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I can think of a chippy in the locality where said establishment didn't need a trading name. The serving lady was well-known for her "cough" pneumatic qualities" cough". Enough to guarantee a full audience at lunch time. Ian.

I'm just wondering the geographical 'spread' of the atlantics. Redhill is a no-brainer, so is Gloucester Road. Getting a bit thin on the ground past there. I should qualify that by saying that I'm 100% Western. Well, that bit between London Bridge to Brighton....

It's always difficult to come up with a 'funny', when the chips are down....

I don't fully understand the sentences either, and I wrote it!

There is nothing like publicity. drop a wheel off, put a tender on back to front. It's all publicity. Get the tongues wagging! Take off the Peckett, put on the Connie. It's a doddle. Publicly put the prices up, and then drop them back a little. What nice people Hornby are! Put a fictitious number on the loco, and call it City of Truro, and, paint it red. Bright red. Nice orange coaches to go with it. Box it up, and call it "The Jaffa Junction Express". What! Hornby are doing what?! Nothing like a bit of froth.... I do like the yellow one. "Sir William .A. Wedgewood BRS". Happy weekend, everyone!

Lots of pigeons are called Walter....

Adding sugar to a cup of tea makes it tastes sweet. Adding sugar, flour, molasses, salt & finely ground pepper, make an ideal consistency to chuck it in the dustbin.

Bachmann continue to 'foist' a top feed onto the 57xx pannier, effectively putting the timeline between 1936-1965. Also, not all of the 64xx panniers carried topfeed.. Quite a few of the locomotive went their entire working lives without them. It seems such a pity to blatantly ignore a legitimate viewpoint. Of course, it's only a hop, skip & jump away from the 27xx pannier, which puts it into the same working era as City of Truro, amongst other earlier era locomotives & stock. Ian.

You must be the yearly recipient of Mallard, painted red, emblazoned "It's your birthday....." "It comes around, but once a year" "Give a smile, give a cheer" "We'll try not to notice, as you sing the song" "That the wheels are wonky, and the colours all wrong" Whaddya mean, you like trains, dontcha?

Happy new year! For heavens sake, give the bloke a break! It's wise to remember that if you've got the money, you can buy anything, at pretty much any time. Bleating about not having toy X, in colour Y is, quite frankly, laughable. The prevailing attitude about 'building & paying' can be looked at both sides, methinks. As a dyed in the wool Great Western person, may one enquire when are you liable to release your model of a Large Metro? Pushing doesn't help here: Polite discussion about future models pays dividends. Trolling isn't very productive, either. On a lighter note, if you fund up for a Large Metro, 1016, or say, a 'Stella', let me know, I'll put my name down for the first out of the box. Your cheque, sir, awaits..... Cheers, Ian.

Vary the cab & tender, and you've got a Taff Vale Railway 'K' or 'L' class. At least, it should be. London Road do all of the nice bits & pieces to do so. Cheers, Ian.

I agree! But, we made Austin Maestros, and Montegos. Specifically, the wheels which ended up on said cars. It would be interesting how many are left on the road.

The 100,000 rivets was also used to describe the Austin Maestro.

You need to look a bit further down the map, all the way to Camborne, methinks. Just imagine, from Richard Trevithick's locomotive, to a Great Western 'Star', all inside 100 years.... That said, the first & last Great Western locomotives were all Stephenson locomotives.

No! Spam's off! Bloody Vikings!

Your absolutely right! All the way back to Pen-Yr-Darren. Ian

Pie & chips, Chicken & chips Fish & chips Pizza & chips Egg & chips Curry & chips Cheese sauce & chips Mayonnaise & chips Pasty & chips Lasagne & chips "Oh, and no sugar in my tea, I'm on a diet....."

Anything above & to the right of Watford is North Eastern. I went Norwich once. That was close enough....... Ian.

North Eastern doesn't sell? There must be a lot of hype over those Gresley Pacifics then.

"Quote".... "There is only something worse about being talked about, and that is not being talked about...." Oscar Wilde, perhaps?

I used to collect money. More importantly, £10 & 20 pound notes. It used to have quite an extensive collection, but the wife sold it off..... Now I play a broken drum. You can't beat it....... Now I pursue a harmless hobby; number spotting. If I can find 37 & 961, I'll have the set!

It's ok, you've got the wrong Barry, that's all. Barry used to be a railway ticket collector from Porth. Miners using Mabons Day (look it up) would take the train down to Cardiff. "let's use Barrys'railway" came the phrase, and it stuck. It's the same about the Cardiff Railway. The architects on Cardiff Docks called in the 3rd marquis for his opinion. "It's a beaut" came the reply. Remember, you heard it here first. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

I ordered a 48xx as soon as it was available to order. I wanted to have a non-topfeed locomotive, because all of the photos I have show both 4871 & 4821 without top feed. As with such a long-lived class of locomotives, there were a lot of detail differences, such to make the forum fairly lively at times. My model did about an hour on the rolling road, and very smooth it is. I will probably get another (4825), but it only depends on my eventual layout design. As such, the loco fills the need for an auto tank very well. Having the 0-4-2 chassis (or, if you like, 2-4-0) leads into possible forays into Metros, 36xx,, and Stellas. Hmm..... Ian.

It's a Skaledale fishermans hut.

Some years ago, I took a contract in Lampeter, Dyfed. To approach the site, you needed to drive through Lladdewi Breddi, of well-known television fame. The signpost was well situated about 12 foot up, with 2 whacking great posts. Clearly there to dissuade collectors of Little Britain!