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That's ridiculously dangerous. The two at the back have no masks and no distancing.

All of these things, plus MIR etc., are part of the evolutionary process that has got us where we are now. We were all amoebae once - some of us still are.....

I saw an odd one a few times through Ballybrophy, but I have no presentable evidence of any of the events..

And sometimes just the odd one. https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/44/25/2442555_16504068.jpg

Any chance of a special edition 224 model at some point? Would there be space to fit an additional servo-controlled catch inside, that could be operated via DCC, and induce the 'drop' at the whim of the controller?

741, I think.

It's always worth checking the evidence via @WRENNEIRE, he's known to have his finger on the Pulse...

You can, subject to experimentation with your own layout and stock, run straight (flexi)track much closer than the track on bends. Flaring out the track slightly as you approach the bend, to the point where clashes don't occur..

Me - working on a circuit breaker in a substation in Middlebrough in the mid-80s - putting strain gauges on the new porcelains of a breaker they had broken by mis-operating it manually, but were trying to blame us for... Unable to interpret all the different coloured barriers, cones and flags, I asked the bloke with the brand new Safety Officer" jacket and multiple clip-boards - "Is the cabinet completely Off?" - "Yes." was his answer. To be fair, I was as bothered about electrical interference overwhelming the gauge signals as I was about getting a belt. I negotiated the chicane to approach the cabinet, started to make a few connections and got a mains belt up my arm. Investigations showed me that the cabinet heater supply was still live. I counted to ten and returned to the Safety Officer - "You told me the cabinet is completely off" - "It is." - "I've just had a 240 belt off the heaters" - "Oh, we always leave the heaters on" - "Well, you can turn everything completely off, tell me when you have done that, and you can make a note on one of your clip-boards that, if I find a volt on anything in there, then I am going to kill you!"

Crikey! That would slow them down and give the fox a sporting chance...

Great, I was going to wait for a real turf-fired one, then I thought "Sod that!".

@Mayner used the term 'dog box' here :-

I've been through that one about five times now, and, although I've never seen it dry, I've also never seen much more than is there now - it was no real problem on a bike - though, you wouldn't want to walk through it in your best shoes. And, I've just noticed that that is the last crossing keeper's grandson on top of the bales in the distance there. The Norwegians would find a use for that - https://snohetta.com/projects/334-stad-ship-tunnel

A return of some better weather has enabled a further reconnaissance of two bridges further to the southwest. My memory says that this was a level crossing in the 1970s, but there is little evidence on the ground to support that and I wondered if I might be mistaken - but, it being a 'good grass day', there was chap in the adjacent field who turned out to be the last keeper's grandson. If the Foot and Mouth returns, a gallon of disinfectant in the fairly permanent wheel-wash would be useful... Defining the height to the millimetre seems a bit ambitious. The house was to the right here, east of the intersection of road and track. I was grateful to have my memory confirmed, as the whole layout is very different to what 'was' there before, in my recollection. The next bridge to the southwest is an original structure. There is an access road there, and I decided to record that - becoming momentarily excited at the prospect of being the first to record a DART on this line - then I realised that the overhead line warning referred to a mains distribution cable that takes a shortcut over the track and access road between two poles.

I actually watched the Beiderbecke Trilogy during my 14 day confinement in the shed in April. It remains some of the best telly ever made. I may watch it again shortly. In my time at Brigg, the bridge was in the very early stages of construction - at that time, Hull might as well have been in Norway - in fact, I've only ever been there once, and that was just last year, to see an obscure Japanese band at the charismatic New Adelphi, with its car park courtesy of the Luftwaffe. The Humber Bridge is much more 'visitable' than the Severn crossings, there is a decent park at the northern end and pedestrian access is very good, although I was genuinely concerned at the possibility of losing my glasses to the wind on the main span...

1, It was a Fifth Year. 2, They would have known exactly who it was (I could tell you his name now). 3, He was the only person I ever saw arrested in a class - twice.

I went to a lot of schools, for logistical reasons - they were all madhouses, but in different ways. One was in Brigg, just south of the Humber Bridge. We had a two-hour art class every week, in a derelict shed across the road from the main school buildings. In the middle of the floor was a stove, which we normally huddled round in an attempt to avoid hypothermia. This was 1972, before the days when giant fireworks were widely available, but one of the lads had managed to procure a banger a bit bigger than a milk bottle. The banger was shoved into the stove as the art master, a decent bloke, came across the road. He must have known something was going on, as we were all scattered around the far edges of the shed, as though we were waiting for the girls at a dance. Two hours we sat there, waiting for the explosion, but nothing happened. Nothing. It must have just burned away slowly...

Sometimes, stolen goods really are too hot to handle.

I wonder if you should try hand sanitiser on it...?

. Ah, the old 110 system - not perfect, but useful at the time. You could get really minimalist arrangements. And Minolta even did a somewhat larger version with a zoom lens... ...and an SLR...

This..?