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    Passes? Not again. She has died, not achieved good GCSE results. Gah!
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    I think the surprise might be the NBR Reid coaches that I heard were coming with the J36... Here’s hoping for a Saint though! Paul
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    Perhaps you should try standard class before pronouncing on the seats. Those of us who have to pay for our own tickets are getting a very poor seat indeed. Perhaps you should try standard class before pronouncing on the seats. Those of us who have to pay for our own tickets are getting a very poor seat indeed.
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    Thanks for rejigging.
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    The topic title could easily have the date too. Better than having it in a special username which is too long to display on a phone. It is only in replying to your unhelpful reply that I have seen the date. Your link does not display as a link either. Instead of being a smarta**e, why not display the information in the topic title, like most other exhibitions do?
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    It would be helpful to add the date into the original post, especially as the website is not linked. Thanks, Paul
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    Ah, the same people who want non-corridor GWR coaches, even though their were only penny packets of most diagrams? Thanks, and again, a real pity. Incidentally, Bill of Rapido said that it wasn’t too late to change to a 2021, but there you are. I have a 1600 already, scratchbuilt from brass sheet when I was at school. Sadly, I don’t think I could build something nearly as good now! Paul Except for boiler, wheels and wheelbase... Except for boiler, wheels and wheelbase...
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    A quick plea whilst it’s still just drawings... Please make it possible to produce a 2021... (With belpaire boiler and pannier tanks.) Same wheels, boiler and wheelbase. 50 years’ extra service life. More than one livery. Open or closed cabs. Some auto-fitted locomotives, a couple even in BR days. Lovely Birkenhead Docks locos with bells. Industrial service too... What’s not to like? There were more of them than the 16xx, even in BR days! Thanks, Paul
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    My watch was doing something funny... it said 9.10 when we were allowed in, and suddenly it was 5.25 when I had to leg it for a train home...
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    He was at Warley today, extolling the virtues of small, coreless motors and gear-connected driving wheels in 00 steam locos. 30,000 sold and all positive feedback. Non-running 14xx available at £40 each, other returns also available on his stand. Class 71s at £60.
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    Hope to join you on Saturday!
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    When speaking in such an authoritative tone, it is helpful not to make a basic error. The D49 tooling is “Edward”. He is blue. Henry the Green Engine is the old tender-drive Black 5.
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    Maybe it’s just 800 020? It was in reversed formation, and we were in the second coach, on top of quite a rattly diesel engine that went off with a shudder in platform 4 at Didcot.
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    Apple, a new iphone7 charger. Fine on diesel, but madness when on electric. Whoever designed the position of the sockets also needs sacking too. Impossible to see, and very hard to feel. My nine-year-old daughter pointed out how much more sensible the Chiltern ones on the 168s were on our return journey.
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    I discovered an interesting issue on 800 020 this morning. After the pantograph went up at Didcot the electrical interference received by my iPhone through the charger made it unworkable. Home button clicking, random apps opening when different bits of the screen were touched, and impossible to type. Unplugged it and all was well. No wonder it interferes with signalling!
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    Flew out to Kuwait for Op Telic in February 2003 in a Tristar that seemed mainly to be a tanker. Faster than pretty much any other plane though, apart from the even older VC10s. When we came back in July the old VC dumped all its fuel on the pan at midnight in Akrotiri (as it cooled down) so we had a bonus night in a tent in Cyprus before coming home. The very senior RAF pilot came and found us with some slabs of beer he had procured as a personal apology. Our first drink in six months!
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    Dennis was a lovely chap. RIP
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    Saw my first 802 laying over in the down carriage sidings in Oxford at 11.05 this morning. 802 009. The paintwork certainly looks better than the vinyl on the 800s, which is starting to look rather matt.
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    I don’t think he was insulting, but your post was exactly the amalgam he described. That is to say, typical of the stuff that clutters Facebook, and makes social media such a dangerous source of disinformation. I only looked at the thread because we don’t have a woodburner in our current house, but I miss the one in my old cottage. Otherwise, I tend to read stuff about railways, model and real, because I like them, and admire other people’s skills and enthusiasm.
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    Three huge yards, where cutting locos was just a small part of the operation, and a big industrial demolition business. Also the first firm to use car crushers in the UK. The one in ‘Goldfinger’ was in the yard at Stratford, and my great-grandfather and a couple of his employees had roles as extras in the film.
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    Tom Bird, my great-grandfather was keen on salvaging any reusable bits of the things he demolished. My grandparents’ house was built with timbers from old minesweepers as roof beams. There is Birmingham tram panelling around various places I know, and many of his ex-LT buses ended up in Columbo. If it was worth saving, it may well have been.
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    Doesn’t sound like you have spent any time in standard class. Both the 800 and 387 seats are unforgivingly hard, with a nasty, shiny flat cloth on the former, off which it is easy to slide. I’ve not travelled in first class, since all my tickets are bought on the day, and with my own money.
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    Can we avoid euphemisms in thread titles please. Sad news about Dennis Nordern, but as a man who saw the inside of Bergen Belsen in 1945, he preferred direct speaking. He certainly would have denied passing anything. (And he was a close friend of my grandfather.)
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    Not sure what the issue is. Mine will pull an additional nine Pullman cars, as well as the full Belle set.
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    Those pics bring back some memories! Although I was there in 2003, with no bar armour, nor these ECM fittings. (I think) Thanks for sharing! PUl
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