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Heritage railways can be habit forming.

If anybody's going, this might be of interest.

Holes are in the same location...

I think we might need to consider what people overhearing us discuss a "42 foot sample" might misconstrue.....

If driving a convertible towards a tunnel on a warm day, with the roof down, check the mirror on approach for high vehicles behind you...

Have you dyed your hair?

Interesting, but maybe not applicable to areas with pedestrians or cyclists.

Whoops, that should have said "Heritage Week" - before I get any letters from a local hotel's lawyers....

I did suspect backhanders when I saw that this 'spontaneous' event was taking place in Heritage

This post originally had an embedded tweet, with a picture showing a coach trapped in the Lansdowne Road crossing, which seems to have been deleted, possibly on legal advice?

I think an ambulance might be more useful...

Well, if the Guards stop you and ask "Have you any tax on this car?", you can say "No, but I've had a couple of screws on the back seat". Come on, tax = tacks. It works better if you get somebody to read it to you.....

Hopefully, the imminent model will have both options.

Perhaps it was meant to be a Celtic train?

I'd never noticed the split smokebox door before.

In the UK, the threshold for tax being due on items from outside the EU is currently £15. Upwards from there, you are liable to 20% VAT, which is sort of OK. However, Royal Mail will also charge you a fee for handling the payment on your behalf, this is a flat rate fee of £8. Thus, an item worth £14.99 will arrive 'free' after you pay the vendor a total of £14.99 for it. An item judged to be worth £15 on arrival will cost you a total of £26 ( 26 = 15 + 3 + 8 ) - and be subject to a sometimes considerable delay. Buying an item close to the threshold has an element of risk - the 'value on arrival' is not within your control, it is down to an assessment made on 'your behalf' at the time of arrival - you may even have a receipt for an actual payment below £15, but a further slide of the pound during transit can tip you over into being liable to the Royal Mail ransom + VAT. Paying for something with 'free postage' can add to your woes, if the vendor then declares the total to be the value of the item - much better to have the item value and postage as separate amounts. The threshold issue may not be such a problem in the model railway world, but it does cause some trepidation around CDs, DVDs, etc.

This - http://www.anbrico.org/history.htm - suggests that there is still a market for them.

Three of the four have been sentenced - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-49397838 Before you ask, this is what a Referral Order is - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/322209/fact-sheet-youth-referral-orders.pdf

Run out of 7s, found a spare 2...?

On a lot of the motorway signs near me, the 8s are often upside down, as (not very clearly) seen here - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6981227,-2.1048587,3a,17.8y,358.6h,90.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smqB2k9PyYAA5hg158CqrJQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 - with the 'big' part at the top - this prompted a local musician friend to pen a song about this one, his favourite sign, which meant that he was nearly back home again after yet another gig.

There's a lot less than there used to be... Just the odd transformer these days. They keep changing the name - I think it's all (or mostly) General Electric at the moment. There were times when I didn't know who I worked for - Siemens, then English Electric before my time, then GEC, Alsthom/Alstom, Areva, GE - I may have missed someone...

On the Big Island, this bridge - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8796684,-2.1104284,3a,43.2y,295.57h,94.67t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1swLeyRiJ8A7ZAGfEjJ4LsHw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DwLeyRiJ8A7ZAGfEjJ4LsHw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D11.925991%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 - near me, received supplementary beams a few years ago. Oddly, this slightly lower bridge, a few miles to the south, where the same track crosses the same road, is not protected - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8170882,-2.0044195,3a,75y,317.53h,91.44t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sR1i6aig95slwLun3Bda9IQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DR1i6aig95slwLun3Bda9IQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D68.25344%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 - it does look as though the road surface there may have been lowered there at some time in the distant past, though. These bridges are either side of the site of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hixon_rail_crash - the level crossing there was finally replaced by a bridge 33 years later... The road surface on the opposite carriageway here - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9019258,-2.1587875,3a,48.4y,119.37h,87.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWjdH2HXwEnnNWAggqoGO2Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 - was also lowered - this time it was to allow oversized loads to use that side of the road in both directions - a regular source of chaos to this day. A look at the roundabout to the south will show the gated road across it, where transporters can cross sides without negotiating the roundabout.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48956000