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They appear to be placing this wagon back onto track rather than lifting off.

Getting ready to lift the next wagon

Both back upright now, ready to be dragged away, they don't hang around

Access is the Devil's own spawn. Maybe I suppose it's ok for home application, I've not touched it in 15 years except once when I was asked to look at a client database and I was able to say not my problem and walkaway.

Excel is the easiest I would say unless you want to do weird and wonderful stuff with it. It's a robust application, why not try an open source version, no cost of licence or need to keep it online only. Libre Office is good, I installed it years ago and have never needed Microsoft again at home. There is also Google Docs as an alternative online. It's no longer a Microsoft World.

Doesn't sound under power, there was a recovery vehicle of sort sort right in front of it moving in time with it. The smoke I think was from the crane alongside it.

It's a double track bridge, so they must have space to shift the locomotive about - the crane is now moving by the side of the upright loco. Looking on Google, perhaps it was a failure on that crossing of some sort as that is where the issue looked to have started before the locos came to rest a little further on.

First loco righted and I imagine sat on some rail, mobile crane on the bridge currently moving it's jib away from the loco.

Still hard at work - one of the carriers was lifted off last night - they had to use gas cutters before it was free to lift. At the moment attention is on the lead loco - there was a lot of equipment in front of it during daylight yesterday and there's stuff there now in a different position. I wonder if they are going to try and recover the locos on the bridge and not lift them off - cannot imagine such a huge lift would be easier than lifting the loco where is stands and sticking some temporary track underneath

I did do a search but nothing apparent, I was in USA though not just overseas prototype, my bad

Anyone else watching the convaluted route the blue 12 wheel dump trucks have to take back and forth across the tracks. "How many wheels on your truck Bubba?" "Six Hank!" "heck that's not enough, stick another 6 little ones on".

I did see it but decided that picking up on minor spelling mistakes is perhaps pedantic.

I was going to ask how many denarii for a coach, I've been saving mine for a trip to Rome but it seems going abroad is rather fraught will peril at present.

When your lecturer describes you as a more 'mature' student in his 'late 20s' to his online audience and they all know he means you're a grey haired wrinkly.

The inglenook looks more like a fueling point that somewhere for wagons - a sort of mini Kings Cross.

Which is a rather odd complaint seeing that on general road cars it is always the person at the back of a shunt who is to blame for not paying attention to what is going on ahead of them. Don't think it is much different on racing cars apart from a front driver deliberately shutting the door on the driver behind.

Someone made a joke locally and it's probably not wrong, if you put a card reader at your doorstep and charge them to enter your house then you're exempt from the Rule of Six.

But at a track like Mugello they were all over the place to stop others behind from slip streaming down the straight - which was why Bottas wouldn't accelerate before the start/finish line. The top three have all complained it was a dangerous feature introduced by F1 management with an aim to increase spectator excitement but all it did was lead to a dangerous situation that was realised by the loss of three cars and luckily no injuries. It looks like there is a massive struggle going on right now between teams/drivers and the F1 management - reverse grids anyone - only F1 management it seems.

Casualty of Covid - Event City in Manchester has announced it will close it's doors for good 31st March 2021 and it's planned move to a new site nearby is off. This is the location for Hornby Magazine's Great Electric Trainshow on 13/14 March 2021 - so it will be the first and last model railway show on that site. And GETS has to find a new Northern home for 2022 if it is going to continue with two shows a year. I hope they can still manage to do the March 2021 show but that now looks less likely with the rule of six regulations.

As railways moved have moved on so has activity within a station. Traffic today is simply train in, train out and apart from some splitting no actual shunting. Any station using DMUs/ EMUs would have been like this for many years with only any residual parcels traffic remaining to shunt declining as traffic declined. I quickly realised this when I bought some EMUs - they simply slid in and out of the station, nothing much else to do with them unless I stuck in a carriage siding so that some units could shunt out of the way whilst another unit arrived/departed. Typically with model railways we engineer problems or unnecessary extra moves to generate interest because that in reality it wouldn't be there on a railway. When I was a spotter I used to go to Manchester Victoria - it had more interesting moves than Piccadilly which mainly involved DMUs and EMUs in and out, most of the parcels traffic was out at Mayfield and the electric trains didn't tend to be shunted, a new loco was simply attached at the front. Bradfield offered nice shunting puzzles which made it interesting to watch, it was probably also convoluted by design to make it more interesting but at least back then there was a lot more going on in a station than a similar station in the 1970s and in the case of Bradfield it was well executed.

How could I forget the world beating track and trace.

But these are tests that don't as the Government admit (Grant Schapps) exist at present hence the name moonshot. They are talking Digital passports to come and go as you please, but the medical advisors are already voicing concern the technology won't be reliable when they do actually invent it. This sounds very much like another plan they had for something that didn't exist but would do in time for another event just across the sea on the island of Ireland and said promised technology still hasn't been presented.

Lord of the Isles is steaming it's way to Accurascale. I'll get my coat