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  1. I've just watched an old movie on YouTube that TheQ might find amusing, re the history of radar. It was Radar Secret Service, a b/w B movie from 1950, about the use of radar in crime detection. I never knew it was so far developed then that it could produce a TV quality image from a vehicle mounted set! Not to mention Uranium 238 being transported in an ordinary van.
  2. If the two "main lines" are the up and down lines of the same route the land between would be railway land. Lacking access, it would probably not be let for grazing and maintained like other trackside land*. If there was a station or railway housing nearby it might be used for staff allotments, with a private foot crossing for access. *So for a modern layout, covered with trees.
  3. Barrels from Cork's Franciscan Well brewery, brewers of Shandon Stout. https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/31012/jameson-caskmates-stout-edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan_Well
  4. The Eighth Army itself remained in Italy until 1945. Various veteran formations that had been part of it, as XXX corps, were returned to UK to take part in the invasion of France and following campaigns. Notable amongst them were the 7th Armoured Division and 51st Highland Division.
  5. British WW1 tank crews were issued with chain mail masks to protect against this. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30013537
  6. I came out of Eastleigh Lidl yesterday and saw 69009 at a distance in the East Yard. I wasn't sure what it was so had to look it up later. It looks good https://www.railwayherald.com/uknews/latest-class-69-outshopped-from-eastleigh
  7. Pixies (Gremlins, Knockers, Kobolds, I assume there's a Polish equivalent (google suggests Chochlik).
  8. The original "Generation X" were actually Baby Boomers. This book came out in January 1964 and I bought a copy. I turned 16 that year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26339959
  9. I only see two cars with the slightly rounded body style that came in c1934, from very few makers, so I would suggest 1934-5, obviously summer. Is it possible the prewar location of the camping coaches is obscured by the train?
  10. Bachmann 39-225K BR Mk1 BCK Coach Pullman Livery 'Car No. 355' was a Collectors' Club limited edition but the car number is different.
  11. I loved trains as a toddler and onwards; afternoon walks frequently included a wait by a local bridge on the Midland London line. Grandparents lived in Hitchin within sight of the ECML and regular visits included time at their allotment, overlooking the line and the Civil Engineers' yard, busy even on Sundays. I was about nine (1957) when I discovered number taking and was given the Observers' Book of Locomotives. I recorded the numbers and classes seen in a big notebook until I got the 1959 ABC for the Midland Region and later the Eastern/NE volume. Spotting was mostly at Ampthill station or the adjacent overbridge, another bridge nearer home, and the overbridge south of Hitchin station. Holidays took us to Suffolk via Liverpool St, and Ipswich. Aged 11 I started going further afield with a school friend and visited Bletchley and the WR and SR London termini. Pressure of school work at a 'hothouse' school doing A levels a year early and having school on Saturdays led to me giving up spotting in '64, although I was losing interest with the demise of steam on the locally accessible routes. Early enthusiasm for diesels as the new thing faded as I realised they were quite boring (to me).
  12. Years ago, mid '80s I think, I was in the Southampton Debenhams Record department. The electric till failed and somebody brought a new one to the counter. The shop assistant realised it had no plug. So with my handy penknife I took the plug off the old till and fitted it to the new one. I probably committed several offences.
  13. Mrs mole who is 60, renders that as "knowamean?" and was doing so when we got together, in '98. I think that after leaving home she reacted strongly against certain aspects of her upbringing. But I wouldn't have met her if she hadn't.
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