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https://live.staticflickr.com/3954/14965132493_34c5dffffe_b.jpg Photo of the Union of South Africa at Rugby, everybody else is in the pub!!

If you watch these videos you will see quite a few steel and raw material flows Jim

You were right with Lackenby as the current train runs to and from Tees Yard. That said there was a flow noted around 2015 from Scunthorpe. While searching I noted that I was using the wrong spelling, as the works is spelt Dalzell and not Dalziel!!

One minor correction to your list of workings Fat Controller - Gartcosh closed long before Ravenscraig, the slab you mention goes to Dalziel which is now owned by Liberty House. Jim

I agree with your thinking there, shades of what the government decided not to bale out Thomas Cook, it is all about precedent, as in all probability there will be others. On a Scottish note Fort William's giant killing efforts came to naught as they were soundly beaten at home in the replay by Albion Rovers to set up another "El Bukfastio" home derby against Airdrie Jim

Still agonising about buffer heights? Not always as unprototypical as you think. Photo by Cliff Wilson/SRPS Diesel Group

Englanders? in kilts? cultural re-education class for you laddie

White Room - Cream

A Pillow Of Winds - Pink Floyd

I would have thought that where there is congestion they would be quite capable of taking........ Wait for it...... Rat Runs!!!

....now if it had been model class 25s they had learned to drive

Thats it! and ROD is short for the spell Revelio Orbis Descendo that you have to say for the passage to appear(look it up if you are a real geek)

apologies - same photo posted twice, should have been this one

Some to whet your appetite Jim

When I did my representation of Buchanan Street it was done completely from photographs, and mainly from the Urban Galsgow Website, I have quite a catalogue of photographs, they were once on Flickr but I pulled them when Flickr went to a pay site. If you PM me I will send you what I have. Jim

THat reminded me of this - Airline Pilots Sketch

Proof that the French don't do irony.

A major upset is still on the cards in the Scottish Cup, RMweb's favourite Scottish club Fort William drew 1:1 away from home with league two Albion Rovers and will be hoping for a big result in the replay, unfortunately for me if they win they would then play my team Airdrie in the next round and as we are absolutely awful just now we could be facing a big embarrasment. Jim

if it smells like Sugar Puffs, you have been eating Sugar Puffs, (or doing something very naughty with the Honey Monster)

My girlfriend recently suggested we play doctors and nurses. I was hoping for something a bit more exciting than being left in a corridor for two days Why does the Norwegian navy put barcodes on the sides of their ships? So that when they all come back to port, they can Scandinavian.

On my last journey home from Euston the ticket inspector (or whatever they are called) endorsed my ticket with the train reporting number, 1S58! Jim

I really should make some witty reference to 2015 but we are still fuming over the decision made by Craig Joubert

Where's Totley (presumably next dore)

I have it on good authority that on the 11th of December 1981, at 12:04 p.m., driver John Todd closed the regulator N.C.B. 0-4-0PT No.17, after working the last train of coal from Bedlay colliery to the exchange sidings. It was the end of conventional steam locomotive working in Scotland, but as as been pointed out elsewhere the Sentinels kept going at Coatbridge for another three years. The R.B Tennants Locomotives were four Vertical-boilered Sentinel 0-4-0T, "Robin" is preserved at Summerlee, "Ranald" and "Dennis" are partially retored at the SRPS at Bo'ness. "John", which was for a while placed on a plinth at the entrance to Dick Engineering in Coatbridge, is also now at Bo'ness but due to it's time in the open is a derelict hulk. jim

Please get your terminology correct - English fans were banned from Europe, it did not extend to Scotland, although please believe that I am not saying that we were exempt from the odd spot of thuggishmess (mostly Rangers). The ban did have a knock on effect for Scottish football, as many English players moved to Scotland (again mostly Rangers) in order to be involvd in Europe. Something that I strongly believe had a detrimental long term impact on Scottish football as it stifled the development of young Scottish Players