Caley Jim Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 20 minutes ago, TheQ said: Bor, tha be posh end of North Norfuk, oi be udder end.. You'll be handy for a drink, then! (Or butter, cheese yoghurt etc.) jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 30 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Its all very confusing now that The Assembly Hall has opened, but can I ask a CA chronology question? When was the branch to Wolfringham Harbour/Staith opened? As a hint, it would be useful if it wasn't before the mid-1850s, in order to help with other, interlocking chronologies. K I'm assuming c.1875-7 Thoughts, so far, on chronology are: CA to Birchoverham Market 1855. On to Birchoverham Staithe 1856 Branch CA to Achingham 1862 Branch Birchoverham Market to Fakeney 1862 Birchoverham Market to Birchoverham-Next-the-Sea 1875 (BNTS's is similar to Cromer's development, but 2-3 years ahead) Wolfringham Harbour/Staith c.1876 Bishop's Lynn Tramway 1885 Attempts to develop Shepherd's Port 1890s? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 I hope UK parishioners are ready to "prosper mightily". I thought we were going to be Singapore. it turns out we're to be Australia. So a little confused, but I'm sure it will all be fine. After all, if you can't trust your leaders, who else can you trust? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Edwardian said: I'm assuming c.1875-7 Ah, yes, that seems to fit with the results of my other researches; thank you. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 47 minutes ago, Edwardian said: After all, if you can't trust your leaders, who else can you trust? Psalm 146: 3 and 4. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 3 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Psalm 146: 3 and 4. His breath goes forth talking utter b0ll0cks. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 3 hours ago, Edwardian said: What appear to be our answers are in fact being generated by computer algorithms, which, though very clever at mimicking our responses, like those lovely Google Adds, do occasionally go wrong. Look, here's my favourite locomotive ... Ermm, that is actually one of MY favourite engines - I mean, if ever a diesel (sorry, heavy oil engine) looked pre-grouping, then it's the Fell...why are you all looking at me like that ?! I'll get my coat... 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Whatever comes of it, you can be sure it will be a famous victory. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted October 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2020 17 minutes ago, CKPR said: Ermm, that is actually one of MY favourite engines - I mean, if ever a diesel (sorry, heavy oil engine) looked pre-grouping, then it's the Fell...why are you all looking at me like that ?! I'll get my coat... From the O.E.D.; fell (4) Pronunciation /fɛl/ adjective literary Of terrible evil or ferocity; deadly. ‘the fell disease that was threatening her sister’ ‘Sometimes, the wind also brought unnervingly fell sounds with it, as if a chorus of unholy demons was singing in the distance.’ 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Edwardian said: I thought we were going to be Singapore. it turns out we're to be Australia. So a little confused, but I'm sure it will all be fine. Both nominal democracies; one more definitely a one-party state than the other. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Both nominal democracies; one more definitely a one-party state than the other. But, then, weren't we to be Canada or Norway as well? I can see the Norwegian model working for us, though .... 1 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 53 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Ah, yes, that seems to fit with the results of my other researches; thank you. Feel free to share the fruits of these researches, probably on Castle Aching rather than here, and you will help me with the Wolfringham-Shepherd's Port write up that is the subject of popular demand (well, Compound). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 32 minutes ago, CKPR said: Ermm, that is actually one of MY favourite engines - I mean, if ever a diesel (sorry, heavy oil engine) looked pre-grouping, then it's the Fell...why are you all looking at me like that ?! I'll get my coat... Never underestimate the British weakness for the underdog. It certainly has a presence and I did, fleetingly, consider buying the model Fell. If I ever have a layout with a sort of Orwellian/Post-War dystopian future theme, it will be perfect! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2020 32 minutes ago, Edwardian said: If I ever have a layout with a sort of Orwellian/Post-War dystopian future theme, it will be perfect! Dieselpunk. 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 (edited) It was designed by a chap who was more in the mould of the last of the buccaneers, rather than someone from an Orwellian mind-set. He must have squandered quite a bi of his own money on it, from what I can work out, although maybe he got the firms who backed it to stump-up most of the cash. Edited October 16, 2020 by Nearholmer 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Edwardian said: I hope UK parishioners are ready to "prosper mightily". I thought we were going to be Singapore. it turns out we're to be Australia. So a little confused, but I'm sure it will all be fine. After all, if you can't trust your leaders, who else can you trust? Mm, I have recently been getting a vague suspicion that the worlds democratically elected leaders are envying the powers bestowed upon His Excellency Xi Jinping. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam88 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 5 hours ago, Edwardian said: No, your 'phones work, it's just that everyone outside Norfolk (and Wales, obviously) is already dead from the Plague. What appear to be our answers are in fact being generated by computer algorithms, which, though very clever at mimicking our responses, like those lovely Google Adds, do occasionally go wrong. Look, here's my favourite locomotive ... Is this class still running in West Norfolk? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted October 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2020 No, not the Fell, eh? Go and have a quiet lie down. https://www.paxmanhistory.org.uk/paxfell.htm 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 1 hour ago, rocor said: Mm, I have recently been getting a vague suspicion that the worlds democratically elected leaders are envying the powers bestowed upon His Excellency Xi Jinping. Hitherto I thought "pulp" as applied to the PM related to his journalism, but the Licence to Kill Bill certainly made me think that Bozza might have a case of ... I wanna be like Vlady Putin I wanna do whatever Vlady Putin does Wanna kill like Vlady Putin I wanna kill like Vlady Putin Kill you What else could I do? I said "I'll, I'll make it legal to" 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Lt Col Fell was in good company in not quite making a go of an all-mechanical Diesel locomotive, in that the man himself, Rudolf Diesel, had failed in pursuit of the same thing, forty years previously. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Bets on how long before Andy Burnham is placed in 'protective custody' and Westminster sends the tanks rolling into Manchester? Still, we'll know our leaders have completely lost the plot when they start promoting household pets to senior military positions. Here is Air Chief Marshall Foo Foo (the dog, not the bloke in lilac) ...... 4 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2020 Down the slippery slope we go... Now here's a thing that combines religion, politics, and pre-grouping railways - all dangerous territory where RMWeb is concerned. I remember reading, a quarter of a century ago, a review in the TLS of a general railway book - it might have been the Oxford Companion by Simmons and Biddle. The reviewer observed that the Board of the LNWR was made up of High Church Tories (many with a military background) whereas the of the Midland was made up of Liberal Nonconformists and this went a long way to explaining the fundamental differences between these two major companies. (This applies probably up to the 1870s but the argument was that this left a lasting stamp on the character of the lines.) Now the railways have Quaker money and enterprise at their origin in the North East and in the East Midlands, and even in the grandfather of the LNWR, the Liverpool and Manchester. Any other examples of a clear religio-political stamp to a railway company? In Scotland, the very names Caledonian and North British signal differing attitudes to the Union. Discuss. 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Crikey, I shall be looking at our puppy-pooch with renewed respect if she's going to obtain senior military rank any time soon. But, and I want to make this really, really clear: there is no way that I am going out to take her for a walk dressed like that. I'd rather face a firing squad than wear cerise braid on a lilac cap. 2 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 25 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: I'd rather face a firing squad than wear cerise braid on a lilac cap. So no good for the WNR's new porter's uniform then? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 I consulted Wikipedia about Foo Foo, and it says: Fufu came to wider public attention in 2009, when he appeared in a leaked video showing the Crown Prince's third wife, Princess Srirasmi, feeding a birthday cake to the dog while only wearing a G-string. That is another thing that I shall definitely not be doing. And please, don’t tell us that the WNR Porters are obliged to do so either. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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