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  1. Making my head spin rewriting WR WT 13 &15 (1950) to include the Bordesley-Stourhampton-Borchester-Felpersham line

  2. The Season standing at platform 1 is the 01/10/2015 "Autumn". This service is running approximately 6 weeks early.

    1. flapland

      flapland

      Sure is, must be the coldest and wettest August for a good while.

  3. <==< has rats! Worse still they are a bit too close to Stourhampton.

  4. Most of the North end of Stourhampton wired now. Need a job lot of Seep PM1 now. Two dozen at the last count

  5. Wiring up droppers, listening to Duran Duran (first LP). Nice little earner that, Tell.

  6. Laying track, listening to Genesis, growing my hair. Back to the '70's. Not half! pop-pickers!

    1. 3 link

      3 link

      That was a great time, the 70's.

  7. Baby-sitting at LJ's house. Think I need a 'project in a box' cos this is going to be a regular gig.

  8. Baby-sitting at LJ's house. Think I need a 'project in a box' cos this is going to be a regular gig.

  9. Baby sitting at LJ's house. Think I need a 'project in a box' cos this is going to be a regular gigf.

  10. Great excitement in the "Little Black Country" over the Bank Holiday weekend. Bargain hunters, window shoppers and coffee shop customers promenading in Stourhampton town centre were treated to the sounds of a steam locomotive for the first time in 52 years as testing began in the north yard of the railway station. of

    1. darren01

      darren01

      what loco was it?

       

    2. 28XX

      28XX

      A first generation Mainline pannier which was my leaving present from BR in 1982. The first time it has run on any layout.

  11. Good of Jewsons to fill the stone saw I hired today with diesel. Shame it runs on 2-stroke tho.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      ...which then turned into a non-start.

    3. 3 link

      3 link

      oh, bless her....

       

    4. Mickey

      Mickey

      did no one notice it smelt like diesel??

  12. Tried 3 @moel shops' in the south midlands for a Peco LH Electrofrog code 100 point without success.

    1. Matt

      Matt

      At least you've got a choice... Up here in North east scotland we barely have any

  13. Tried 3 'modelshops' in the south midlands for Peco Electrofrog Code 100 medium LH point without success today

  14. Tried 3 'modelshops' in the south midlands for Peco Electrofrog Code 100 medium LH point without success today

  15. On the redundancy list. In need of a job.

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    3. Trebor

      Trebor

      Oh! ######....

    4. Dave47549

      Dave47549

      Best of luck, I'm still on the rock 'n' roll 8 months on :-(

  16. is it just me that keeps trying to wipe the dirty smudge of the monitor, just where the "we" in "RMweb" appears on the front page masthead

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    2. DonB

      DonB

      Hadn't noticed it before. But now it will really "Bug" me!

    3. BoD

      BoD

      Nope, not just you..... but I wasn't going to be first to admit to it.

    4. Satan's Goldfish

      Satan's Goldfish

      Why would you bring this to the attention of the ocd afflicted amoung us that weren't aware of it! my life is ruined :-(

  17. "Milk! Urghh!" "It's what Ian Rush drinks." "Ian Rush?" "Yeah. An' he said if I didn't drink my milk, when I grow up, I'll only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley." "Accrington Stanley, who are they?" "Exactly."

    1. Grafarman

      Grafarman

      'Gimme it!' 'No!' 'Give it 'ere...!'

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I am suddenly back in the 1980s....

    3. BlackRat

      BlackRat

      Must be a Humphrey about!

  18. Needs some 4" coach screws to re-engineer the garage loft.

    1. N15class

      N15class

      Put a good size pilot in for them. Or the wood will split and it is really hard work to screw them in.

  19. Lo here I stand by Thee upright, To give Thee warning day and night, For every tick that I do give, Cuts short the time you have to live. Therefore, a warning take by me, To serve Thy God as I serve Thee, Each day and night be on Thy guard, And Thou shall have a just reward.

    1. 69843

      69843

      A clock/watch?

    2. ozzyo

      ozzyo

      What? TF. is that about???

    3. Jim49

      Jim49

      Grandfather clock?

  20. Tis mine each passing hour to tell, tis thine to use it ill or well.

  21. Tis mine each passing hour to tell, tis thine to use it ill or well.

  22. Whose the bloke who drives the blue Audi northbound M5 between J6 and J3 between 7:00 and 8:00 every morning with the number plate GWR 460?

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    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Severn Valley Railway Chief Exec?

       

    3. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      This being Easter and all, I'm guessing it's G.J.Churchward.

    4. Ozexpatriate

      Ozexpatriate

      A blue Audi? With that reg he hasn't repainted it green and had the badges replated in brass?

       

  23. Thinks I will add the word 'nought' to my everyday vocabulary in place of the colonial 'zero'.

    1. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      Nil's a good one as well. My enjoyment of that film was nil.

  24. When I got a tray of coffees for my colleagues why did I have the urge to throw the mugs at their targets?

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Are they all managers?

  25. In a rare moment of access to the telly, enjoyed 'Britain on Film', BBC4 last night

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