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“no Tories left”? Surely Starmer’s got plenty of them?
Retired #Telecommunications Engineer. #Travels about. Takes #photos. Likes #railways. Likes #history. Likes old #buildings. Likes old #tech. Likes #beer. Doesn’t like Tories.
“no Tories left”? Surely Starmer’s got plenty of them?
Oh come on, everyone knows the correct answer is this one 😀
![Class 55 Deltic at Kings Cross late 1970s with the front of the train shed behind]
I avoided seeing it. As I remarked to a similar post in Another Place, were you expecting anything different?
“That exhaust will clear right up” I’d be surprised if it did, even when they were newish Class 50s could produce an impressive plume of exhaust smoke. When I was a kid spotting on the Western Region main line and these were in regular service we learned not to stand directly above them on the footbridge at the station 😀 They make a great noise going at full chat though.
Party Gas=Ether aka Easy Start (or “Start ya bastard” in Australia). Sprayed into the air intake to encourage reluctant engines to fire up. It was a frivolous humourous remark, I think you’d need unfeasibly large cans for an engine that size 😀
Simple, servants 🙂
Not enough of the ol’ Party Gas, Class 50 needs two full cans at least 😀
I think it’s the block of flats that’s Art Deco rather than the interior of that particular one, which is as you say more Louis Quatorze. If he’d been from Essex.
They complained that the original set of photos were all in portrait mode. This was the corrected set 🙂
Yes. Fuck knows how that happened 🙁
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Probably. I know that I’ve copied the OTT URL for the service’s page into the notes field in a calendar entry before travelling, and it still works <checks> a couple of weeks later, although <checks> if I go back further it says “Schedule L15359 was not valid on 2024-03-19”, so I’m guessing they get dumped after a month. Probably a limitation of the Network Rail data/licence.
https://www.opentraintimes.com/ Is quite detailed. Also good for checking how late your train was for Delay Repay purposes, especially as you can bookmark a particular service to refer back to later.
App wise I use Train Track by quatabyte on Android, Train Home by Thomas Thorpe on iOS.
Also realtimetrains.co.uk works well in a mobile browser though they no longer do an app.
I have as it happens although not since <checks> 20th June 2012. I think we just went Hythe - Dungeness - Hythe. Few heritage/preserved lines run a frequent enough timetable for “rover” tickets to make much sense unless you’re going to just ride up and down without stopping. It looks good on the promotional bumf though. Like museums with the ubiquitous “unlimited visits for a whole year” tickets, it sounds good but how many people are really going to make multiple visits?
Is it missing then? 🙂 #sorrynotsorry
Thereby tieing you to your ISP forever unless you were willing and able to keep changing your email address.
Never. Use. Your. ISP’s Included. Email. Service.
Effectively already started to happen. Restrictions on use and higher tax and other charges for older cars designed to “encourage” people to buy newer ones, nearly all of which are in some way connected.
Old enough to have used, installed, and maintained V21. And most of the CCITT/ITU data transmission schemes which followed. Also a well known 50 baud network that went before 🙂 (Telex)
There’s a thing called leasehold whereby you own the building and lease the land usually for 99 years after which it returns to the freeholder. It’s one of the reasons that the US embassy in London moved from Mayfair to Nine Elms. It was the only US embassy in the world that the US government didn’t own, the freehold belongs to the Grosvenor family (i.e. Lord Grosvenor). When the US tried to buy the freehold the Grosvenor family refused but agreed to a 999 year lease in exchange for the return of 12000 acres of Florida that was confiscated from them after the Revolutionary War - yes, they’ve been landowners for a very long time! I think the US made sure to buy the freehold of the new site at Nine Elms (they sold the remainder of the 999 year lease in Mayfair for an undisclosed sum) 😀
Even cleaner than Cedar Point Wave Pool, Ohio.