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Looks like the signalbox has received a coast too - on the woodwork!

Prototype Pacer :) ?

Ha- ha, I didn't think I'd be the only (non practicising) Electrician on this forum :)

At first glance that looks like a pretty deadly trap point arrangement :) - Is it an optical illusion or is one section of track heading off the side of an embankment, with only a sapling serving as a buffer stop ?

Very possibly, but I think Nearholmer was being humorous :) ! I certainly chuckled at the prospect of the CoBo failing somewhere in a run down part of the country and imagining Prince Philip's reaction upon swishing back the royal curtains!!!!

That red fiesta is a regular visitor to the crossing!!!

This might be the last for a while until I scan a few more..... Merry Christmas everyone!

I also thought that it was interesting that the product is being demonstrated on some grubby weed strewn sidings - surely a 'before' and 'after' shot would have been better? For good measure they could even have added a stylised... No - that's enough of that! It either looks like the product doesn't work, or that it is being put to the test in a worst case scenario, but with no hint that it is effective :) Obviously we all know that those noxious chemicals were effective!!!!!!!! There's what looks like some coaching stock in the picture too, I wonder if they were awaiting scrapping - or awaiting being towed away for scrap?

Good evening all - ok who read this one as 'cholera' ? I know I did!!!

Ahhh, Whistlers at Bank Quay - those were the days :)

Crikey !!! that one could have a thread of its own!!! - Thanks for posting :)

I was just about to say the same, is is the spacing of the dots that makes the 86 look 'goofy'?

A nice advert for gantry cranes this evening - puts in mind of a locally famous one at Monks Hall Steelworks (now long gone, but there is a picture of it in the background in the Inspiring pictures from fikr thread) Enjoy

With all this cold weather I thought we could all use some insulation!!!!!! I guess electrical insulation isn't what they had in mind for the loft then 😉

I wouldn't have fancied Bristol to Brighton in that Sprinter!!!

I was at GPT Edge Lane (on work experience - checking earth paths) :)

I like the mysterious Dept X, referred to in the ad, mind you years later I worked on 'System X' (also telecoms)!

One for the S&T fans on this cold and frosty night!

Some 'team work' from Taylor Woodrow tonight - they don't just build houses etc!

This is amazing!!!!! - as you may have guessed from my forum name, I do like a good Hymek. They were very useful and well proportioned locos in my view :)

Liking this one - the vaguely comic book inspired artwork continues! Interesting the choice of traction motors illustrated (no EE?). Thinking class 33 for the Crompton Parkinson, but what about the BTH - class 15? Incidentally I had some of these mountings (or similar) on a diesel generator set. The engine would bounce around alarmingly in one plane, when starting or stopping, but was 'rock solid' in the other plane!!!!

Is 'F OFF' (on the signal) an instruction the the driver of the unit after he upset the signalman?!!!!

In the top picture that 'guards van' looks just like a 21 ton hopper!!! 😆

I quite like this one 🙂

More heavy metal (machinery) tonight 🙂 I can remember the demise of local manufacturing led to a lot of this sort of machinery being sold off for next to nothing (or actually nothing!!!) Trouble was, you had to arrange for collection, usually involving a truck with a hydraulic arm, and then you needed somewhere to put it - special foundations required! I wonder if anyone has managed to 're home' any of this sort of stuff?