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by hobby
Mon Dec 30, 2013 3:14 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Michael schumacher
Replies: 18
Views: 2326

Re: Michael schumacher

I doubt it matters how fit he is if it's brain damage, just have to keep our fingers crossed...
by hobby
Wed Dec 25, 2013 8:24 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Merry Christmas
Replies: 23
Views: 3054

Re: Merry Christmas

but stop it with the trains already, as a trackside and structures worker for a good amount of years, along with lookout and handsignalling duties, I can still only really tell which is the front and which is the back. At least i took it from the right angle for you... ;) and that's the front btw :...
by hobby
Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:41 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Merry Christmas
Replies: 23
Views: 3054

Re: Merry Christmas

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by hobby
Mon Dec 23, 2013 9:49 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The Great Train Robbery, BBC1 18/19 Dec
Replies: 23
Views: 3338

Re: The Great Train Robbery, BBC1 18/19 Dec

My spotting days were around the mid 60s to mid 70s in the NW so i never really got into the TOPS classes or the later nicknames, the 50s/Hoovers were "D400s" to us lot when they came out and always went around in pairs in case one broke down!
by hobby
Sun Dec 22, 2013 3:59 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The Great Train Robbery, BBC1 18/19 Dec
Replies: 23
Views: 3338

Re: The Great Train Robbery, BBC1 18/19 Dec

Being pedantic: didn't TOPS come in the early 70's? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_TOPS_first_arrangement I suppose strictly speaking the class 50s were also EE type 4s! LB you are right, I read the same wiki entry on post-its but just took the first date ('68) in it to show that it coul...
by hobby
Sun Dec 22, 2013 9:52 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The Great Train Robbery, BBC1 18/19 Dec
Replies: 23
Views: 3338

Re: The Great Train Robbery, BBC1 18/19 Dec

"Buster" was filmed on the GCR, but I understand that this one was filmed on the Keighley and Worth Valley. To be pedantic it was an English Electric Type 4 which then became the BR Class 40 (there were other Type 4s), I think they used a 37 in the drama though! Post Its were invented around '68 so ...
by hobby
Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:09 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The Great Train Robbery, BBC1 18/19 Dec
Replies: 23
Views: 3338

Re: The Great Train Robbery, BBC1 18/19 Dec

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100251134/forget-ronnie-biggs-the-great-train-robber-remember-the-men-whose-lives-he-ruined/ Puts it well, there's far too much these days of thugs being glamourised (Krays for instance) whilst ignoring the poor people who's lives are ruined by these thugs...
by hobby
Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:35 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is the Iconic Fairway Taxi practical and is it a classic?
Replies: 27
Views: 3564

Re: Is the Iconic Fairway Taxi practical and is it a classic

If you are all that desperate this is for sale just down the road from me:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-cars/n ... 2015160578
by hobby
Wed Oct 16, 2013 9:18 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Ban 'Fracking' gas extraction in the UK
Replies: 35
Views: 4089

Re: Ban 'Fracking' gas extraction in the UK

....I also think that they are confusing "land" owner and "home" owner, the former may well have rights to whatever is below the surface and be able to control it's extraction, the latter, as far as I'm aware, doesn't... Under English law, maybe not( :?: ), but under Scottish law the freeholder has...
by hobby
Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:19 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Ban 'Fracking' gas extraction in the UK
Replies: 35
Views: 4089

Re: Ban 'Fracking' gas extraction in the UK

Ah Greenpeace, that source of accurate information that do things for the good of everyone... (please note that was said in a very sarcastic tone - I wouldn't trust what they say is "fact" any more than the Oil Company) I also think that they are confusing "land" owner and "home" owner, the former m...