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  1. Neasden is the new Haverfordwest...

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    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Willie Rushton would be horrified

    3. 46444

      46444

      Featherstone Rovers

    4. NGT6 1315
  2. Lusting after a Jensen Interceptor... somebody, pleae make it stop...!

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    2. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      Think I can only drive 500 miles a year max costing

    3. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      Think I can only drive 500 miles a year max costing

    4. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Well a boy can only dream can't he... ;-)

  3. Had a 'disagree' on one of my posts where I answered a question about livery time frames giving references to factual / photographic evidence... I wonder what that was about? !!!

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    2. CovDriver

      CovDriver

      It's usually dyslexic fingers as some people tell me how they know guard duties better than me!!

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Usually a 'double bluff' in my case....

    4. Rugd1022
  4. It's all doom and gloom at work, almost putting me off railways altogether....

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    2. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Big cloud looming over us at the moment, brought about by pig headed attitude from 'the fifth floor'!

    3. CovDriver

      CovDriver

      Sounds exactly like our lot after the new Ops director has joined us I'm looking for something else railway related now

       

    4. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Gone are the days when a job on the railway was 'a job for life'... ;-(

  5. Oh dear, I think I'm coming down with 'Somerset & Dorset syndrome' again, damn you flickr, damn you Ivo Peters, damn you all...!

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    2. 3 link

      3 link

      Just relax and enjoy....

    3. rcmacchipilot

      rcmacchipilot

      I hearby prescribe two hours reading of "the somerset and dorset: Now and Then"

    4. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Will that be two hours twice daily...? Well I gave in good and proper last night, dug out all the books and decided I need to buy some S&D DVDs!

  6. Seems I can't post anything on the forum properly except here...!

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    2. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Hmmm, tried it, didn't work...!

    3. BlackRat

      BlackRat

      Try emptying your browser history, worked for me :)

    4. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Working fine now... ta for the tips gents ;-)

       

  7. Jags, Jags and yet more Jags at every turn at the NEC today... giving me that same warm tingly feeling that Westerns do when seen 'in the flesh'. Let the cravings commence ;-)

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    2. Michael Delamar

      Michael Delamar

      i want a bright red mk2 :)

    3. Downendian

      Downendian

      Overtook an E type on the M5 this week. I know exactly what you mean Nidge.

    4. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      You overtook an E-Type..? Not very sporting of you old chap...!

  8. Almost went off railways for good this week due to monumentally bad vibes and low moral at work, but having just come home and looked at the good Cap'n Kernow's lovely shots of the Falmouth Branch am now perked up somewhat - cheers CK ;O)

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    2. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Sorry to here your news Phil, hope he's feeling better. Cheers chaps - been a really strange couple of weeks, job's falling to bits and nobody 'upstairs' gives a stuff... workload is through the roof, we're several drivers short, moral is at an all time low and our customers are getting the wrong end of the stick, thinking we're all workshy lazy ****'s! Talk about piggy in the middle...

       

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Sorry to hear of your news, Nidge (and your's Phil). Apologies if the shot showing the FLHH loco was 'fat in the fire', but at least we've got our relaying done. Even bigger job coming up on the Barnstaple branch in a week or so - 16 days of blockade and 9.3 miles of track being re-laid!

    4. beast66606
  9. Scooping my jaw off the floor after perusing the astonishing 'Bradfield Glos. Sq.' in the layout section of the forum... how did I miss it?

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    2. Andy Y

      Andy Y

      Tut tut Nidge; you must have missed out on MI1 with BGS too. ;)

    3. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Consider my wrist duly slapped Andy! Just about to post some 'fettled' b&w shots the Bradfield thread withJohn's permission ;o)

    4. Dan Randall

      Dan Randall

      It is rather nice Nidge. I was perusing the latest MRJ at Camrail today and think I noticed an article about it in there.

  10. Damn those cable thieves!!! Temporary Block Working between Daw Mill and Nuneaton again today causing no end of grief for passenger and freight alike. Clamp down on the b*gg*rs at the receiving end and the thieving toe rags will have no excuse to nick the cables in the first place.....grrrrr, etc...

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      I'm beginning to think that the only solution is to bury the cables really deep, and build plenty of redundancy into the cable route at the same time, so you don't ever need to dig it up again...

    3. Pugsley

      Pugsley

      I'm beginning to think that chopping their hands off if caught has merits!

    4. sixteen 12by 10s

      sixteen 12by 10s

      Its the whole culture of scrap dealing that needs looking at, when you can go into a scrap dealer and BUY perfectly usable bundles of copper pipe, there’s something wrong.

  11. Has the RMWeb 'marketplace' for selling models etc disappeared..? Was hoping to avoid ebay by selling what's left of my collection on here...

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    2. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      I always did better with my sales on here ten years back than on eBay.

      Shame it’s not an option now especially when I have stuff to offload.

    3. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      A little bird whispered in my ear a while back that something of the kind is being considered for the future. Accordingly I am happy to wait as i don't like Ebay and Amazon has its difficulties with postage charges etc.

    4. gridwatcher

      gridwatcher

      It was great when it was private individuals selling stuff to like minded people. Then the professional sellers/shops came in and it was wrecked. Either back to original format or don't bother

       

  12. Just found out our new guvnor is the ex-EWS Inspector who trained the St.Blazey driver up on D1015 in the 'Day On The Clay' video... ;o)

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    2. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Those BS get about Jim... did he say who he was by any chance...?

