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As a side project I'm working on a small 4mm scale layout/diorama depicting the work of the Royal Engineer Railway Units in Western France after Dunkirk. The first pieces to get anywhere near completion are vehicles of the 105 Railway Workshop Co. Two mobile railway workshops were operating in the Normandy and Brittany area and one of them was under the command of 2Lieut William Stanier, son of the LMS CME. The interiors of the workshop and the generator car are finished, next step will be the raised sides of the workshop van.

All this talk of "spem in allium" collided with just having watched the entirety of The Crown, and previous discussion of pronunciation of English, in my addled brain. I do NOT like the subsequent appearance of the Hormel company's regurgitated meat product in a garlic sauce.

Thanks for this info

As it happens Welsh has very clear immutable phonetics, and the way words change is completely logical and bound by rules. The English, being a mongrel race with a mongrel language however are a different thing altogether as their spelling mutates randomly: Ghoughpteighbteau, pronounced potato P as in hiccough, O as in though, T as in ptomaine, A as in neigh, T as in debt, O as in beureau Ghoti and tchoghs, pronounced fish and chips F as in cough, I as in women, SH as in nation, CH as in match, I as in women, P as in hiccough and their rules are rubbish, what for instance is the point of learning "i before e except after c" at school, then writing the following words: eight, forfeit, height, neighbour, seize, vein, weight, ancient, fancies, science, society deficient, conscience and so on So best not to get too uppity about your linguistic superiority before checking. Grumpy? moi? just had some crap news. Now can we get back to railways and the bizarre economics, politics and society of the fold in Norfolk?

Excellent stuff. Any chance you can let us know what kind of card you use, what kind of glue, and any special painting/protecting techniques?

It might be, but if so his grasp of anatomy is severely limited

Just found a topically repurposed selection of railway posters. All post-grouping I'm afraid, but this one exhibited here so that one of the usual Aching denizens can ply their magic on something from the right era

Or instead ending up as one Norfolk vicar did (born and largely active pre-grouping, and parish in the right place so still on-message here) exhibiting himself in Blackpool in a barrel, and ending up mauled to death by lions.

Just popped out for a walk and missed the whole flat earth debate. The Bedford Levels experiment is a bizarre event. Any sailor could tell you how tall things disappear over the horizon. Regarding popular knowledge the orb, (globe surmounted by a cross) has been the depiction of Christ's dominion over the world since the Roman Empire. Before that some coins (for example of Hadrian) showed Victory standing on a globe. It is depicted on coins, and held by kings from then on. If it was generally considered that the earth was flat it would be a disk not an orb. So anyone who saw coins, or knew anyone who had, or had been to church would know this. For the 19th Century invention of the myth that people in the middle ages believed the earth to be flat read Jeffrey Burton Russel's book published in 1991: Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians.

Hi Being dim, can't work out how to add a signature to profile/posts.

Of course if we are talking saddle tanks there is nothing to compare with my favourite, the Coal Saddle Tank. Maximum access to the undergubbins for the maintenance men with this one.

When I worked for the Master in Lunacy at the Court of Protection in the 70s we could either wear jacket and tie, or if a hot day was announced by the Master we could wear a shirt with rolled sleeves and no tie. A jacket with no tie, or no jacket with sleeves down and a tie, or sleeves rolled and a tie, or sleeves down and no tie, were absolutely forbidden. Don't even think about how the arcane and entirely pointless system for filing evidence was structured, it would drive you mad. I was once reprimanded for referring to the Court as the "Island of Lost Souls" whilst on the phone to the Official Solicitor's Office.

Good to know this about the ballast wagons. I was considering them, but I think it sounds like too much work for P4 so I think I will give them a miss.

Not sure how he can get blood on the middle bit of his rapier but not the end though

Although it is called the Spanish Flu it originated in the United States and was at first thought to have started in Kansas. "A 2018 study of tissue slides and medical reports led by evolutionary biology professor Michael Worobey found evidence against the disease originating from Kansas as those cases were milder and had fewer deaths compared to the situation in New York City in the same time period. The study did find evidence through phylogenetic analyses that the virus likely had a North American origin, though it was not conclusive. In addition, the haemagglutinin glycoproteins of the virus suggest that it was around far prior to 1918 and other studies suggest that the reassortment of the H1N1 virus likely occurred in or around 1915"

And now complete (apart from gutters and drainpipes which need materials not in stock at home): Dock Road, Connah's Quay. No28 (I have the census details somewhere telling me who lives there), The Pilots Office, and Coppack Bros.& Co. chandlers warehouse.

I don't know whether this would be more or less frightening than "Trapped by Boy Scouts"

Of the three lead writers of ragtime in the US although Joplin died in 1917 (of the Spanish Flu) James Scott continued to publish till 1922 and died in 1938; and Joseph Lamb only stopped publishing in 1920 when his wife died. Lamb died in the 1960s. A recording I once had, and whose details I have unfortunately lost, was made at the end of WW1 by a composer who was an officer in one of the segregated US Army black regiments. It recounts a trench raid, with all the correct orders and actions. The only line I can remember "Gas! Gas! Pull on your mask!" is clearly suited to syncopation. If anyone can point me to a link for this I would be very grateful.

Obviously likely to be booked for the summer season at the coastal resort..

Although Wikipedia also says that Radio Clube de Pernambuco began transmitting "radiophonically" from Recife in Brazil in 1919, and 2MT began transmitting regular news programmes in February 1920. By 1922 there appear to be quite a few stations broadcasting in the USA. What is clear is that there was nothing much going on before the Great War, and mostly nothing entertaining till after the grouping. Shame.

Although for 1907 it would be a crystal set, headphones, and tickling with the cat's whisker. (photo actually post WW1 but the valve radio doesn't appear till 1920 (admittedly just making it pre-grouping).

Since this is a pre-grouping discussion circa 1907 I would have expected the members to spend their leisure time listening to ragtime and similar music. Instead they seem to be stuck on the myths of WW2. As one of the older members (not that old but still in the discard pile when it comes to ventilators) I like everything up to now. But to remind people what Edwardian pop was like I give you this:

Not so difficult to start if you had that fearsome beast the Gas Poker. Our stove with back boiler was easy to start with the application of the Gas Poker. As a kid I love the way it looked just like a flaming sword, but parents were surprisingly annoyed if it was waved around once lit.

Presumably a passing loop would be useful somewhere on the circuit?

When travelling on a Scotrail train from Newcastle to Carlisle a few years back the recorded announcement approaching Prudhoe was "The next station is Prood-hoe". Eventually they changed it to "the next station is Prudder" so the locals could understand.