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Yes - there were many depots which closed to steam yet remained as a satallite depot to the main diesel depot for signing on etc, good example was my local depot Kipps (65E) were many shunters could be found despite the shed being officially closed and the locos nominally allocated to Eastfield (65A). Jim

Rule 3 applies to models of Sulzer Type 2 diesels, as yes I do have exactly seven! jim

Want to run double headed HSTs? Scotrail does!! Posted with permission of photographe Steve Johnson on Facebook Jim

A horse walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender says "Hey you're in here a lot. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?" The horse replies "I don't think I am." And poof. Disappears from existence. Now that joke is a reference to the philosopher Descartes and his famous line "I think, therefore I am." I could have explained that first, but that would have been putting Descartes before the horse.

shouln't be surprised if someone adds "some stairs en-route"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2850852/St-Winifred-s-choir-topped-charts-1980-reunited-TV-show.html Some you may (or may not) recognize. Jim

Why do Scuba Divers roll backward off the boat to enter the water? If they rolled forward they would stil lbe on the boat!

#1 says read everything, so you read #23 which then tells you to do #1 (read everything) and #2 Put your name in the upper right-hand corner of this page.

One for consideration "Shaddap You Face" by Joe Dolce, somehow the moronic record buying public sustained this awful song at No1 for eight weeks, it was famous for keeping Ultravox "Vienna" from No1. Other horrors from around the same period are Clive Dunn (Gradpa) and "There's No One Quite Like Grandma", St Winifred's School Brats (what is it about cheesy songs about Grandparents??)

Heart of the Sunrise - Yes

Thought this one was going to be along the lines of this..... Follow Directions 1. Read everything carefully before doing anything. 2. Put your name in the upper right-hand corner of this page. 3. Circle the word NAME in sentence two. 4. Draw five small squares in the upper left-hand corner. 5. Put an “X” in each square. 6. Put a circle around each square. 7. Sign your name under the title of this paper. 8. After the title write, “yes, yes, yes.” 9. Put a circle completely around sentence number seven. 10. Put an “X” in the lower left corner of this paper. 11. Draw a triangle around the “X” you just put down. 12. On the back of this paper, multiply 703 by 66. 14. Draw a rectangle around the word “corner” in sentence four. 15. Loudly call out your first name when you get this far along. 16. If you have followed directions carefully to this point, call out, “I have.” 17. On the reverse side of this paper, add 8950 and 9305. 18. Put a circle around your answer and put a square around the circle. 19. Punch three small holes in the top of this paper with your pencil point. 20. If you are the first person to reach this point, LOUDLY, call out, I AM THE FIRST PERSON TO REACH THIS POINT, AND I AM THE LEADER IN FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS.” 21. Underline all even numbers on the left side of this paper. 22. Loudly call out, “I AM NEARLY FINISHED. I HAVE FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS.” 23. Now that you have finished reading everything, do only directions 1 and 2! (Keep busy so that the other idiots that failed to read everything as instructed will continue to plough through the banal tasks without disturbance from you. Do not make any sign to give a clue to your having completed the assigned task.) Jim

Just been catching up with the series due to being out of the country - the young scientists are obviously customers of the company I work for as I noticed bottles of our Gibco product in the short film about where they actually work. Wonder if they know that these bottles are excellent for storing dilute PVA, paint, water, etc etc. (I have an almost endless supply of discards!) Enjoying the series so far. Jim

So the much talked about Neutral Zone is just, well, a road?

There was one class 303 that received a "Clyderail" logo on the centre car, I am sure it was 303012 which was the first one to receive Blue and Grey Livery, I have never seen a photograph of this unit with teh logo in place. The Clyderail logo originated in the report that led to the opening of the Argyle line. Jim

Already mentioned is the class 31 at Fort WIlliam, but also I have seen photographs of class 45s on Glasgow Buchanan Street to Inverness services

It went a lot further north than that, I photographed it at Motherwell prior to those test runs!

High Hopes - Pink Floyd

This is seriously one of the funniest videos I have seen in a long while Jim

There is a bloke standing just to the side of Kestrel - thought that would suffice

A pirate goes to the doctor and says, "I have moles on me back, aaarrrghh." The doctor: "It's ok, they're benign." Pirate: "Count again, I think there be ten!"