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To a lot of people in the north west Notts/south east Derbyshire area a moggy is indeed a mouse. Really confused us at first when we moved into our present house. The next door neighbour with a fairly broad Alfteton/Ripley area dialect talked about cats catching moggies? Edit to correct auto correct from my phone, grrr

The 5.15

Two pictures I think are appropriate: How about a loco with an inappropriate train? Something a bit more than a freight loco on passenger work if possible please.

While stood at Peterborough earlier, actually just using the loo, I heard a train passing and stuck my head out of the door (I was washing my hands by this time ) just in time to see a GWR liveried IEP set pass through attached to a plain white set.

Hmm, haven't the Chinese been trying to get into the British rolling stock market anyway? Perfect chance seeing as many think that MTR are putting much of the money into this franchise

A train carrying only one type of goods, like your 'modern' MGR for instance

OHLE: Next then, a steam era block freight train.

What's the betting it comes from the Western Region

EMT 158s have I think 158 seats per two car set, all standard admittedly, the newly refurbished ones with the extra wheelchair space have had, I think, two bays of seats removed so reckon on about 154 going forward. The SWT unit on hire has less than 40 seats in one car and not that many more in the other

Refitting the DMU fleet in the same way as the EMT 158s would not far off double the number of seats I think. Current SWT 158s (don't know about the 159s) have around 40 seats per car on average. The EMT ones have near on 70 seats per car on average

I've got several but thought it would be cheating, I'll check again later and if still nothing go to wildcard

Sounds rather like this: Not been to one of these in many years, when I went regularly there was rather more variety in cars and engines but still sound pretty good, and the best drivers always start at the back of the grid

I've got a tram under a bridge but not at home to post it at the moment Edit: Tried from my phone but now home so if a tram counts here you go. The wires haven't been done yet it was just set up as a nice cameo. If that's considered valid the next photo will have OHLE seeing as it's missing from this one

Loco, girls name; Next photo will have a station with a boys name

Hope Graham (4479) doesn't mind me using this The next photo will have a second generation DMU

well he said British Built The next photo will have a foreign built loco in Britain

Not a route indicator I don't think. There's no junction between Bingham and Aslockton that I can think of. I wonder if it's an oversize metal cross fitted to the colour light head rather than the bags we get nowadays? Edit beaten to it!

If you count the slow lines as part of the ECML, the speed on the slow between Grantham and Peterborough is 80mph so slow is a bit relative I think, the last jointed track has only been replaced in the last couple of years. I think there may still be a short section between crossovers at Tallington on the down slow, still 80mph though.

There's a switched diamond at Sheet Stores junction near Long Eaton, replaced fairly recently in railway terms I think. One of our former layouts called Skipley, which was on display at the HMRS building at Swanwick and is now privately owned had a curved switched diamond.

Sorry but I was merely providing a reference to the place, no politics intended, and as such I made no further comment. It is infamous whichever side of the political divide you stand on and most likely the best (unfortunately), maybe the only thing that the site will be remembered for. If it's deemed inappropriate can the mods please remove it.

Infamous place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Orgreave Around this time we were doing site visits in connection with our planned Woodhead layout and saw several lorry convoys

At one of the late season banger meetings at Great Yarmouth last year a Daewoo Matiz was paired with the biggest caravan (by quite a margin) on the circuit for the destruction derby! The result was a dead heat as the two remaining cars both took each other out, I think the other was a Vauxhall Zafira.

Indeed it is, I especially like the decent speed the trains move at somewhat more reminiscent of contemporary film, like they have a purpose and urgency about them

Have to be 37429, I'll admit I was late on the scene at this bashing lark. My interest in real railways only really rekindled during a holiday near Bangor when the 37/4s were on the North Wales coast. A still summer evening and the cottage we were staying in was on a hillside just to the east of Bangor. To hear them opened up after coming out of the tunnel was almost as good as the steam I'd heard from my bedroom window as a child half a mile away on the GC line north of Nottingham. Had a ride out with them and I was hooked. 429 never went to Scotland as far as I know until very late in it's life after doing both the last scheduled Holyhead Birmingham and also the last loco hauled Holyhead Crewe 3 weeks later when the 175s were still flaky. Another good bit of thrash I remember was while out on call as an alarm engineer if I was in the area I would take a break at Grantham. There used to be a freightliner with a pair of 37s on in the late evening. On a still night you became aware of a rumbling sound other than the noise from the A1. Gradually getting louder until the train roared through the station and continued until stopping suddenly as they entered Stoke tunnel. The 47 hauled liners were tame by comparison:-)

I'm pretty sure that's Newstead MR which was more or less ooposite Annesley shed, the big building is the Station Hotel, relatively (last couple of years) closed. Now boarded up and for sale. Looking again I'm almost certain, I should be really as I stop at the new Newstead station often enough, now just a single line more or less on the alignment of the platform road. The photographer would now likely be standing in a fairly dense group of bushes