A Blast From the Past

[DaveB]

Saw something today that I haven't seen in years as I passed through Dilton Marsh Halt this morning.

5 young boys stood in line exhibiting.

You could just have stopped there and it would have been just as believable.

[Churchill]

You Love it really Churchie!

By the way, round the back of the Check Inn tonight as usual?

No thanks. You're a sh!t shag - pun intended.

[gricerboy]

You're about as funny as Julian Clary but not as butch - by that I mean not funny at all.

You Love it really Churchie!

By the way, round the back of the Check Inn tonight as usual?

[Doggy Styles]

You're about as funny as Julian Clary but not as butch - by that I mean not funny at all.

I once went to a Julian Clary gig during the Glasgow Festival, and it was surprisingly funny.

I don't find Graham Norton funny though.

[Churchill]

I never was much of a kettlehead. Give me a thrash on a multiple unit any day!

You're about as funny as Julian Clary but not as butch - by that I mean not funny at all.

[gricerboy]

I think there was one of those steamy things around here one weekend.

Having investigated the thermal efficiency of the design (6%), I can see why they changed to diesel.

I never was much of a kettlehead. Give me a thrash on a multiple unit any day!

[Churchill]

Briefly.

The flyash doesn't do the turbine bit a lot of good really.

Yeah, it's abrasive and acidic but hey, the principle is sound!

[Churchill]

Do you mean that the combustion chambers were to be injected with a coal-dust/air mixture?

Did he ever get such an engine working?

He got it working with ground-nut oil (peanut).

You can also run a gas turbine on coal dust too.

[Doggy Styles]

The diesel engine was originally designed to use powdered coal dust.

Not a lot of people know that.

Do you mean that the combustion chambers were to be injected with a coal-dust/air mixture?

Did he ever get such an engine working?

[gricerboy]

By the way, did you spot my pun there? Untrained eye? I think a is in order!

[stek]

Crosti-boilered BR 9F 2-10-0, hmmmm, my favourite....

[Doggy Styles]

While I was travelling through the Stonebridge Park area away from Euston not long ago, three middle-aged chaps suddenly leapt from their seats near me pointing excitedly out of the window in an easterly direction. Apparently there was a special unit on a parallel track about 100 yards away.

It didn't look anything out of the ordinary to my untrained eye, and unfortunately I can't remember what they said it was, but it made their day.

By the way, did you spot my pun there? Untrained eye? I think a is in order!

[gricerboy]

Saw something today that I haven't seen in years as I passed through Dilton Marsh Halt this morning.

5 young boys stood in line exhibiting a lightning quick swivel of the head akin to a Wimbledon spectator watching an Andy Murray serve as our 5 car unit passed by, each furiously scribbling down the number of his allotted carriage.

That said, I immediately called British Transport Police and suggested they be apprehended under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

You just can't be too careful these days.