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How it looks today street view from pretty much where bridge in the foreground is standing, it carried the old road over the trackbed but it now drops down from the west to the trackbed and the bridge has been removed, the bridge in the background is the A1 where you can see a new carriageway being built this side in your pic, the old railway overbridge is still standing and carrying the A1 compare layouts in this vid I captured from the RLS site

there’s something strange to me reading about a Swiss railway closing, why did it close? I’ve just tried my best to trace the line from wholen can see most of it but it does seem to be built over a fair bit in places but the shed is still standing at fahrwangen streetview from 9 years ago (the most current date!) shows the station still standing but satellite view shows it now demolished and housing in its place

Saw this in Gt Yarmouth the other day, don’t know what it is

my lad has a BMW and I sent it to him with the comment ‘typical BMW driver’ even he said, ‘what makes someone look at something like that and go yes, I love the look of that, I’ll defiantly have one of those’ he can’t stand ‘new’ BMWs, his is a 2002 E46 of course he also takes the mick out of me for driving a BMW, my 2006 mini R53

What I remember of the shed I worked into was some sort of massive angled stop blocks, almost as if trolleys could be wheeled up them into the gangway ends of the coaches, can’t remember if it was all roads though Also remember the stop mark for a HST powercar was a tennis ball on a string that you stopped at when it touched the windscreen

could it get 2 separate tickets, that would be funny if it could, Daft thing is right behind the car in the pic is a pay and display car park! there was also another car the other end of the bus stop parked on double yellows with a ticket too

but who’s the guy in the pit by the front wheel? only worked into OOC a few times with colas on the NMT and I left it in the old GWR carriage shed part next to what was the Heathrow express shed, is that the place in the picture or the newer dedicated HST building.?

I think they are from Norfolk!

Original enamel signs on Lowestoft station

Went to Great Yarmouth pleasure beach this evening and had a couple of goes on the roller coaster which is actually a wooden ‘scenic railway’ dating from 1932, absolutely brilliant fun! Just one train running, not sure how many can run at once as there are a few other trains parked up in sidings and there are ‘signals’ at intervals around the track the train arriving into the station the safety guard raises on the move and you can get off at the train is still moving! view from the monorail The trains are braked manually by the attendant sat in the braking seat They are pushed manually from the station and drop to the only mechanical lift then gravity takes over, the track is 2/3 mile long Interesting diamond crossing to the sidings

Went to a wind pump yesterday, I ignorantly thought it was a wind ‘mill’ that made flour, didn’t realise it pumped water from the broads! Hemsby is a lovely little resort, puts me in mind of towyn (Denbighshire) crossed with fairbourne! the place we’re staying is part of the old pontins by the look of it, properly and nicely updated though, we’re in a chalet that looks like it’s 1950s origin, over the road they are clearing part of the old site for housing, the bit being knocked down is very much like the 2 story buildings in Prestatyn, as seen in ‘holiday on the buses’, there are some lovely pics of the site in its heyday in the bar area, which in turn looks to be an art deco building they even had a free firework display last night on the beach off to Great Yarmouth later on

Interesting aircraft over the holiday park in Norfolk just now also noted an F-15 earlier in the day doing manoeuvres just north of here

Nice little chicken chaser near Hemsby earlier on, the engine side says it’s a Puch, W reg (1980)

I met him and had a brief chat at the NRM the same day I got passed out on HSTs with colas to drive the NMT Got a signed postcard framed in my layout room