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This turned up today - APT-E in the middle of it. This also contains footage of the then BR Chairman, Sir Richard Marsh. When I went to the local Polytechnic here, there was a tradition of having "spurious students" on the register, and seeing how long it took them to spot it. We were all 'sponsored' by various organisations, Coal Board, large companies, etc. They soon spotted E Worthington, who was meant to work for Bass Brewery in Burton on Trent, partly as they wrote it down as "Worthington E" (a well-known beer of the time), but they completely fell for Dick Marsh and his alleged employer being BREL in Derby - eventually, the college wrote to complain about his lack of attendance - and got a letter back from Sir Richard saying "Ever been had?".

Morning or afternoon?

Rumour has it that the horizontal stiffeners of the roof had been removed and they were happy for him to put it back once they had reinstated the roof to the original structure.

Independence helped, as did being at the mouth of the Rhine. The Hanseatic League seemed to help things along as well.

The Romans built the Foss Dyke from the Trent to Lincoln - still in operation today. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network/fossdyke-navigation

This has some nice Bord na Mona footage not long after the start. http://www.rte.ie/player/gb/show/storyland-1239/10519665/ You may need to adjust the link for 'homeland' viewing, see what happens.

This is a classic example - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36333664 - the second picture up from the bottom isn't an A320, it isn't even an Airbus, it's a Boeing 777. I wonder if Boeing's lawyers might be interested...? I did inform the BBC over a day ago, but I suspect they feel it's not worth making it right, but they could just delete the daft picture.

At the time, I wasn't too interested in trains, or I could have got some good pictures of it through the fence - it often spent a day or two there whilst it was got back into a fit state to limp off and be 'fixed properly'. There was also (still is) a footbridge there - there must be some pictures from that somewhere.

I worked here at the time they were being tested and some time was spent stuck on the bend there - - when the tilting mech failed on several occasions. They did have a distinct "Gerry Anderson" look about them, even at the time.

My stopwatch is wound and ready.....

It's the thought that counts. I look forward to the rest of the fleet following.....

Useful pictures for a cameo scene at Kent Station....

NIR Lima coaches - http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Irish-Rail-Lima-Models-Lima-LT600003-Coach-in-Iarnrod-Eireann-Executive-/322108739055?

More complicated that the usual bridge strike. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-36293045

You Tube has just suggested this interesting video to me - worth a look.

This sort of thing? http://www.train-safe.de/

They seem to have a hard life in UK service. But, now and again, somebody gives one a slap of paint.

Dazzle buses now.

Flex? Fix? Once you write a 'rule' for English, you've had it.

Nice - the scan of the images at the top is just the right speed, they're often too slooooow. You use helix's and helices for the plural of helix - helices for me.

Forty shades of green, and at least two shades of emerald.

A longer version of the video. [video=youtube;V-DfhAU4Jtc]