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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..?

Just listen. Don't be tempted to sing the chorus.

Exactly. there are no "rip-off prices", there are offers that people either accept or don't. I've had people offer me a fair price for things I don't want to sell, then get annoyed because I won't. I'm just worried that my small stash of such things is making me look like a money-launderer. I'll be sticking to a Seiko watch and a Hyundai, in an attempt at a low-profile existence.

Almost exactly £350 - I bet you would be paid in old Northern Bank notes and told to keep the 4p...

Always bound to be a bit of a keg supply issue, with the pubs suddenly reopening a bit...

I will, just for the crack...

I've had interest in my orange bubbles from two chaps in a black Lexus who say they have the ideal white powder to weather them to absolute perfection.

It's only a matter of time before these things start getting listed after the Rolex watches when CAB have conducted a successful raid.