and that and the eastern approach to Crescent Bridge were the worst other than from under the Oundle Road bridge up to that over the Midland line by East Station. Re 'hills', I went to the opposite extreme when I was driving over the Bealach Na Ba 4 times a day - sea level up to 2000 feet and back down to sea level in 10 miles! Memories! Lloyd

Spital Bridge looks so much better now. I makes quite a difference at that end. One wee point that I am not clear about. I do not recall a change in height of the parapet between the Midland and GNR sections of the bridge, though I do not clearly recall that the was not one there. Do you have any photos to show that? I know that a parapet continued across the Midland section of the bridge, and changed at the end to a wire fence, both sides of the road. I could see over the wire fence, but being rather altitudinaly challenged, I could not see over the parapet!

Looks good and as I remember it.

I have no idea. I never knew just what that section was called, but I have a feeling that you are right, as usual. I have never heard of the subway before the bridge was opened, but from the level of River Lane on the other side of the tracks, that sounds not improbable. Thanks for the information. Lloyd

Perhaps I should add some clarification. Being an engineer, my english aint quite proper. By 'how', I meant whether that individual would probably travel by car, bus, train, plane, ferry, etc., and what preferred route would be taken, to allow design of specific projects to be appropriate, e.g. where a new road, railway etc would go, and what capacity it would need to have. This would then guide the railway engineer, highway engineer, etc to design the specific project in the right place and at the right size. The only problem with this is that politicians then change it! Lloyd

One of my favourites comes from a misprint in a newspaper in Ghana during my short stay in that country. The article referred to a politician noted for his sartorial elegance, and spoke of him being 'immaculately dressed, down to the rose in his bottom hole'. Therefore if someone is talking rubbish, we say that he is 'talking out of his rose'. Lloyd

Forgive me for disagreeing but Traffic or Transportation Engineering, as opposed to Highway engineering, is about working out scientifically why, where and how people move about. Lloyd

Where is the 'It takes all sorts' button when you want it! Lloyd