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  1. Belphegor's prime - now that's a number I could use

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    2. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      A foreign planet?

    3. Coombe Barton

      Coombe Barton

      You've been reading about the Simpsons on the BBC, haven't you?

    4. beast66606

      beast66606

      Shhh Cooombe ...

  2. Cancelled at THETFORD (09:13) due to PANEL/TDM FLR (Train Describer/Panel/ARS/SSI/TDM Remote Control Failure)

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    2. Horsetan
    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      Looks like the stone train is being talked / hand signalled / whatever passed the problem, presumably to get the stone to its destination. 3 hours late at the moment.

    4. Trainshed Terry

      Trainshed Terry

      Morden signalling systems are not as robust as the mechanical interlocking .

  3. I was training my pet snail for the snail racing championships, his time was good but not good enough so I decided to make him lean and mean by removing his shell - but this just made him sluggish.

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      What did the slug say to the snail?

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      "Big Issue?"

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Too subtle for about ten seconds.......

    4. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Badum-tsh! :-D

  4. I feel better - I think I'll go for a walk

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    2. Barry O

      Barry O

      don't try and do too much too quickly

       

    3. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      Good thoughts Dave.

    4. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Walks are good. Pace yourself.

  5. Is it time to post my photos of a German electric coal railway ?

  6. Waiting for a train .. 66601 to be precise

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    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      my train turned up an hour late - got me out of shopping though

    3. Tim Dubya
    4. chriswright03

      chriswright03

      I thought 66601 would be a locomotive and not a train!

       

  7. The animals are winding me up The jungle call, the jungle call In Xanadu did Kublai Khan pleasuredome erect Moving on keep moving on-yeah Moving at one million miles an hour Using my power, I sell it by the hour I have it so I market it, you really can't afford it-yeah Really can't afford it

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    2. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      But shoot it in the right direction

    3. gwrrob

      gwrrob

      Happy days.

    4. John B

      John B

      you're a long way from home..

  8. A hollow voice says "plugh"

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    2. ian

      ian

      You are in a room full of dusty rocks.

    3. NGT6 1315
    4. BoD

      BoD

      I think that's only the third time this year it has spoken.

  9. Got my first 68 today,

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    2. 69843

      69843

      ^ Better hope it's not upside down....!

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      To me the 68 looks like it's already had a bump at both ends!

    4. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Ivan, but if a 69 should have automatic couplers, they'd be there to be mated, no?

  10. QED.

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    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      I got a W^5 - not sure if it's the wright answer.

       

       

    3. DonB

      DonB

      Getting the wrong answer is Quite Easily Done

    4. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Why was I thinking about a new iteration of a certain cruise ship?

  11. Kate Bush doing UK dates - OMG Heaven has arrived !

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    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      She's still the same to me !

    3. AndrewC

      AndrewC

      can't wait

    4. Platform 6

      Platform 6

      Shall we do an "RMWebbers for Kate" banner at the concerts?

      That'll be weird ;-)

  12. Photographed 60009 today - the wrong one, Onion of somewhere :P

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Were the onions fried in grease(ly) or (mal)lard? And had someone already bittern a chunk out of them?

    3. southern42

      southern42

      Did it make your eyes water?

    4. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      The diesel had a horrible 'flat' on the rear bogie......but 09 was flat out north of 36E

  13. My lucky son goes to Crewe and gets 47810 on 3 DRS MkIIs - he's awaiting 350401

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    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      Yes - currently on the loop between 11/12

    3. beast66606
    4. big jim

      big jim

      any idea what the southern unit sat on bescot shed last night was?

  14. Eccles Road signal box photographed today, lots more pictures to take though

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      It'll have to have some water to fall into

    3. Grafarman

      Grafarman

      Grytpype-Thynne would make a good name for a rail-served industry...maybe running off the station at Seagoon Parva...

    4. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      A DCC sound fuction with "the wick in the engine's gone out" would be good.

  15. I feed the pigeons I sometimes feed the sparrows too it gives me a sense of enormous well-being

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    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      I'm trying to cut down on my porklife

    3. steve22

      steve22

      Nice gesture, beasty.

    4. Sasquatch

      Sasquatch

      You should get some exercise. Cut down on the porklife.

      He wants to live in magic america with all the rawfood people!

  16. Finally rendering some more videos and uploading them - Going on YouTube if anyone interested, the user should be obvious.

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    2. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      What a resource. Reedham swing bridge looks great.

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      Now I've sorted how to render in the new version of Premiere Elements I'll be uploading plenty more.

    4. class"66"

      class"66"

      Looks interesting....

  17. New camera ordered ..

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    2. beast66606
    3. MartinWales
    4. marc smith

      marc smith

      Wish all those other commenters would shutter up

      .... I'll groan for you!

  18. You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off -

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    2. newbryford

      newbryford

      Hang on lads, I've got an idea.......

    3. Michael Delamar

      Michael Delamar

      well look happy you stupid b*******, we won didnt we

    4. Judge Dread

      Judge Dread

      "Don't throw those bloody spears at me!"

  19. New signals appeared at Attleborough 8-(

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Waterloo now hosts some Dorman heads. Quite pleasant to see them when I was Weymouth-bound last week!

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      I prefer not to see them alongside an LNER bracket signal though.

    4. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      I prefer not to see them next to anything - including railway lines.

  20. Revisiting my M.I.L.F

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    2. The Nth Degree

      The Nth Degree

      Models I'd like to forget...

    3. bcnPete

      bcnPete

      ..its a family show gents !-)

    4. beast66606

      beast66606

      It's software I wrote to select the trains for Widnes Pete - now uses MySQL for it's database

  21. Our monkjack deer is barking in our "woods", strange noise to work to!

  22. John Stuart Mill, of his own free will With half a pint of shandy got particularly ill Plato, they say, could stick it away Half a crate of whiskey every day

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach about the raising of the wrist,

      Socrates himself was permanently p*ssed....

    3. Grafarman

      Grafarman

      "I drink therefore I am"...apparently :-D

    4. Andy Siddall

      Andy Siddall

      Yes Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker, but a b****r when he's (er drunk)!

  23. First unit with Greater Anglia logos photographed today

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    2. Debs.

      Debs.

      I can never see the word 'Anglia' without thinking about that little Ford!

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      lol - photo now uploaded

    4. trisonic
  24. "Fools", said I, "You do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you"

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    2. Grafarman

      Grafarman

      Simon & Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" written 1964 just before the duo's first breakup...

    3. Grafarman

      Grafarman

      ...and I only knew that 'cos I did Music History as part of my MA(dip)mus(hons) !!!!!

    4. charles2

      charles2

      Thank you! A great tune - and one that, although I like Bridge Over Troubled water, I feel surpasses anything else they did!

  25. Fairytale of New York playing this morning - ALREADY !

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    2. pirouets

      pirouets

      My kids have started getting all the Christmas story books out for me to read them

    3. Trainshed Terry

      Trainshed Terry

      End of July one of the local pubs was advertising "BOOK NOW FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS MEAL>

    4. beast66606

      beast66606

      And the NYPD are still singing Galway Bay

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