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Started by Chippy
Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:22
Mary! Mary! What have you done?
Author: Chippy
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:22
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:22
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Mary Pegg (unwittingly) wrote: >> Chippy wrote: >> Just announced on BBC Look East that the driver has been 'removed from >> driving duties'. > IIRC the Cambridge (Weekly News | Town Crier) said he'd "never get > behind the wheel of a train again"... Oh, no! We'll have every half-witted trainspotter telling us, at length, that trains don't have steering wheels, and how this represents the foolishness of the press...
Re: Mary! Mary! What have you done?
Author: Ronnie Clark
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:27
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:27
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>>> Just announced on BBC Look East that the driver has been 'removed >from >>> driving duties'. > >> IIRC the Cambridge (Weekly News | Town Crier) said he'd "never get >> behind the wheel of a train again"... > >Oh, no! We'll have every half-witted trainspotter telling us, at >length, that trains don't have steering wheels, and how this >represents the foolishness of the press... True, but then again a large number of the locomotives I've been in have come fully equipped with nice wheels for other duties though, the most popular employment of a wheel being for regulation of Mk.2 state class 43 propellant positioning for the pandrol DVT allignment. Ronnie -- http://www.blugman.freeserve.co.uk As the wise man says: "Remember - there is no more important safety rule than to wear these: safety glasses"
Re: Mary! Mary! What have you done?
Author: Chris Game
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 08:43
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 08:43
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Chippy said: > Oh, no! We'll have every half-witted trainspotter telling us, at > length, that trains don't have steering wheels, and how this > represents the foolishness of the press... ....followed up by another group indignantly responding that in 1865 they indeed, on the Much Binding - Lower Hayseed railway commissioned a locomotive with a steering wheel to take account of the novel points arrangement at Windy Marsh Junction... -- ============================================= Chris Game <chrisgame@!yahoo!dotcodotuk> =============================================
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