spudfan

A bloke bought a packet of luminous condoms. That night his neighbour turned to his wife and said "That bloke next door keeps opening and closing the fridge door."

I had an issue with a Hornby class 66 diesel, 66005. It stopped working and was shorting out the transformer (red light coming on). It was out of warranty and I had bought it from Hattons who are no longer trading. I contacted Hornby who told me to send it over to them. I got it back repaired free of charge. Turned out to be a faulty capacitor. Their customer service is very good.

NEW ZEALAND: Stadler has shipped the first two of the Class DM main line diesel locomotives that its Valencia factory in Spain is building for KiwiRai/. Look at the different track gauges beneath the loco.

Giving them a 25 ton axle load!

This outfit has been working here for over 20 years and I don't see much to show for it. It must be a new children's hospital.....

All-island rail review sets out 37 billion-euro plan to improve services (msn.com) The salient parts. – Build a new direct line between Lisburn and Newry. – Restore a line between Athenry in Co Galway and Claremorris in Co Mayo, connecting Tuam in Co Galway to the network. – Reinstate the South Wexford railway. – Develop a new rail link from Letterkenny in Co Donegal to Derry. – Build a rail link that would cross central Dublin – potentially via a tunnel – to connect Heuston station, which receives trains from the south of the island, with the northern line that serves Connolly station.

Came across this and it must have been taken during a hot summer when water was being rationed.

By the time someone climbs up the pole with cease and desist order, the offending avian will have moved to another pole. The law being what it is, it would require a new order specific to the new location. Your thrushes probably sing with a different accent to our thrushes.

So long as they do not start carrying the anvil and dropping it on the snails..

I would hazard a guess that you do not see many slugs....

Did you ever try to tame one yet, as in the "Taming of the Shrew".?

We have pygmy shrews living around. Only time you see them is when they die!

I think I'd get a new, less enthusiastic girl friend....

How old is the baby 56? Wonder how long it will take to reach maturity? Spitting image of it's mammy.

Would the cat be named "Pandora" by any chance?

Well that it how it was when I was there. First time I ever saw wheel being chocked.

InnoTrans 2024 · 24-27 SEP 2024 · Berlin Home - InnoTrans

I took the photo and the blocks were lying on the ground. They were picked up by a small rope attached to them. There were two chocks joined by one piece of rope

I know we beat them to it, but I wonder where the logic is considering the congestion on the UK roads. Now Royal Mail to stop deliveries by railway after more than 200 years (msn.com)

NASA the EAGLE has landed. Just to confirm this Royal Mail just sent me this.."You have received your parcel LG............ from ELLIS JAMES CLARK ."

Got this this morning from Royal Mail Your parcel from ELLIS JAMES CLARK has now arrived at your local office and is being processed for delivery. .............................................................................................................. So I checked An Post tracking and my package is indeed out for delivery today. I will inform NASA when the Eagle has landed.

I put up a post elsewhere regarding this. It was not Hornby's idea. They were approached with the idea. Sorry, messed up with the link, but it is in the topic on Mark's Models Jinty

Wonder when it will appear in Murphy Models form? I presume they are just vinyls/stickers applied? Wonder if we will see a 201 running on HVO painted up like these?

Many years ago I remember there was talk of trying to get Hornby to do an Irish version of the class 58..with 071 numbers and liveries. The reason being that both classes were "dog bone" type locos. It never came to fruition as Hornby at the time were not interested. The numbers talked about were very small. It was not a very well presented business case either. Imagine talking to Hornby about this...on a pay phone. The operator cutting in to say your time was up or more money was needed. Ah well they meant well! There was no such thing of an investor in the wings. It was more a question of (and I quote) "How much do you have in your post office savings account?". Sounds funny now but believe or not the people involved were deadly serious about this. Me, I was not involved just knew a few of those involved so I heard some of the conversations. Ah the innocence of it all!

Here is a clearer pictures of the wooden chocks in action on an 071. I put this up a number of years ago. They were lying on the ground with a small length of rope attached to each one.