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Clearly the least of it's problems 🤣

I took an impromptu trip last week as I had a couple of hours to kill in London.  Went from Farringdon to Ealing Broadway and then back to Paddington for a walk to Euston.

Quite impressed by it all, but it's just a rapid transit system, so underground on steroids.  I imagine for the people that use it daily it's great though, no sooner has one train left another one is arriving.

Just a link to it on the menus

I did consider going but the rail ticket prices were enough to discourage me.

Someone will surely start an accompanying thread to argue about something though.

Yep much safer and more respectable. 🧔🧸

You might have a wait - the person you are publicly messaging has not visited RMWeb since May 2023.

What have I missed, I only went out for a walk!

I think in general the status update facility is a little but odd.

It sits by the side of the threads, only shows the 4 most recent and is misunderstood by a lot of people.

Not sure what it's true purpose is, it feels like it was added by the software developers in a FaceBook moment but the forum works off threads and there is seemingly no relationship between threads and statuses.

Then a few people use it to announce themselves, or ask a question whereas it is more suited to a jokey comment abouts oneself because it will be gone in a couple of days. 

Mostly it looks like it is confused with the PM feature which is quite hidden and what we end up with is inadvertant messages between members that we jokingly join in on just to remind the parties that we can see the message.

You might struggle to get help via a status update, it's not very obvious and when four other people post their own status updates this one will disappear from any front facing forum page.

Better to post in here:https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/forum/25-modelling-questions-help-and-tips/

Watch the waistline, I had a period of cheese on toast for lunch everyday, kidded myself that grated had less calories as I wouldn't need to use as much - shirt popping shenanigans later I gave up the naughty cheese lunches.

I never thought I'd be able to do it in N, you think the springs are small on a Kadee, take a look at an Easi-shunt!

Do you have a Kadee plastic pointy stick (uncoupler).

It has a sharp end with a small plastic prong that I would imagine is perfect for holding a spring whilst you wrestle it into the cavity.

Or use black tack.

Mrs W informs me I won't like prune juice, it's an acquired taste apparently.

Bearing in mind she has spent 3 decades convincing me to try mincemeat.

I've just gotten able to eat mincemeat, prunes are still beyond me.

My big dose of daily fibre comes from porridge oats, should I be supplementing with the juice of a prune?

Congratulations!

I think you'll find you've posted this update in the wrong section of the forum.

It should be in section 20 Wheeltappers subsection: Website Reviews, subsection: Railways subsection: Postive Feedback.

People cannot come on here and just do things how they want to you know, there are rules and guidelines, please read them before posting and if you are unsure just ask me as I know everything about anything.

@David Element Just so you know, this message is actually a post to Ben's wall so everyone can see it.

I was wondering if you cleared cookies and had no logon as that might reduce their tracking whereas I have my history stored.  But it seems not, if I want images from flickr I have to tell Google I want images from Flickr and hope it gives me them.

@Harlequin Are you logged in to Google?

I am by virtue of being logged in to YouTube.

I think because Google wants to sell you stuff.

I feel whenever I do a search, say for a class of locomotive, most of the images that come up are linked to retail sites and most of the images seem to be models.

Now it may be partially because Google now knows I like model railways but I think its mainly because they are paid to push retail. 

Bing isn't much better when searching I need to be careful that the sites it gives me are definitely the sites I want and not an aggregation site that is actually selling products or leads.

Many years ago Google used to be great but I can never find old images now because so much of the content is sales led and not history led.

Excellent choice

So you're filling your Southern blog with blue diesels, LMS locos and narrow gauge?

Or is there a hint of Malachite in the announcements tomorrow

No, but there were a couple of suspicious looking cats hanging about.

Sainsburys had an advent calendar for dogs in store today.

Whilst the UK hopes for 2040 and cannot guarantee it will work.

That has all the hallmarks of a project that will see cut after cut until we have no alernative but to buy whatever the EU/America/Russians  & Chinese have poured their combined intelligence into.

All feels like a massive politcal gamble because 'EU'