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Thought it was the Elephants that had Big Ears (because Noddy wouldn't pay the ransom)

Gents - To Mark International Womens Day, please take a moment to call your wife and tell her to take 5 minutes off doing the cleaning, washing, ironing and the rest of the housework so that she can bake a nice cake so that you can celebrate with her when you get home this evening. (Dare you!) Jim

Are you thinking of the "Cutty Sark" Bridge that takes the Rutherglen and Carmyle Railway over the A8 at Bargeddie? It was known locally by that name for many years, the advertising boards are still there, but now are covered by canvas adverts that change as the contract period expires Jim

This is another "coffee table" book that I have in my collection.. Pretty standard stuff, but it did feature a layout at the time that interested me, this was supposed to be a layout based on GWR operation and had multiple stations and full timetable. Jim

Be careful - reminiscing about such a male dominated film industry will be frowned on today

Living Wreck - Deep Purple

I was doing the crossword this morning and turned to the wife - "What is a word for a female relative, four letters, ending in UNT" - She replied "Aunt, of course", "Oh right" I said, "got any tippex?" Jim

I worked at British Steel Clydesdale Works from 1975 to 1983, Scrap was brought into the works in trains of around 30 x standard 12T mineral wagon and unloaded by magnet crane, the source of the scrap was one of the well known destroyers of steam - G.H. Campbell of Airdrie. Outgoing finished goods were seamless tubes for linepipe and construction use, some went south for conversion to RHS. Semi-finished tube to API casing spec for the north sea oil industry went by rail to the Imperial Works in AIrdrie for application of the thread and coupler, Bogie Bolsters were used for the longer tube, with STV tube wagons for shorter lengths. The rail deliveries for Ravenscraig also passed the works, with Lime from Shap, imported ore and coal from Hunterston. Outgoing coil went initially to Gartcosh works, when that closed it went south to one of the works in England Jim

If you did ever invent a time machine and you took the kids for a spin would they sit in the back moaning ‘Are we then yet? Think the best ever time machine gag was Sheldon interviewing Leonard for the room mate agreement - "If either of us invent time travel, we agree that our first stop will be this meeting 5 seconds from now………………………Well, that's disappointing." Jim

Yet Another Movie - Pink Floyd

Is it not to blur the faces of the guys who do not want to be identified as they have told their wives that they are on a "business trip to Yorkshire". (Did that once, company I was going to see in Bury was supposed to be an all day visit, was finished by lunchtime so I nipped round to the East Lancs Railway) Jim

Caption says a "Rugby Special" so probably ran full to Haymarket (pax to Murrayfield for a 6-3 win over the auld enemy) then this is the ECS heading to Craigentinny, coaches scraped together from the back of some set of carriage sidings for the occasion - fascinating photograph. Jim

LNER non-corridor stock in 1966!! Though those had been long gone by then, there were BR/LMS non-corridor stock on the Gourock/Weymse Bay and Renfrew services up to 1967 but I thought the LNER stock was scrapped before that Jim

I Can See for Miles - The Who

This is a particular problem on the M8, a two lane motorway with a nice big hill to negotiate in the middle, the worst offenders on that road are the mobile cranes which trundle along about 45mph causing every HGV to pull out into the outside lane and pass at 48mph, as there is no third lane that is the motorway that is the motorway down to a crawl Jim

Its back this morning in Eaglesham, yesterday was a steady thaw with most of the lying snow that was not heaped in drifts melting, it started raining about 9pm last night but it was snowing steadily this morning and everything was white again. Only at high lever as I drove into Glasgow it was still white stuff coming down but not lying. Jim

ZBO survivor at Doncaster in November 2014 Jim

As always guys I appreciate the kind comments Jim

Ah! the same M80 that comes to a grinding halt between the M73 junction and Castlecary every day for no particular reason! They spent millions on that road and achieved diddly squat. Jim

Hi Marlyn - when searching I also came across the 7mm version of Scotland Street, this also shows some photos of the older 4mm layout - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/107026-scotland-street/page-10 Jim

Hi David - just found your thread while looking for references to the old 4mm version of Scotland Street - I see that we have used a very similar technique for the backscene, mine came from a picture of an estate agents website! Great layout! Jim

Hi - I don't know if you have heard of the Scotland Street layout that was done in 00 back in the 1970s, it appeared in the March 1977 edition of Railway Modeller. There are some references to it here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/2116-scotland-street-goods/ That link also references the old Edinburgh Photographs site http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_edin_t/0_edinburgh_transport_railways_dy_scotland_street_coal_yard.htm which is a great source of photographs of Edinburgh transport. Jim

...and you do know that there is a much ruder meaning of "ploughing" Jim

High Hopes - Pink Floyd

When that came out in 1970 I was in second year at high school, some of the older boys had managed to get in to see it and it became one of those films that was embellished with many scenes and ideas that were only in a schoolboys head rather than in the film. I saw it on VHS many years later and yes it was graphical in the scenes of violence, but by that time there were many more films that had similar levels of blood, gore and general nastiness. Anyhow back to the good ones - I will give a shout to "Shenandoah" and" How the West was Won" Jim