Blackthorn

Oh boy, I am so Jonesing a full cooked breakfast right now, but unfortunately I rarely have the time to cook one. My Grandmother had the secret for doing the best fried bread that I've never been able to replicate. She would also sometimes do Faggots with breakfast and I always thought that was a real treat. I remember she would get them from a butcher in Bristol and my god they were good. Now, most mornings I have cereal called Holy Crap..I kid you not...I have to get the M.I.L. to mail it from Campbell River on Vancouver Island as its hard to find in this part of the colonies....

I'm sorry Andy. This wasn't this place for this vent...

Xenophbic?? People DO care where their products are made. I choose what products I buy and where from. It might cost me a bit more to buy British, but so be it.

Thank you David for your continuing contribution to this web site. I'm sorry I don't comment more often but I appreciate your posts every day. The Llanberis pictures reminded me of family trips to Wales when I was allowed to enjoy my love of trains. On one visit my brother was invited into the cab of a DMU to sound the horn, I was really p***ed off as he didn't even care, he just thought it was fun..

sorry. too tired t o post senibly

Very nice! Much better than my first attempts....

Probably written by some spotty Oik and thought, "It's close enough for the general public...never mind details....it'll just confuse 'em...". Assuming the writer knows one end of a locomotive from another.

Rock On Tommy

New World Man - RUSH

Money For Nothing - Dire Straits.

Ah, now I see why French electric locomotives had those funny looking backwards inclined windscreens......just the right space for a girls bum!

Thank you, David. I can see that so clearly now. At least I'm not having a Senior Moment yet........mind you, if I believe Alan Tichmarsh, I had better pick my hole on the wrong side of the grass....

Hi David; Fantastic pictures as always, thanks for your posts every day. Just a quick question, there seems to be something very odd about the support for the dark lattice structure over the DMU in C15383. It looks as if its base is almost in line with the base of the overhead gantry behind it, and hardly any room for anything to pass underneath. Is this due to a telephoto lens? or something else? (sorry, technically two questions....) hopefully its not my eyesight!! Mark.

Big Country - Big Country

In A Big Country - Big Country

Wow!!....That is very impressive.

Many thanks for that link and the photo's. I too am intrigued as to the location in the third photo in your first post. I'll have to spend some time looking at that website when I get home from work, no doubt a good source of information about the 1930's - 40's atmosphere for those of us far too you to have experienced it. Mark.

This was one of my former boss' classic cars, a 1947 Chrysler (Imperial, if I remember correctly). It had a push button automatic transmission, so no selector to move. I'm not into N. American cars, but it had a fantastic ride and was very quiet even at 50mph.

A 1937 Ford V8 sedan called the Grey Ghost. Taken at the railway museum in Squamish British Columbia. A bit of history of the car here: http://www.wcra.org/index.php/preservation/grey-ghost

I was thinking the same thing!! Another picture full of atmosphere and detail..... Mark

The two class 40's in J7300 make an impressive sight! Thanks for posting this and all your fantastic pictures. Mark.

Hi Simon; That would be great if you could. I've been trying to find some online but they seem to be rarely photographed. Thank you. Mark.

Mike, that would be fantastic if you could. This has my modelling Mojo going again, it seems to have stalled for far too long. Mark.

Thanks to Dave47549. It was the article I remembered, the old grey matter isn't quite so bad after all. It gives me a good idea of how to attempt a conversion. Not that I really model the GWR, my interests lie more with the BR Midland Region, and don't even have a layout at the moment. But it would be nice to have something different when I do. Thanks guys for the help. It shows what a tight knit bunch railway enthusiasts are! Mark.

Thank you both for the extra information!! I'll do some more digging online, the BRMNA website sounds like a good starting point. (Plus there doesn't seem to be much that isn't online....most of it good....some, not so much LOL). Mark.