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It was just cobbled together, and rather soulless…

Was there ever a Webb engine with the name “Lettis” or similar?

Great band from my hometown!

When do we get ego and superego? ;)

Isn’t that the purpose, as much as cutting off the intrusion of the external environment? But yes, yours is particularly impressive.

The one which might be fairly clean.

I can never watch that film without thinking of Railwells!

If you remove the first comma, then the meaning becomes less ambiguous. And that’s the issue: poor punctuation leads inevitably to misunderstandings, something “txt spk” proponents don’t get. Incidentally, the NRA originally came into being to train people to use and store firearms safely.

This is the Second Amendment to the Constitution. It means it was an addition/change, and can - as with the repeal of prohibition - be removed. As I have said in jest before, the difference between the Ukraine and the UK, is that they elected a clown who turned out to be a politician, whereas we…

Ah, how we all understand: Nothing like a little judicious levity!

Any such contraption needs counter-balancing, else it becomes a finger guillotine… (Or maybe just a bad bruise. Anyone who went behind the late Sam Bonfield’s “Emwell” in its original format in the mid 1980s will recall this possibility.)

“Should I get a set of white wall tires?” - Billy Joel.

I think you may have meant 125mm, the more or less equivalent of 5”, rather than 50”?

It’s a quote from Noel Coward, I think. He obviously hadn’t walked across it.

Ding d0ng!

Are you a “revet counter”, perchance?

No, but my hair “style” gets increasingly close to his each day… Having watched that, I am wondering how the 21st century veered away from mid 1970s Birmingham!

I rather like it, to be honest.

Only if you live in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. For the majority of the residents in the UK, we don’t have a devolved Parliament, just the goons that operate at a “federal” level.

Can’t help wondering if the T stands for Tolpuddle!

No one disagreed with that, James. The point is that whilst most if not all puritans were Roundheads, that doesn’t mean that all Roundheads were puritans.

I think there was just a preference to having a guard at the end of a train, where possible - and generally only one coach beyond the one with the guard’s compartment, which was permitted to run with the guard’s compartment at the front (so, brake 3rd and compo, as seen on many GER branches). In any lengthy rake, where there might be reasonable parcels/smalls traffic, then a brake coach at each end sorts everything out nicely: GWR van 3rd, compo, van 3rd branchline sets are a classic example, albeit short and only 3 coaches long. A Market day 3rd could be simply added outside the set without need to remarshal the rake. The EWJR had brake 3rds with a central guard/luggage section, with a 3rd class compartment either side, and generally ran with the coach sandwiched between a third and a compo, which is why I have three such coaches and no more than that at the moment!

Most “revolutions” move power down one stratum only, if that - no matter what was claimed as an intention!

Seems like a redeeming feature to me… ;)

Also, the TRG (through regulator gear). I always liked the general extra “busyness” of autocoaches and SRMs, but it’s fiddly stuff in any scale, and as you are building “layout models”, possibly of questionable visibility.