RJS1977

In other news, Seaton Tramway have now just 80 yards of track to replace. The race is on.... Place your bets now!

Never noticed it before, but that picture shows that the roof of the tunnel has clearly been lowered at some point. I wonder if that now stops the sun shining though.... (and if it's still high enough for electrification!).

Dawlish Beach now has a live train tracker: http://www.dawlishbeach.com/live/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=21

Given the number of episodes of the Navy Lark where HMS Troutbridge ran into them (and one when they removed the marker buoy thinking it was an American space capsule,causing the entire Home Fleet to run aground), I'm surprised there was enough sand left to fill in the submarine pen... :-P

That's why there's an "ur" and "gh" in yoghurt....

Visible progress overnight - the Dawlish beach cam now shows shuttering around the gap in the parapet wall immediately opposite the camera.

Of course, there might be a big hole somewhere they could dump it in....

The manufacturers of Colron had better prepare for a big order...

Just seen an interesting activity for Train Simulator 2013 has been uploaded to UKTrainSim: http://www.uktrainsim.com/filelib-info.php?form_fileid=32567 - delivering rebuilding materials to Dawlish.

I was thinking more in terms of a cardboard house big enough to live in!

Is there any truth in the rumours of a forthcoming collaboration between Allan and James May?

Heysham Power Station had two battery locos, converted from the overhead locos which used to work at Kearsley. One in each configuration are now at the Electric Railway Museum at Coventry.

Not a "traditional" NG railway, being 4' gauge, but the Saundersfoot Railway had an interchange siding with the Pembroke & Tenby line at Saundersfoot station and both lines served Bonville's Court Colliery. I believe there were also standard/narrow interchanges at both ends of the Bowaters system.

Probably because you only wrote it once and I read it dozens of times! :-)

So the laptop is the latest in the long list of "wifey" items which work better than your own (e.g. I remember you saying that when wrapping a lump of coal into a towel to break it down into smaller lumps,"her" towel always seemed to work better than "his", likewise "her" toothbrush was always better at stippling fire cement than yours! etc...) Not to mention ovens getting used to harden fire cement (or set fire to it!), rolling pins to flatten out said fire cement, potato scoops being attacked with a hacksaw to provide a dome for a windmill. etc etc....!

I believe there was a case at a crossing in Croydon where somebody walked into the side of a moving tram...

I remember talking to a track engineer who told me he and his gang had just been knocking the gauge of part of the GWML out by quarter of an inch or so. He said they were gradually working towards broad gauge little by little in the hope that nobody would notice....

Very nice, but isn't this a 4F?

This is what I think they should do to the vehicles of people who abuse level crossings (and who have the fortune to not be in a collision as a result) :

Like Wallingford crossing: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Wallingford&hl=en&ll=51.591703,-1.138368&spn=0.000487,0.001321&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=7.767092,21.643066&t=h&hnear=Wallingford,+Oxfordshire,+United+Kingdom&z=20

The clock tower is all that now remains of East Didsbury tram depot: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=East+Didsbury&hl=en&ll=53.410726,-2.219436&spn=0.000468,0.001321&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=7.767092,21.643066&t=h&hnear=East+Didsbury&z=20&layer=c&cbll=53.410726,-2.219436&panoid=yQu_0DPkc4IqXd8E-ayRxA&cbp=12,350.01,,0,-10.78 Even less now remains of Reading tram depot - only this plaque now built into the wall of the cinema now occupying the site: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Reading&hl=en&ll=51.452875,-0.968995&spn=0.000346,0.00066&sll=53.410726,-2.219436&sspn=0.000471,0.001321&t=h&hnear=Reading,+United+Kingdom&z=21&layer=c&cbll=51.452875,-0.968995&panoid=ac4xgavDY19-lMpGK_jQmw&cbp=12,317.56,,2,-11.76

Those sections look a little flimsy compared to the old wall - will there be more wall built up seaward of them?

Sid James as Robinson?

Seems odd transporting them that far by road. I would have expected them to be worked in traffic as far as Exeter and roaded from there (unless they're failures of course).

An HST on the Ashburton branch!