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Excellent ! You're on Cambridge road bridge, the footbridge you see is 'Alley Bridge' which was the most popular spotting location for us as kids. The Down main signal the Deltic has passed under is on a post in my back garden.

What about the scenario that you have an accident and depart early so your estate goes to your more elderly parents, you don't cross the IHT threshold but with your's and their estates now combined it does. They then depart within a couple of years after you and the siblings then get hit with a tax bill. A simple will splitting it across the family would do (50/50 parents/siblings). . .or give the lot to the Deltic Preservation Society. . .you know you want to.

I purchased 58 from C&L, it was a couple of years ago under the previous owner but worth checking with the new owner Phil. I emailed several suppliers asking for a quote on the 58 motors and C&L came back with a discounted price if I purchased as one lot. The others emailed offered a small amount off, but no where near the same as C&L.

That'll be the one. He did come from Ashwell so wasn't used to humans

Gas works does rise from KX as it heads North except for a short section when it has to dive under the Regents Canal Basin. I've got a sectional drawing somewhere that shows something like 4 bricks making up the basin bottom and tunnel top.

Was that the 08 driver with a flat cap and wellies* ? He took one off in the staffroom once. . . .I transfered to Royston because of that. . still getting counselling now. His lunch was bread and Guinness, think that would be frowned upon now.

I'll look like my avatar. (I'll try and remember to put a GNRS membership secretary badge on)

You've not met my family. . . .

Exhibiting or observer ? I'll pop along but don't know when, as I'll get some wok done in the morning.

Are you sure that fits in a cake box...... You haven't used a wedding cake box by chance ?. . .actually, thinking about it, you'd have hotel curve and the met/circle booking hall included if you did.

Who are you ?

Is that because the machine gets in the way of the steering wheel ?

I'm not, I've got trusts set up and I'm glad they work.

Maybe one makes the coffee ? C'mon you've got to think about this one.....

That sounds a bit suspicious, check their van for pasty crumbs as it sounds like they're trying to mislead you.

Or Like my Father you can have a solicitor draft the will who gets paid to do so, then witnesses the will and also inserts himself as an executor and receives a payment for being one. That took just under 3 years to sort out......

I'd tell the builders, as if that was us, we'd open it out to at least 30mm. . . .. takes a lot to keep the reputation we've got. . .

This is a little off topic but a few days go I found this photo. Not long after the line decended under York Road to join the widened lines there was a spur that linked York Rd with the Westbound, this is the abandoned spur tunnel on the right with the Moorgate line on the left.

It'll go quiet now, I'm heading back to work.

Just when you think something's impossible........ Looking forward to this one Mike.

So to paraphrase. You make a statement that you can't back up to prove a point you want to make. I question that statement as my own experience is different By asking for some evidence I'm 'point scoring' You reckon your original claim still holds true, even though you can't prove it and I'm bickering with you for questioning your claim Congratulations, you've win the prize for the best bollox post of the day.

Sheesh I asked a simple question of how you could qualify the statement "The Majority" as my own experience differed. Obviously you can't, but I'm a pedant for asking. Nice one.

And eventually 'Social Media' becomes 'Unsocial media'

Can you qualify that. A few weeks ago during a conversation about PP it became obvious that among a group of 20 there were only 3 of us that used PP, although one of those 3 had 4 accounts across several businesses.

Off Topic a bit but the phone to pay for parking was a new experience for me a week ago. Went to P'boro for the society AGM last week, I looked at parking options before going (had too much to take so train wasn't an option) looked up parking beforehand and found some on street a couple of minutes from the venue. (£4.20 for the day instead of £7 in the closest one) I'd looked on Google street view the day before and it showed a paystation, I've always got change in the car so no problem. When I arrived it was now pay by phone, I called the number and was led through a lengthy menu which asked for the location code which I inputted, it then wanted me to confirm I was in Scarborough, so return to start and go through it all again, this time it got the location right but then promptly disconnected me. Dialled again and went through the same scenario including confusing the location with Scarborough, after getting the correct location I managed to pay for a days parking. Looking back at the phone log the 2 calls took just over 14 minutes! I can't say I was impressed.