Budgie

I know nothing about the area, but if people don't want a footbridge, would a subway work?

Love the hooters.

I don't blame them. "Let's go to the xyz museum today. The ticket price covers admission for the whole year," so they go once and never go back again.

If you can't use Brighton East, can you use East Brighton?

Another one from across the pond:

If you want the Latin plural of Genesis, it is Geneses, strange as it may look. However, in this country we speak English, and the English plural is Genesises, which looks and sounds even stranger.

He also played Doughie Hood in the Archers, for those who, like me, are old enough to remember that long ago.

Yes, if it makes a profit.

I would hope the music would be playing while that poem is being recited at the exhibition.

You're right. Sorry.

I've just seen this glaring example of level crossing stupidity. htpps://tinyurl.com/4ah4a72r

It'll drive 'em dotty!

Don't knock it. It is good that we have such safety systems. I've just been reading about that awful train crash in Greece.

There's been another crash at a US level crossing with no gates and flashing lights, this time in Texas, and the lorry driver died. There are several videos of the follow-up on YouTube. Search for Fostoria and yeterday's date if you want to see them (remember they write the date differently in the US, yesterday was 021323).

Basically, we went there for a month (teachers' holidays) to visit my mother's parents. Their house at the top of George Street was the base from which all our activities started. Day trips to Barry Island when the weather was good, and stuck indoors playing cards when it was pouring with rain. And, of course, visiting all the relations (and there were a lot of those).

Here's an example in Iron Mountain, Michigan:

You don't have to fiddle around with steam locomotives. Come to think of it, the Milwaukee Road had some 3000 v. DC electric locomotives in 2B+B and B+B wheel arrangements, which they used by just coupling enough of them together and inserting them in the middle of trains for assisting wahtever was on the front. I've got a brass model of one somewhere.

When I used to go on holiday in the 1950s and 60s to Aberaman (near Aberdare), my grandfather's coal was delivered to outside his garden gate on the access road behind the house. It was just dumped there, and he organised people to carry it down the garden to the coal-house for him. (It was a long narrow garden, mostly used for growing vegetables, and the plants he was growing for the flower show.) I didn't get involved in that until about 1962, because I was too young, and my Mam thought I would play with the stuff and get myself all dirty. I also remember that those people who didn't have back alleys behind their houses (not very many people like that) had their coal unceremoniously dumped on the pavement outside their front door, and they had to carry it through the house. Horrible dirty job.

I would.

Isn't he a Spanish or Latin-American footballer?

Or a different batch of paint?

Has anybody thought about putting a rack between the rails and a pinion on the locomotive for the steepest section? Or could they have used a stationary engine with cable haulage as on the Pwllyrhebog incline?

What lever? My car's handbrake has a switch to put it on; that switch returns to its normal position once you let go of it. To take the handbrake off you depress the accelerator.

I would expect IKEA to have more than one shop, and it is quite possible that more than one of them is pretty adjacent to a tramway.

For those who might be interested, here's an update to the Collegedale incident of a few days ago, including a view showing what that huge beam was going to be part of. The bridge it was going to be part of is indended to replace the level crossing.