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  1. TheSignalEngineer

    Why is it that when I drop a bit of flushglaze it disappears then turns up in a different place 4 days later?

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    2. Pixie

      Pixie

      No, I've been stuck in work!

    3. Trainshed Terry

      Trainshed Terry

      So do little screws have a habit to do the same.

    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      It's the Zillon wormhole, being operated from the planet Tharg. They're collaborating to scratchbuild a Midland Compound....

  2. TheSignalEngineer

    If I buy a Lottery ticket 4 times a week I won't win and be £312 worse off in 12 months. Putting the money in a tin will buy me 3 locos.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I won £5.20 a couple of weeks ago.....

    3. beeman

      beeman

      long ago, one often heard of the very frequent small win, NOW????? Rarely, This is one the most 'fixed scams' on offer. Remember in the past the treble chance, that was a lottery, the National Lottery machines they use are fixed so only a few large payouts chosen by computer are given. I defy them to use both the machines in front of the TV on the same event. they will both dispense the same numbers.Lets get back to the balls in the bag,Or, is it the chance of that ONE big win that d...

    4. beast66606

      beast66606

      Beeman - have you ever investigated JFK ?

  3. TheSignalEngineer
    Push it over the side and see how many times it bounces. Better still do it with the moron still inside.
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    Tamworth was the big interchange point between NE-SW and West Coast pre-electrification. The 19:30 Bristol - Newcastle and 19:05 Newcastle - Bristol trains had Post Office traffic as well as passenger coaches (and sleepers IIRC). After electrification the West Coast Postal ran via Birmingham and most of the interchanges were made there and at Derby.
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    Would like a 'Super D' to pull his coal train.

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    Has backache and feels 95 today after 2 days of hobby room tidying ready for a new project.

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    I intercepted one walking her dog up the four-foot on the Robin Hood Line back in 1993. A few days afterwards I was sitting in the front of a DMU at Newstead Station with an HMRI Inspector and the local BT Police Sergeant during a test run when a family with a child in a pram came out of the pub and crossed the line about 10 yards in front of us. They were duly apprehended and cautioned.
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    Having been blown over by turbulence from a freightliner not far from where he was standing I wouldn't put my movie camera in that position. By the way, I was working and far enough away from the line to be defined as being in a 'Place of Safety'
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    I "inherited" a 12-month old Dell laptop from my Project Director when working on West Coast modernisation schemes. Not much bigger than a Netbook, but built like the proverbial brick outbuilding. It was dropped from a train onto Stockport platform and hit the ballast at Nuneaton, but was still functioning when I passed it on to my successor four years later.
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    Further afield, a tractor was used to position wagons for unloading at Tunnel Cement Sidings in Curzon St yard c1966.
  11. TheSignalEngineer
    Must get my son to have a ferret around where he lives. The framework of his barn is made from old narrow gauge rail, I think from the Cavan and Leitrim Railway.
  12. TheSignalEngineer
    Don't buy MR. SITE. I know a website it was tried on and it is a good example of WYPIWYG (What You Pay Is What You Get)
  13. TheSignalEngineer
    60040 approaching Marple at 16.10 on 2 August 2011
  14. TheSignalEngineer
    Already commented on in post #1721 above
  15. TheSignalEngineer
    Try www.upmystreet.com. Click on the "Search Property" tab and choose the house prices option.
  16. TheSignalEngineer
    Sounds a bit like an EU ruling on competition at work here, like the football. When will the idiots in Brussels realise that you can only have competition between organisations offering the same service, e.g. bus/train/plane between the same points. If BBC/ITV/SKY offer the same sporting event i will watch the one which I regard is the best coverage based on camera work, continuity of the programme and commentator.
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    I expect this will be a roundy-roundy listing £99.99 DMU, think I will offer him £9.99. (TTP in the oppostie direction)
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    Still available locally
  19. TheSignalEngineer
    BFKs on Sleeper services, great for a bit of kip on long overnight trips.
  20. TheSignalEngineer
    View from the Relief Cabin door on a wet day in 1962.
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    Including the scissors. And tea in the Relief Cabin at the south end of the Up Platform. Showing my age now - good place to get to know the drivers and get cabbing invitations. We posted a lookout with binoculars outside to keep an eye on the GC bridge
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    That's funny, so have I. Oh for the days of quality products
  23. TheSignalEngineer
    Probably, as there was still a lot of Mk1 stock on West Coast after electrification, largely on trains via Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester, and even some LMS-designed Portholes.
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    D1734 was only 8 months old when it demolished Coton Hill Signal Box in 1965. It was cut up about 3 months later.
  25. TheSignalEngineer
    Perhaps it was a secret prototype for rebuilding the D800s as diesel-electrics using spare bits left over from the EE building programme.
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