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From the government of Zimbabwe

It's an EF-18G operated by No. 6 Squadron.

Interesting view out of my office window today.

It was Gladstone and Disraeli. They genuinely hated each other and traded biting barbs all the time. Another classic Disraeli quote: "The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."

Just needs "onna stick" to make it perfect. Those who get the reference will understand.

I was told about a decade ago that modelling Chinese railways is seen as a "politically acceptable" hobby for the growing middle class.

Somewhat topical. https://japantoday.com/category/national/feature-rise-in-japan's-unmanned-rail-stations-creating-concerns

I read endless letters in railway magazines of the 1970s and early 80s ridiculing suggestions that diesels should be preserved, because don't have the character of steam and don't belong on heritage lines. Now diesel galas are an intrinsic part of many heritage railways. Literally the same views resurface every 20 or so years when another generation of rollingstock is retired. The job of a heritage railway is to preserve railway heritage. While the Pacers ended up doing things they were not designed to do for about twice their intended life, they are nevertheless an important part of railway history which needs to be preserved. Ergo, they belong on heritage railways. The National Tramway Museum at Crich and the London Bus Museum at Brooklands have preserved vehicles of similar vintage to the Pacers (and even buses built this century are preserved) for a reason - they are a part of history, no matter how much some grumbled about them in regular service.

The only preserved Queensland C16 is now main line accredited.

It's a preserved 1943 Madrid metro train on display at Chamartín for the centenary in 2019.

It went to Broadbeach on the Gold Coast and ran a 1.3 km loop between a hotel and a casino. The line was mothballed in 2017 due to life expired components and a lack of spare parts (a common theme with Von Roll monorails) and the train was sold in 2022. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-30/broadbeach-monorail-closes-after-almost-three-decades/8224210 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-03/decommissioned-broadbeach-monorail-carriages-for-sale/101032536

Still under investigation but the woman who cooked the meal said the mushrooms were bought at a supermarket and she also ended up in hospital. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/mushroom-poisoning-leongatha-erin-patterson-police-statement/102725876

Triang Super 4 track?

This has happened before. It's easy to mistake them for edible types. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-04/two-die-from-death-cap-mushrooms/3757764

People called Romanes, they like five beers?

There aren't many sights more impressive than double headed R class at speed.

There was a layout in the pages of MR in the late 70s which did this. It was OO in the front and that new fangled Z gauge in the background. IIRC the Z gauge was a single dogbone with just one train, an Elmar class 47 and some German coaches repainted blue and grey.

Mainly the leisure market. About 75% of business travellers use Eurostar. Where else but Paris Nord? Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy has the required border control facilities and RER connections to Paris proper.

The Inner Circle was nominally complete in 1884. To say the Met and the District both operated the service is a bit of a misnomer - they were fierce rivals and regularly disrupted each other out of spite, e.g. chaining rollingstock to the track. (I could go on about this but Jago Hazzard has many more examples in his videos.) They were both forced by Act of Parliament to operate the line but in a completely ridiculous way. The Met provided the clockwise service and the District provided the anti-clockwise service. If you bought a District ticket from, say, Paddington to Baker Street you had to go the long way around!