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You beat me to it,we were taught a scenario of a derailed and on fire light engine with the rear cab demolished and foul of opposite running lines but I'm sure our three detonators were to be placed at one mile,that was in the seventies.

Probably railway myth but Clacton train at Liverpool st,early 70's. Passenger 'does this train split in half on the way'. Driver 'I ****ing hope not'.

Me,Ford Ranger XLT Thunder.

Ah.My favouite rant.A mini roundabout I have to use every day,junction of three A roads and a residential street.Car to my right no indicators so I give way,car then turns left...grrr.Car to my right indicating right and just sits there until I lose patience and just go,no matter who's right of...

People who step off the bottom of an escalator and just stop,leaving everyone else to pile into them.

Merry Christmas.

4 or 5 years ago, was driving from an hotel in Cooden,only remember it cos I had an aunt in Cooden Beach. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Not exactly on topic but there is a big yellow sign in Brentwood reading NO THROUGH ROAD DO NOT FOLLOW SAT NAV.

It also happened somewhere near Eastbourne (Bexhill ?).Driver was a 'senior NHS employee'..Says a lot does'nt it.

On the subject of good ads Specsavers had to be tops with the logger felling power poles and the shepherd shearing his dog.

Has anyone flatly refused to buy a product,no matter how good because the ad for it has driven them to distraction ?.

Update. Ditherers,Dawdlers and people with all the time in the world when I'm in a hurry.

People that stand in doorways,kids in pubs and Rover drivers.

I think that is hydrofluoric acid,really nasty stuff.So I am told if you get it on your hands it is impossible to remove or neutralise ,amputation being the only 'cure'.

An AM6 up Brentwood bank on jointed track with all those catch points and the neutral section by the sewage works would qualify for that too.

Showing my age yes a train came over the viaduct about 1967,I think Ena Sharples was trapped in the rubble and Len Fairclough saved the day so they have raked up an old plot.ps hav'nt watched it for years.

I was told years ago that Debden is a corruption of Deepdene,I try not to go there very often but seem to remember a 'Deepdene road' somewhere round one of the housing estates.

An unoficial mod to a standard drivers key,there was another slot milled in it allowing it to be removed in the on position leaving the controls open for quick change ends or driver at each end.So I am told ,if you got it wrong the result was loud bangs and blown fuses,

What you need is a 'Ripple Lane key'.

I hope I have put this in the right place,mods please move if not. On last nights mega machines there was a 10 minute article on the Durango and Silverton railway,While describing the difficulties crossing the rocky mountains there was a brief shot at low level of the track,this quite plainly...

There is no throttle on a diesel engine unless you count either the old vacuum governors or the landrover brake vacuum flap thing. The reason for the excess of air is that within a small fraction of a second each miniscule droplet of fuel injected has to 'find'enough oxygen to burn completely...