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Alcohol in particular in our society

Among the more damning things about it is that this was pre recorded (polished) Boris. Theyd had all week to write clear, concise policy. Yet still full of blather and devoid of content. When do we find out the plan? Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow....

It's more the big build up - all week they were telling us that Boris had a big announcement on Sunday about how we come out of lockdown and putting schools on notice to reopen. TV schedules were cleared for this momentous speech. In which he announced, well nothing really except that you can sit on park benches, pass the portal of your front door multiple times per day and talk to people outside from a couple of metres away (which in practice is unlikely to make any difference to what was happening anyway). Oh, and drive somewhere to be alone (which frankly never had any transmission risk attached anyway). If they hadnt announced the announcement that didnt announce anything much I dont think people would have been as annoyed.

And your bench disinfectant wipes...

Yes, as shipwrecks and marooning on islands go it's a somewhat more cheery story than the Batavia....

Comments section of any newspaper website?

I suspect anyone announcing a fully functional new build 'little boy' might find the security services quite interested in their plan. I've made one, but as a non functioning scale model. This also avoids the issue of finding and refining the yellowcake, which isn't really something you want to be doing in your house...

There is, the president of the USA was promoting it just the other week. It might take several doses, but after completing the course of self administered bleach injections they wont be doing any more stupid things.

Diesel fuel? Try welsh steam coal.

Nah, this is a proper streamliner: As an addition to the debate regarding speed and aerodynamic impact, the streamlined darjeeling Himalayan 040st. Ugly, daft and pointless.

Well usually that sort of stuff in the Americas involved United Fruit, but there aren't so many bananas in Venezuela.

Surely if we're discussing locomotive shaped edifices in the north east this one is more appropriately pregrouping and somewhat more loco shaped.

Sadly the link between education levels and fecundity would suggest that the worst at arithmetic are those multiplying.

Yes, that and the big Bens actually had a higher static axle load, plus the clans built to replace the rivers ended up much heavier in the track once dynamic loads were taken into account. Newlands was pretty much completely wrong on the whole incident, and chose not to mention any of his concerns until they arrived. Petty and vindictive, however his subsequent career went rather better for him than poor Smith's did, who ended up leaving the industry in spite of producing the best pregrouping 460 outside of the GWR.

The lack of flanges on wide wheel treads bothers me somehow.

But do you have them on your statue? That's the more controversial question.

I bet that the daily mail and express, after years of demonising anyone wearing some sort of face covering, will be the first campaigning for everyone to have to wear masks at all times.

I might be wrong, but from what I remember there was some sort of agreement not to build any standard gauge aside from the first main line, so the french military built vast amounts of 600mm to get troops and equipment around and open up the country. By the mid 30s all those lines were either gone or essentially were replaced by standard gauge on slightly better alignments. Much of the current standard gauge network was originally 600mm. The locos/stock were mostly scrapped where they were, I suppose in the 30s 600mm lines were closing all over france and the sugar beet lines had plenty of spare ex ww1 motive power. One of the 37 0660 mallets got back to france at pithiviers, where it was given side tanks and made into an ugly 0660t, which didnt get used much and was scrapped just before preservation. 8 of the mallets went to dahomey and lasted til 1948. I'm not aware of the 10 kitson meyers going anywhere, or the many 060t, 062t and 460t they had. Which seems a bit daft considering that there were expanding 600mm lines in africa which might have used them - the cf du mayumbe in belgian Congo bought 23 small garratts from st leonard during the 20s/30s, and the 700 mile long vicicongo railway was built during this time (extended in ww2 with massive bagnall 282t as a potential alternative supply line to egypt).

For all the stupidity that went on in late 18th century france, the metric system is a work of genius. If only we'd listened to talleyrand's invitation to cooperate with its development. The principles behind it were probably first set out by John Wilkins anyway, so it's hardly foreign.

Or the old Bachmann 44 tonner/70tonner with the separate power bogies.

Limited? Only a network of 1700km or so of 600mm gauge populated by impressive decauville locos: The prototypes for the wd baldwin 460t were built for the Moroccan military network. More information here: https://voie60vapeurvive.pagesperso-orange.fr/Doc_CFM1_ANG.html

Have you seen the horror of the old Lima n gauge B-B chassis, thats actually the standard 4w motor bogie with a pony truck each end and fake bogie siderames. Lima were responsible for quite a few crimes against wheel arrangement notation

I also think the 5AT doesnt attract attention because it is not a romantic vision. A middle power, middle weight, middle speed, middle route availability mixed traffic loco. I understand the reasoning behind the choice of power and size, but the end result always struck me as being something as boring as another preserved black 5/hall but with questionable aesthetics. As a moving machine itd likely be less interesting than existing steam locos - lots of excess steam, smoke, sound, movement and visual interest removed as you increase its efficiency. If they'd gone all out for a chapelon/porta esque 484, or a high efficiency version of the algerian double pacific garratts to break mallard's reciprocating speed record and really show what steam could have done with the uk loading gauge then it would have set more hearts and purses racing. Anything moving away from the traditional stephensonian reciprocating loco may as well be a diesel or electric once you've removed the sight and sound of a steam loco. I appreciate it'd be interesting to see what could be done, but it seems the concept didnt appeal as much as building a P2 or such like.

https://www.lner.info/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11870 In particular: "Before 1900 it is thought that Class L (J73) locos were used (Built 1891-2)"

Absolutely, at least it isn't a line of mk1s, rusting merchant navies and class 50s and 31s. There is loads of fascinating stuff. I once asked where the 1883 2' gauge black hawthorn 040st (much rebuilt) was. I was told I was standing on some of it! Then shown where the boiler, tanks and frames were (all in different places - sadly it seems one gentleman thought it was 'his' dismantled it but never did much else. At least they knew where it was. Surely the ideal loco for Beamish's NG line)