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Post by humbug on Nov 13, 2020 9:40:19 GMT
Dunno where the church is, and I expect it was done after wartime damage, but seems a shame to have rebuilt it using brick.
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Post by humbug on Nov 10, 2020 11:41:34 GMT
B is also Valencia, City of Arts & Sciences (Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències). Worth a visit when we're able to.
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Post by humbug on Oct 19, 2020 8:14:23 GMT
Since taking the photo, Starvin' Marvin's has entirely vanished. Shame, it was a fun eatery in it's day.
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Post by humbug on Aug 24, 2020 12:14:44 GMT
As if the quiz wasn't hard enough?
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Post by humbug on Aug 22, 2020 14:59:39 GMT
This is foxing me.
So far, I've concluded:
It's a portrait of Air Commodore AD (Alfred) Warrington-Morris, I think by Oswald Birley - you can see his sig. top left of the portrait, and the style is correct.
The photograph below the table is intruiging - is it showing a mostly glass roof, or is it a reflection of the building where it's taken?
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Post by humbug on Jul 30, 2020 15:28:14 GMT
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Post by humbug on Jul 8, 2020 12:23:02 GMT
On the trains that I build*, there is a sloping surface built into the master controller ** surround; when I asked what it was for, it was apparently to stop drivers putting their cups of tea there, and liquids dropping into the mechanism. There is a cup holder la few inches away.
* Much as I pretend to, I don't actually build them myself, just buy parts for the factory ** the drivers speed / brake control, in case anyone was wondering
Sorry, back on topic :-)
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Post by humbug on Jul 7, 2020 13:55:23 GMT
There are a couple of interesting points here:
-I appreciate that the forum rules state that we are not supposed to discuss politics, however it is practically impossible to discuss the current news story of driverless trains without mention of it being a Tory leader battling a Labour mayor.
-Secondly, I've always thought that the most recent trains must be computer controlled at the very least - the Jubilee line in central London, where platform edge doors are in operation springs to mind. If this is the case, can you not make the leap to driverless versions of existing trains, using additional technology to ensure safety? It seems that the question here is the cost of doing so, which does not appear to have been adequately thought through.
Humbug
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Post by humbug on Jul 2, 2020 9:38:59 GMT
Main has got to be Valencia Harbour (City of Arts & Science is on the right, I think).
Well worth a visit (at some point in the future), as is the whole city.
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Post by humbug on Apr 22, 2020 10:57:24 GMT
Zurich for the inset, tram 2068 of about 1985.
ps I'm 50 today :-)
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Post by humbug on Mar 9, 2020 13:08:35 GMT
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Post by humbug on Feb 27, 2020 13:14:22 GMT
The drain depot used to have lots of cats - this was in the '80s when I visited however. Still there?
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Post by humbug on Feb 27, 2020 13:10:23 GMT
I like DOG best - you play with a dog, the rest you play.
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Post by humbug on Feb 27, 2020 13:09:32 GMT
All of them!
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Post by humbug on Feb 7, 2020 16:47:35 GMT
I wonder if the Isle Of Wight Steam Railway might mind the Island Line running over their tracks?
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Post by humbug on Feb 3, 2020 15:40:35 GMT
Many years ago, a bus driver opened the doors several metres away from the kerb, as I was negotiating a very heavy Moto Guzzi motorbike around it. I was forced to come to an immediate stop, but not before nearly flattening the person exiting the bus.
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Post by humbug on Jan 13, 2020 10:19:22 GMT
Location B looks like the inside of a 1938 stock car, but unsure of location.
Northern Line diagram is visible.
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Post by humbug on Jan 7, 2020 15:16:27 GMT
Link: Former London Underground stations?
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Post by humbug on Jan 3, 2020 8:39:15 GMT
C: Camden Road Overground?
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Post by humbug on Jan 2, 2020 10:50:16 GMT
Just needs a lick of paint....
Wikipedia suggests that it's privately owned. I wonder if the owner has plans for it?
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Post by humbug on Jan 2, 2020 10:40:37 GMT
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Post by humbug on Dec 20, 2019 12:36:40 GMT
Why would they do this? It's unique..I appreciate they're short on space, but really??
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Post by humbug on Dec 16, 2019 9:25:50 GMT
Oooh...I recognise that - Hayes & Harlington station.
Last day of GWR operation before being transferred to TfL?
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Post by humbug on Nov 25, 2019 16:33:09 GMT
Definitely Victoria Road Darlington for the right picture, a view I know well as I traipse down into town on my regular visits to Hitachi :-)
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Post by humbug on Nov 19, 2019 11:42:19 GMT
Shado is a dog that belongs to one of the senior volunteers at the Bristol Harbour Railway. A little elderly, but loves the trains.
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Post by humbug on Aug 7, 2019 12:23:28 GMT
Inset: McDonald's restaurants?
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Post by humbug on Jul 31, 2019 7:19:30 GMT
That can't be right - looks like Valencia Bullring to me :-)
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Post by humbug on Jul 26, 2019 8:31:28 GMT
Inset C is National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
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Post by humbug on Jul 11, 2019 7:34:03 GMT
The statue is called "Sunshine Weekly and the Pilgrim’s Pocket" and is in Rotherhithe.
Acton for the main?
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Post by humbug on Jul 1, 2019 9:49:54 GMT
The station reopened 100 years ago today, after being shut for WW1.
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