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  1. Hurrah!!! The ginger whinger is finally leaving the beeb, good riddance. I stopped listening to Radio two when he took over and then I discovered Planet Rock radio, even with all the adverts it was still better than him....

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      Ruffnut Thorston

      Ohhh.

       

      We stopped listening to R2 AM after Wogan....

       

      Jeremy Vine is another...when someone said about turning an engine over in a car, he said that he wouldn't have the tools to take the engine out!

       

      How about Steve Wright (or "Wrong"!)....Serious Superiority complex there...another case in point! ;)

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  2. Somehow I don't believe a 14xx has an 0-6-0 wheel arrangement....

  3. Has anyone ever seen the layout Brigadoon or any idea when it might be seen again ?

  4. I'm in love with my Hornby B12. There, I said it.

  5. The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. A self-contained world five miles long, located in neutral territory. A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. A shining beacon in space, all alone in the night. It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind… the year the Great War came upon us all. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2259. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      Seaquest DSV...

       

      "Bridge. Thank You For Travelling Maglev."

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  6. I've just watched a bloke cutting his grass. In the middle of a downpour (thunderstorm)!!!

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      The commercial cutters are always doing that....cutting in all weathers! I suppose a layer of snow would slow them down?

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  7. Now utterly confused as to what distinguishes a 'passenger' engine from a 'goods' engine.

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      In ye goode olde days, a Passengeer engine had BIG wheels, and a goods engine had small wheels....

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  8. Find out who last used your microwave oven by pressing 1471

  9. The 08 has been skulling about for weeks. For the first time today i got a close look at it's match truck... It's a Conflat L !

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      I think there may be some real L type containers somewhere....I am pretty sure of that, but cannot remember where....Nene Valley? I think they have some Conflats?

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  10. The Met Office website has been updated. Not sure what to make of it.

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      Apparently the BBC is going to get its weather forcasts from somewhere else! :O

       

      Doesn't bode well I think....

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  11. The 08 has been skulling about for weeks. For the first time today i got a close look at it's match truck... It's a Conflat L !

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      But has it got the 3 L type containers....

       

      These wagons are worth more if complete...

       

      Tri-ang Railways 3 Container Wagon. R.340... ;)

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  12. The BBC Have done it again....Desmond Carrington went, and was replaced by "Sounds of the 50s" which was kind of in keeping with the former programmes ethos and audiance...BUT now they have brought in Tony Blackburn and the "Golden Hour". Now this DJ Top Of The Pops Style programme is a completly different programme...We have had to re-tune away from Radio 2....which is really now Radio 1 and a half....The BBC chasing the youth audience have sold out again

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      All right.....

       

      BUT we are still of the opinion that Radio 1 is for the headbangers....Radio 2 should be for the more relaxed "Easy Listening" tupe of person! ;)

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  13. BAH HUMBUG

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      Mmmmmm Sweets! ;)

       

      Is a Baaaa Humbug an Ovine one....

       

      One for Sheep!

       

      Or one for Ewe! ;)

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  14. For years I have wondered why words appeared in my posts that I hadn’t written. The other day I was looking at the screen and saw an underlined word change all on its ownsome. The word was intended to be ‘changing’ but I had typed shanging and the PC altered it to shagging.

  15. Life here began out there.

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      Sounds like someone has been watching the original Battlestar Galactica...

       

      "Some belive that life here began out there...."

       

       

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  16. Had to take the dog to the vet this morning as she had a seizure. They tell me she will be OK but the house feels wrong now :(

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      We hope your dog will recover OK...

       

      We like dogs!

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  17. Whilst watching the BBC Victorian drama The Secret Agent last night I'm sure I saw a British Railways lion and wheel totem on the tender , or did I dream it ? #speccysaver

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      Ruffnut Thorston

      Great Southern Railway of Ireland?

       

      BR, getting there! ;)

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  18. There is just one cloud in the sky and its between me and the sun.

  19. There is just one cloud in the sky and its between me and the sun.

  20. wonders if anybody remembers 'The Interlude' on TV?

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      Now who thought that it would be good to use a Squirrel to teach Road Safety...Pre Green Cross Code that! ;)

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  21. wonders if anybody remembers 'The Interlude' on TV?

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      Yes...and the potter's wheel was indeed one sequence used.

       

      I think there may well have been something railway related as well! ;)

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  22. Netto to close in August due to Sainsbury's pulling out of a partnership...No they don't sell Model Railways...but will be missed. More competition going...Sainsbury's is going into Argos...and they DO sell some Model Railways! ;)

    1. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      NETTO did indeed depart from thses shores around 2011....This is /was NETTO version 2.0....With backing from Sainsbury's....which has now gone!

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  23. Voyagers. Absolutely the worst long-distance rail travel experience in these islands!

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      Ruffnut Thorston

      On a Class 142, even Crewe to Chester is too long distance! ;)

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