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Hello, by most of you will have heard the news, the fourth miner caught in the Gleision mine has been found dead. As railway modellers our personal interestes go very much hand in had with mining, what layout is complete without at least one sack of coal. But I wonder how often we have considered the journey that coal had to undertake, the struggle of the men hundreds of feet below the earth, hacking at the black gold in a desperate bid to slay the appettie for it. Dust is to dust, Ashes are to ashes. I remeber the amazing story, last year, of the chliean mine disaster. I rejoced at the triumph, the testement to human will and the bravery of the people involved. I also remeber how that same triumph was so brutaly slienced by the disaster in New Zealand just weeks later, and now in south Wales that same triumph will not be repeated. Thus it is I make this tribute: "to all those who's efforts to keep the lights burning and the wheels spining are unsung, wherever you are, I offer my gratitude, thank you" Yours ScR

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Who could forget the proposed Pacific garret

same

Which resemble spagetti at the moment

Right can I justify one in the borders?

Sounds good.

I've always been interested in the story of Grimsby docks, want to hear more?

According to my book 'Shadows in the steam' it was 'strange, rather eerie noises' that drove him off, though other accounts has it as, low ominous chuckling. Still the idea of the spirtis of dead prisoners taking revenge by insuring the distruction of their prison by deccay does make for a good tale.