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Pretty sure it is Waterside: https://images.app.goo.gl/m4HHex8SB7N4KTzh7

I think the train is the ‘Ayrshire Explorer’ of April 4, 1970, organized by the Border Railway Society. A picture on this page: http://www.deborahirwin.plus.com/border railway society/Border Railway Society page 4.htm seems to show the same type of engine (I’m not good on diesel identification) with the same numbers in the headcode box. That doesn’t help much with identifying the location, and I can’t find details of the route of the tour. I did wonder about Dalmellington, but that’s not right. (Edit - Waterside?)

'Fried slice'? You mean like this? https://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/photos/square-sausages.jpg

A few pictures from a walk this afternoon. It's the first sunny day for a long time, and everyone (and their dog!) seemed to have decided to walk. Boardwalk over a saltmarsh which is a stopover for migrating birds: Totem pole being carved by a local First Nations carver, assisted by local youth: And the reason why this post is in 'Night Mail' and not 'Early Risers' - details of a small trestle on an industrial spur:

Blue heron (and reflection): And some of his friends (OK - they're not close): There's a heronry right behind me where I took that second picture, but none of the nests are occupied yet.

SIgn in a local pond:

Many years ago (over 50!) in a university biochemistry course, we were told that a guaranteed way to lose weight was (if it was possible) to eat nothing but pure fat. The body would need to expend considerable energy to break down the fat and convert it to compounds needed for processes usually supplied by dietary carbohydrate and protein. Plus, since various things were not being supplied in the diet, the body would have to break down existing tissue to re-use required material already in the body. The big drawback would be what that kind of diet would do to your blood chemistry.

Giant landscape, giant train: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/759707/

Badly posed closeup of this latest purchase, but nice backscene: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/759657/

Mike Danneman in Arizona: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/759660/

Rereading the posts in this topic, I realize there was another class that did work south of Carlisle in LMS days - the G&SWR 403 class 2-6-0s. When the G&SWR shed at Currock in Carlisle closed after Grouping, the whole class of 11 engines was amongst the engines which moved to Kingmoor. They were mainly used on goods trains north into Scotland, but at least two were recorded on trains south over the Settle and Carlisle in 1927/28.

AKA the “GIGO” principle - “Garbage in, garbage out”.

We had that happen a couple of days ago - the motor ‘pulsed’ then shut off any time it was switched on. The ‘book of words’ said to wash the filters. We did that several times to no effect, eventually soaking one overnight. The motor still pulsed and shut off with the suction on ‘normal’. When I switched it to ‘max’, there was a sound like a crack from the machine and it began to run normally. There was a large hairball in the cylinder - presumably it had been blocking a duct. No disassembly of the switch was required (fortunately).

Thanks. I reckoned, from looking at pictures online, that it was probably a G2, but had no idea of the subclass. And, since there’s no date on that photograph, I don’t know which of your two alternatives it might be.

Which was a total failure. It was radar aimed and computer controlled for rapid response. Some of the tests were hilarious, as long as you weren’t involved. In one demonstration, when the system was switched on, the gun pointed at the review stands. On another occasion, the system (it was meant to cope with low-flying helicopters) locked on a nearby toilet ventilation fan. It never did what it was supposed to do, despite all sorts of attempts to ‘game’ the tests and was eventually cancelled.

I thought I had posted this already, but I can't find it. If it is a repeat posting, I apologize.

I’ve previously posted a couple of large photographs of railway subjects, displayed in the windows of a local pharmacy: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/229-early-risers/&do=findComment&comment=2667124 I realized only today that there are another two such pictures on the other side of the building. (I’m concentrating on avoiding other large moving metal objects when I’m passing on that side.) First one is a train standing at the first Canadian Pacific station in Port Moody. I think the engine (#1190) is a Pacific, but I can't find a CPR steam locomotive roster online. The other is probably the most famous Canadian railway photograph. It's the driving of the last spike on the Canadian Pacific transcontinental mainline at Craigellachie, BC on November 7, 1885. No golden spike - a steel spike just like any other on the line.

Western SMT Leyland Leopard, fleet number ML2341. Andy restored it - his avatar used to be a picture of it.

At least once: https://pocketmags.com/ca/Hornby-magazine/august-2015 (Read down the page for contents.)

I ordered something online, coming from Ontario to here in BC. I got an e-mail on December 18 saying that it had been shipped and giving a Canada Post tracking number. Using that number, the Canada Post website kept saying they were waiting for the package from the seller. Last week, I got a “tell us how we did” e- mail from the seller - so yesterday I told them! And of course, this morning the mailman knocked the door to deliver the package. There was a twist, though. When he tried to scan the barcode to record the delivery, the scanner wouldn’t recognize it. He had to take a picture of it at the door instead. The Canada Post website still says they are waiting for it from the seller. I presume there was a step missed in checking it in to Canada Post and the fact that it wasn’t registered in the system must have slowed it up all the way, since it would have had to have been processed manually.

Crawling?? I certainly found that standing by Union Pacific’s Sunset Route in Arizona as trains of double stacks passed at track speed (65mph, I believe) got my attention! Having said that, everyone to his own!

If IKEA did winter pastimes: