RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2013 While I remember (not long these days....) does anyone know what the red loco in the Peterborough show header is? Irish? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 While that puts me in very exalted company, Pete, it also implies that I'm a boring old straight. Growing old can be so cruel! I've been wanting to use the disagree button for some time......just about the "boring old straight" bit... That's enough toadying from me. Best, Pete. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 It's of Serbo Croatian origin but only used on the island of Plop in the Adriatic. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 "does anyone know what the red loco in the Peterborough show header is?" It looks like a Gauge One clockwork loco by Basset and Lowke that I spent hours drooling over in a counter display in the Lemkus shop below ground in St Georges St. in about 1950. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffalo Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Today, I shall generally be drivelling some chocolate over waffles for my grandkids. There, that's all of them! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2013 While I remember (not long these days....) does anyone know what the red loco in the Peterborough show header is? Irish? Looks a bit like a Cadburys works engine to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2013 It's of Serbo Croatian origin but only used on the island of Plop in the Adriatic. Best, Pete. Ha! I got to use the disagree button too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2013 Looks a bit like a Cadburys works engine to me. Nah, they were Avonside 0-4-0 side tanks. That looks like an 0-6-0 or 2-6-0 to me. The extended front running plate with a jack on it looks Oirish to me? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold grandadbob Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2013 By the way is it just me or has the ratio of waffle to pure drivel increased on here recently? I thought that ERs was a condensed version of drivellERs, wafflERs, modellERs & dribblERs. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2013 I'm so jealous of folk attending shows, that is something I really miss. We're across in a couple of weeks and have managed to make such arrangements to miss any shows local to our two places of stay! And there speaks a man who gets to drive a real NG train on a regular basis! Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2013 True - and lots of G scale ones in the garden, but I really do miss shows, from both sides of the barriers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2013 must get new glasses - I thought Pete said "dribblers"! not drivellers... and there was me an ex rugby player wondering who the new ERs with footballing skills were.... Meanwhile back on Planet Leeds........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2013 I hacked a few pieces of Wills plastic products together this afternoon to see if the platform waiting rooms "looked right". They did but it made the cutting sides "look wrong". Some adjustment of the slope (saw, electricians bolster, mallet and hammer soon sorted it. Much happier now. I can now have space for the little garden that is on the prototype! Tony 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 How many of the occupants of a four-seater corner sofa need to have less than the usual number of legs? Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmisterporter Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 The loco on the Peterborough show heading bears a resemblance to Blackpool from the Garstang and Knott End Railway. There is a picture of it in Burton and Scott-Morgan's British Light Railways, page 87. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Ha! I got to use the disagree button too! And I got to use the undecipherable button! you don't believe in the island of Plop? It's twinned with the I.O.M............... Best, Pete. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Normal service will be resumed on Monday hopefully. I notice my rapier-like drivel has been adequately substituted with equally sublimely fatuous nonsense. Funeral tomorrow then, somewhat strangely, I'm putting on an Entertainment in the Village Hall on Saturday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Let the good memories of Lynnie wash over you like a sun shower, DD. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2013 And I got to use the undecipherable button! you don't believe in the island of Plop? It's twinned with the I.O.M............... Best, Pete. There's no 'wibble' button so 'informative' will have to do! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2013 And I got to use the undecipherable button! you don't believe in the island of Plop? It's twinned with the I.O.M............... Best, Pete. As you live in the US you haven't had to drive across Belgium with a small child sniggering at all the adverts to visit Plopsaland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2013 Let the good memories of Lynnie wash over you like a sun shower, DD. Well said, Debs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 As you live in the US you haven't had to drive across Belgium with a small child sniggering at all the adverts to visit Plopsaland. Got strip searched at the France / Belgium border in Lille, outside in the pouring rain. B@st@rds!!!!!!! I've been everywhere in Europe, mostly good. Thank God. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Got strip searched at the France / Belgium border in Lille, outside in the pouring rain....... Those crazy Walloons; `always joking around! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2013 Those crazy Walloons; `always joking around! Pete probably didn't have his "I've been to Plopsaland" hat on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 10, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2013 Got strip searched at the France / Belgium border in Lille, outside in the pouring rain. B@st@rds!!!!!!! I've been everywhere in Europe, mostly good. Thank God. Best, Pete. Last time I saw that happen was when the mobile Belgian border folk accosted a young (ish) female person on a local train heading over the border towards Lille. they started the strip search in the passenger seating area but moved into the Guard's van area just as they got to what might rudely be termed 'the more interesting bits'. I don't know what they found where but said female person was marched off the train at Lille handcuffed to one of the border folk - and seemingly wearing all her clothes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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