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Not as much as the young 'Kaiser Bill'.

Does it (the machine gun that is) have interrupter gear, which might also be useful elsewhere?

Not on my boats it's not. Starboard is on the right looking forwards, and has been for over a millenium. Probably derives from before in-line rudders reached Europe, when steering oars (or steering 'boards' ) where usually positioned so a right-handed person could steer looking forwards. I haven't been afloat under sail for about ten years now (arthritis and the North Sea not going well together), I must find a way of sailing again soon. Edit - just seen the previous post. Dragging an anchor is always a dangerous thing to happen.

Frightening picture - looks well over to Green (Starboard) to me. Just like our present government - poor unloading of weighty issues and no plan for ballasting.

Curiously enough, I was reading the three of those books with Eustace in them earlier in the week.

Re: Settle and Carlisle views. I was hoping to have ridden on the S&C last year. Please could you wait until I have a ticket booked this summer?

Good Morning. Re: Rolling Stock Poll. 2,3,5,8 and 9 please. I think these would be most useful for my Railway.

Has to be Durham - Cathedral and Castle (I don't often get to enjoy this view because I'm usually trying to identify my seat, and/or find a space for luggage - or looking standing by the door on the other side waiting for the green opening light.) Newcastle is also good - river, bridges, castle and station - hopefully having coffee by then - if in first class and travelling to Edinburgh.

Good link. Thank you.

Re: 'nice old steam engines'. In those happy pre-covid times, when visiting the NYMR, I have heard similar phrases used to describe BR Standards that were and are considerably younger than I am. I should point out however that I have not needed to be rescued from a scrapyard! (Well not yet anyway!)

1 = V2 2= A4 3= A3 (and preferably all with double Kylchap exhaust please - and yes I am aware that under the LNER No V2s, and only 4 A4s and one A3 had such. I could have gone for the Peppercorn A1s and the A2s with double kylchap, and I do also like the B1s.)

8F please

Class V, 'Schools' please. I had a good look at the middle valve gear a few years ago, and couldn't see what all the fuss on other Railways was about. (Must try and find the pictures.) Driving onto the leading axle does help. I hope we can see 'Morayshire' again soon.

Please could I ask if the AM10 was the motor/gearbox was one you used in one of your V2s? I ordered one from DJH but now it arrived it looks quite a small motor.

No.1470 please.

I agree about spending too much time on-line. I've had a low spell as well, but making progress now. Little tasks, one-at-a time. Currently improving a junction which was first laid about 1985. Your railway(s) is(are) your railway(s). Progress is to suit you.

Thank you. Fascinating process.

I think that the Roco turntable is actually the same as the Fleischmann one. (Subject to correction). I had a problem with mine and the solution is shown and discussed ....here....

'Midland Compound' please. I don't know enough (without looking it up ) to prefer the Johnson (with it's Smith/NER connections) or the Deeley versions. Bother - have just located Hamilton Ellis 'Midland Railway' on my shelves Can't get into that just yet - busy with late-LNER Pacifics.

S15 please (either Urie or Maunsell) - a sensible locomotive sensibly evolved - and a large number in 'preservation'.

I know that this use of language has been queried somewhere on this thread before. What did the Eastern Empire (of New Rome) do to get the reputation in the West for the complexity and corruption of it's administrative processes? Perhaps it upset those Crusading opportunists, who thought that privilege and brute force were the answer to everything?

1500 Class (later B12 in various guises) please

Poor 'Information Systems' work has, in my formerly informed view, been on the increase for the last decade. Some days I am grateful to be a 'retired' person. Does that make me an idle layabout?

Reid Atlantics please

Actually, Locomotion No.1 with the benefit of hindsight, was a 'looking backward' design. Single flue boiler, low efficiency cylinders sunk into the said boiler (to avoid condensation), driving position on the side to allow direct control of valves if required, (and thus to control speed/reverse/stop) - since the locomotive had no brakes! The four locomotives of that class were very unreliable - it was the Hackworth engines that kept the railway running - despite (again with hindsight) their limitations. Timothy Hackworth had worked with and for the Stephensons when Active No.1 (the original name) was built in the newly established works in Newcastle. The pace of change was enormous. Rocket (just four years later) was the prototype of (almost) all later steam locomotives. Actually, in terms of longevity, 1275 (long boiler 0-6-0) - to service 1874 and still existing might be a better bet! (EDIT - should have also said that Rocket was obsolete within six months of the L&M opening.)