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  1. Welchester
    Excellent modelling, but shouldn't the newspaper be the Pink 'Un?
  2. Welchester
    Isn't that an example of biting the hand that feeds you, or at least that puts a cross next to the name of the Conservative candidate at the polling booth?
  3. Welchester
    A good strain.
  4. Welchester
    Why did it have a tender behind? It passed a telegraph pole. How did it pass a telegraph pole? With a good s train.
  5. Welchester
    Hey, it's the Great Western. Any loco can do any job. Except the pannier tanks with no vacuum brake, obviously.
  6. Welchester

    Dapol Autocoach

    Welchester replied to sjrixon's topic in Dapol

    If you enlarge the three-quarters front view, you can see the traction tyre, sadly.
  7. Welchester
    Is that a form of contraception?
  8. Welchester
    None of those sells pickled sprouts. https://www.fortnumandmason.com/pickled-brussels-sprouts-570g
  9. Welchester
    On the subject of TWA.., Alex's writer was pleased to get two four letter words into this cartoon in the 'Telegraph': https://www.alexcartoon.com/index.cfm?cartoon_num=8102
  10. Welchester
    Animal faeces are actually used in bellfounding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellfounding#Constructing_the_mould
  11. Welchester
    I've never seen 'horsed' used in that sense before; 'the Manchester train was horsed by a four-wheels-coupled engine.' Is it a misprint?
  12. Welchester
    Glue 'n' glaze?
  13. Welchester
    Didn't the supply of horses dry up in 1922 with Irish independence, which was a major impetus for the British army to mechanise?
  14. Welchester
    If we’re thinking of the same reference (Isaiah 6:2), it’s not clear from the text whose “feet” are being covered.
  15. Welchester
    Like "feet" in the Old Testament.
  16. Welchester
    Blorenge? Sporange?
  17. Welchester
    Not knighted, but baroneted (if such a verb exists).
  18. Welchester
    There’s quite a lot of interesting stuff, mainly from the perspective of Control, in the BTF film Train Time. https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-train-time-1952-online
  19. Welchester
    Cheltenham Malvern Road could send smaller locomotives to the turntable at St James. Larger engines were turned on the Hatherley triangle (the junction for Kingham and the MSWJR). It's ideal! It even saw LNER types in wartime.
  20. Welchester
    You can see the edge of the turntable in this photograph from Brian Arman's Broad Gauge Engines of the Great Western Railway: Part 1 (Lightmoor Press). Another turntable was provided on the St James' Station site after the line to Honeybourne was opened.
  21. Welchester
    Interesting that Zola was included in the Panthéon not for his novels, but for his rôle in the Dreyfus affaire. J'accuse!
  22. Welchester
    Wasn't that a type of hat favoured by the Victorians?
  23. Welchester
    I knew someone who pronounced Goethe "Go-ee-thee", and a church organist who thought Beethoven was "Beeth - oven".
  24. Welchester
    Readers of George MacDonald Fraser will know that Lincoln got the idea from Flashman.
  25. Welchester
    On the flag too, which looked different from either side.
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