Edwardian Posted March 16, 2022 Author Share Posted March 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, Regularity said: Something of the look of a Bandon tank about it, I think: Though the lower one has been rather badly 3D printed! 2 1 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 17, 2022 4 hours ago, Edwardian said: "He began to worry he had made a mistake during a stopover in Toronto" Yeah, only because of the size of the next 'plane. Toronto should really have given it away. The hero of the story was his Dad. My kind of parenting! “He felt really sorry for me,” he said. “He also laughed an awful lot" No problem really - Toronto's only about an hour north of Sydney, on the way to Newcastle. Oh what fun we can have with colonial place names. 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I was looking at a possible bike ride route the other day, over to Thetford Forest, and was surprised that it included Euston, which I was hitherto firmly convinced was the station in London that I commuted to for donkey’s years, rather than a tiny village and unfeasibly large mansion in Suffolk. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 5 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Oh what fun we can have with colonial place names. Meanwhile, back in Christchurch ..... Undoubtedly and obviously many colonial namings have become more familiar to us than the originals. Washington DC, which DRMditch mentioned, is a particularly interesting example because I assume it's named for the man whose family was named for the place in County Durham, rather than it being named directly after the place. I have been to Washington DC, but not to the one here, which doesn't look to represent the Mother Country at her picturesque best ..... ! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 5 hours ago, St Enodoc said: No problem really - Toronto's only about an hour north of Sydney, on the way to Newcastle. And you can stop off in Brooklyn on the way. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Nearholmer said: I was looking at a possible bike ride route the other day, over to Thetford Forest, and was surprised that it included Euston, which I was hitherto firmly convinced was the station in London that I commuted to for donkey’s years, rather than a tiny village and unfeasibly large mansion in Suffolk. Not to mention a town in western NSW, the jumping off point to visit Mungo National Park, which lacks both a railway station and a large mansion. Dont forget your water bottle if riding there. Edited March 17, 2022 by monkeysarefun 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 16 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/teenager-accidentally-flies-to-the-wrong-sydney-1.3032709 Now that is seriously getting your travel plans wrong. The best that I have ever managed is getting on the wrong train for Paddington at Reading, and ending up at Castle Cary. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 18 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: The loco was built here from a Beyer Peacock design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_C30_class_locomotive Do you love The Seekers? Really? Well then one appears in the video of their song "Angeline is always Friday" featuring a girl so happy to be riding on a train that she is obviously on LSD. (it was the 60's after all.) Apparently the bloke who ran the butcher shop in Bagdad Tasmania got sick of smart alec radio comedian and press types ignoring the slightly different spelling of the town name and continually calling him up prior to the gulf war asking him why the Americans wanted to bomb him. Sticking with the Seekers and the theme of railway based songs: 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 19 hours ago, Caley Jim said: Some days start badly and get steadily worse! I'm only six miles from Melbourne! Jim I must live near a time warp....I'm only 18 miles from Melbourne, yet 220-odd miles from Biggar.... 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted March 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 17, 2022 Yeah, Big Judith and ”Morningtown Ride”, anyway, thanks to Mr Monkeysarefun for the Camden branch video. 4-6-4 tank engines have far too many wheels, but digging round, you could a Met tank plus tender working the line. Now that really is tasty: https://www.facebook.com/nswgrz12class/ 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 17, 2022 14 minutes ago, Northroader said: 4-6-4 tank engines have far too many wheels, but digging round, you could a Met tank plus tender working the line. Same number of wheels. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 1 hour ago, rocor said: Sticking with the Seekers and the theme of railway based songs: Rather selective passenger criteria. I doubt I'd get a seat. Handcart to Hell a more probable conveyance for Yours Truly! 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 23 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Rather selective passenger criteria. I doubt I'd get a seat. Handcart to Hell a more probable conveyance for Yours Truly! Such selective criteria, that it could end up being an: 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 3 hours ago, rocor said: Sticking with the Seekers and the theme of railway based songs: One thing does amaze me, and that is the fact that the bloke who posts those videos is prepared to show his face on them. Immense courage. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ianathompson Posted March 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 17, 2022 5 hours ago, rocor said: Sticking with the Seekers and the theme of railway based songs: Just had to ask. Is the girl with the pink thing in her hair so fired up (groan) by this that she is trying to emulate a steam loco?! Ian T 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 4 hours ago, alastairq said: I must live near a time warp....I'm only 18 miles from Melbourne, yet 220-odd miles from Biggar.... I have tried looking but there is NOWHERE in Australia called Biggar. This can be easily fixed by simply renaming your Biggar to Grong Grong, Wagga Wagga, Woy Woy, Nulla Nulla, Curl Curl, Gumly Gumly, Mooney Mooney or Mt Bu99ery. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Australia???? Melbourne is in Yorkshire..... HAs it moved? We did have an earthquake a week or so back.... 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted March 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 17, 2022 All this talk of misplaced locations - I can walk from Montreal to Mars in under an hour - suck on that NASA. 1 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 2 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: I have tried looking but there is NOWHERE in Australia called Biggar. This can be easily fixed by simply renaming your Biggar to Grong Grong, Wagga Wagga, Woy Woy, Nulla Nulla, Curl Curl, Gumly Gumly, Mooney Mooney or Mt Bu99ery. Can we please have Woolloomooloo? I believe it is the only place in the world with 8 vowels in it's name, all the same! Jim 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 1 hour ago, alastairq said: Australia???? Melbourne is in Yorkshire..... HAs it moved? We did have an earthquake a week or so back.... In the East Riding, I believe, but the Melbourne that gave rise to Melbourne in Australia is in Derbyshire 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, Edwardian said: In the East Riding, I believe, but the Melbourne that gave rise to Melbourne in Australia is in Derbyshire Melbourne being named after Lord Melbourne, not his seat. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 Just now, Compound2632 said: Melbourne being named after Lord Melbourne, not his seat. Indeed, I should have said derived ultimately from the place via the title. The 'seat' is a lovely house ..... 7 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Would have been more fun if they'd kept it the name of the bloke who first settled there, in 1835.. He called it "Batmania" which is an awesome name. 2 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 I hadn’t previously realised quite how peculiar that costume is. Somehow rather disquieting to see a chap dressed in Lycra body suit and what look like black silk underpants and gloves. Note how suspect it sounds when written down. 1 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 11 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Melbourne being named after Lord Melbourne, not his seat. Just as well, really.....? Otherwise the place may have been named Ikea? 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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