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  1. Reading 'Britain's New Railway' (1966). You can tell it is 1966 because Mr.Nock refers to problems and not challenges ;-)

    1. 2mm Andy

      2mm Andy

      and presumably passengers and not customers?!

    2. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      Finally caught up with it almost 50 years after the event. Discovered that Nock took BRB's shilling to write it.

  2. Aaaarrrgh! 25 page HS2 special in RAIL. Please, give it a rest :-(

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Couple be worse. You could be reading about Diana in The Daily Excess....

  3. He sees angels in the architecture/Spinning in infinity

    1. Grafarman

      Grafarman

      If you'd be my bodyguard, I could be your long lost pal...ripped off that bassline so many times... awesome!

    2. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      Just call me Al :-)

  4. Re-reading 'British Rail after Beeching' after ?? years. Contemporary (1966) history.

    1. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      It's probably just as contemporary now!

  5. Manchester living down to its reputation as the rain capital of the UK. When will it ever stop?

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    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      The rain or Manchester ?

       

    3. DavidR

      DavidR

      Come and live in Poland: it was 23c today. Warm and sunny!

    4. Red Devil

      Red Devil

      Half of Poland has done it the other way round, must like the rain...

  6. Tram gricer alert! The Ashton extension opens on Wednesday :-)

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    2. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      But you do get a clear ahead view in the trams which I don't think there was in the 504s!

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      I thought it was already open! At Piccadilly, yesterday, the destinations had changed from Droyelsden to Ashton.

    4. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      TfGM website says first tram from Ashton will be 05.59 Wednesday 9th October.

  7. Mrs L calls them 'lycra cyclists'. She means as distinct from normal cyclists . . .

    1. 2mmMark

      2mmMark

      MAMIL - middle aged man in lycra

    2. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      Ahhh, if Mrs L waits long enough maybe she'll see the gabardine mac, cap and bicycle clips come back into fashion...

  8. Templot2 is driving me mad!

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    2. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      I'd like Templot1 back but I lost it when we got a new computer :-(

    3. 2mmMark

      2mmMark

      David - I think I've got a couple of the older versions archived somewhere. PM me.

    4. martin_wynne

      martin_wynne

      David, almost everything from the earlier versions works just the same in Templot2. Please ask on Templot Club if you are stuck - http://85a.co.uk/forum/

       

  9. Recommend Brown & Green cafe at beautifully restored Crystal Palace station. And they play Simon & Garfunkel for old fogies like me:-)

    1. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      You are NOT an 'old fogie', m'lad!

  10. "A problem with the webpage caused Internet Explorer to close and reopen the tab" Grrr. . .

  11. Off to the IRRS meeting this afternoon. I do like listening to Oliver Doyle.

  12. If 60041double-headed with 60039 would it be nice enough to eat? :-)

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    2. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      It would need EU certification first!

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Probably contains horse.

    4. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      Oh yes, of course... 'Salmon Trout' followed by a

  13. What we need is more blue sky thinking!

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    2. Phil Copleston
    3. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      It's a Class 20 out of a Farish-shaped box for a Carendt-sized layout :-)

    4. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      Oh, a quart in a pint pot kinda thinking, I see... hmmmmmm

  14. Are we the chattering classes?

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    2. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      I think we're the elite classes!

    3. Horsetan
    4. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      I thought YOU were a fan of the diesel classes!

  15. When did "may I have" become "can I get"? And why?

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    2. keefer

      keefer

      even 'can i get...?' is quickly becoming 'i want....'

    3. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      Ah yes, CK. The Australian inflection!

    4. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      Sounds like you've all become 'highly inflected' with it now. Just 'station stop' it!

  16. All these years and development on from Mr Babbage's Difference Engine yet when we type an inverted comma the software thinks we mean ’ or ‘

    1. devondynosoar118

      devondynosoar118

      I bet Babbage also discovered the worlds first error message.

    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      That's the great thing about text encoding standards - there's so many to choose from.

  17. Is East Coast the absolute worst post-privatisation livery? Insipid colour, zero style and successfully shows all the ripples along the sides of a Mk 4 coach. Terrible.

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    2. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      Extra depressing having gone from one of the best, GNER, to the worst, East Coast

    3. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      Quite agree David - bring back "The Route of Phoebe Snow" ummm sorry, "...The Flying Scotsman"!

    4. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      The only East Coast loco with a decent livery's the BBMF 91!

  18. Redacted? Ah, you mean censored . . .

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Hey, cut that out!

    2. brianthesnail96

      brianthesnail96

      Ahh, we've a chap at work that keeps using "redacted" in place of "someone messed up and I've no idea how, but we don't want to admit to it 'cos they'll get a ticking off". I thought that was inspired!

    3. MarkC

      MarkC

      It's all a blank...

  19. Always find 'Anonymous user' a bit creepy. Just slipped in around the back, hiding behind the sofa and just keeping an eye on things. Shudder . . .

  20. Wesley Sneijder retires from football. Decent pension though :-)

    1. jjnewitt

      jjnewitt

      I find this very odd. It wasn't that long ago he was being linked with

    2. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      Not even 29 until June. Strange but no doubt well paid move.

  21. "Killer freeze grips Britain" shouts the Express. Never knowingly understated . . .

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    2. 3 link

      3 link

      Sunny in West Sussex.. : )

    3. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      Sunny in Atherton but then it is the sunshine suburb :-)

    4. Tony Simms

      Tony Simms

      Never mind, half an aspirin will cure it; it does every alternate Tuesday in said rag...

  22. "Killer freeze grips Britain" shouts the Express. Never knowingly understated . . .

  23. "No fight" says Mancini. Looked a bit of a scrap to me.

    1. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      Apparently it was "not a fight". I make that 99 chances left... ho ho

  24. Cross Country. Bournemouth-Manchester. 4 car Voyager. 25% 1st Class. Seat reservations not working. Not a recipe for a great customer experience.

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      So it's pretty safe to assume that you'd have been happier with a West Country pacific working to Oxford, and a Hall taking the rake of 10 Mark 1s forward?... ;-)

    3. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      Got it in one, CK :-)

      (Although the Hall may have got some funny looks at London Road)

    4. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      But hey, at least you made up good time after Stoke, thanks to the plucky North Staffs New L 0-6-2T they put on as far as Macc ;-)

  25. Some excellent railway books for me in Santa's sack :-)

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