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Like many vocational jobs, the satisfaction gained by doing it has been screwed out of the system by management and process.

There was one issue maybe a couple of years ago that carried adverts for three exhibitions, two of which had taken place by the time the magazine was published, or at least, distributed to subscribers, and one of which was the following weekend (as far as I recall); and indeed to be fair it has been much better of late.

Ah, yes, the MRJ approach to exhibition advertising...

Good. Still alive then. I have the impression that attending shows takes up a lot of time and energy. Evidently it's commercially worth-while but it must impact on the mail order side of things, to say nothing of production.

Listed as a trader at the York show over the Easter weekend. Were they there?

I'm now speculating on the military uses of French Maids' outfits. An extension of the use of the kilt by the Third Foot and Mouth?

That's a General Election, isn't it?

Plus ca change...

Holy mackerel! What a shoal of cod spellings and red herrings - clickbait not whitebait.

That is indeed the classic position, as expressed by Edmund Burke: https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch13s7.html This position was more radically expressed by one of his contemporaries, whose contempt for the opinions of his electors was compounded by his boast of the liberties he had taken with their wives - unfortunately I've not been able to track the quote down.

GIGO applies. As it is us the electorate that is responsible for the GI, we have only ourselves to blame for the GO.

The Midland Railway Society will have a stand, with Society publications and Journal / Modelling the Midland backnumbers for sale and a display of Midland wagon models in 4 mm scale. Thanks to Tony Sullivan for this opportunity for the Midland in Berkshire!

A frequent orthographic slip - odd really, since it's surely single carriageway roads that are more suitable for duelling.

Knowledge gained is never knowledge wasted. Without @monkeysarefun's vehicular interjections, I would have been stumped by 2 down in the TLS crossword: "Vehicle from Perth may be seen in Buteshire (3)".

I dunno. Perhaps it's a different size of bus on a Friday?

That is weired. Perhaps it is a relic of a route / timing difference in previous timetables?

That bus is shown as running at that time both not on Fridays and Fridays only; I would interpret that as meaning that some part of its route and/or timings was different on Fridays, but just not at this particular stop.

One wonders what was the basis for the 1910 The Engineer drawings. E.L. Ahrons had been a Swindon apprentice in the 1880s, so may well have had access to first-hand information about these engines.

Evidently bad news to be a tunnel beginning with C on the Midland - grave danger of being opened out. Cofton, Chevet; fortunately Clay Cross and Cowburn are still with us.

... but a membership richer, which more than compensates!

A hand-bell would be effective.

Halesowen Junction, after, cough, cough, Cofton Tunnel was opened out and the quadrupling extended to Barnt Green.

The thing is, since the mystery photo was posted, someone on the MRS IO Group has conclusively identified the location, and this isn't it. To put you out of your misery, here's another photo looking the other way, at the true location, but with renewed signalling: [Embedded link to Warwickshire Railways.] There's that mystery platform again. This section wasn't quadrupled until the late 20s... Cough, cough...

Close, but not close enough, I'm afraid. There's no signal box just the other side of that bridge. But what is interesting about that photo is the leading vehicles: [Resized crop from Warwickshire Railways mrknpreg291.] At first sight I thought the leading 6-wheel passenger brake van was one of the S&DJR ones but looking more closely, neither it nor the following 4-wheel van have waist panels, though they do have eves panels. I think that makes them L&SWR vehicles, which have either come via the S&DJR and Bath, or the M&SWJR and Cheltenham.