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The decorative “pinnacles” (what's the word?) …

Finials? Not 100% sure. 

For a more poetic look at the demise of horse traffic, try Ivor Cutler’s Life in a Scotch Sitting Room. Can’t find out which episode just now, but it starts “Our street was a hippodrome”

edit: episode 13. Really hard to find online, either via youtube or sellers of LP or CD, so you’d have to find someone who has digitised it and would be willing to share it. 

7 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

How many does one need?

One for luck?

2 hours ago, phil_sutters said:

Across the sea in Bruges they have a solution to fouled streets.

And further afield in Switzerland, back in 2013, the posh tourist horse-drawn post coach over the Gotthard pass was in town, complete with a man in a van for the luggage, who also had a shovel for cleaning up afterwards:

Just "dropping" in to say, in best football manager style, "the boy dung good"!

Doh! Didn’t notice

Someone has to say it: are you going to be adding weeds to the platforms? Dandelions specifically. 

It's the same livery as Railway Technical Centre, Derby, but I don't think it was used by the research dept. It lived at Slade Green EMU depot, in plain blue as 08600 for long enough, then painted in the red/blue livery possibly 1980/81 (see my photo from 1981/2ish at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/57426-n33-0010-97800-ivor-slade-green/)and then got painted into Network South East around 1986, all the while allocated to Slade Green for shunting bits of EMUs and assorted wagons.

Why did I think the porta-loo was Dr Who's Tardis?

6. Forums would be the English plural, fora the Latin.

Not to be confused with the four "um" s that were uttered when trying to curve the flexitrack, and the four "ah" s that came out when you worked it out.

Is it worth asking the question in the main forum, prototype questions section? Some of us don't look in the blogs that much.

Grew up in Strood, and often ended up on one all the way to grandparents in Ramsgate.

Was very HAPpy when the Maidstone line went HAPless for a while, using 4-CEPs instead, what a step up!

The loos in the HAPs had a green soap with a very distinctive smell. 

Best train ever? Depends on your criteria I suppose. They were pretty reliable, but also pretty basic. And their relatives the Bulleid EPBs rode atrociously.

I've a soft spot for them in the same way I'm attracted to grotty industrial landscapes - but I wouldn't want to live there.

Nice to see a loudspeaker dedicated to James Brown (Funk)!

I liked the parallel running half way through the video.

Also, it looked like there weren't very many passengers - is that normal for May/June?

Well I'd love to turn up with a Kyle-Uckfield return ticket, but unfortunately...

a. it's 

Trouble with doing a refurb 4CEP is all those windows need replacing with the "hopper" style, and there are also windows in different places on 3/4 of the coaches (they removed the guard's vans from the end coaches and put one in the composite).

Worth a question on the forums under Prototype Questions?

Can't believe no-one's mentioned the dove of peace yet! 

Particularly like the blackletter signs - that must confuse the tourists!

Yes, the klassiek motorstel is what I meant for those EMUs, and no, not the class 13 in the middle, but two  independent push-pull sets of about 5 cars total, each with a loco, combined for a train that splits en route (Knokke and Blankenberge I think). No idea on locos. This would have been maybe 2010/2011 or so.

Brussels - I was impressed last time by the push-pull loco sets combining with one loco in the middle of the train. Not sure if it was the same type as your photo.

And have those ancient-looking AM-series EMUs disappeared yet? I know they're being replaced by the AM08 series? 

Gazetteer of British place names at http://www.gazetteer.org.uk/search.php?type=co&place=apa

gives only 3 entries containing -apa-, Balnapaling in Ross-shire, Lapal in Worcs, and Upper Neapaback on Shetland.

Or go with something ending in -ap followed by something starting with a-. How about Shap Abbey maybe?

Napa Valley? If it's N gauge.

Ah yes, InterRail, not just for impoverished students. Good for flexibility, and not bad value for something like this, when you have days of travel interspersed with days staying put fairly locally. You could maybe have done it cheaper with advance tickets, but not by much.

Thanks. I wasn't quite so adventurous, but still needed my walking boots!