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  1. 2mmMark

    No wonder the railways are in a state if Charles Hawtrey is in charge!

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    2. locoholic

      locoholic

      Carry on Up the Khyber...

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Carry on Constable - I want that painting finished as soon as possible...

    4. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      “Ooh, hello-o!”

  2. 2mmMark

    I heard the announcer on BBC4 say that after Trainspotting, they would be showing "The Tit-filled Thunderbolt". Quite disappointed. I was looking forward to a revealing documentary about the Leave campaign's battle-bus.

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    2. NHY 581

      NHY 581

      Our magnificent generals, General Gordon and General Booth.

       

       

    3. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      Did enjoy seeing Titfield sgain.

    4. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      A little gem there Mark.

  3. 2mmMark

    I have an idea - let's make apostrophes chargeable. Then there would be some incentive to get them right and not slam one in everytime a word ends with an S

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    2. Dave47549

      Dave47549

      That's taking the pi's's...

    3. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      Indeed. I'm an apoplectic apostle of appropriate apostrophes...

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      'S right.

  4. 2mmMark

    Nearly completed a French metre gauge brake van. Things are moving to a fourgon conclusion.

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    2. Northroader

      Northroader

      Stop it, I like eet!

    3. MarkC

      MarkC

      Chacun a son gout...

    4. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      La guerre, yes, Sir.

  5. 2mmMark

    A friend's cat destroyed the Great Eastern loco he was building. Ended up as a clawed Hamilton.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Next!

    3. neal

      neal

      Catastrophe

       

    4. Guest

      Guest

      Sure it wasn't the Decapawed?

  6. 2mmMark

    I've been idly speculating how much the average sovereign Arab state weighs. Perhaps it's time for the Qatar mass experiment?

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    2. admiles

      admiles

      with that level of humour ebay his coat and chuck 'im out!

    3. Tony_S

      Tony_S

      Be Syrias!

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      This is right out of ISIHAC.

  7. 2mmMark

    Whoops - fast setting concrete in the Victoria line signalling room. Is your train set? It is now!

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    2. Jawfin

      Jawfin

      And I thought Downpatrick was bad!

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      That is .....

    4. LH&JC

      LH&JC

      What a bunch of clowns

  8. 2mmMark

    Our local Tesco currently has various Gorilla glues on special offer. I stocked up on the two types of superglue.

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    2. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      Yes but catching the gorillas is so exhausting.

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Catching the gorillas is easy, they usually turn up to poke fun at your duff joints. Its feeding them into a blender to make the glue thats the faff.

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Gorillas in a blender sounds like something out of "Fargo".

  9. 2mmMark

    Wel I never! Mazak disease has killed our breadmaker. Diecast drive housing just crumbled away.

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    2. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      I hear Klein Modellbahn had problems with that, too.

    3. johnb

      johnb

      I just hope that the bread is not very very crunchy

    4. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Rich in zinc though, I guess!

  10. 2mmMark

    What's going on with Andrew Neil's hair? Could it be a useful scenic technique?

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    2. bgman

      bgman

      Flock!

    3. RichardW1

      RichardW1

      Panic

    4. Two_sugars

      Two_sugars

      advancing hair-line

  11. 2mmMark

    Southern's new timetable aimed at "providing certainty for customers" - could have been inspired by Dr. Beeching. :-/

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    2. Alister_G

      Alister_G

      yeah, we'll remove all the trains, so then you'll be absolutely certain there isn't one.

    3. JJGraphics

      JJGraphics

      It would be fun running the railway if it was not for the passengers!

    4. PhilEakins

      PhilEakins

      Hate to say this - Beeching only wrote a report. He got blamed for the rest.

  12. 2mmMark

    66 and a single ballast hopper through our local station this afternoon. We don't see that too often.

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    2. 2mmMark

      2mmMark

      Feltham

    3. 2mmMark

      2mmMark

      Would have been about 15:45. Only caught a glimpse

       

    4. Glorious NSE

      Glorious NSE

      Hoo to Eastleigh?

