Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 35)
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Pericoloso said:
Forgot...happy birthday P5.
What books have you been given ?...... Some Italian car themed loveliness ?
...mine's a Milky bar ,softer to eat.....Nom !
Ta Peri.... the books : yet another Mini one, a British Leyland one and a Brooklands road test reprint on Jensen Interseptors, the two that are en route via the nice man from the GPO are also Brooklands books, one on the Porsche 914 and another on the Lotus Elan and Elan +2. A bit of cash also came my way so I've just ordered another Porsche 914 and Lotus book from Amazon.What books have you been given ?...... Some Italian car themed loveliness ?
...mine's a Milky bar ,softer to eat.....Nom !The Toblerones are in the fridge, primed and ready....!
john2443 said:
Magooagain said:
Have a train! In a York museum I believe.
It's not a train, it's an engine or locomotive..a train is one of those with some carriages hooked on the back - PH - pedantry matters 
Anyway, yes, York Railway museum, LMS Coronation class pacific, in my view the most amazing looking steam loco ever, Unfortunately the streamlining was completely useless, added lots of weight and made maintenance access to the dirty bits more difficult so they removed it after a few years. 70 years later they put it back on so we could see what it looked like when new - a completely pointless waste of money, it doesn't run, only good for looking at and therefore, in PH terms, a very worthwhile job!
glenrobbo said:
Has she got the Waterloo 50p to go with her Paddington one?
And did they also issue a special edition 50p for St.Pancras, Euston, King's Cross and Liverpool Street?
Nij will know.
No knowledge squire, sorry!And did they also issue a special edition 50p for St.Pancras, Euston, King's Cross and Liverpool Street?
Nij will know.
But I have driven trains in and out of three of those London termini - Padd, Pancras and Euston
john2443 said:
It's not a train, it's an engine or locomotive..a train is one of those with some carriages hooked on the back - PH - pedantry matters
Anyway, yes, York Railway museum, LMS Coronation class pacific, in my view the most amazing looking steam loco ever, Unfortunately the streamlining was completely useless, added lots of weight and made maintenance access to the dirty bits more difficult so they removed it after a few years. 70 years later they put it back on so we could see what it looked like when new - a completely pointless waste of money, it doesn't run, only good for looking at and therefore, in PH terms, a very worthwhile job!
As a little lad taken to see steam trains at full tilt through Deepcut in the late fifties and early sixites it intrigued me that the converted and unconverted Merchant Navy and West Country locomotives looked as if they were named the wrong way round. Surely, I thought, the streamlined ones are converted from the utilitarian ones not the other way round. Life is still a mystery to me in many ways.Anyway, yes, York Railway museum, LMS Coronation class pacific, in my view the most amazing looking steam loco ever, Unfortunately the streamlining was completely useless, added lots of weight and made maintenance access to the dirty bits more difficult so they removed it after a few years. 70 years later they put it back on so we could see what it looked like when new - a completely pointless waste of money, it doesn't run, only good for looking at and therefore, in PH terms, a very worthwhile job!
Nice book choice P5.
Toblerones in the fridge ?.....see my previous post , they're difficult enough to eat already.
I'm going to read more of my Brooklands book on the Mille Miglias later.
I've still only got as far as !932 so far.
It was an Alfa Romeo benefit mostly in the 30s.....sorry spoiler alert !
Toblerones in the fridge ?.....see my previous post , they're difficult enough to eat already.
I'm going to read more of my Brooklands book on the Mille Miglias later.
I've still only got as far as !932 so far.
It was an Alfa Romeo benefit mostly in the 30s.....sorry spoiler alert !
DickyC said:
john2443 said:
It's not a train, it's an engine or locomotive..a train is one of those with some carriages hooked on the back - PH - pedantry matters
Anyway, yes, York Railway museum, LMS Coronation class pacific, in my view the most amazing looking steam loco ever, Unfortunately the streamlining was completely useless, added lots of weight and made maintenance access to the dirty bits more difficult so they removed it after a few years. 70 years later they put it back on so we could see what it looked like when new - a completely pointless waste of money, it doesn't run, only good for looking at and therefore, in PH terms, a very worthwhile job!
