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  1. Welchester
    The journey took hours, I believe.
  2. Welchester
    In 1986 I took a car from Dover to Calais on the Herald of Free Enterprise. My travelling companion and I were convinced that with a name like that the vessel was doomed.
  3. Welchester
    Harpic. Clean round the bend.
  4. Welchester
    I agree with the OP that the locomotive appears to have 'GWR' on the tank sides. This would date the photograph to after 1942 1942 or after. Miss Prism's excellent site.
  5. Welchester
    Isn't that an unacceptable racist term? 😆
  6. Welchester
    When I was a boy, around Guy Fawkes night, we used to put bangers in the 'country pancakes' in the fields behind my parents' house. Fresh cowpats were the best as they were softer and dispersed farther.
  7. Welchester
    O1 http://www.gwr.org.uk/kits4coacha.html
  8. Welchester
    I believe Peter Cook did the same in the Sixties.
  9. Welchester
    Snap!
  10. Welchester
    Perhaps to be very, very drunk is the answer.
  11. Welchester
    The usual headgear was a cloth cap worn back to front, to prevent it blowing off. I heard this from people who grew to adulthood in the 1930s.
  12. Welchester
    i'd forgotten that Newport rhymes with Rupert, but then it's over thirty years since I left mummersher and I've forgotten how to talk tidy.
  13. Welchester
    If you are selling to a dealer, it is well worth shopping around. When I moved from OO to O I had a number of quotes. Hattons was by far the best - nearly a third as much again as another large retailer, but they are sadly no longer wth us. The dealer will pay for carriage. In my case they sent a courier. Ellis Clarke even offered to pack the items.
  14. Welchester
    Local residents, however, objected to signs in Welsh.
  15. Welchester
    It looks as though the car on the left has had too many Hamburgers.
  16. Welchester
    My memory was jogged to remember that in the early 1970s Eric Ilett produced some 4mm plans of Dunster Signal Box in a volume published by Peco under the title Ericplans.
  17. Welchester
    The 'Fordhampton' signal box had an earlier life with Hornby as a GWR box. https://www.hattons.co.uk/178626/hornby_r186signal_gwr_signal_box_crossing/stockdetail I think it's a model of the box which was formerly at Dunster and now at Minehead on the WSR, although the lower windows are wrong. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Minehead_Signal_Box.jpg
  18. Welchester
    Either is good then.
  19. Welchester
    It is surprising what you can clean in a dishwasher. Some of my clergy friends recommend it for cleaning thuribles (incense burners).
  20. Welchester
    What period are you modelling? If you're going for the as originally built version, only the Dapol 57XX has the correct cab handrails. GWR Engines, Names Numbers Types & Classes surely? https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91oygZkTRQL._SL1500_.jpg
  21. Welchester
    Bill and Ben in the bath. Bill goes flubbalubbalubbalub. Ben says, 'If you do that again Bill, I'm getting out.'
  22. Welchester
    We're off.
  23. Welchester
    Wasn't a large Prairie and B set one of the first Airfix train sets? Maybe a large Prairie was needed to keep the tight timings. Oh, but this is Little Muddle.
  24. Welchester
    I didn't know that. It's thirty years since I lived in the area, and then it was almost the only place that didn't have a bilingual sign. The local pronunciation of Pontnewynydd btw is not proper Welsh, but 'Pon-wen-id'.
  25. Welchester
    I once heard somebody pronounce Ynysddu as 'Yuns dew'. OTOH I have never seen the Welsh spelling of Varteg (near Pontnewynydd).
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