Liam
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much passion and enthusiasm for our hobby as I did earlier today stood a few places away from Pete Waterman holding up his Guinness World Record certificate for the world’s largest portable model railway. Truly heartwarming stuff.
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Why am I seeing TV adverts for Northern and Transpennine Express in Devon?
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60 years ago this morning, a class 40 hauled mail train heading south along the WCML was the target of one of the most infamous crimes in modern British history.
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“This guest of summer, the temple-haunting martlet, does approve, by his loved mansionry, that the heaven’s breath smells wooingly here.”
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Only an RMwebber who’s interested in birds and Shakespeare @woodenhead... 😄
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Things have changed a lot since the last time I was in Smiffs. Buying a newspaper this morning, instead of the large Cadbury’s bar as of previous occasions I was offered a bottle of Tango Dark Berry for a pound! 😄
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Am I the only one who gets irritated by people who hold phone or FaceTime conversations on full loudspeaker while on a train or bus, broadcasting their conversation to everyone else present? Seems to be all too common today.
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Put a sock in it!
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Maybe this lad will reopen the Wigan Casino...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-59064957
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Thank you to Andy and everyone else involved with the engineer’s possession yesterday and keeping us updated.
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If anyone else wants to escape the football, currently on Channel 4 is Scotland’s Coastal Railways with Julie Walters.
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I see we’re close to welcoming our 40,000th member. Will we be marking the occasion?
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I'm sure it would be possible to work out - if anyone really wanted to know - but it would probably involve a ridiculous amount of work for very little gain.
Would you want to search through every name listed in the "member search" section of this site - noting how many of them have logged in within the last 12 months, followed by how many have actually posted anything in this time?
Neither would I - even without the site's annoying habit of automatically logging me out after a few minutes (even in the middle of typing a post).
It wouldn't surprise me if the site software were to provide this information in summary form - for Admin use - but I'm personally not too worried.
All I know is that I find enough of interest on this site - and in the magazines etc I can access online - to make my "RMweb Gold" membership worthwhile. For this reason, I'm not planning on going anywhere.
I could make similar observations about my membership of DEMU.
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Listened to a fantastic dawn chorus this morning. I suspect this is a very good time of the year for them as we approach the breeding season.
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I suppose there will be no more questions of ‘where’s the groan button’ seeing as we now have one...
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I can’t believe I’ve only just discovered where the status updates had ended up at. Did they disappear for a while?
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It’s not everyday a Tornado jet roars over you at only 200 metres...
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Some years ago. two of my Met Office colleagues were doing a 'horizon survey' on top of a weather radar tower near Carmarthen. Whilst they were doing it, they kept getting buzzed by Tornados on 150' low flying exercises - the tower was 120' tall!
Afterwards, my colleagues went to the pub, and happened to meet one of the RAF pilots.
"Oh, so you're the guys who were buzzing us on top of the weather radar tower," one of my colleagues said.
"Is that what it is?" asked the pilot. "We've been using it as a target for the last 6 months!"
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You know you’re in for a long journey when someone feels the need to broadcast his entire phone conversation to everyone in a carriage of a Crosscountry Voyager, even shouting ‘it’s a private matter’!
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I do find it a real nuisance when I’m copied into emails totally unnecessarily several times in one morning...
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I've just watched the Aberfan scene of a recent episode of The Crown. What a very moving, poignant and well-executed scene of a TV drama. The producers got the rain and slag heaps to a tee, and I was speechless for several minutes after the heap had roared into the village and very sadly destroyed the school. It certainly raises awareness internationally of what was perhaps Britain's worst ever civilian tragic accident.
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I was still in school in Cardiff when it happened. Apart from the human tragedy of it all, what I took away from it was the terrible decision to use some of the monies collected for the Aberfan fund, to help pay to remove and secure the slag heap! It's not as if the profligate grubbymint of the day couldn't have paid for it anyway being as it was a nationalised industry. Sorry, rant over.
Cheers,
Philip
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Can whoever it is who is sending those RAF jets over please stop - that must be five different aircraft that’s flown over in the last 20 minutes at not too high an altitude!
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I really do enjoy winding up phone scammers....
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The car accident people. I said to the first person yes I did have a car accident. I was put through to ‘Steven’ and after severely irritating him by firstly making out I couldn’t hear and then saying “I know all that, mate!” I told him that the accident occurred when a cow escaped from a field, ran into the front of my car and smashed the windscreen. “Ok, bye!” *beep beep beep*
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Well I’d never thought that on this forum a banner would pop up asking me about perfume brands!
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Went to see the film Fisherman’s Friends last night. A brilliant film, thoroughly recommend it to everyone.