As a little lad taken to see steam trains at full tilt through Deepcut in the late fifties and early sixites it intrigued me that the converted and unconverted Merchant Navy and West Country locomotives looked as if they were named the wrong way round. Surely, I thought, the streamlined ones are converted from the utilitarian ones not the other way round. Life is still a mystery to me in many ways.Anyway, yes, York Railway museum, LMS Coronation class pacific, in my view the most amazing looking steam loco ever, Unfortunately the streamlining was completely useless, added lots of weight and made maintenance access to the dirty bits more difficult so they removed it after a few years. 70 years later they put it back on so we could see what it looked like when new - a completely pointless waste of money, it doesn't run, only good for looking at and therefore, in PH terms, a very worthwhile job!
Railway trivia alert : one of my mate's at Reading Depot is best pals with the retired driver who was the fireman on Winston Churchill's funeral train in January '65 from Waterloo to Hanborough, his loco that day appropriately enough
was 35051 'Winston Churchill', which now resides at the NRM in York....
The returning empties were taken back to London by D1015 'Western Champion' with two Old Oak Common men who I later worked with when I was there in the '80s....
D1015 is now preserved and is the only one of the seven preserved 'Westerns' still allowed out on the mainline.
What ho chaps!!
We are returned from our little sojourn to Mottisfont, where we had a walk around the gardens and a stroll along the river, we then stopped at Bramshaw garden centre for a cup of coffee and a slice of cake!!!
Re the 50p's, yes she only collects bright uncirculated coins, usually in a card or plastic holder, often with a story board attached, but thanks for asking!!!
We are returned from our little sojourn to Mottisfont, where we had a walk around the gardens and a stroll along the river, we then stopped at Bramshaw garden centre for a cup of coffee and a slice of cake!!!
Re the 50p's, yes she only collects bright uncirculated coins, usually in a card or plastic holder, often with a story board attached, but thanks for asking!!!
StuntmanMike said:
Up north.
Today I round the horn and turn south.
We’re off to the lovely Hereford. We need to check the colour of the boathouse.
Bought my very first proper Mini Cooper from a guy in Herteford way back in July '99, he looked every inch the stereotypical SAS type, but wasn't. On the way home the dynamo in the Mini caught fire, which made it a fun trip.Today I round the horn and turn south.
We’re off to the lovely Hereford. We need to check the colour of the boathouse.
Just been looking at the bargain basement Citroen C6 thread in Reader's Cars, it's the sort of thing PH should be all about. And pointless trivia, obviously.
The pack of Bassett's Allsorts i've just opened contains no Bertie, no pink or blue aniseed and no pink or yellow coconut sweets 
About 50% of the pack is just plain liquorice and the rest a mixture of the orange & brown squares
This is clearly the offset payback for the pack i bought a couple of weeks ago that was mainly just aniseed, coconut & Bertie based.
About 50% of the pack is just plain liquorice and the rest a mixture of the orange & brown squares This is clearly the offset payback for the pack i bought a couple of weeks ago that was mainly just aniseed, coconut & Bertie based.
AlexRS2782 said:
The pack of Bassett's Allsorts i've just opened contains no Bertie, no pink or blue aniseed and no pink or yellow coconut sweets About 50% of the pack is just plain liquorice and the rest a mixture of the orange & brown squares
This is clearly the offset payback for the pack i bought a couple of weeks ago that was mainly just aniseed, coconut & Bertie based.
A sterling effort there, 9.661 on the Triv-o-meter!!! About 50% of the pack is just plain liquorice and the rest a mixture of the orange & brown squares This is clearly the offset payback for the pack i bought a couple of weeks ago that was mainly just aniseed, coconut & Bertie based.
However, Liquorice allsorts are now being monitored for contents!!!
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