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  1. Strathclyder

    Older cars you have seen

    What a beauty. I love boxy Volvos of that era. Something about them is just 'right' to me. Don't get me wrong, my #1 dream Volvo is and likely always will be a 240 estate, but I wouldn't pass up the chance to own one of these. Nor would I turn my nose up at a 90s V70/850 estate; in fact I'd...
  2. Strathclyder

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Yeah, I've been aware of her and her outspoken views regarding her uncle for some time now. One of the very few people in that family with any morals, scruples, brains and common sense.
  3. Strathclyder

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Makes me feel unclean to even remotely agree with anything that comes out of his mouth. Feel like I need to take a long hot shower now... Like the senile moron he is, he laid waste to several decades of careful diplomacy when he said it. At the end of the day though, what he says and what he...
  4. Strathclyder

    Reform UK discussion

    Sounds like another bribe donation for Frogface not to throw yet another public hissy fit, landing himself even deeper in it and then eventually sodding off to the US permanently under the pretense of his family's safety (or so he keeps saying, either that or the personal security rollocks) once...
  5. Strathclyder

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Indeed, and this isn't even the first time he's offered/promised a rebate/refund that has never materialized. It should be common knowledge to anyone outside the cult by now that a Trump promise, especially one involving money that isn't fattening his and the band of crooks that he calls a...
  6. Strathclyder

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Too stupid to add detail/context or to actually follow through with it. It's not too much of a stretch nor is it overly cynical for me to say that this is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to buy votes in the mid-terms regardless of the legality of it or the ballooning effect it would have on...
  7. Strathclyder

    Now Playing....

    Lena Raine - Rubedo (Minecraft OST) If you were to ask me what my favourite, originally composed videogame songs are, Rubedo would easily be in the top 5. The slow, offbeat buildup to that spine-chilling synth crescendo at 3:40 helps make this an all-timer for me.
  8. Strathclyder

    Glasgow Subway - did anyone ever call it the Clockwork Orange?

    In my near 30 years of living on Glasgow's western fringes and using the system on/off, I've never personally heard anyone referring to the system by this name, least of all the locals. At the same time, I haven't seen anyone from Glasgow be precious about the name either. Simple fact is, the...
  9. Strathclyder

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    They didn't plan for a bought & paid for (billionare class & powerful lobby groups say hello) and therefore utterly surpine Congress & Supreme Court (mostly) going along with every demand that Trump belches forth basically.
  10. Strathclyder

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Or one of them is permanently stuck up there. Would neatly explain why every time Trump farts, Farage whistles. 1787164047 Do they make handcuffs the size of buffalo's hoofs?
  11. Strathclyder

    Trivia: Most delayed train to ever complete its service

    Good lord, being stuck on an Azuma that long would have me wearing a groove in the carpet/floor from having to give my backside a break from those bloody awful seats.
  12. Strathclyder

    Trivia: Most delayed train to ever complete its service

    Getting into Via Rail/Amtrak lengths of delay there!
  13. Strathclyder

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Will never be trusted again, not in my lifetime for sure. Well, he did side with Putin over his own intellegence agencies over Russian interference in the 2016 election during his first term and his admiration of dictators/strongmen is his best known quality barring his being a deranged &...
  14. Strathclyder

    West Coast Motors & Borders Buses

    Whelp, the 17 is more trouble than it's worth for me heading out tonight (the 17:05 is the one I was aiming for), so First Glasgow & ScotRail are likely to get my business again: It's all well and good having modern and on the whole well-presented Volvo/MCVs running the bulk of your core...
  15. Strathclyder

    Consecutive pairs of units

    318269 & 318270 keeping each other company on the Argyle Line today, just had them from Argyle Street to Clydebank on 2F21 from Cumbernauld.
  16. Strathclyder

    West Coast Motors & Borders Buses

    Similar list again today for both the 15 and 17. I didn't know things were so bad as to warrant such a service reduction, but I'm not entirely surprised either. Increasingly beginning to think that them taking the X19 on the way they have (taking on all the operational expenditures while...
  17. Strathclyder

    Cathcart Engineering Works - 8&9 August

    This is specifically between the Balgraystone Rd & Springhill Rd bridges, west of the Balgray station site.
  18. Strathclyder

    Avanti cancellations at Glasgow Central yesterday and today.

    This total unwillingness or just flat out inabilty for the powers that be to properly sort it out is why the WCML is never the first option for me for cross-border travel at the weekends regardless if it's land or air-based. I understand that this is a specific case and of course won't apply...
  19. Strathclyder

    Reform UK discussion

    If I were one of those homeowners and if they had the nerve to do that while I was at home to see them at it, I'd tear them right back down and throw them into a bonfire right in front of those meat-heads; see if they dare try and stop me from exercising my rights as a homeowner in disposing of...
  20. Strathclyder

    Did Southern Class 456s often operate with the 455s?

    It wasn't unknown to see 2 456s working in multiple with a 455 on both the Southern and South Western to form a 8-car train: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60539035@N02/50601164601 Having 456s strung together on their own with no 455 in sight wasn't unheard of either to form at most a 6-car...

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