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jonny777

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  1. There's Always Work - John Mayall & Peter Green
  2. Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight
  3. Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac, Santana, and others
  4. Train To Nowhere - Savoy Brown (Ah Aftermath - my first album, or LP as it was then)
  5. Help Is Round The Corner - Coldplay
  6. I think it is time to get my Replica coaches out of the cupboard. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Replica-BR-Stanier-2nd-Open-Coach-Maroon-EXTREMELY-RARE-/400150472205?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item5d2ad3a60d Then maybe I can afford a Hornby Stanier one with the proceeds.
  7. All The Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks
  8. An Aussie walks into a pub and takes a seat next to a very attractive woman. He gives her a quick glance then casually looks at his watch for a moment. The woman notices this and asks, 'Is your date running late?' 'No', he replies,'I just got this state-of the-art watch, and I was just testing it..' The intrigued woman says, 'a state-of-the-art watch? ''What's so special about it?' The Aussie explains, 'It uses alpha waves to talk to me telepathically.' The lady says, 'What's it telling you now?' Well, it says you're not wearing any knickers.' The woman giggles and replies 'Well it must be broken because I am wearing knickers!' The Aussie smiles, taps his watch and says, ' The bloody thing's an hour fast!'
  9. Children Of The Revolution - T.Rex
  10. Guitar Boogie Shuffle - Bert Weedon (sorry, but I am getting on a bit)
  11. I dont think that is quite correct for trolleybuses, but is probably correct for trams. Bournemouth and Glasgow (to name two corporations) had trolleybuses running well into the 1960s, and many of their fleet were built in the 1950s and some were almost new. The main problem as I recall was that it was an expansion of the infrastructure to serve the new post-war housing estates; that was the expensive bit. With a diesel bus, the town/city could purchase it and could employ it immediately on virtually all of the bus routes, new and old. But a new trolleybus could not go anywhere without the wires. Not only that, but they had difficulty maneouvering around any obstructions such as road works. The 'modernisation' attitude (that which brought us the new Euston and the proposed demolition of St Pancras) of the times was also partly to blame. The 1960s was considered "the space age", and virtually no one wanted to be associated with 'yesterday's' transport. John
  12. 56s that I saw in the 1980s at Cardiff were all within the 56032-56061 group. John
  13. Sorry, this is a day late - I forgot yesterday. A few hours at Dawlish 17th August 1968 D836 D1938 D831+D870 D1913 D818 D1979 D1027 D863 D1023 D1019 D806 D837 D1607 D1020 W50900+W59352+W50854+W50907+W59346+W50857 D809 D850 D811 D1927 D803 D1606 D1605 D1061 D1067 D7008+D1059 D14 D800 D70 D1921 D863 D865 D835 D805 D1048 D1597 D1043 John
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