Recent content by LWB

Is this a troll? I’m hopeless at spotting trolls. Assuming you are serious in asking this question, have you looked at a map? The bus has to travel all the way up the rural Cartmel peninsular to gain the A590 and then travel all the way down the Furness peninsular to reach Ulverston. The...

Some realism on this forum at last. Thank you

Having to book a long distance phone call ahead of time and await the operator phoning you back to tell you your call is ready.

For what it’s worth a similar thing is happening/has happened alongside canals. In this case there is a positive enhancement to market value if a premises is alongside a canal, especially if gardens have their own water frontage. Used to be called ribbon development and was expressly avoided in...

This of course is the source of the term pilot engine to describe the engine sent out a few minutes before the Royal Train. (Once upon a time)

Thank you!

I was interested to learn what mixing desk was so clicked on the links above (in the end all of them). With my up to date iphone and iOS only one of them worked. The rest were almost identical in appearance and totally unresponsive. What am I doing wrong?

“As many revenue streams as possible” sounds all very plausible but in this day and age cutting costs is more important. Even if one or both Fairburns were available the cost of the staggeringly expensive, utterly crap coal needed to pound a class 4 backwards and forwards up a 1 in 73 gradient...

The Lakeside & Haverthwaite is a very well managed railway. Its objectives are staying solvent and not having to seek donations or crippling loans. The L@HR have always been aware that ‘normals’ (the term used on this forum I believe) are the guarantors of fininancial security not...

I spend more time than I should trawling through YouTube searching for, amongst other things, videos of model railway layouts. Typically my favourites are UK prototypes up to late 80s. I have had no interest in European layouts until that is I came across the exquisite work of Renaud Yver and...

There is a fascinating BR (edit: LNER) film (or even earlier) on YouTube entitled “buffer stop tests Bradford”. Well worth a look

Our power cuts run up to 5 days in duration. Sometimes a mere flicker but more often 18 hours plus. 6 hrs UPS is risible in that context.

‘Orange Juice’ sold from catering trollies in 3-d triangular cardboard containers (humbug tetrahedral shape)

My bold. There are more than that! I watch Leslie Gilpin’s videos of Carlisle and environs. In the first few minutes of the last one (2 days ago) 66186 is seen pulling an engineering train. There seem to be at least half a dozen usual suspects in EWS livery floating in and out of Carlisle on...

Just noticed this thread. Having had a whole series of tests spread over two years I am currently awaiting a final appointment for a cardiac ablation therapy operation. Following my first covid jab my heart developed a wild arrhythmia and is pumping desperately badly. My consultant who is a...