Meanwhile. On the Ukrainian border.

[CatmanV2]

Might he have some henchmen?

Nature abhors a vacuum....

C

 

[midlifecrisis]

Nature abhors a vacuum....

C

Life is too short not to learn from other's mistakes

 

[Alan Surrey]

Status Quo found a good chord and kept repeating it
Other groups find a good mistake and keep repeating it, don't you think?

 

[sionie1]

A couple of weeks ago I was working a train out of Wembley Yard, just as I was about to leave the flask train pulled up in an adjacent road and four security guards appeared from nowhere to keep an eye on it. As for the weight of these flask trains, they're usually no more than two or three hundred tons including the loco(s), the aggregates trains that I usually drive are normally ten times heavier .

The aggregates train used to shake the house foundations, and the house was 200m away from the line!

 

[RodTungsten]

The aggregates train used to shake the house foundations, and the house was 200m away from the line!

1/4 mile away and we certainly hear the Mendips moving to London…

 

[P5Nij]

1/4 mile away and we certainly hear the Mendips moving to London…

Two of our drivers were on that job for three years, lodging in London the whole time (neither are married!), some of the trains were 'jumbos' with with two sets coupled together, once they reached Acton Yard they'd split and go to their eventual destinations, the average weight of the jumbos was 4,000 tons.

Both of the drivers above were raking it in on overtime, one of them bought a Porsche 911 and two C3 Corvettes!

 

[CatmanV2]

Life is too short not to learn from other's mistakes

Many of the threads on this forum would seem to indicate that this is a lesson yet to be learned....

C

 

[RodTungsten]

Two of our drivers were on that job for three years, lodging in London the whole time (neither are married!), some of the trains were 'jumbos' with with two sets coupled together, once they reached Acton Yard they'd split and go to their eventual destinations, the average weight of the jumbos was 4,000 tons.

Both of the drivers above were raking it in on overtime, one of them bought a Porsche 911 and two C3 Corvettes!

My grandkids love them; there are two sidings close by too where they lie up to let the fast traffic by so we get a good view of the smoky starts.

 

[P5Nij]

My grandkids love them; there are two sidings close by too where they lie up to let the fast traffic by so we get a good view of the smoky starts.

Woodborough in Wiltshire by any chance...?

 

[RodTungsten]

Woodborough in Wiltshire by any chance...?

Oh yes. They used to almost wet themselves with excitement on the old footbridge at Patney just before there. We see them just past Hungerford too. Crofton is popular too at the level crossing.

 

[Wack61]

I was looking for an update on the war but I seem to have stumbled across trainspotting monthly

 

[philw696]

I was looking for an update on the war but I seem to have stumbled across trainspotting monthly

Thank Goodness for that mate you could have been looking for a Tractor !

 

[P5Nij]

Thread drift is a very serious medical condition, we all suffer from it from time to time

 

[mowlas]

I was looking for an update on the war but I seem to have stumbled across trainspotting monthly

Are you saying we’ve lost our train of thought with too many thoughts of trains?

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

I've seen apartment blocks, hospitals and factories to name a few, destroyed on Putin's orders.
For some reason, watching universities be destroyed by Russian missiles, is something that
this morning, in the here and now, I'm finding particularly depressing.
To me, universities are places of pure learning or knowledge creation. Something intrinsically
good, for it's own sake.

The Russians have destroyed places of healing. Places of Making and places of living.
Now they're destroying places of learning.

From Putin down through the chain of command, to the person who pushes the button.
Everyone must be guilty of war crimes. Surely sometime soon, all will be held accountable.

 

[mowlas]

It’s sheer state sponsored terrorism.

 

[Wattie]

It’s about time they started to negotiate for peace.

Ukraine is never gonna beat Russia…..this “funding and supplying” simply extends the slaughter.

I see there’s Nuclear War drills in New York.
Madness.

Ukraine is an incidental place most people wouldn’t wanna die for..,.,.most people don’t even know where it is…..or care.

 

[Scaf]

It’s about time they started to negotiate for peace.

Ukraine is never gonna beat Russia…..this “funding and supplying” simply extends the slaughter.

I see there’s Nuclear War drills in New York.
Madness.

Ukraine is an incidental place most people wouldn’t wanna die for..,.,.most people don’t even know where it is…..or care.

I could introduce you to people who care very much.

Anyway - perhaps our new PM will decide to bring Australia back into the fold and bombs will start raining down on a residential area near you .

 

[Wattie]

I could introduce you to people who care very much.

Anyway - perhaps our new PM will decide to bring Australia back into the fold and bombs will start raining down on a residential area near you .

Exactly the reason they should be negotiating for peace.

 

[BennyD]

FFS mods there was no need to delete my last post.