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Edge

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  1. Dear DapolDave, I model Industrial steam in 'OO', please stop making me buy loads of 'N' main line locos and modern image units. My wallet now hates you Yours, Edge
  2. The idea was explored just after reopening, and the line that runs to the right hand side of Boston Lodge (when travelling towards it over the cob) is the remnant of that idea. I think it was dismissed as too costly and imparactical. The geography isn't too kind to the idea of laying a railway, and I don't think that even Porthmadog is big enough for trains from three separate routes to meet there
  3. In all seriousness though, its about time. She's a beautiful engine, literally one of a kind now, and Steam engines were meant to move, not be stuck at the back of a shed somewhere or slowly rotting on a plinth.
  4. Well, Portmeirion is going to need to get the China out somehow and as all roads will be destroyed and road vehicles short circuited the FR/WHR is needed urgently to perform this essential post-apocalyptic duty
  5. Edge

    EBay madness

    please, Mister Lister, take my money!
  6. Edge

    EBay madness

    Apparently Hornby Kit-Built Network Rail 31s in the wrong boxes are rare enough to justify a couple of hundred pounds: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-R2649-KIT-BUILT-NETWORK-RAIL-CLASS-31-LOCO-31285-MINT-BOXED-DCC-mv-/330803712599?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4d05701257 Now, I like yellow stuff, but come on....
  7. I aint got no heart - Frank Zappa
  8. " I have come to the conclusion that the reason that most folk songs are so awful is because they have been written by the people..." Tom Lehrer
  9. "Oh my god! They killed Kenny" "you (removed for the sake of my membership on this forum)!"
  10. The topic I gave you to write on was this: "Discuss the contention that Cleopatra had the body of a roll top desk and the mind of a duck" The answer...yes.
  11. "I say, Mr speaker, that if I was Mr Churchill's wife, I should poison his tea! Mr Speaker, if the rt. Hon lady was my wife, I can assure this house that I would drink it"
  12. Or was it that you were bribed by foreign agents with four ounces of dolly mixture?
  13. Tragically I was born an only twin. Which was alright, except it was the other one that got all of the attention. Mr Peter Cook. A genius.
  14. People who pretend to know everything are especially annoying to those of us who do
  15. A word to the wise isn't necessary. its the stupid ones who need it
  16. If life give you lemons, keep them, because hey! Free lemons!
  17. My favourite insult ever "I desire that we shall be strangers" - William Shakespeare
  18. "Some people say that the universe is made from Hydrogen atoms, because its the most abundant element out there. However, I disagree, I think the universe is made out of stupidity because its a whole lot more common than Hydrogen" - Frank Zappa or "Two things are infinite: the universe and stupidity. And do you know, I'm not too sure about the universe" - Albert Einstein
  19. Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. inside of a dog its too dark to read... GM
  20. Dear Sir, I do hope that your lawsuit turns out better than the one I am wearing. Kindly, Groucho Marx
  21. Edge

    EBay madness

    Now that, I am not bidding on For those who are interested, I have been outbid on the engineers Pullman, and I'll be damned if I pay more than £10 for it
  22. Edge

    EBay madness

    I'm only going to pay a tenner for it anyway, and the guy has been honest about it, so where is the harm
  23. Edge

    EBay madness

    I've actually bid on that. looks rather neatly done and could be a nice little freelance trackworkers coach
  24. Edge

    EBay madness

    Good luck to 'em in the case of the Mink. They don't control the bidders and somebody clearly wants it
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