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  1. There was a major one at the University of Texas in 1966; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting which was the deadliest school shooting in the US for more than 40 years after that.
  2. In three and a half years living in the area, I can’t have found a pub where Shipstones was being kept well, then. (I tried hard enough!) Of the local breweries, I preferred Hardy Hanson’s. And (IMO) we were lucky that the village we lived in had a Marston’s pub.
  3. Canadian airlines seem to specialize in long-distance gliding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236 (claimed as a world record for unpowered flight by a passenger aircraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
  4. UP’s Cane Creek branch, again: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/855773/
  5. Try Irish records before 1922 - though things are apparently getting better.
  6. There are two different services being discussed here: - the London-Thurso via Rosyth passenger service for naval personnel - the South Wales to Rosyth, Invergordon and Thurso (for Scapa) coal trains I think the OP was asking about the coal trains. Welsh coal naval specials went elsewhere in Scotland too. Some, at least, went to Greenock via the G&SWR.
  7. Not required so much nowadays: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14789036
  8. We are very tolerant people here in (British) Columbia. Colombia, now - that’s quite a different place!
  9. Shades of Major Major Major Major 🤨!
  10. Five cars carrying scrap ties on fire in CPKC train passing through London, Ontario: https://x.com/jmccall54/status/1782261594501554619
  11. Mine were cheaper from the local antique/junk store of fond memory. It was great for those “I’ll only need it for this one job so no way am I buying a new one” tools.
  12. Sorry - I can’t think of any way of doing that. It’s a pity that “rrpicturearchives” doesn’t trace the movement of rolling stock the way it traces locomotives, though I know that would need a massive effort. And how many people would need that ability (present company excepted? 😐).
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