      It should run most days, though it usually has more than one wagon. ;)

       

  13. 2mmMark

    Could have sworn I put those GNR coach sides in a safe place, not in a sodding witness protection scheme.

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    2. Trainshed Terry

      Trainshed Terry

      I how that fills. Put something in a safe place never to be found ever Agian.

    3. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      Think of the safest place you have and then forget it. That's where they'll be!

    4. highpeakman

      highpeakman

      Every time I tidy up and organise things I lose something. One of the great questions of life I have never been able to solve.

  14. 2mmMark

    Wondering if the ERG members will be making cardboard rolling stock?

    1. Claude_Dreyfus

      Claude_Dreyfus

      Will they be using a plotter cutter?

    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      They could use a Cardboard Cutout as that would perform more satisfactorily :)

    3. Chris Higgs

      Chris Higgs

      I think that would be a little too modern for some of them.

  15. 2mmMark

    It's a little known fact that the Morris Minor was originally going to be named the Morris Minories.

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      I doubt it, it only contained one set of points!

    2. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      We're fortunatel that they resisted the temptation to call it the 'Dancer'.

    3. 2mmMark

      2mmMark

      I tried tap dancing but I kept falling into the sink.

       

  16. 2mmMark

    Getting worried - I spent some time on Saturday trying to remember the name of something I used in my point mechanism. Memory wire. :-/

    1. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Easy to forget that, maybe you need an aide memoire?

    2. 2mmMark

      2mmMark

      Some aide memoire wire?

    3. sharris

      sharris

      Apparently it's also used in some bra underwiring. Does that make it mammary wire?

  17. 2mmMark

    Just been asked if I knew anything about Metropolitan Vickers. I said it was important for the church to tackle urban issues.

    1. bgman

      bgman

      Big belly laugh ! Thank you :)

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      That would be an ecumenical matter.

    3. adb968008

      adb968008

      My grandad worked there.

  18. 2mmMark

    The Gauge 0 Guild Spring Show - for clockwork enthusiasts presumably?

    1. CKPR

      CKPR

      With comments like them, you'll wind 'em up !

       

    2. locoholic

      locoholic

      That's the key to the situation!

    3. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      Clockwork '0' range?

  19. 2mmMark

    DEMU members? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwvzP2JcFtg

    1. Crisis Rail

      Crisis Rail

      Yes I recognise quite a few there.

    2. big jim

      big jim

      i cant stop watching it!

    3. Nobby (John)

      Nobby (John)

      probably, energetic, enthusiastic, not counting rivets or posting page after page of nonsense, yep they are DEMU members alright

  20. 2mmMark

    Swedish railways PW dept. very nearly adopted Brunel's Bjork Road. Not many people know that.

    1. Kev_Lewis

      Kev_Lewis

      Was it oh so quiet?

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      The Absolut Truth.

    3. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Possibly. Maybe.

  21. 2mmMark

    "Are you using Lenz DCC?" "No, I bought my own."

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      *groan*

    2. Jawfin

      Jawfin

      Your jokes are getting worse...

    3. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      No Jawfin, I assure you, I've heard worse from Mark!

  22. 2mmMark

    RIP Geoff Duke, motorcycle racer extraordinaire :-(

    1. New Haven Neil

      New Haven Neil

      see my photo in wheeltappers ER's this morning.

    2. Judge Dread

      Judge Dread

      Yes,indeed, R.I.P.

  23. 2mmMark

    Yet another failure on the lines out of Waterloo today. Feeling like it's a very flaky system.

    1. Phil Copleston

      Phil Copleston

      Waterloo needs a good Flushing: The NS always did know how to run trains better... ;-)

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Ideal for the cakebox challenge, a platform end with a swarm of hi-vis jackets clustered around some defective track....

  24. 2mmMark

    I wish I could Google my workshop, to find out what I've done with that pack of Microscale Rock Island transfers. :-(

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Look for something completely different and then they'll appear

    2. ian

      ian

      But a replacement set, that usually makes them reappear too.

  25. 2mmMark

    Industrial railway is very nearly an anagram of "a nudist willy aria"

    1. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      That you, Boris?

    2. Boris

      Boris

      Nudie Boris!!!

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