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I’m not sure I believe that. I have to ask “Would July?” - an august personage like yourself?

They wrote a song about this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Datgx_I4Iks

Pretty bleak landscape: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/768308/

In no way am I going to suggest that these are representative of normal conditions in Yorkshire. I am mentioning them only because: - they are small, pre-grouping LNER locomotives - they are available RTR in OO scale - they almost fit in the OP’s timescale Malton had two J36s for a few months in 1940.

And a Juice Train at 14:55! Never mind not putting the handbrake on, I would have thought an auto transmission in ‘park’ or a manual in any gear would have been enough to hold a car in that situation. I wonder what caused it to go into emergency - that might have some effect on the insurance claim!

In BC, laid-off staff from industries associated with tourism are being used for every job other than the actual administration of the vaccine shot in the vaccination centres. There were a lot of Air Canada staff (wearing their Air Canada ID badges) in the centre where we got our shots on Saturday.

I worked in a new building where the opposite had happened. The company building it had been having obvious financial problems and sub-contractors had been rushing to finish in the hope of being paid before there was a bankruptcy. There were all sorts of ‘teething problems’, one being a whole section of a floor with no power. A physical inspection of the wiring showed no problems, but a connectivity check showed a break at a wall. It was a double-leaf brick wall. A major cable had been put through one leaf, and a major cable came out through the other leaf. The problem was that they did not connect in the middle.

Larger types were eventually allowed on the Stainmore line - Ivatt 4MT moguls and Standard 3MT and 4MT moguls: http://www.stainmore150.co.uk/stainmore_story/BR_standards.html

In the late 1960s in Ontario, a fast food chain gave out orange polystyrene balls to be used for that purpose. They were great - until 50% plus of the cars in a parking lot had orange balls on the top of the aerial. We eventually collected enough to cover the whole aerial, which was reasonably distinctive.

For Polybear and other cake aficionados:

Shelving books by colour of the cover was apparently quite a common arrangement in early private libraries (or so we were told in library school). It works if you don’t have a lot of books, and you’re the only user. I know I look for certain books on my randomly-arranged shelves by colour of spine - I have one on the table in front of me at the moment that I identify by its yellow spine.

A review on Amazon UK of the reprint of the 1955 Combined volume: “Nostalgia and history. A record of every locomotive operated by British Rail in the autumn of 1954.Detailing every class of engine with a brief description, technical details, numbers manufactured and the date of introduction, together with many grey scale photos. These books were produced for train spotters and include every engines individual number and name where given. Sheds and shed codes are included.”

I presume that’s Oxenhope and Grassington. There are a lot more, for example: - Richmond - Masham - Pateley Bridge - Hornsea - Withernsea - Cawood - Middleton-in-Teesdale ( the station was in North Yorkshire) and that’s before you get into southern Yorkshire, with the network of lines from Leeds and Bradford south to Sheffield and Doncaster which contains quite a few branches. I think you could split “branch line terminus” into “rural branch line terminus” and “urban branch line terminus” to give the OP even more choice.

The title of the topic is "Abandoned rails in the road.....(or elsewhere...)", so here are some abandoned rails "elsewhere". They're disappearing into Renfrewshire moors - actually, since the photos were taken over a decade ago, they may have completely disappeared by now. First, the Duchal Moor narrow gauge railway above Kilmacolm, built in the 1920s to transport grouse-shooting parties out onto the moor. The "engine shed", where the petrol-engined trolleys were kept: The lines leading away from there onto the moor: There are some triangular junctions to branches: This is the most substantial bridge on the line. Most others are just pipes over very small streams: As I said, the pictures were taken in 2009. This shows a stretch of straight track - the darker green lines show where the rails are, under the turf. You probably would not be able to see even that now: Then there are traces of a manually-powered narrow gauge line built (presumably) for the maintenance of one of the dams at Loch Thom, the source of Greenock's drinking water. When I first knew of it in the 1960s, it ran along the top of the dam in this picture. There was a wagon turntable at the far end of the dam, and a couple of wagons lying in the grass at the foot of the dam to the left: That has all gone, but if you look closely, and squint a little, you can imagine a couple of impressions in the grass, running towards, and slightly to the right of the camera from the higher part of the wall in the foreground. And indeed, there was still a short section of rail there:

Looking for something else, I came across this amongst my photographs: I can say it was taken in Charleston, South Carolina in November 2011, but I don't know what make/model it is. However, I'm sure someone else does.

A few pictures from yesterday's walk in the local woods. The year's first trillium: A skunk cabbage: They do smell like a skunk - which means, if you smell that smell, you have three possible sources around here - a skunk, skunk cabbage, or 'skunk'. And a prolific and nicely-coloured fungus: .

i.e. 'Books by the Yard'.

I think you answered your own question!

No. The only engines to carry red were some Duchesses and Princesses.

I think there’s just punctuation missing, and it should read “ I always felt Jubilees looked similar apart from their colour, which would have been red - or green in BR days.”

Fairhaven, Washington state: https://goo.gl/maps/reKcxzrySNh8aVo28 This was the track of the Bellingham and Skagit Interurban Railway - https://www.historylink.org/File/10904 - part of an an interurban which was intended to connect Bellingham with Seattle. The north end was built from Bellingham through Fairhaven to Mount Vernon, and the south end from Seattle to Everett. However, they were built late in the interurban era and were never joined, connection between them being made by bus.

Knowing Cobs in Canada , but not that it was originally from Australia, we were surprised when we first found a Baker’s Delight in Brisbane. (Apparently that particular shop is now closed.)

We get ours from this chain: https://www.cobsbread.com/about/ who have baking facilities at the back of every store, so you know they’re fresh. (You may also recognize their parent Australian company!)

Here, that would be described as a ‘tandem garage’.

Restarting an old topic, but I’ve never seen this combination before: https://davidheyscollection-static.myshopblocks.com/images/cm/4d59169b3cab274cb7471c0524ab3afb.jpg