Bill

Small beef with Hattons.. They have in general been excellent in their service over the years... I would currently rate them an A minus But with regard to Hornby's 2 Bil they left me hanging in outer space. They failed to inform that they would be unable to fulfil the pre-order that was placed.. I only found out by contacting them after reading with some alarm about Hornby's short supply of the model. So just in case anyone is still patiently waiting, you might well discover your order has been bumped to a June delivery and that no one has told you... This is an area where they need to get their act together, pronto

A mystery In the 1950's - 60'sThere was a train on weekdays that arrived in Woking from Waterloo at around 4.09 pm - 4 x 2 Bils coupled together. It was split and the front half went off to Alton and the rear half went down the line to Guildford and Portsmouth. Before the Portsmouth section left... without fail a mysterious 4 Sub (Bulleid) was retrieved from a siding on the North side of the station and ceremoniously attached to the the rear. (As it was always empty we assumed it was placed there for the convenience of school children to do what they wished in it rather than with it in those days...) The question then arises what was the purpose of it as the capacity was clearly not needed? Where did it (the 4 Sub) go? - it certainly was not removed at Guilford for use on the Effingham line which was exclusively populated by 4 Subs at that time... If it went all the way to Portsmouth, then what on earth was it doing there? It never seemed to ever return back up through Guildford to Waterloo during waking hours... Which it must have eventually done.. Perhaps somebody knows - but the point is yes there was a regular train service consisting of 2 x 2 Bils and a 4 Sub - from Woking to who knows where.. So there is a prototype and I hope Hornby does the decent thing and puts the expereince of the 4 V#! behind it and goes for a 4 Sub...

only for coughs

liberally applied by...

under the severn

The universe blinked...

For Zimbabwe Pounds

Carnival Cruise Queue

smoking untipped cigarettes

fields of Elysium

six runs later

socks in vats

cycling on steroids

oranges and lemons...

This is impressive... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MECCANO-MADE-RAILROAD-TRAIN-/200875408560?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item2ec51b7cb0 Quite stylish and a bargain at the price...

singing sixpenny songs

at Kings Cross...

american, insipid and...

like a gigolo...

said the executioner

presumably from Holland

rapid eye movements

assembled on Mars

uranium mine tailings

whilst detonating explosives...