RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted May 15, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 15, 2016 Perhaps not so wacky Apparently it says "Those who drink to forget, oblige us by paying in advance, please" 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted June 11, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 11, 2016 Take your pick. linked from: http://www4.radioparadise.com/graphics/tv_img/12483.jpg 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 On the bedside table in the hotel we stayed in last week: Here's the explanation, taken from the door of our room: There is only one scheduled train each way per day on this line, plus the odd extra. However, the westbound is scheduled to go past at 3AM. Diesel horns blowing the 'crossing' signal at 20 yards does interrupt sleep somewhat. (This is the second hotel we've stayed in in the last couple of months that supplies such notices and earplugs. "Roundhouse" of this parish has also stayed in the other one.) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AnEntropyBubble Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 pH, I would have thought that Nelson would have a quiet zone by now. I stayed at a hotel at Lake Louise and the CP main was 80 yards from my room - much quieter with the quiet zone, but you could hear the horns blowing from a few miles away, followed by the gentle rumble of GE's, seacans and hoppers. Nice view of "The Mall" though! Andrew 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 pH, I would have thought that Nelson would have a quiet zone by now. I stayed at a hotel at Lake Louise and the CP main was 80 yards from my room - much quieter with the quiet zone, but you could hear the horns blowing from a few miles away, followed by the gentle rumble of GE's, seacans and hoppers. Nice view of "The Mall" though! Andrew Andrew, I'm not sure that the three crossings on roads that access the mall parking lot would currently qualify to be part of a quiet zone. None of them have barriers, and one doesn't even have lights - just crossbucks and a STOP sign. Plus two of them, at least, are pretty busy, with a fairly steady stream of traffic over them during the times the mall is open. I don't know who is responsible for paying to bring crossings up to standard to allow a quiet zone, but I'm sure CP wouldn't volunteer. And with only two trains a day (only one scheduled overnight) plus an occasional extra, would the city be prepared to pay? I know that even a couple of streets back from the line, where my son and family live, you can sleep through the night train passing, though to me the horns on the SD30ECOs have a different, more piercing, sound than horns on earlier CP locos. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 28, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2016 bathroom-note-hands-pants.jpg But they're still smiling - i wonder why? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted July 2, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2016 A headline on 9 June in the Dominion Post of Wellington, New Zealand: “Grapes grown in graveyard produce a full-bodied wine”. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2016 Sign in a 1950's East End tobacconists window 'Rejected virgins 10/6d'. This refered to briar pipe bowls. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted July 2, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2016 Sign over Manchester shop: "Ears Pierced While You Wait". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Judge Dread Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Sign in an ironmongers in Hull several years ago..... "We have an arrangement with the banks, they don't sell paraffin and we don't cash cheques!" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley Melrose Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 The local chippy where I grew up had a clock with no hands on a shelf behind the counter. Below it was a notice, "NO TICK" Stan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 (edited) Whilst researching the L&B for my layout, I came across this sign in the Car Park, at Woody Bay..... Stephen. Edited July 15, 2016 by bertiedog Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Oxymoronic: 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Must've got the idea from the spare wheel cover on a certain Jap 4 x 4. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 (edited) Edited August 15, 2016 by pH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Sign over a couple of chairs outside a local dress shop: 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 19, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 19, 2016 Sorry no photo but travelling on a '16 reg bus I noticed that the emergency exits were windows which were required to be broken with glass hammers. Nothing unusual there. However the hammers (several around the bus) were kept in glazed recesses marked "Break Glass to Open" and lower down "Toughened Glass" So, to make an emergency exit you break a window with a hammer. To get at that hammer you have to break a toughened glass panel with?.................. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted August 19, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 19, 2016 Sorry no photo but travelling on a '16 reg bus I noticed that the emergency exits were windows which were required to be broken with glass hammers. Nothing unusual there. However the hammers (several around the bus) were kept in glazed recesses marked "Break Glass to Open" and lower down "Toughened Glass" So, to make an emergency exit you break a window with a hammer. To get at that hammer you have to break a toughened glass panel with?.................. Keith Head butt? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 19, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 19, 2016 Head butt? It's not that bad an area! Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Sorry no photo but travelling on a '16 reg bus I noticed that the emergency exits were windows which were required to be broken with glass hammers. Nothing unusual there. However the hammers (several around the bus) were kept in glazed recesses marked "Break Glass to Open" and lower down "Toughened Glass" So, to make an emergency exit you break a window with a hammer. To get at that hammer you have to break a toughened glass panel with?.................. Keith Don't know if it ever happened, but there was talk some time ago that the break-glass covering hammers etc. on trains would be replaced by sugar-glass, that is the stuff that is used for stunts in the film industry. Looks like glass so is still a deterrent to miss-use, but easy to break without risk of injury in an emergency. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted August 19, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 19, 2016 (edited) Looks like glass so is still a deterrent to miss-use...... ....... especially if you write 'Toughened Glass' at the bottom. Edited August 19, 2016 by BoD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Only in North Wales...? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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