Liam

Sir, the men are fallen in, would you care to cast an eye over them?

May I be excused?

Permission to speak?..

There's a Travelodge near Oswestry - no warranty given or implied....

Teleporting, or telepathy. If it's the latter, then we wouldn't need fora such a this, cos we'd all know what each other was thinking, which really wouldn't be good in most cases

Rhiw Valley is near to Llanfair Caereinion.......

*directional - damn these fat fingers

Still at Gatwick, no sign of the runway opening any time soon, whether or not we will fly today is still very unclear.

I wouldn't want to be publicly identified as the culprit(s) when they are finally identified and caught. I wonder if those delayed or with their flights cancelled and plans in ruins can sue the ar8e off those responsible?

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!"

This Typhoon was probably lower than 200 metres actually, possibly 150. Everyone was speechless for several minutes afterwards! 
 

Just as well none of those pilots ever fired anything at the weather station...

No Tornado's left in RAF anymore, was it a Typhoon?

I'm now on a U Bahn train heading back to where I'm staying. I'll put some pictures on my layout thread, but can thoroughly recommend to anyone.

Apparently about 191,000 British people have visited it - wonder how many RMwebbers are in that number?

The Rome section of Italy is amazing!

Went there afew years ago, was simply excellent, especially the airport scene.

The assisting loco was 7820 Dinmore Manor.http://cgibin.wsr.org.uk/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?h=Snapshot&p=2017/09/180 That part of Somerset - The Quantock Hills - is actually quite hilly! Crocombe Heathfield station is the highest point on the line at just under 120m above sea level.

Sorry the link doesn't seem to work.

Its hilly and wet down Somerset way. The GWR had a Pacific and only let it venture beyond Bristol once...

was there last Sept. Snowdon top in cloud intermittently, but B-F warm and dry

"Rainy Night in Blaenau" doesn't have quite the same ring about it....

And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him

The Bean Counters, who will choose the cheapest option . . .

I my office....me! Have a CD player and the choice changes every few days....very mood dependant!

Can I suggest Sweet Caroline admiles? At least it'll keep them singing while you sort their queries out...

Sheffield Victoria, calling at Woodford Halse, Rugby...

Well it looked like a sleeper car, but could have been a departmental coach.

The Bluebell has (had?) Mk1 Sleeper Composite 2442 wh ijch was all over green. Maybe it's off for scrapping as I believe it's no longer required

You're lucky.

So far, this has been the worst (weather-wise) day of the year.

And yes, my pint is half empty and draining fast!

Touched 40C here today. I'll agree with that.

And frequently "mis-speaks" then retracts the announcement about the announcment.

We don't get them from Virgin....

Bachmann announcing the release of the ScR foursome as a pack, it being available next week...

Try telling Quasimodo that !

That sounds appealing

Doubleplusgood!

'MeteoGroup' just don't seem to be as accurate as the Met office plus their graphics are poor.

I find the xcweather.co.uk site to be reasonably good. Remember, meteorology is still very much an 'inexact science'

The weather map that MeteoGroup uses for NW England is a satellite image taken at low tide, so the coastal outlines are totally unrecognisable.

They've not got a clue!

Some councils promote the idea of "ratting" on antisocial dog walkers, could be going on in the district. Depending on the appearance of owner/breed of dog, I'd have got my phone out and pretended to take a picture....

Its an offence in some places and not others. Cotswold District has a ban but dogs can **** in the gutter with impunity on roads with a 40 MPH + limit in most areas

Worse still are the owners who put the deposit in alittle plastic bag then leave it hanging on a tree or bush.

Well it was NOT written with railway terminology in mind - 'Here is a steam engine inside a steam train' - and it asked me to explain why the pressure increased with the temperature, calculate the pressure in the piston using P= F/A, the energy transfer in the firebox. Needless to say if I don't get full marks in that question that'll be very embarrassing!

Good, hope it went well. What paper was that? On my P3 paper last year there was a question about using a model of a train to work out the tilt needed for a high speed train. If you are so inclined, there are many more train questions at A level physics.

It was an Edexcel paper, and the last question in the exam.

Andy I envy you. I've got to spend most of the day tomorrow on the frozen Yorkshire Moors. And nowhere near the NYMR. But have the rest of you been asleep for the past two months?

Never stayed up all night for an election, whole thing bores me rigid. Once I've voted (which I always do), I'm happy to wait for the announcement the following morning.

Crewe station ? Not do one there since the 70's, expect it will be a lot quieter now.

SOS... --- ...

Dancing Queen

Super Duper

a***holes!

And why do it during a special event? Not that it should happen at all.

The police found 5 youths asleep in the coaches (youths pissed by the sound of it) so perhaps the little ##### will get a good dose of the law afetr all?

2 Pan galactic gargle blasters!

A nicely chilled Mr President IPA from Brewdog.

Warm Tizer

Come friendly bombs....

Engineering works around Wembley, replacement bus from Slough ?

I wonder why NR didn't plan the engineering works for this weekend instead of two weeks back?

Strange, I'm in YO62 as well and the power was cut for over four hours, but it's back on now.

When I were a lad, we didn't even 'ave power, never mind them fancy "power cuts"!

You were lucky

In most civilised nations, the skirl of the bagpipes is viewed in much the same way as waterboarding.

...or strangling cats

Apart from the crowds of luvvies on their summer holidays, its one of the reasons NOT to visit Edinburgh during Festival season. There's a bagpiper on every street corner...

Nah! Bachmann announced a retooled Manor and crashed the Interweb

Don't know what you've got 'til its unavailable.

Gratitude and respect to Andy Y.

For most of the day, packets got lost in the internet bit bucket, then it started 502/Bad Gateway which is frequently symptomatic of a DOS attack. Whatever the reason the server was just playing silly b****rs, and needed the firm hand of Authority to knock it back into shape!

3-way footbridge over the water, or walk a couple of miles upstream for a huge aqueduct

Interesting ideas, was delayed there today in a Pendolino while on my way back to the Midlands from Scotland, and was further delayed at Crewe. Nightmare journey today.

seems like there have been problems today all over the place, I was caught up with the cancellations between Rugby and Coventry this morning, but not as bad as this http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/127559-i-am-very-cross/?p=2903388

Certainly was, it's amazing what one can see around Brinklow! Took lots of photos on my new camera and will be framing and selling the best ones to help fund a pilgrimage to Lourdes in the summer.

And then you had to get out and push....

Niokolo-Koba?