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OMG, awesome photographs (saved for personal use), first one I have seen of a 40 on a passenger at Buchanan Street, do you have any more, would love to see them if you have. Jim

Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden

Groan button ready..... Did you take the Hippocratic Oath before buying that!

Yes, see my post above,

The "lights" are in the same place again tonight, must be a reflection or a flaring right enough. Just shows you how folk start to see things that are not there. Jim

Thanks Legend, still trying to get the latest bit of the layout finished, been struggling with a cold which has subdued my modelling desires Jim

"Journey of the Sorcerer", from the album "One of these Nights" Jim

I think that if you started out with Tri-ang then you didn't experience the same frustration as those who had started out loyal to Hornby Dublo - being bought this brand on the basis that "Which" magazine (that my father swore by) voted it "best buy". Having an existing small collection of HD track and stock I was faced with having the inconvenience of having to buy convertor rails and coupling convertor trucks in order to expand my collection and still have a working layout if I wanted what was now referred to as Triang-Hornby, this resulted in a horrible mix of track standards and couplings and eventually I gave up and sold the lot. coming back to the hobby in my 20s with a clean sheet. Jim

Accident report here http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoT_Darlington1977.pdf according to that is was 55008 that collided with the DMU, formed by E56065 and E50213, with the latter sustaining the damage. So the one pictured on the Railcar site 56395 is not the one involved in this incident. Edit - here is a photo of 50213 http://www.railcar.co.uk/images/2315 Jim

Since we seem to be occasionally drifting into general goofs there was an obvious one in Sunday Nights "Call the Midwife". Set in 1963 yet the cash register in the local community centre was already set up for the forthcoming decimalization in 1973 1971, clearly showing the last transaction as £1.55! (The wife watches it, I just glance up now and again when Trixie appears) Correction to the date as pointed out below, thanks guys Jim

A Great Day for Freedom - Pink Floyd

I was bought mine in Xmas 1969, it was the one with the "Glowing Firebox" feature I think it was the R754 loco 30027 Jim

Perhaps my memory is not correct but I was bought one of the original Tri-ang Hornby M7 tanks and I seem to remember it had much finer wheels compared with the Jinty I had, all-in-all it was a much more refined loco for its time. Jim

One can only imagine the thoughts of the captain of a Klingon/Thargoid/other Battle Cruiser seeing that come up on his scanners in about a thousand years!

Is there some nocturnal activity at Grosmont, seems to be a [air of headlights at the end of the platform Jim

Add Fred Talbot to your list

Fool in the Rain - Led Zeppelin

Just been looking at that location on Google Maps and I notice that the strip of land immediately above the tunnel is not farmed, I wonder if this strip is owned by the railway. Jim

Took me a while to work out what this meant. Jim

What do you call a dog with a hair lip? Mark. Jim

Well you don't call Shir Shean double zero seven do you?

Compared with this it definitely is..... Now why would a saving on Chad Valley games be an incentive to buy this stuff?? JIm

Is there not a version of that Graph showing the probability of reference to Monty Python? Now there was a bunch of lads that could parody every type of TV presenter! Jim

Bitter Creek - The Eagles

Agree with the above, the initial workings of these locomotives were on the Euston - Perth services, and these had a single loco. Many of the initial deliveries did not have multiple working jumpers fited as new. Jim