Adam88

I thought they published BackTrack.

I hope you made it very clear that all the wagons will be going with you and won't be included in the fixtures and fittings when you sell up.

Ladders can be unforgiving, or rather the terra on which they stand. One company I worked for had much technical input and support from a man who was a world-renowned professor at a leading university. Sadly he fell from a ladder at home and died so our company had to delve very deeply into his field of expertise to continue the work. For many years we paid significant royalties to his widow but it would have been far better for everyone if he'd not come off the ladder.

Perhaps the signwriter had been using Winsor & Newton paint?

Were you thinking of this man? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Arnold_Griffith

That cannot be true at all, they would all be suffering from altitude sickness before they could say anything.

Perhaps they were used for WSC's cats, pigs and dogs?

Not forgetting his famous: "... and straight into Low Moor sidings"

Is that good or bad?

This immediately reminded me of the magnificent Mount Clare roundhouse in Baltimore which houses a large and fascinating collection of locomotives and other historical artefacts.

Well that confused me. A quick first glance and I thought it was the usual complicated dual gauge trackwork but it isn't. There's no narrow gauge at all and I think it merely shows the ungodly spawn of a single slip and a regular turnout. I have to admit that I've always found this sort of thing fascinating.

I once worked with a Danish gentleman whose strongly accented pronunciation of 'PDF file' also led to a few raised eyebrows.

I don't know about Abe in this context but I was once taught the meaning of ABF, ABFF and even ABFFF by an old aviator. Too many Fs would inevitably be followed by Brian-dead Next Day. Never again!

Petrolheads are the same the world over.

Will Microsoft 365 work on Feb 29th?

DUI report: He choo-choo-chose the wrong way DUI Express Here's one from Virginia

Happy Christmas to all Night Mailers too. Regarding book collections I spent some time recently cataloguing my collection using an on-line database called LibraryThing. From my railway and railroad collection I see that I have nearly 400 of the wretched things, nearly a quarter of my books so far, and that's before I start on the reserve collection. Life isn't helped by the fact that there are two very good s/h bookshops within ten minutes' walk of my house (neither of them are charity shops) and that my sister lives but a short drive from the notorious Welsh book town of Hay-on-Wye. I find LibraryThing very helpful in many ways, it does a lot of what I want except actually reading the books for me. Here's a small subset.

That sounds just like money.

Going the other way I was shocked to see that Orion had been turned over. I don't know how that happened either.

Come on! Surely all you need is a Swiss Army knife?

Just to remind everyone, let me quote: An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician are on a train Sentinel railcar in Scotland. The astronomer looks out of the window, sees a black sheep standing in a field, and remarks, "The sheep in Scotland are black!" "No, no, no!" says the physicist. "At least one sheep in Scotland is black!" The mathematician rolls his eyes at his companions' muddled thinking and says, "In Scotland, there is at least one sheep, at least one side of which appears to be black from here some of the time."

I would imagine that there was a high level directive banning them from running during the hours of daylight in order to spare the sensitivities of anyone who might accidentally see one. The consequence being, of course, that to this very day little is known about their movements.

We called one of my masters at school Isaiah because "one eye's 'igher than the other".