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The Kiss - Jake Thackray

Sweet day, so cool - Parry

You could be right about the sun on the head, because if you go down to Nigeria, drivers are even worse!

Man in the mirror - Michael jackson

Have a look here: https://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?146240-Keeping-The-Balance-1974-Articles-by-D-Rowland for a summary of the analysis made by Don Rowland back in 1974 of the LMS in 1938. Other railways were unlikely to have been vastly different. I well remember the articles and still have them somewhere. I doubt if many model railways have anywhere near like 71 wagons per locomotive.

The wide Missouri - Capstan Shanty

First and Second law (of thermodynamics) - Flanders and Swann

There's a foul-up* on the Flight Deck - Fleet Air Arm * polite version

So we'll go no more a roving - Maude White

Angels from the realms of glory - Henry Smart & James Montgomery

To preempt a post from a certain quarter, I would nominate the MR Johnson/Deeley Compound as doing the job it was designed to do economically. Also the Webb 0-8-0 did what it was meant to do, haul long trains of coal wagons at 25mph or so. When looking at the size of boiler that Victorian engineers could fit, the limited axle loading they were permitted did restrict what they could do.

They are just applying the law as passed by Parliament to prevent pollution of water courses and water supplies. While I agree they can be very pettifogging at times, you would not want the unpleasant things that can be found in many old industrial sites (including beneath major railway stations) to be spread indiscriminately around the countryside.

Being doing a bit of looking at the site on Google Earth historic photos, Old Maps, the British Geological Survey and a few matters from my own knowledge of Engineering tips down that way, which can explain why it will take so long and why the old method of just tipping earth will not work at this site. The River Eden runs close (less than 20m) to the slip site (the river culvert is just east of the slip). Erosion by the flooded river may have been a cause, in which case access to the northern side of the toe of the embankment is going to be necessary to effect repairs and probably install bank protection measures. Indiscriminate tipping could cause a blockage of the river, which would lead to all sorts of problems. The embankment, built some 175 years ago, is almost certainly built of loose tipped Weald Clay from the nearby cuttings, sitting on unprepared silt and clay alluvium built at angle of repose with no compaction (that's just how they did things back in the 1840s). The embankment is some 10m high, with side slopes of about 1 (vertical) to 1.7 (horizontal). That is pretty steep for an embankment made of Weald Clay. I am surprised it has stood up as long as it has. This material will loose strength as it shears, so continued tipping on the top without removal of the shear plane or building a large toe buttress will just lead to an awful lot of movement sideways at the bottom, potentially damaging the river culvert. Not surprisingly, it looks from the historic Google Earth photos as though there was a major failure of the south side of the embankment in 2011/12 100m east of the current failure . The repairs for that appear to have involved adding a fillet of fill and flattening the bank to about 1 (v) in 3 (h), a much more reliable gradient for a bank built of Weald Clay. A lot of drainage also appears to have been installed. The area of this failure can be seen on the current Google Earth photo as it is the area lacking trees (as a matter of interest, the Network Rail air photo with the arrows on looks to be from c2009, so does not show this slip). This history makes it unwise to just go and tip without thorough investigation to obtain data to design the repair works. Getting such testing done requires months. Of interest (considering the debate on this subject) mature trees were growing on the embankment in 1940. These days, you cannot just source fill from anywhere and certainly not from a site like Paddington (or any other major) Station which is likely to contain polluted material from centuries of railway operations. The Environment Agency will insist any imported fill to a site like this is inert.

The seeds of love - Somerset trad collected and arranged R Vaughan Williams

Ah yes, the old order with ideas that the way to cure a large circular slip is to put more weight on the crest - as practiced by the NCB at Aberfan. Fine if you don't care what happens in you neighbours land.

Well, not on RMWeb, but I do a fair bit of browsing with Google, mainly to check on the contents and completeness (in terms of cat dietry requirements) of various cat food brands (I have a very pampered cat who insists on the best). Go and buy them at the local pet shop, though!

I have a number of jumbled early memories of trains. Many of traveling up and down Hythe pier in the pier railway but that being a monthly occurrence when the family headed to Southampton for a shopping expedition, not entirely sure what age I was. One trip on a green District line train when traveling to visit an elderly great aunt in Richmond (London, that is, not Yorkshire) is probably the earliest memory of a standard gauge railway when I must have been 5/6. Can't remember anything of the train journey from Southampton to Waterloo that must have preceded it. (probably boring dirty old steam locos instead of fascinating clean electric trains).

You could try Peter Robinson's books on Ruston-Bucyrus excavators, they have several drawings (and lots of photographs) of various types. The ones you need would be "LIncoln's Excavators The Ruston Years 1875-1930" and "Lincoln's Excavators The Ruston-Bucyrus years 1930-1945" both published by Roundoak Publishing.

Maybe I shouldn't admit to this, but had some useful adverts for proximity sensors appear today. Might come in handy for the back roads of my fiddle yard where I can't always see whats going on. Makes a change from all the glamour girls, anyway. What really puzzles me about all these supposedly intelligent advert placing systems (and considering what I buy most frequently) is that I never get adverts for cat food.

Okay after a bit of poring over the complete Sherlock Holmes short stories, to fill in the rest: No2 - Dancing Men - North Walsham station No4 - Priory School - Mackelton No7 - Golden Pince-nez - Charing Cross No8 - Copper Beeches - Winchester No9 - Abbey Grange - Chislehurst

No 3 is "Shoscombe Old Place" and the halt is Shoscombe. The last genuine (i.e. Arthur Conan Doyle) story in the Sherlock Holmes series and far from the best, in my opinion.

Keep the customer satisfied - Simon and Garfunkel

No 1 is Sherlock Holmes - Silver Blaze, the station being Tavistock. No 5 is also Sherlock Holmes - the Crooked Man and the 11:10 is from Waterloo No 6 is Black Peter and the station is Forest Row. Pretty sure all the others are Sherlock Homes stories, but not enough time to look them all up now.

An entertaining poll, Brian, thanks for doing it! Possibly include Seaham Harbour No.18 (the Lewin engine) in its original form , or one of the other somewhat odd looking Lewin narrow gauge locos for next year?

A spotless rose - Herbert Howells