RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 20, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 20, 2020 I was grabbing images while the light held yesterday, and so didn't take up a lot of time marshalling trains. That meant Hermit got lots of attention. Here are the other two I took. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2020 The K1 got its portrait took. I'd have got a clip round the ear if I'd said that at home when I was a kid. Anyway, it did. Handsome engine, and the GN heritage shines through. And while it rests, one of its ancestors runs through with a Boston to East Class F, minerals marshalled at the front for a change. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2020 2 minutes ago, great northern said: The K1 got its portrait took. I'd have got a clip round the ear if I'd said that at home when I was a kid. And a good thing too. Your use of English is often better than mine, and I appreciate that. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 30 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: And a good thing too. Your use of English is often better than mine, and I appreciate that. Well, having a mother and a favourite aunt who were both teachers, I suppose you could say that I had the advantage of being brung up proper like. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium thegreenhowards Posted November 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, great northern said: Well, having a mother and a favourite aunt who were both teachers, I suppose you could say that I had the advantage of being brung up proper like. A legal career no doubt re-emphasised the need for good unambiguous English, albeit with Random capital Letters thrown in for Good measure just like my iPad insists on doing! Edited November 21, 2020 by thegreenhowards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 12 minutes ago, thegreenhowards said: A legal career no doubt re-emphasised the need for good unambiguous English, albeit with Random capital Letters thrown in for Good measure just like my iPad insists on doing! I know it is very old fashioned, but I happen to think that the English language is a glorious thing when properly used. I despair when I use a descriptive word and a young person asks "what does that mean?" Even more so, when I try to think of a simpler synonym, and get asked "why didn't you say that in the first place"? "Cool" cannot describe every positive emotion known to humanity, whatever most younger people seem to think. And am I one of the last alive who cringes at the notice that tells me that something is closed " Due to.......whatever it is? 3 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted November 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, great northern said: The K1 got its portrait took. I'd have got a clip round the ear if I'd said that at home when I was a kid. And in certain parts of RMweb too. Oops, I know that one should never start a sentence with "and". Or "but". But not always. And I know that those are not proper sentences coz they ain't got no verbs... Edited November 21, 2020 by St Enodoc 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 2 hours ago, great northern said: I know it is very old fashioned, but I happen to think that the English language is a glorious thing when properly used. I despair when I use a descriptive word and a young person asks "what does that mean?" Even more so, when I try to think of a simpler synonym, and get asked "why didn't you say that in the first place"? "Cool" cannot describe every positive emotion known to humanity, whatever most younger people seem to think. And am I one of the last alive who cringes at the notice that tells me that something is closed " Due to.......whatever it is? I agree wholeheartedly. I have spent a lifetime as a lawyer writing and negotiating contracts in the oil industry and recall arguing with a very nice gentlemen from a big oil company over the effect of the placement of one comma. There was a mere $87million at stake. The use of precise language is not always just of academic interest. There is something rather elegant in something well written. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 2 hours ago, thegreenhowards said: A legal career no doubt re-emphasised the need for good unambiguous English but an absence of punctuation? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2020 1 minute ago, David Bell said: I agree wholeheartedly. I have spent a lifetime as a lawyer writing and negotiating contracts in the oil industry and recall arguing with a very nice gentlemen from a big oil company over the effect of the placement of one comma. There was a mere $87million at stake. The use of precise language is not always just of academic interest. There is something rather elegant in something well written. It was my cynical belief that legals were distinctly parsimonious with commas, precisely so that differences in interpretation could prolong dialogue and keep everyone in fees! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 4 minutes ago, 2750Papyrus said: but an absence of punctuation? I can see an argument for the placement of one comma, but other than that I'm happy with it as one continuous statement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted November 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 Cor blimey theres me finking english lessons were a thing on sirs thread. 1 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 4 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Oops, I know that one should never start a sentence with "and". But then Gilbert will surely be an expert on sentences, whether consecutive or concurrent! Lloyd 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 56 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Cor blimey theres me finking english lessons were a thing on sirs thread. Not a lesson, Clive, just a discussion. An expression of preferences. Anyway, you have an exemption sustifficate. 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2020 OK, before we get too serious, here we have...just a plonk at twilight. Not an area with great architectural merit, but you see the layout warts and all. Sorry about the detritus. I like that word. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 2 hours ago, great northern said: I can see an argument for the placement of one comma, but other than that I'm happy with it as one continuous statement. Just to play devil's advocate, I might use the enigmatic semi-colon as an alternative, thus: 'I can see an argument for the placement of one comma; but other than that I'm happy with it as one continuous statement.' The deeds to our 1870's former methodist chapel are a glorious example of the solicitor's art - one huge long sentence, littered with 'and's and not a single piece of punctuation in sight. As you say - back to the trains ... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 1 minute ago, LNER4479 said: Just to play devil's advocate, I might use the enigmatic semi-colon as an alternative, thus: 'I can see an argument for the placement of one comma; but other than that I'm happy with it as one continuous statement.' The deeds to our 1870's former methodist chapel are a glorious example of the solicitor's art - one huge long sentence, littered with 'and's and not a single piece of punctuation in sight. As you say - back to the trains ... I might have known you would try to introduce a semi into the discussion. 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted November 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 I thought commas are avoided by lawyers writing documents in case they disappear from copies of said documents? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted November 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 9 hours ago, great northern said: "Cool" cannot describe every positive emotion known to humanity, whatever most younger people seem to think. Many years ago, I had a fresh faced graduate inflicted upon me at work. He would regularly respond to an idea as "cool". I never succeeded in stopping him from doing so, but asking him to describe how the idea had a temperature did reduce the frequency. Adrian 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 G'Day Folks Cool dude......... manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 8 hours ago, great northern said: I can see an argument for the placement of one comma, but other than that I'm happy with it as one continuous statement. As in "Have you eaten Grandma"? 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted November 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2020 8 minutes ago, 2750Papyrus said: As in "Have you eaten Grandma"? Well yes, lack of a comma can change the meaning of that dramatically, but I don't think the same can be said of Andy's sentence? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2020 Back to trains, and another angle on the K2 as it approaches the bridge. 25 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted November 22, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2020 This bright morning, we have a close up of a WD in typical New England condition. 38 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 That's how I remember them at Ferme Park and Harringay West. I once saw one derailed on the approach to the flyover. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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