    3. big jim

      big jim

      i think he did but i forgot, lives in cannock

    4. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Ooh hang on then... might be Paul Crutchley...

  13. Redundancy letter just arrived, nobody is 100% certain whether our little depot is safe or not, blood pressure is rising, baaahhh!

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    2. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Cheers Rob, it's the uncertainty that's making things worse at the moment!

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      Not good Nidge - hope it turns out ok for you

    4. Dave47549

      Dave47549

      "We're all in it together"....

  14. Showed my Dad a photo of the Great Central 'birdcage bridge' at Rugby being cut up in 2006...'oh we used to run across that between the trains' says he....!

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    2. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      It's no wonder he was dead against me joining the railway when I left school...!

    3. TheSignalEngineer

      TheSignalEngineer

      There was a spot between the girders where you could hide and still see the trains when the BTP were clearing the spotters off the embankment.

    4. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      I never knew that...!

  15. Just pranged my old Rover on my own driveway... so angry with myself I could scream.....

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    2. westernglory

      westernglory

      Feel for you mate....

    3. big T

      big T

      Nooooooooooooooooooo!!

    4. beast66606

      beast66606

      Ouch, hope it's not too bad

  16. Another birthday in the bag and another year that's flown by... where do they all go? Daft thing is, I can remeber things from nearly forty years ago quite vividly, but forget what I had for tea last Thursday...

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    2. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Ta Dave... I think! 'Senior Moments' sounds like a brand name for old chocolate... ;-)

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      Last Thursday ? - did we have one ?

       

    4. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      It came and went Beast.... the days and weeks seem to merge with other now! Woosh, there goes another one ;-)

  17. Worked the first loaded train into Coalville for over twenty years yesterday... pity the place is a shadow of it's former self though ;-)

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    2. Leicester Thumper

      Leicester Thumper

      you poor ######, you don't want to know what us Lesta folk say about coalville!!! LOL

    3. Leicester Thumper

      Leicester Thumper

      oh it don't like the word b.ugg.er ....

    4. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      And you don't want to know what Co'ville folk say about Lesta...!

  18. Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere...

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    2. rembrow

      rembrow

      It's all a trick of perspective

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Small.... far away....

    4. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      These are the voyages...

  19. Getting all misty eyed looking at Brian Daniels' early HST photos... by crikey , didn't that original livery look the dog's danglies...!

    1. gridwatcher
    2. devondynosoar118

      devondynosoar118

      Yes again, where is another run Dapol Dave?

    3. Jon020

      Jon020

      It was striking and eye catching to the eyes of an 8 year old the first time he saw one... but the eyes turned misty with moisture when the 55s started to disappear as a result.

  20. RMWeb - can't keep up, can't keep away, can't remember where I've posted or where I read what but by the cringe it's a grand place to be just lately... ;O)

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Here's an update of the last 7 days Rugd1022: Blue = Good, Red = Bad but remember just like Soapland this isn't necessarily representative of real life.

    2. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Chuckling at that Mr.M!

       

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      Simply the best (great photos in the signalling thread, of great use to those who need inspiration)

  21. Just in the mood to crack on with some modelling but I have to go to work...!

    1. big jim
    2. CovDriver

      CovDriver

      I'm just about to finish for today hopefully I'm spare again tomorrow and I can get some wagon kits built!!

    3. Rugd1022

      Rugd1022

      Back home now, had a good run up the Midland following the Hope Cement empties, but the modelling mojo has gone off to hide in the corner!

  22. What is it about under the average under 25s in Oxford who step out into the road right in front you...? The best education money can buy and not an ounce of common sense between 'em!

    1. Boris

      Boris

      Welcome to the Upper Class Twit of the Year Show!

    2. P.C.M

      P.C.M

      You know what they say about common sense. It's not that common.

    3. St. Simon

      St. Simon

      Us school kids don't get lessons in common sense. Maybe that's a reason

  23. Everytime I drive past one of these new fangled wind turbines, I feel a strange urge to by a very big Airfix Spitfire kit... ;-)

    1. Trainshed Terry

      Trainshed Terry

      Jame May in disguise anyone.

    2. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      I want an axe a very big axe.

    3. halfwit

      halfwit

      Mick, do you want to chop up James May (entirely understandable of course although the other two should get it first) or a wind turbine? In which case an axe would be somewhat unsuitable.

  24. Golden brown, texture like sun...had this one swirling round inside my head all day ;o)

    1. beast66606

      beast66606

      Never a frown, with Golden Brown

    2. Baby Deltic

      Baby Deltic

      Golden brown? Maybe you could borrow some of that polish Pennine is advertising.

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Never quiet got my head around this lovely song by the STRANGLERS!

  25. was counting Diesel Hydraulics in my sleep last night, lordy make it stop ;-)

    1. westernglory

      westernglory

      That's no bad thing Nidge surely?

    2. Pixie

      Pixie

      I don't think asking D1047 will help... ;)

    3. Baby Deltic

      Baby Deltic

      I suppose once you got to the Warships you sank into a deep sleep.

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