Nick C

Presumably, as it's in Norway, it also freezes over on a regular basis...

Less so, it seems - especially if you look at the number of people who end up driving onto railway lines/into rivers because "the sat-nav said turn right"

I think I'll be having to get a 3d printer before long! Shame it needs two types though, I'm sure I'm not alone in not having the money or space for both.

It would, I'd have thought. Our local Smith's has the tills in the normal place though, by the doors. It's the clothing stores round here that tend to have them in strange places.

I've just been watching @makeitminiature's video on the plug track, it looks like a very good idea!

I suspect with the supermarkets there's a much more prosaic reason for going back from self-service to more manned tills - it's a lot harder to shoplift past a person than a machine...

Another EKR RTR loco...

They're higher than the other windows, and the top of the door. Certainly much better visibility than a standard one! It looks from other photos I've seen that the inner cab roof is a bit lower than the outer, so maybe there's equipment in there (electronics perhaps, or radio gear?)

Does this one help? Certainly looks to me like it's black on top: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_08#/media/File:Class_08_08801_(D3969)_(6833336546).jpg This one has a few photos dated 70's, all look either black, or too filthy to tell: https://www.tauntontrains.co.uk/oldsite/GRONKS.htm

At least one company is realising that getting rid of staff isn't always better - Booths supermarkets are getting rid of the self-service checkouts and going back to fully staffed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-67373472

Mrs C lived in Rhyl for a year, she comments that it was quite normal for the whole town to be empty!

I think the adaptation was simply an s-shaped bar that fitted into the socket with the upper part being the shape of a normal lamp bracket - this is the best photo I can find of the one on the tender of 506: That's similar in that the headstock and top brackets are normal ones (as are all six on the front), but the two in the middle are sockets.

There's a thread on it here: Seems like a well thought-out project to me.

Oddly looking at photos, the ones on the buffer beam were replaced with normal irons at some point, but the smokebox ones stayed as sockets - though I guess they weren't needed much as Guildford shed pilot!

It'd be the rubbing down of the old varnish that'd remove the lettering, not the adding of new. I could have sworn there was a thread about it on here somewhere, listing all the various layers, but of course I can't find it!

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the numbering/letting was applied after the first coat(s) of varnish, so the process of revarnishing would naturally remove the existing lettering - hence a revarnished vehicle would always come out with the latest style. As for the correct crimson, doesn't that depend on whether it's been more than a week since the vehicle was outshopped?

That too is of course being imposed by the DfT and blamed on the Mayor...

On the Isle of Wight, at least, the 'S' was in sunshine to match the numbers.

If you're looking at Eastern Germany, it's not too far to pop across the Polish border to Wolsztyn, where you can still experience main line scheduled steam - hopefully it will continue into 2024, though I'm not sure how secure their funding is since the sad loss of Howard Jones earlier this year. http://www.parowozy.com.pl/

Have a look at the last few pages on this thread:

1613, according to the OED - compared with ~1400 for the older meaning. So it's been around a fair while, even by the standards of this thread...

I can't see why anyone would have fallen for that - after all, it would imply that the toasters worked properly beforehand... My microwave clock has read 0:00 for years now, still works just as well for heating food though...

An elderly man rear-ended a younger man who was driving an expensive European sports car… Enraged, the younger man hops out & confronts the old man. "Look what you did to my car…!!! ”He yells "I demand that you give me $10,000 right now or I'm going to beat you to a pulp!" "Oh my…" the old man said nervously, "I don't have that kind of money.” “ Just let me call my son…,” he said with hope, “he trains dolphins and he will know what to do." "Dolphins..!?!?! Right" the other driver huffed, while rolling his eyes. The old man took out his phone, dialed his son, & just as his son answered, the irate man snatched the phone away from the old man. "So, YOU'RE a dolphin trainer, huh..?!?!” The irate man yelled, “Well, your old man here just rear-ended my car and I need TEN GRAND right now, or I'm going to beat you AND your old man to a pulp…!!" "I'll be there in 10 minutes," says the voice calmly on the other end. Exactly 10 minutes later, a Jeep pulls up and a guy hops out and proceeds to pulverize the bully, leaving him in a heap on the side of the road. When he finished, he walked over to his father and said…. " Dad .for the last time, I train Seals… Navy Seals.” “NOT dolphins..!!”

I've found the link: https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/23858888.basingstoke-dad-calls-safety-measure-outside-hatch-warren-schools/