Yes. There was a smiley face in there somewhere, but otherwise very deadpan.
Many thanks to Karl and John for those superb pictures, and yes, HK is a gift which keeps on giving. You'd be hard-put to replicate that scene...
Has anyone yet seen any pix from last nights van train charter?
Looks very impressive. Having the stone "laid" in the baskets makes a huge visual difference.
"Aurens, not this way." "No prisoners!.. NO prisoners!"
I love the way they're all edging their cars forward, presumably to gain some millisecond advantage . And how the crossing warning sounds like a...
Its great that rail produced and rolled at the beleaguered Scunthorpe furnace has been used, and a good piece of PR, as well. I seem to remember...
What you say bears out my experience riding behind it the other week; the safety valves seemed to spend a noticeable amount of time lifting, and...
Update on Dave Clarke's Flickr site from yesterday's shunt at HK, including the arrival of the Hastings unit: [ATTACH] 7864's underframe being...
Wasn't able to find the reference, but it sounds like something Drachinifel could do a useful feature on.
The SR Carriage group has given us something interesting, and to most of us, a new word for the vocabulary book- "Lazarette": 2 currently sealed...
Sounds like another Chinese puzzle- type day for Operations! Hope everything got resolved, and put to bed at a reasonable hour.
Zingy! [ATTACH] (From the 1305 FB page)
Sure. I did say that it was purely my own opinion, and that it might well prove unpopular;)
On a quick scan, the conditions really seem to consist of the Environment Agency's capacity to create much out of not very much. Buried somewhere...
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