Oldddudders

Killer Joe - Quincy Jones

Surely PO liveries and ownerships weren't directly affected by Grouping?

Fool On The Hill - Sergio Mendes

"A moment's impatience - a lifetime of regret" was the slogan in SR EMU compartments, with a pic of a lady on the platform felled by a prematurely opened door.

Unlike Porsche's much-vaunted 917!

Sweet Sticky Thing - Ohio Players

Much against her expectations, when Sherry had another field of vision test at the hospital today she was pronounced fit to continue driving. Having had the threat of her licence being withdrawn hanging over her since November, and been told last week that she must desist until the result of today's test, you can imagine the relief is substantial! Her optician had referred her to the hospital in November on the grounds that she suspected glaucoma. This happened some years ago, but the hospital said then that there was no sign. This time they said the same - but the field of vision was restricted on one side, perhaps indicating a slight stroke. A subsequent brain-scan confirmed this. Today the field of vision test was a better score - but they see signs of glaucoma, so she has been prescribed drops. How can the same hospital come up with such opposing sets of results?

"Just have three afore ye go!"

That sounds terrifying, and incompetent, in equal measure. I hope all resolves happily soonest.

Give Up Your Guns - The Buoys

https://sremg.org.uk/headcodes/sheadcodes.html

In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans

And of course the early '90s was when BR had an abrupt turnaround in attitudes to safety overall, stemming from the Hidden Report into the Clapham accident. Prior to that safety was assumed, the Rule Book having, as it is always put, been written in blood. Suddenly the sort of risk assessment techniques already mentioned became the way forward, not least in looking at how regular maintenance was conducted on the live railway. Little surprise that protecting passengers suddenly leapt up the agenda, too.

Particularly if the coroner gets involved.

5 O'Clock Chateau - Bob James

Nineteen - Paul Hardcastle

I am aware that several RMwebbers have made smashing models of this area's railways, but this chap clearly found it to be a major contribution to his wellbeing. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-68735058

I find Aliexpress offering me Piko locomotives, at what I imagine are good discounts. But while the electric and diesel models look like modern production, the two or three steam models look decidedly old-school and lacking in C21 superdetail, and their prices are far from pocket-money. None is to my taste anyway, nor my choice of prototype. .

Yawn.

An implausibly huge number. WCRC really need some very good arguments to be effective against that stat.

Point well taken - but the ambition in a driver is to be the best, and how better than defeating Max in the same car?

Pedant mode on : I haven't seen the pic, but must gently point out that in 1971 zoom lenses were rare and comparatively expensive. What it may well have been is a telephoto lens of fixed focal length. I had bought, in 1969, a 200mm f4.5 telephoto lens from Dixons which worked well enough. There were various brands on offer at the time - but they still cost a week's wages for many. I lived at home, so life was cheap! As far as the Holmethorpe trips were concerned, my early gricing at Redhill (1961-2) showed lots of sand in the 4-foot way in the down middle road and the up sidings. And by 1971, Alfie Fox, the Guards Controller on another shift from mine in Redhill Control, had gone off permanently sick with stress - he lived in a cottage opposite Holmethorpe sidings.

Under the watchful patronage of St Leonard, Hastings DEMUs always had a high level of care and availability right back to 1957. It is no surprise to find the present owners are continuing that fine tradition.

CV29=46? So you are using Railcom? If not, make it 38.

Projects, and the roles of the PM, take many forms. Some have a known outcome - for example when I was appointed at short notice to manage the closure of Tunbridge Wells - Eridge, where it was a case of finding alternative berthing sidings and scheduling formal Consultation with staff, mainly traincrew, which enabled the project team to identify a feasible date. Then there was the Touche Ross initiative in 1990, for which as Project Director, my task was senior hearts and minds within Sectors and Regions, about budgets, project manager skills and generally enabling BR to spend its capital forecast. The 1992 General Election, with the mandate for Rail Privatisation, rendered the whole thing irrelevant. In late 1992 I was asked to take on Tribute, a large IT project hopelessly out of control, with the internal supplier failing to impress his sponsors, InterCity and European Passenger Services. Since the new system was required to sell tickets for the forthcoming Eurostar service, as well as providing InterCity with a better system that included reservations and ticketing in one terminal, there was a lot of pressure. I instigated the first - and almost certainly the last! - real User Acceptance Test team on BR, and they drove a coach and horses through each release of software. They cost a bomb, but when summoned by the Board's Director of Business Review (the late Andrew Jukes, later pilloried in the press as a "Fat Cat" for his purchase and sale of a ROSCO to good effect, not to mention founding Exactoscale) he endorsed my approach unreservedly. The unexpected overnight transfer of EPS to being a GOCO withdrew part of my sponsorship and my role lapsed forthwith. My next role, as Project Controller, BRIS Privatisation, was a bit different, with Timeline Gantt charts being my responsibility on a monthly basis, as well as minuting, and occasionally chairing, meetings with every BRIS Unit. At no time, on any of those projects, did I run a spreadsheet, and had little idea how to do so!