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But before that it was four grains of barley placed end to end, twelve poppy seeds, ditto, or one twelfth of one foot. Your new "definition" isn't. It's an equivalence. And our inch predates their system😄

That was the guy. Very talented, from locos to wagons to buildings to trackwork to ohle to scenery...even a 4mm scale coke can! I wish he was still about.

Reminds me of the lovely model of BNS that used to be on here by Jim Snowdon. His portrayal of the lamp room fascinated me.

You are correct, but take your time at first.

My French friend once tried to tell me this, until I asked him what size the wheels on his car were. And those on his mountain bike

What put me onto O gauge was an article in Railway Modeller many years ago titled "If only...". The writer had built a very convincing engineers yard next to a secondary main line, using mainly brass kits from the old David Parkins Post War Prototypes range of diesels and engineer's wagons.

This exact problem occurs in France where they've had their electrics quite a while longer than most of ours. When I was able to get around France on my own recording what I saw, it wasn't uncommon to come across plinthed electric locos and even some stored in collections, sometimes away from the ohle. "Just to look at, just so we still can", I was told 🙂

https://images.app.goo.gl/KwEicAVx6vomzNVG9

Just remember when you are alone that you ARE alone, and should have your phone with you at all times, just in case. I remember climbing up into a new loft area we'd created, before adding plasterboard to the ceiling. It eas 2.5m to the floor below. I was carrying a roll of cable, a toolbag and a carrier bag of junction boxes and dominoes. I proceeded to start walking across one 3" beam. I looked down, and thought, "what are you doing? One mistake, it could be days before the neighbour comes looking for you." I put stuff down, fetched my phone, and went back up making single journeys using one hand to hold on at all times. Stay safe.

No, not that one, I was thinking of the canal bridge on the west side of Althorpe station. The one you're thinking of last opened in the 50's, I believe, and wouldn't shut again, due to expansion. Since it also carries the quite busy A18 trunk road, they aren't hoing to risk it again any time soon.

That would be Carr's s**t? Soot of course, stop it😁

Not the one at Keadby? Can't think of another swing bridge.

How common/rare were A3's at Hull? What about any other pacifics? I lived in Scunthorpe, only 23 miles from Doncaster, but we never saw Pacifics, even on running in turns. They were, apparently, banned on the long viaduct up the Gunhouse Bank from the River Trent into Scunthorpe and Frodingham station, something to do with "hammer blow". We did very occasionally see Royal Scots, Patriots and Jubilees...and i fo mean very occasionally.

Some of the group of photos in the pennines make me shiver to look at them, it looks wet snd dank. As a steam spotter, aged 10, the second worst insult you could hurl at another spotter was to label him a "summerony", Lincolnshire for Summer only, ie: fair weather spotter🙂 Dave would not have been so labelled, nor his dad.

Looks like a snow plough.😄

Don't paraffin heaters produce large amounts of water vapour? I seem to remember a miserly friend 40 years ago trying to heat a semi detatched house eith a couple. They sat in duffle coats gloves and scarves eatching condensation pour down the windows.

To be trusted then...NOT. They built here on green land when our steelworks "downsized", along with Citizen printers. As soon as the subsidies finished, they both upped and ran. Hundreds of jobs lost.

Fascinating. The first shot seems to show the new bridge on a massive skew, the second shot shows its not that much, then the last shots show the bridge crossing at not much more than 90 deg.

Ours is going in the other direction. Limousin, Haute Vienne, Dordogne 6km, Charente 16km. Figures are what we had, 2002, and what exists now, 2022. Boulangerie, 2/2 Sabotterie, 1/0 Tabac Presse 1/1 Garages 2/1 Hardware1/0 Supermarket 1/1 Pharmacie,1/1 Hairdressers, 4/4 Boucherie, 1/0 Petrol, 2/1(supermarket only). Bank, 2/1 Insurance 1/1 Builder's merchants, 0/0 Builders, 4/2 Brasserie, 3/0 Cafe, 3/1 Mechanique generale, 1/0.5 Motoculture, 1/1. Back of beyond really describes us. A decent restaurant is 30km away Nearest Railway station Limoges...not really the place to depart from. Culture, zero. Leisure, one local lake that closes to swimmers in August due to blue algae. The "restaurant" that attracts the most customers in in a wooden cabin near the lake, opens only May to end September, and serves a limited menu under canvas, lunchtime only. Should have done my research.

Sigh. From a time when going to, or from London wasn't every train operators wet dream.

We once ate out at a local restaurant that fancied itself "posh". Our meal was accompanied by a pianist who segued from one tune to the next. A bloke on the next table to us leaned across and said to us, "what's with this piano feller? Has he forgot the ending?"

Those are very good indeed. As always, the idea is relatively simple...but someone has to come up with it.

Oh good grief, I'd forgotten Noz...the only shop where you wipe your feet after coming outside😄

My poor wife loves "Action"... and "Gifi" and "Incroyable" and.....

Would it be too expensive to do the same commercially?