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  1. Rather gorgeous. Pity they are HO. Now if they were Spur Null and I were a millionaire ...
  2. 2-12-0 !!! I have an O gauge German exhibition layout. My stock is very attractive, but boy is it fragile.
  3. I commuted to school, on my own, from the age of seven. Mum took me the first day, after which I was on my own. The 1926 era 4SUB broke down on the third day, and they stopped the Kent Coast train comprising brand new 4CEPs. I discovered these had external handles, so on arrival at St Mary Cray I opened the window, opened the door, closed the window, stepped out and closed the door behind me. Simples.
  4. My experience is very similar to Jon's as it is an excellent way of travelling around a city. However in some (all?) cities, they are only issued if one has signed up to the H Rewards programme. I was staying in the Berlin (Ostbahnhof), Erfurt and Frankfurt hotels about a month before Jon's trip.
  5. All I know about guns is that when I put the sight thing to my eye, there is a bloody great bolt in front of my face. In the CCF, the other cadets got the Lee-Enfields, I was given the map.
  6. I've drawn the correct method of accessing a goods yard, so there isn't a facing point into a dead end siding. One of Rice's plans had a facing point. I told him. The language!
  7. ... except some of them contained lethal amounts of mercury, etc...
  8. Morning all. Recovering from a weekend taking the FROS 3 requalification course. Two written exams and a lot of practical work, and I lost my left leg to a chainsaw accident. We were also expected to take aspirin for a cardiac event, except everyone on the course was allergic to aspirin. Anyway done for another three years so I can tootle around south east London on a Friday evening, terrifying little old ladies out of their beds.
  9. Three reasons not to use cycle lanes: broken contents of bottle banks redundant white goods used lorry tyres When the great British public stop using cycle lanes as a free municipal dump, I'll start using them.
  10. Blame Beth, she mixed the wrong shade of Grecian 2000.
  11. Just as a footnote, Troubridge's flotilla comprised four Armoured Cruisers. Three of them were sunk at Jutland, the fourth managed to interrupt the British fleet as it maneuvered to cross the German "T". Bill
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