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  1. The address I used to order succesfully a couple of weeks back is branchlines100@btinternet.com
  2. I wasn't suggesting removing overseas students. Just saying they are not immigrants so including them in a count of immigrants is ridiculous, including for the reasons you state.
  3. So the government is exercised about the hundreds of thousands of immigrants. Perhaps if they didn't include the 300,000 students from overseas in their ludicrous calculations things would get "better" at a stroke.
  4. Anyone know if there are Boxpoks with a max 23mm over the flange out there for rewheeling a Rivarossi Hudson? Bowser don't appear to have any Bowser bits any more and the Romford Southern Railway wheel looks to be too big. Thanks Jon Price
  5. Anyone know if there are any Boxpok drivers with a max 23mm over the flanges? These would be for HO so RP25 ideally thanks JonPrice
  6. HI Does anyone have experience of Shapeways Premium Versatile Plastic. It is advertised as having a smooth finish as a result of "ceramic media tumbling". I'm wondering how smooth it is, and wether the process abrades fine detail? thanks Jon Price
  7. All of which discussion reflects sadly on the difference in pre-grouping times when our Railway Companies ran migrant specials from the East Coast ports.
  8. Well they may have committed an illegal act, but they themselves can hardly be called illegal. In practice they are referred to as illegal even before it has been proved that they committed an illegal act. The only illegal act they may have initially committed, when arriving in the UK in a "pleasure craft" is the failure to submit a form C1331 by post. This only requires the names, nationalities, passport numbers (and signatures) to be listed by the owner/operator of the vessel. It is then the owner/operator's responsibility to identify if any visas are required and to seperately inform the National Yachtline by telephone, who will then provide further instructions as necessary.
  9. As we say, no problem, and I didn't for one minute think you were using the term in anger. As you are a lawyer perhaps you could enlighten me on an issue I have noticed. Whilst unauthorised migration is a civil issue it is the case that it is up to the defendant to prove they were on the right side of the law by producing documentaion (driving licence, proof of permission to build etc), but once unauthorised migration becomes a criminal offence doesn't the prosecution have to prove that an offence has occurred without any shadow of doubt, whilst the defendant has the right to a lawyer, and not to incriminate themselves. Unless of course these offences are treated to special courts, summary convictions, and transportation for life?
  10. Whilst I applaud the learned Edwardian's humour his use of the term "illegal immegrants" is unfortunate. The terms is surely just a way of othering and dehumanising a group of people in unfortunate circumstances. Up until now migration contrary to law has been a civil offence in the UK. I'm not sure that I know of any other civil offenders referred to as illegal (illegal drivers? illegal builders?). Of course under the new powers to be brought to parliament in June it will become a criminal offence for people to ‘knowingly’ arrive in the UK without permission to be in the country, and furthermore under the bill, the government has said it will also target, "activist left-wing UK immigration lawyers". Even under criminal law I am not aware of lawbreakers being referred to as illegal (illegal burglers? illegal arsonists?). I presume, however, we will from now on have to refer to "illegal lawyers" (those who strive to actually use the letter of the law to protect their clients against government abuse).
  11. Re loco buffer beams the WM&CQR moved from vermillion to black towards the end of its independent existence, apparently as a measure of economy. Going back to the colour of carriages it is interesting to compare the US experience. At first carriages were multicoloured and downright gaudy (the Pennsylvania's decision to paint a train in red, white and green being an example), but under the influence of the Pullman company almost everyone moved to a version of dark pullman green (exceptions being the Alton, the Milwaukee and the Pennsylvania which all had variants on claret, and the multicoloured trains of the streamliner era which fall outside our pre-grouping timeslot). If the Pullman company had been more succesful in expanding in Britain we might well perhaps have seen more Umber and Cream here.
  12. One of the signs on the wall is for Walter Wilson. He first opened a grocery store in Bishop Auckland in 1875, and he expanded by opening further stores, eventually having hundreds across the North East of England and relocating his HQ to Gateshead in 1887. Perhaps he wouldn't advertise a store at Richmond station unless he had one there, as the stores were quite local, so knowing when that opened might give you a terminus post quem. The 1908 date is interesting because one of the flags on the lamppost looks remarkably like the flag of Australia introduced in 1908, but the hats are the deciding factor. By 1908 womens hats were approaching their largest diameter. The hats on the photo are mostly the Tyrolean style favoured during the later part of the 19th century. The fur hat and scarf on the child suggests this is winter.
  13. A colliery buys a Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0ST from the works in 1876. What liveries are most likely ?
  14. Like it. But for a more ordered variant the company uses a limited number block for wagons, but when one is scrapped the number is re-used for a new, maybe different, wagon for capital accounting purposes so as time goes on the sequence of numbers becomes more random. I think a few companies used a variant of this system
  15. please note that none of the systems in this video are "future". It is just their full integration in a single swarm that is new. Also if you get to the end (at 7.08) you will see that this is produced by a bona-fide academic expert in the field a professor of computer science at Berkeley.
  16. I think the Chinese (when you look at their policy of mass indoctrination camps applied to the Uighurs in the Tarim Basin) are just as likely to be concerned about a radical moslem state on their borders as the Russians, which is why they are currently carrying out joint military exercises with them in Central Asia. Their pragmatic state capitalism only extends so far. Afghanistan isn't on the New Silk Road, won't be a viable market for the forseeable future, but does have mineral resources. What are the chances they will be the next "Great Power" to have a go at ruling Afghanistan..
  17. Unfortunately not. https://religionnews.com/2018/05/14/some-christians-and-jews-hail-embassy-move-to-jerusalem-as-key-to-a-biblical-plan/
  18. thats the problem with this stuff isn't it. Sane people like us can't believe it. Here is a straight report from Time about the connection between the Evangelical right and the presidency. https://time.com/4766485/national-day-prayer-white-house-dinner/
  19. British Israelism is just benign eccentricity compared to the real reason the US Evangelical right wing support Israel. They believe that the "End Times" and preceding "Rapture" will be brought about by a final conflict which begins at Armageddon (which as we all know is Megiddo in Israel) and so supporting a clearly destabilising Middle East policy is just part of the game. They don't see Israel as a natural ally. They see it as the place where the end of the world happens. The following is from an article published in October 2020. According to surveys 42% of Americans believe that the 38th Chapter of the Book of Ezekial fortells that a “place in the far north” (interpreted, naturally, to be Russia) would team up with “many nations” (certainly including Iraq and Iran) to attack a “peaceful and unsuspecting” Israel. This would lead to a cosmic battle in which God would come to Israel’s defense, true Christians would be “raptured,” or spirited away to heaven, and the wicked of the Earth would be left to suffer the trials and tribulations of God’s wrath during a horrific seven-year period when the Antichrist would reign supreme and a totalitarian world government called the New World Order would be established. Finally, Jesus and his raptured church would return, vanquishing the Antichrist and ushering in a thousand-year golden age, at the end of which Satan would be permanently defeated and all Christians would live in glory in a newly created heaven and Earth. The polices pursued by the Trump administration were all part of this belierf system. For those not steeped in rapture theology, the decisions to move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, and assassinate Iranian Maj. Gen Qasem Soleimani may have seemed risky at best, nihilistic at worst — potentially destabilizing acts with little geopolitical upside. Yet many fundamentalist evangelicals rejoiced.
  20. I hesitate to raise a query, given the fleet manager's erudition level, but I wonder if the timber bolsters are likely to still be dumb buffered at this date. This would certainly appear to be the case for the LNWR.
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