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« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2023, 08:34:51 pm » |
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Just watched it through Devon on 5 live camersa, technology huh!
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« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2023, 09:23:48 pm » |
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Just another kettle working out of it's area... meh...
Well one of us has to be a grump..
Oh ... have you taken that role? Is there room for a second person who is less than excited ... but yet many people love it and, putting aside the t**ts who make it dangerous, let them. |
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« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2023, 10:19:55 pm » |
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All good clean fun. It was great to see today so many children enthused by a piece of 100 year old technology. They're the next generation of rail enthusiasts who will hopefully keep the hobby alive - recording and photographing heritage rolling stock, using trains and advocating for them, volunteering...
Here's to another 100 years of (not The) Flying Scotsman!
...and all the other preserved rolling stock of course. Wherever it may be running. I don't subscribe to this 'out of area' malarkey. I've seen a Bulleid West Country Class climbing Shap. A Deltic trundling through Shropshire. A GWR▸ Large Prairie in Essex. A Stanier Coronation Class in Dorset... All equally at home doing heritage duty.
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« Reply #18 on: April 30, 2023, 10:41:28 pm » |
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Final post about Flying Scotsman today. I promise! Quite the crowd at St Blazey to see 60103 being turned on the newly restored turntable. https://youtu.be/_wARt-kzgqE |
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« Reply #19 on: May 01, 2023, 11:43:20 am » |
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Here's to another 100 years of (not The) Flying Scotsman!
...and all the other preserved rolling stock of course. Wherever it may be running. I don't subscribe to this 'out of area' malarkey. I've seen a Bulleid West Country Class climbing Shap. A Deltic trundling through Shropshire. A GWR▸ Large Prairie in Essex. A Stanier Coronation Class in Dorset... All equally at home doing heritage duty.
Good job you don't subscribe to this 'out of area' malarkey then. The 'Atlantic Coast Express' running between Waterloo and Exeter via Templecombe on Saturday, 20th May will no longer feature Bulleid Merchant Navy, 35028 'Clan Line', but will be in the charge of ex- LMS▸ Jubilee class, 45596 'Bahamas' |
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« Reply #20 on: May 01, 2023, 04:16:33 pm » |
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Someone else will have to phot 'Bahamas'. I'll be in the middle of the Irish Sea on 20th May.
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« Reply #21 on: May 01, 2023, 06:00:37 pm » |
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Someone else will have to phot 'Bahamas'. I'll be in the middle of the Irish Sea on 20th May.
In a parallel universe, a man and his dog are in the middle of the Caribbean, hoping that someone else gets a photo of the steam loco 'Isle of Man'... |
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« Reply #22 on: May 01, 2023, 06:22:15 pm » |
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Someone else will have to phot 'Bahamas'. I'll be in the middle of the Irish Sea on 20th May.
In a parallel universe, a man and his dog are in the middle of the Caribbean, hoping that someone else gets a photo of the steam loco 'Isle of Man'... shouldn't that be "The Isle of Man"?  |
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« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2023, 02:40:12 pm » |
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« Reply #24 on: May 27, 2023, 03:10:24 pm » |
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Absolutely pathetic piece of poor journalism,from Telegraph Reporters ,that means more than one who won't put a name to the article.
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« Reply #25 on: May 27, 2023, 03:42:22 pm » |
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On this important issue of whether or not to use a definite article: it occurs to me that no-one bats an eyebrow when the first steam loco to reach 100mph is referred to as ‘the’ City of Truro, or an ocean liner is referred to as ‘the’ QE2. So I inquired of the Google to see what it said, and found this: https://www.englishcurrent.com/grammar/definite-article-place-names-geography/It seems that names with ‘of’ get a definite article, so that explains the City of Truro (maybe!) but not the QE2… The article also says street names never get one, which plainly isn’t true as I do most of my shopping on the Gloucester Road. Although today we got the train over to Clifton Down and pottered up and down Whiteladies Road, which never gets a ‘the’. I guess the most important thing is that we communicate in ways that other people can understand, and try not to get too cross with people whose understanding of the rules differs from ours. |
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« Reply #26 on: May 27, 2023, 03:52:26 pm » |
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The article also says street names never get one, which plainly isn’t true as I do most of my shopping on the Gloucester Road. Although today we got the train over to Clifton Down and pottered up and down Whiteladies Road, which never gets a ‘the’.
I guess the most important thing is that we communicate in ways that other people can understand, and try not to get too cross with people whose understanding of the rules differs from ours.
Absolutely - as I will remind myself next time I walk along The Cut from Waterloo! One of the delights of the English language are its vagaries, and there are too many grammar Nazis around these days - I think social media has encouraged it. |
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« Reply #27 on: May 27, 2023, 03:58:34 pm » |
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I was on holiday so missed seeing The Braunton going though the Templecombe station.
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« Reply #28 on: May 27, 2023, 07:38:06 pm » |
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Absolutely - as I will remind myself next time I walk along The Cut from Waterloo! Ahhhh, but that IS the name of the road. It isn't called just 'Cut' is it? |
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« Reply #29 on: May 27, 2023, 10:52:56 pm » |
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One of the delights of the English language are its vagaries…
It very much are. |
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