Recent content by Strathclyder

Post of the week right here. Not much more I can add, being someone else who's had to deal with the DWP personally and as a close witnes to family members also having to go through the process and can also attest to how utterly demoralising it is. In all honesty, Sunak's 'sick-note culture'...

Hmmm, fair point well taken. Perhaps this is another potential off-topic deviation that requires it's own thread?

*shudder* I'd rather have a hernia at the base of my spine for a month than one more day of that nutbag back in charge, thanks. Every day she was in No.10, it was another chance for her to blow another multi-billion pound hole in the economy while spouting off one-liners like a short-circuiting...

A Provan Gas Works loco dating from 1946, built by Andrew Barclay in Kilmarnock, named Dougal, and built to a 2ft 6in gauge and 0-4-0 wheel arrangement, survives at the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway.

As do some 08s and a few of the outwardly similar 10s. The 50s would be within a shout here too I would have thought. But you're right, it's a topic best suited for it's own thread. Ah, Vulcan. Cracking wee thing imho (have always been a sucker for the less successful diesel types). A slightly...

Or of the Polmadie - Harpenden move. Would be real interesting to see pics of either move if they exist. My affinity for the Claytons as a whole stems largely from the fact they made their base in/around Glasgow for most of their short careers. That, and the fact those two Paxmans sound so...

D8658 is a real survivor, and her path to preservation was virtually identical to many Class 14s: one or more industrial owner. She went to Hemilite of Harpenden straight from Polmadie, working under her own power between Glasgow and Harpenden on 11th September 1972. She would remain there...

Close up shot of now-preserved W9135E (the last Gresley buffet in normal service) at Plymouth, image dated 2nd July 1976 (from the jetty - buns in black Flickr stream). https://www.flickr.com/photos/westernbasher/52063959701 Is it sacrilege to say that I rather like Blue/Grey on this? Maybe...

I did suspect they were as I was aware that some Gresley buffets lasted long enough to get Blue/Grey (as you point out), but didn't want to leap to a conclusion, so I played it safe lol

I have, saved on my PC, a pic of a Class 21 leaving Aberdeen on a Forres-bound service in July 1964 (originally taken by Michael Mensing) with two LNER-designed coaches in the formation. Chances are those two were built after nationalization, but it's quite the contrast all the same:

That is correct. One of Strathclyde's single-deck Metroliners (A740 RNS/C13) as mentioned by @GusB in post #181 was another vehicle lost in that fire. Sister vehicle A741 RNS (C14) remained in use for a few more years, but I think was gone by the time First took over (linked photo copyright of...

Really does make one pinch the bridge of the nose, doesn't it? And no, she doesn't speak, not like a normal human being anyway. Whatever comes out of her mouth can at best be described as a stream of consciousness by a malfunctioning android that's then been tossed in a blender, shredder and...

Like we needed any more proof she's totally off her rocker.

That you did, my apologies; blame that on my lack of caffine lol

That would make far too much sense, painful as it's been to lose this building the way we did. Given the exact circumstances that led to this fire happening in the first place, I'm not holding out much hope for a common sense solution here, but I'll be willing to be proved wrong. I'd be...