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What remains of the old GN&GE 'Joint Line' from Gainsborough-Peterborough has been ungraded over recent years with a view to running much more freight, as you say, I believe to reduce pressure on the ECML. The downside has been the almost universal eradication of signal boxes & traditional crossing gates along the route, but there has definitely been an increase in freight traffic & light engine movements from what I've seen.

That is ridiculously good!

A TEA?! The best I could manage was a TTA tank in the fields just down the road from me (although I think that's also gone now).

It's looking a bit rougher than it did in 2011

Outstanding work!

Which means the English aren't even British! Might be a useful get out clause depending on how the Iceland match goes...

But that's nowhere near as funny...

Bloody glaciers, coming over here & mucking up our natural strata...

Blinkin' Anglo-Saxon flag?! Bloomin' Anglo-Saxon immigrants coming over here, displacing the Roman immigrants, who defeated the Celtic immigrants, who...

Hi all, not sure if this is entirely the appropriate place for this, but it is a question about 2mm of sorts... A rather large car repair bill, and the growing realisation that I'd have to live until at least 250 years of age to see all my modelling dreams come to fruition, has led me to consider clearing out the 'strategic reserve' a little - I have a variety of 2mm items on the list, including: Two 2mm SA BR 08 shunter kits; Two Edward Sissling LNER D49 kits: various Fence Houses loco and wagon kits: Barry Nicholson/Mick Simpson/Judith Edge/Worsley Works etched loco body kits; Masterclass/Stephen Harris wagon kits; plus a few other bits and bobs (motors, Union Mills tender drive units, etc.). I'll be putting a note up on the VAG shortly and ultimately they'll probably go on eBay, but if anyone here is interested, please drop me a message for more details. Everything is as new and unbuilt. Thanks for looking, Kevin

Simply perfect

I started watching it & thought, "shame he can't work out a way to make the legs move"... Lo and behold! Very impressive stuff

Would that that were possible... :-)

Absolutely superb!

From my archaeology day-job, the typical make up of a roadway surface prior to the introduction of tarmacadam was usually finely-graded stone either mixed with mortar or packed with earth. Cobbles or sets are quite common, but mainly restricted to specific areas of heavy usage (be that in a farmyard or goods yard), as John says. I have an album of photos taken in Lincolnshire in the period you're after, & the majority of the surfaces look to be finely graded stone/stone & earth (or possibly just earth in the case of some of the more lightly used sidings, I suspect), although cobbles do appear from time to time. HTH, Kevin

I was going to say exactly the same thing!

Notwithstanding all the other events of the day, did the forum software really auto-censor THAT?!

Strange, you'd think a Rail Squid might have some inside knowledge of aquatic matters...

According to Wikipedia (usual disclaimer), R73 is "stored [in Switzerland] as spare parts after the bankruptcy of the company in charge of [its] restoration". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF_Class_141R

And no doubt every single bit of toilet paper was streaming from the windows - always seemed to be par for the course for a footex in the '70s & '80s!

After so many wonderful photos in the past, you had me at "some"...

Around Gainsborough it was always known as the 'Eagre' - hence Eagre Coaches that kindly took me to school in the town (although we were anything but 'eager' at the time...) Strangely in nearly 50 years, though, I've never yet seen the bloomin' thing!

It might not be a 'railway photo', but the one of Ipswich docks is a cracking shot - in fact, I'm sure I can see a ratty BR blue class 03 with a few wagons shuffling along right now... :-)

Incredibly lucky that no-one perished in the Chester crash!

They gave the J21 a bit of a spruce up in 2011 for the 'Stainmore 150' celebrations at Kirkby Stephen East, but it'd be nice to see it receive the attention it deserves.