Ramblin Rich

Railway equivalent of Mordor!

If this had been last year, it would have been Jacob Rees Mogg carrying the sword. Although he probably would have got a servant to do the work.

Saundersfoot is another example with a sluice river running through and had a 4ft gauge coal railway. https://rogerfarnworth.com/tag/saundersfoot/

Late to the game, but adding thanks to Rob and all involved. Great to catch up and talk to Mark Forrest and Spams, Rivercider; also bcnpete after all the years of messages here 😀 If I didn't have such a mad schedule I would easily have spent all day; sadly I had to run and miss out on the pasties 🫤 Thanks also to Chris H (Gilbert) for the coupling discussions and 'side hustle' wagon purchases (including a suitable sales tax for SWAG funds) Looking forward to next year already!

I recall glimpsing a data panel on a vab front that had been embellished with "Class 121i Ghia" (in the days when the lads wanted an XR3i)

Really glad @EddieK has carried on with this. Especially liked the info on Tyseley sets in mid 1980s as I well remember travelling on the Cross City line then. There seemed to be very varied sets, including using 121 or 122 bubble cars in place of motor cars and the ex Cardiff sets with valley line logos and maps inside. Interesting seeing actual set formations including some sets formed with 2 DMBS - just like the Lima models 😉

Nooooo! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65359036 "Burning cake in lorry tackled by firefighters"

Yes..... I'll take a look. I intend to arrive early as I only have the morning to myself

Yes that's one of my favourites train sequences, especially given the stunt work on the train roof. It was filmed in Ireland and the story goes that the driver ran a bit faster than the film crew wanted, so some of the ducking and diving was more realistic than they intended!

Then please arrange your stock in the cupboard the correct way round! 🤪

"Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry..." Cerys has the most Welsh sounding singing voice I know of.😁 Many thanks to Rob for bringing the weathering process pictures back, very helpful and definitely worth bookmarking

I'm surprised it's still all blue in 1990...?

Agree, plus I tend to use 'like' if it's good, 'craftsmanship/ clever' if it's really good and 'applause' if it's almost impossible to tell if it's real. This deserves applause in my mind. The only thing against it is the apparent bright sunshine might be unrealistic for Scotland 😉

That's a great scenic break!

Please don't encourage them to park more badly than they already do!

Smaug on the water Mordor on the dance floor

I remembered the 'erg' as a very small unit of energy. From Wikipedia: The erg is a unit of energy equal to 10−7 (10 to power -7) joules (100 nJ). It originated in the Centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS). It has the symbol erg. The erg is not an SI unit. Given it takes about 810kJ to boil a kettle, by my reckoning it would need about 8.1 Teraergs (8100000000000ergs) to perform that task. No wonder they are of no practical use.

There was a man touring the Alps several hundred years ago. He found lodging in an alpine hostel one night and realised the owner's wife and daughter had fabulous jewelry. Being rather roguish he thought he would try a spot of thieving, thinking they would take the jewels off at night. He crept into the main bedroom and took the wife's jewelry, then went into the daughter's room. He realised she was still wearing her necklace. Greed overtook him and he quietly unclipped the necklace. Just as he removed it, the daughter woke up and screamed. The thief ran out with what he had, quickly chased by the owner. In the darkness, the owner couldn't tell which path the man took. Hoping he was going the eight way, he set off up hill but then the sun began to rise and he realised he was on the opposite side of the valley to the thief. "You robbed my daughter!" the hostel owner bellowed. "And your old lady too-oo-oo!" the thief shouted back. And that's how yodelling was invented.

I read a version of this in the Puffin Joke Book in 1974. Trying to remember others of similar groan inducing quality; one that comes to mind is: What do you call a male cow at the limit of visibility? Barely percepti-bull. 😉

0 gauge certainly creates a presence

Or mix Newquay Cornwall with New Quay Ceredigion. I'm sure a few surfer dudes have gone to New Quay expecting to find Fistral Beach.....😉

Nice, and kind of unusual, to see a near uniform rale

I recognised Johnny Morris straight away, never realised he was "BBC's globe trotting rail fan". At first glance, I thought he was talking to Charles de Gaulle!

Difficult to believe that's adjacent to the Brush works!

Interesting comment regarding 2 versus 4 character headcodes. There' s a bit of discussion in the "GWR 1930s electrification" thread about headcodes in the AC electrics, where the central windscreen panel was originally intended to be a 2x2 headcode panel