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Have you noticed the goat's resemblance to the guy in charge of Virgin?

I've done that as well! I hate that road.

Office issue bog paper is so thin and nasty these days that I don't blame the lady for bringing her own bog paper to work!

Totley Signalbox's last shift.

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Birmingham New Street being turned into "The Hole"

Probably the same as having to go out of your way to copping a locomotive, only for that loco to follow you around afterwards!

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I heard the steam locomotive passing by on this railtour last night https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K06406/2024-02-24/detailed What was the locomotive please?

I was born 26 years after WW2 ended and I am 52 now - I would like to think we have moved on by now! I have visited Germany 3 times now and think it is a good country.

Jago Hazzard's YT video - he explains the choice of Liberty Line very well.

I saw that ad last night - glad I mute the TV every ad break!

Yes - there was a bell at Lincoln that rang every time a train approached from either direction. I think it was permanently silenced during the 2008 re-signalling. I recall gricing at a platform end of Clapham Junction during evening peak one day during the mid-1980s; I was impressed by the...

I used to hate February (hence hating it being extended during Leap Year) because it's the last month of winter, but in the past few years I have changed my mind since signs of Spring usually start showing during February. Leave Leap Year Day at 29th February.

I know a driver who after a close encounter with a slow tractor and trailer at an occupation crossing got into the habit of making a really long blast on the horn every time he approached that crossing afterwards.