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As long as it's the bruin variety :-).

Sorry off topicWe grew up with trips from Hertford to Bournemouth guest houses with trips to Compton Acres,Poole Pottery (original shed)and my brother and I highlight was fresh pies from the bakers on Poole high street (still there just) a kayak around the boating lake and the minstrel railway Back on topic I have an interview for an IOW based role....biggest issue the cost and time for the 12mile commute from home. Wife has suggested bicycle and canoe Colin

There are some vehicles that will fit a bit closer .....Poole Park miniature railway as the volunteers have withdrawn their services.

I can recall that bus from the 70's. We however volunteered for the manual version the open top route up to Reculver

Not quite Back in the 90's I was heavily involved in food contact legislation and plastics The U.K. Rightly agreed that measuring migration of chemical out of a thin film meant you could not divide the result by two as the film was so thin that any chemicals would be pulled through a 10 micron film. For thicker materials this was permitted The Italians seemed to be able to make much stickier softer film and get it certificated in Italy Yes they had applied the divide by two rule. Oh and the official test involved using olive oil for 10 days. I developed a test that used solvent and gave the same realty after 2 hrs. My test was not authorised by the DG responsible .......an Italian with lots of olive oil farmers to suck up to A regulation must be applied identically in every member state A directive is applied with interpretation by member states in the UK via statutory instrument in my case. Thus allowing some deviation

It seems Air France may beat SNCF to the lemmings off a cliff moment That may actually sharpen minds on both sides of the dispute when they see a national carrier go under Colin

Pete It shouts Kings Cross Suburban to me who spent the first 12 years of his life sat at the front of a Cravens only stopping when the GNE came into service So another vote for what it is a brilliant representation of KXsub Colin

Perhaps it's being included in a job lot sale with Wembley :-)

Reusable nappies still exist although not quite as per the old days My wife when I first met her ran a nappy deliver service with her sister Cotton nappies A disposable liner...bonded fibre sort of thing And wraps/pants to go over the top The parents would buy the wraps and be charged for x no of nappies per week Every week Tina would collect the dirty nappies in sacks and deliver freshly laundered ones Hospital laundry was used and was good business for them She did get stopped once by the police who wanted to see what was in the back of the van ...she replied sh.t. But he didn't believe her and insisted on having a look...it was a hot day so strangely for some reason he only took a brief look before sending her on her way :-) The business was sold and the new owners were caught up in the Lloyds? commercial banking fraud case and lost a lot of money Colin

Nothing to do with Rover this was pure Honda in fact by the time this branch was built Rover was no longer existing This is the South Marston SDC line that was built with the aim to have both parts delivered by train....many of Hondas suppliers at the time had plants in Eastern Europe so it was seen as an option Also for delivery of cars for export to Bristol Or Southampton Apart from a publicity train I'm not aware of it being used regularly. Line 2 at Honda Jazz and Civic has fluctuated in use over the years and output now may not make the rail option feasible It was a great idea at the time Colin

Beware plastic bags labelled as compostable Years ago and I mean early 90's as a plastics producer we were offered lots of additives to make our product compost What they meant was it would allow the plastic to break down into smaller and smaller pieces Or as we now call them micro plastics :-( Colin

Just remember with Hertford East there were walls on both platforms although in my time early 70's the down siding had gone or at least was oou And the up sidings were overgrown but very much in use With an Aunt who lived in Enfield this thread brings back great memories Searching signalling will be needed of course Colin

There is a handy website to let you know what's not working and where :-) Cestlagreve.fr

With our local line closed for emergency work .. Track gauge issue. So when we get there this week I will be able to observe the French equivalent of a rail replacement bus service The local press report nearly 200m€ needed and the concern is that with the strike the calculation will be made to mothball the line

Not sure if anyone else has seen this. Found it whilst browsing

So I must live part time in Charente Superior :-)

Interesting discussion on how people seem to be blinded by procedures etc I have just launched across EMEA a Playbook for my function What has been amazing is the number of highly intelligent, skilled and experienced people who have then rung me to ask what should I do in case of xyz or abc I refer them to page 1 of my publication "Please note in all cases Common Sense should be the overriding guide as to what is correct" Colin

I asked and they admitted they no longer stock the wider range only the Lh and Rh straight points I understand why they can use the space for more saleable items. Just means I have less reason to visit

I suppose a sign of the times but went in for a curved HOm point and found they had reduced stock down to the bare minimum. Lh and Rh points, no curved points,no slips Much reduced from a couple of years ago Luckily we were in Chichester for shopping anyway but this was a shop I always relied on to have a wide range. Alternatives via mail order are cheaper so a customer lost And with Winco retirement this year I was hoping Gaugemaster would be looking to take over sales of BEMO in the south Colin

I haven't seen anything posted so just a brief note having visited today It's on tomorrow as well It's at the Oasis Academy in Nursling/Lordshill Southampton Good mix of layouts and trade But what was really obvious was how many of the layouts were child freindly with some inviting youngsters to have a go For me also inspiration came with the small layouts which showed how much can be achieved in a relatively small space And I learnt that my wife prefers steam but the chimney must be a certain size to be attractive. In fact She was almost tempted to buy a second hand Hornby Tornado set And then started suggesting I needed some German steam locomotives ..... There is hope

Yes you post provoked my interest and indeed it seems from July in an effort to reduce accident deaths

What is 80 the new 90 :-0

Hardly. The clearing the throat changes in 1977 were sensible given that traffic had been diverted to Moorgate As someone who whilst young regularly used the GN suburban services the new arrangement were far better than the old arrangement The eastern most line was in effect a York Road only line I have to say that I am surprised that the new layout proposed doesn't seem to make the most with the new Thameslink junction

In rough conditions at Bolougne the hovercraft would come along the beach before heading out across the Channel As observed around 1974 when on. School Travel service week long stay in a hotel on Le Portel sea front

Model Railway Transfer Company finds that it's lobbying finally pays off and changes it pricing model to per digit Now expects profits to rise :-)