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Hi Monty, After the withdrawal of steam locomotives, tank wagons were added to steam crane consists as previously the cranes took water form locomotive's tenders should they have required a top up on a job. Gibbo.

Hi Clive, That explains it all now ! Gibbo.

Hi Clive, That was a quick break from RMweb, any way I saw this and thought of your above posting: Gibbo.

Hi Dave, What with you hailing from Yorkshire, I didn't realise that you might actually be effluent in the speaking of the English language ! Gibbo.

Hi Johnster, There was one year in the late 1960's, probably 1968, when more pilot scheme diesels were sent to the scrap yard than steam locomotives so I don't think shortage of traction of any type was a particular issue. Following on from that period, compounded with economic down turns in the 1970's, quite a few of the smaller classes were placed into store. So with diesels spare there would be no way in my view that steam locomotives would have survived much past 1968. Gloomy perhaps, however very possibly accurate. Gibbo.

Hi Stephen, Late to the party as I posted this ages ago: It was made from the leftovers from this : Gibbo,

Hi Folks, One of the reasons for the preference of cutting wagons over steam locomotives was the differentials in the prices of steel, brasses/bronzes and copper. It should also be noted that wagons were much quicker and easier to reduce than a steam locomotive therefore reducing costs of labour and gas. Had the price of copper been a little higher then the steam locomotives may not have lasted quite as long as they did. Gibbo.

Hi Monty, I like the way they have painted the track to match the train. Gibbo.

Hi Clive, In an attempt to find out what the young actually do say I asked my daughter. She told me that as she is thirty she has no idea either. Don't worry though I still act as though I am twelve. Gibbo.

Hi Martyn, I did similar to the tanks and battery boxes of the class 23/3 that I built and it does make quite a difference to the degree of relief of the original, that said fitting buffers to it might help matters, another nearly started model !. For my class 24 conversions I simply scratch built the lot, again they shew up the original arrangements lack of depth. The tanks and boxes of my 25/2's now require retroactive actions to this regard, however it is sunny out and so I've been playing out instead of indoors, come October I shall likely get busy again and I shall have a go at them then. Gibbo.

Dear Dunsignalling, Look on the bright side, a**eholes they might be, however, bitter, twisted angry and frightened they are not. I know how I prefer to live my life. By all means put me in whichever of the above category you wish !!! Gibbo.

Hi John, Your thoughts are part of this universe and may at times pass from the subjective conscious to represent in the objective third dimensional material realm, however they are not subject to the laws of physics. For instance, what is the speed of thought ? Do have a look at what my thread is called, that gives you a clue to how it all works on a micro scale, the macro scale requires all of us to imagine our futures, this is currently being dealt with in a rather strange way, however that is another discussion. As for computers I always get one with a matt finish screen, yet another discussion. Gibbo.

Hi John, Could it be that the mask-less students are stating their sovereignty by reclaiming their birth rights taken from them by government ? Why stop at masks ? Gibbo.

Hi John, The really good live steam injectors on the GWR were not designed by the GWR but by a small firm run by two brothers which the GWR later purchased the design rights to manufacture them for themselves. Gibbo.

Hi John, With regard the Sumarian word Ti are you aware that there is a version of Strong's Concordance online that will assist with translations and mistranslations from the various ancient languages used in various texts. My main take from the big book of mostly physics/astrological related discussion pieces is that it does help when reading it to subjectify the content because to objectify the content is to relate all that is in it to the material world thereby missing the point of almost the whole set of books contained within the volume. This is why the scientific approach does not and cannot ever work when dealing in such matters. While on the subject of Adams rib, and not the actual object, you may note that Humans are a carbon based life form, should you look at Mendeleyev's periodic table of elements the element directly below carbon is silicon. It might be said that the internet and all of the computers connected to it have a degree of sentience that is not quite as developed as human conscience and yet with considerable greater capacity for calculation. Could it be then that the less dense the form of crystal that is tuned to the frequency of ones conscience then the the further from the objective ones soul becomes unlike computer based AI which may or may not have any connection to what may be described as a should and yet may be seen a sentient through its computational ability especially in its predictive abilities. The representative archetype of the robot in the Wizard of Oz was The Tin Man and he had no soul. Gibbo.

Hi Manna, All you will for that is a load of HUMBUG !!!!!!!!!!!! Gibbo.

Not really, but this is, Which one is you and which one is me ? Ahh Bless !!! Gibbo.

Hi Reorte, Alternatively your mind is closed to thinking about other possibilities than those presented by authorities such as Wikipedia. Tell me has Snopes, whoever they might be, fact checked the Wikipedia article so that I can trust the internet link implicitly? Gibbo.

Hi Reorte, You have not actually answered any of my questions so I'm not sure who you are trying to convince. Anyway, as for steel beams I used to work as a welding engineer at Watson Steel, do you know them ? They built the Olympic Stadium in London, mainly from great big steel beams, some reinforced concrete ones as well. As for this great big stone you allude to which might that be for it is as yet unknown to me and I would be interested to know all about it, do tell. Gibbo.

Is he filling or pouring ?

Hi Reorte, Somewhat uphill from quarry to the final site and over a rather uneven surface between the two as in no discernable roadway ever having existed. As for a ship that is supported by the buoyancy of water as well as by the banks of the canal at both ends, and a stone that would not self support over any great distance you are indeed correct in that you would be dealing with two completely incomparable situations. Tell me, have you ever wondered is why steel reinforced concrete has the steel situated in the under side of the beam ? Also why these beams are cambered so that they become straight when under load due to the yield of the steel ? Are the stones of Baalbek reinforced with longitudinal steel rods to prevent cracking as concrete beams are ? Science has not yet satisfied any of the questions I have about such structures, and furthermore, nonsense for the sake of nonsense really doesn't fit into my observation of how stone self supports over long unsupported spans or uneven torsional forces may affect the integrity of materials such as stone of any type I have knowledge of. Gibbo.

Why stop there, I would have hoped for a similar length of tarmac to be dug up also as the virus may have a driving license as well as the ability to purchase railway tickets.

Hi Colin, Google told me that it is a sort of typo that gullible people don't seem to recognise. It didn't explain why, however, I suspect that Google doesn't want you to know by way of me posting a link to a website that may contain "Alternative Truth"...... or something. Gibbo.

Hi Reorte, What are those plausible methods ? I have not yet read anything that even vaguely explains how such a stone might be moved without fracture. The only plausible explanation to me is that technologies either now forgotten or hidden were used. Telekinesis would be more plausible than rolling them along on logs hauled by the usual hoards of slaves. Lets face it, a ship made from steel was stuck in the Suez Canal recently, that ships hull would be much better in resisting both tension and torsion than a huge stone and yet fracture was a primary concern in its refloating. Gibbo.

Hi John, We are told by Wonkypedia that the stones of Balbeck were placed by the Romans and yet the same crazies that write Wonkypedia tell us this tell us that the largest cranes that the Romans had would lift a whopping THREE TONS. I do wish they would make their minds up or at least get their stories to corroborate. A bit of Eric Blair might help those crazies and those that quote Wonkypedia without using any form of discernment to rationalise their suppositions: ‘How do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?’ Gibbo.