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  1. Just had a late notice, loco ban on the Cambrian until further notice!

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      Fields flooded hereabout plus very high tides, so two possible factors on the Cambrian.

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  2. is looking at £3 for a Jean Michel Jarre tape. And £200+VAT annual service for the CX.

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      Yay, wots it matter if you clank while coasting...

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  3. Almost exactly 60 years ago at Lewisham 90 souls perished after a train overran signals in dense fog and collied with another train, bringing a bridge down onto the wreckage.

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      Hroth is right. I left work in Manchester in smog at 3.45pm in 1958 and got home in Oldham at 8pm, my face black above the handkerchief! The Lewisham crash was a nasty one. Poor souls.

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  4. Grab yer Ravens while ye may....£79.00!!!

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      You are obviously a man of excellent taste. I was close to getting a ROD before abandoning 4mm.

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  5. What I don't understand is this, I do all the accumulated ironing. I get it all done and properly hung up on hangers etc., then each time she somehow finds more stuff to wash and for me to iron! How is this possible?

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      You're the chogie for the street and you wife is making a mint...

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  6. Ooh, ooh, ooh, I feel my temperature rising Help me, I'm flaming I must be a hundred and nine Burning, burning, burning And nothing can cool me I just might turn into smoke But I feel fine

  7. I have a life, so the less I do the more I think 0 gauge is too much at this stage of the game…

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      It's the space. When warm weather ever returns, i dontwan to spend it digging holes in the garden and concreting posts for months on end.

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  8. OSWESTRY in 00 : Before it was locked, I should have informed followers that it had moved to OSWESTRY in 0 GAUGE. Apologies. LG

  9. is waiting to see if he ends up in the Question Time audience in about a fortnight...

  10. Te a yao is e hccwi pAov stbt. Eroos plued ao edr yl o pic : stedh . Ht otkm)

  11. painting ceramic pots on telegraph poles...only 350 to go and counting!

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      It's enough to drive anyone pots...

  12. Great few days on WCML, heard Duchess of Sutherland going north on Sat with The Cumbrian Mountain Express, saw Leander about to leave Carnforth in the afternoon and just heard Scots Guardsman make what sounded like start from Euxton Balshaw Lane.

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      The Scot is off up to Blaenau Ffestiniog gogogoch, the first of its type up theer. If it gets there....Maybe something relatively modern is pushing it?

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  13. Posted a vey sensable question and no responses. And there me looking at ths forum for advise on railway modelling related items.

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      We don't all read every thread so maybe your question has slipped through the net...

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  14. I got my head stuck in the scrap metal bin at work today. This happens from time to time, but today I came out with a reel of 0.3mm tungsten wire. Ideal rodding for semaphore signals. Result!

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      When you said you got your head stuck in a scrap metal bin I thought, aye up that sounds nasty...

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  15. "Dannaher, you owe me three hundred fifty pounds, let's have it !" - ".........I'll pay you Yank.....never !"

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      Director John Ford told Maureen O'Hara what to whisper in John wayne's ear at the end of the movie but she relied she couldn't do that. "You can and you will". no one to this day knows what she said but it resulted in the shocked look on wayne's face that Ford wanted!

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  16. there's a patron saint of Coachman, so why isn't there a patron saint of Borises?

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      What we miss when we aren't lukkin. Isn't a patrol saint a star with two cylinders...?

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  17. Beast will today be mostly having a blood transfusion, some "intrusive" tests and hopefully a cure ! - brought to you by the N&NUH in Norwich,

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      Just caught the bit where you were dreaming of sterling singles (young nurses) and somersault signals (you should be so lucky ha ha)...

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  18. Beast will today be mostly having a blood transfusion, some "intrusive" tests and hopefully a cure ! - brought to you by the N&NUH in Norwich,

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      You've had some bad luck of late so lets hope this sorts it. Larry

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  19. Is wondering whether it's worth shoeing his horses, looking at the weather

  20. Last day of annual leave, hope it doesnt snow before we leave south wales or the road over sugar loaf will be fun

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      Coincidentally I been watching the trains over that route with my Cornies...

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  21. I am completely and utterly baffled by everything

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      Why did I just know the brownies were involved somehow...

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  22. Whole Hour spent on damn printer not printing blue so letterhead was pink. Don

  23. Andy Y., Sorry I never got back to you about changing the spell-check from US to UK. I have altered it in Word but RMweb remains the same giving me

    1. coachmann

      coachmann

      Broser? Not sure on this new contraption but it might be Windows...???

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  24. There must be a good reason why I've been up since 06:00 - but at the moment it eludes me

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