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Fake news, I've looked hard into the cab and cannot see any capacitors through the window. Everyone knows capacitors only work when they are visible, something to do with a little known side theory of Quantum Mechanics known as Kohlers capacitor theory. It works alongside the even lesser known DJ APT experiment - that an APT can both exist and not exist at the same time in a crowdfunded box

So you've missed his Union Pacific inspired Gauge 1 live steam mainline in his garden then

At the moment!! Wait till it arrives: Covid vaccine status Northern readiness Journey necessaryness Trouser searches for whippets and dialect checks as Yorkshire people will not be allowed on the trains in order to be able to later prove there was no need for a line to Sheffield and Leeds

I guess it was also to gain favour from the voters in Kent who had a whopping high speed line driven through the county that had no direct benefit to them, it didn't even remove the large numbers of lorries that pass through on the way to Dover.

But that is in addition to any other discounts already applied - generally 15% to 50%.

It wasn't raining. That's the least of our worries though, whoever built this one didn't fit the roof very well, they've left a bit of a gap at the join.

Perhaps after buying them from Hattons and 'massacaring' them, he sells them to Rails Perhaps he is GhostDude

And the difficulty adding sound to some Farish locos would have discouraged others who wanted sound (like me). I'd been modelling in N for years, wanting to try DCC but being put off by my perception of poor eyesight and being able to successfully hardwire a chip to earlier Dapol and Bachmann models, that all changed with Next 18 and easy sound fitting (the 50) or speaker fitted (the 40s and 31). Before I knew it I had sold my older models off to pay for the chips for all my DCC 6 pin diesels to work alongside the very new Farish and Dapol stuff with sound. I imagine there are a few OO modellers who might have restricted space now looking at N and thinking they can get the sound/DCC they have in OO and be able to run longer trains.

I have a card that regularly gets refused at Sainsburys, it will be working everywhere else and all of a sudden none of the Sainburys readers (Chip/Pin and Contactless) will work, says it cannot read the card. I think the issue is that when the Contactless touch limit is reached (i.e. when you are occasionally asked to enter your pin, not the 100 pound one) that it trips the Sainsburys card systems solution. It seems once it wants to swap to chip/pin it stops being able to read the card, I pay using another card and then go to Aldi where the refused card works no problem and next time I go to Sainsburys it works fine. It's only ever in Sainsburys, nowhere else, really annoying.

Corded ones never stall but they play havoc with all the other stock and scenery

They do exist, but perhaps not in the volumes we were used to. I remember planning to get to GETS and there quite a few West Coast Advanced tickets available but they did go quite quickly, but none for the Sunday. It was only on the actual weekend I realised, it was also the London Marathon that weekend and probably explained why they went quickly on the Saturday and there were none for Sunday. I can see tickets for January that are Advanced too and I've just taken a look at Cross Country for next week, it has some for the Manchester-WSM route, though it's cheaper to get an Advanced ticket via Newport and then go to Bristol/WSM using Transport for Wales

Still doing it now, LV is currently under threat and the board are actively trying to change the rules in their favour.

Always have done, always will do. To coin a phrase 'It is the way" A bank exists to make money for it's shareholders, the gap between what it pays and what it earns is the profit in general banking. Banks only pay interest on savings when there is competition for your money and there is headroom in the base rate for them to pay it. Because interest rates are so low, there is no headroom to pay savers more than a pittance. When it comes to lending, they will charge as much as they can get away with, but competition will keep such interest rates similar. Excessive interest rates get into the region of usury, but there would need to be further elements to get prosecuted for it, in reality they can charge what they like as long as the customer opts to pay it and they were not under threat to take it.

You're being seduced....

I always assumed they moved the guns to protect their own pit box than to be polite to the other driver - if a car caught a gun it would likely be out of action for that team spoiling their driver's race as well as the errant driver's. However, place mechanics in harms way unless they have a pit stop scheduled is gamesmanship, I feel for the mechanic. "Bob, just stand there, right at the edge of the allowable space and hope that Hamilton doesn't collide with you"

Had to come, the more he was seen to be getting away with stuff, the more disgruntled the other drivers were becoming. Even Seb had a dig earlier. Today's race looks Hamilton's to lose, next week he gets his new engine again which if he can win that race tees up the finale to the season at the finale of the season. I much prefer the idea of a final race where both drivers have to beat each other on the track and that the season won't be decided by someone offing himself during an overtake from the other to retain a lead.

Cue Boris next week hailing the new all electric Spitfire fighter for the RAF, to go along with pounds and ounces and tripe back on sale in supermarkets to counter any meat shortages.

I agree that there needs to be fundamental change, but just like it was the masses who bought and did everything to feed to few at the very top who continue to get richer, it will be the masses once more who suffer the most whilst the richest remain and get richer. Battle Royale, Hunger Games and Squid Game are all a grislier representation of how the rich look down and use the masses for their own ends.

It wouldn't be a Bachmann product without a gap somewhere I think you should try and see one in the flesh and then see if it still jars, it's a lovely looking model and I would expect it to be streets away from the Kato model if it ever surfaces to buy now.

This is interesting, Hamilton in using an older engine this week to save his new engine for next week: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/59361848

It must have been agonising Just enough time to build a diorama was it

Two dedicated express lines through Manchester alongside the commuter lines, through Guide Bridge and out towards Standedge using electric traction will deliver massive benefit. No stoppers getting in the way, no freight, ditto the route from Liverpool to Warrington and onto HS2. Just having dedicated tracks will make a massive improvement, remove interim stops and full electric traction and at 100-125mph you have a very high speed railway for the distance between Liverpool and Leeds with the expense of a HS2 type tunnelling, soft curve higher speed line. The Liverpool-Leeds line is half the distance of HS2 from London to Birmingham (140 miles) with at least three stops (Warrington, Airport, Manchester (with reversal), whereas HS2 is two London stations and two Birmingham stations.

I don’t think Liverpool to Leeds will be any more than 125 apart from maybe the HS2b element from near Lymm to Manchester. It doesn’t need to be faster, 100mph would be a massive up shift in itself and like you say much closer distances between stations Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, Huddersfield (?) and Leeds

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I'd say it is more like most of the existing network will carry hydrogen. They've been busy near me for a couple of months replacing the gas main and pipes to houses on a 1930s estate, whilst I doubt it is the original piping I'd wager if it needed replacing it certainly wasn't up to a standard for current natural gas let alone hydrogen.