Tankerman

To me the first two images look like those of a model railway.🙂

If you visit any cemetery in the mining districts of Cornwall you will find a lot of Cornishmen buried there who died before they were 30 years old. They died from inhaling the dust produced from drilling the granite with pneumatic drills which were introduced by the English mine owners to increase their already massive profits. When those mines closed in the late 1800's the Cornish miners, who were considered to be the best in the world, were left with the stark choice of starving, emigrating or leaving their families to work abroad. Proportionally a far greater number of the Cornish emigrated as a result of this than the Irish because of the potato famine. Two of the many places being Wyoming and Montana, hence the similarities of the coat of arms.

Hi David, Whichever type of ship it was, it was capable of laying contact mines, that's the type which have horns containing the primer and are attached by a cable to a heavy weight, called a sinker, which rests on the sea floor. The rails were for the carriage on which the mine and its sinker were transported from their storage to the stern of the ship. Hope you find this of interest,

As one did at Truro for many years, if my memory serves it was only removed around 1960.

Also on the Falmouth branch, but only one train each way on summer Saturdays.🙂

I only sailed with one engineer who had previously sailed with Denholms, as it was so long ago I can't remember his name or the ships he was on, but I can remember that he had some 'interesting' experiences both with the plant and the crews.

A fellow old mariner 🙂 Who did you sail with and what department, I was a Lecky with Trident/P&O Bulk Shipping

When I was the Merchant Navy they were known as can spanners.

In the mid 1960's I was with a friend of mine at Plymouth North Road, he preferred steam to diesel, whereas I was the opposite as I loved the sound of the Westerns and Warships. We were having one of our frequent discussions on the subject when a driver, who had heard our conversation, stopped and said "Steam engines are like sailing ships, lovely to look at, but bloody hard to work on." I don't know if that was the general view of loco men, but he was obviously very firm in his opinion.🙂

I'm very glad I had my breakfast before seeing this.😵

That has been my experience of most Starbucks locally, together with coffee which often tastes bitter and/or resembles used lubricating oil in texture, which is the reason I no longer visit any Starbucks.

This stuff always causes me to regurgitate the contents of my stomach within five minutes of it arriving there.

Or those on photo forums on format size or, much more dogmatic, on Canon v Nikon v Sony. Nearly all of the discussions on here are much more civilised than that one.

It's a fascinating thought, but one which had he done so, would have probably have caused a breach of the 'good order and discipline' rule. 🙂

The previous Tiderace was known as the Tid-era-rache by at least some of her crew. This was a play on how Liberace, a well known piano player in the 1950/60, pronounced his name.

Hi Jim, If I've counted correctly I really like Nos. 3,12 and 14, because of the way you have put the loco/train in the setting of the railway. No. 3 is my favourite and if it were my image I would have it printed and framed and hung it on my wall, as it stands as a picture in its own right.

That doesn't surprise me at all.

Thank you so much for posting this. I had to stop reading it two or three times because of the tears of laughter.

That's the second topic I've read this morning which has brought back memories of things long past. As Lecky I was the crane driver a few times.

Me too, at almost the same age. I was wearing a white pullover hand knitted by my mother at the time. She washed it and it came out clean, but dyed a light green colour. Despite her insistence that it was perfectly clean I firmly refused to wear it.

It looks more like raging anger to me.🙂

Many years ago now when I started my training as an engineer surveyor, I was told by one of the senior engineers in head office "The most important thing to remember is to OBSERVE, not just look." That has finally faded from my memory as I totally failed to see the lower set of signals! 🙄

I'm hesitant to ask this as I'm not sure of the exact meaning of 'co acting', I take it to mean that the two arms can be operated together to give a clear indication or the stop arm cleared to give a caution indication. If this is correct, then the signal is not 'co acting' as the distant arm appears to be of the fixed type.

Congratulations Jim, a well deserved result.

If I've understood what you are asking correctly, then right to left would be correct if the view on screen was from seaward, i.e. looking at their port side. However if the view on screen is from landward side, again looking at their port side, then you are correct. Mention of Kristiansand brought back a memory of my former life as an Engineer Surveyor. The claim that I investigated at the Falconbridge plant involved the largest liability claim of my career.