Hi,

I am likely to buy a couple of these, and would quite like the Hawksworth tender versions.

In case I missed it, have they said when these versions will be/are likely to be available?

I imagine they will be released with different names, and there are a few to choose from!

Anyway, wishing all readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy new year.

Ha-ha yes bumpers, I cannot remember if I wore those.

Anyway, that's two musicians that I am not really familiar with (Messrs Berry/Gallagher). I do remember Chuck Berry on TV (TOTP) doing my "My Ding-a-Ling".

John @Train Waiting , please enlighten us on your musical tastes - but only if you want to.

Tim

 

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Quote from: port perran on December 23, 2025, 05:06:20 PMI saw him three times and on each occasion he was on stage for well over two hours always dressed in his checked shirt, jeans and bumpers.

I'm so, so sorry, but I've got to ask. What is/are 'bumpers'?

The video was interesting, thank you. The best guitarist I saw was the late Chuck Berry. In Glasgow. Now, Glasgow audiences have a reputation for a certain tendency towards liveliness if not completely happy with a performance. This one absolutely loved Chuck Berry.

Thanks again and all good wishes.

John

Bumpers John - well favoured footwear of the early 70s along with very well worn Dunlop Green Flash tennis/squash shoes:

Quote from: port perran on December 23, 2025, 05:06:20 PMI saw him three times and on each occasion he was on stage for well over two hours always dressed in his checked shirt, jeans and bumpers.

I'm so, so sorry, but I've got to ask. What is/are 'bumpers'?

The video was interesting, thank you. The best guitarist I saw was the late Chuck Berry. In Glasgow. Now, Glasgow audiences have a reputation for a certain tendency towards liveliness if not completely happy with a performance. This one absolutely loved Chuck Berry.

Thanks again and all good wishes.

John

In my opinion the greatest and possibly the most under rated guitarist of the late 60s/70s was Rory Gallagher.

Never really in the top notch superstar category but he was a superb musician who simply adored performing on stage.

I saw him three times and on each occasion he was on stage for well over two hours always dressed in his checked shirt, jeans and bumpers.
Mind you those three occasions is nothing compared to Mrs PP who saw him a good 17 or 18 times well before I met her.

Sadly he left us well before his time.


Hope you enjoy this :

It seems that the new batch of GF Class 150s are imminent as Rails of Sheffield have today charged me for my GWR liveried pre-ordered model.

I must admit that I had forgotten that I'd ordered it so it'll be a nice little present to myself when it eventually arrives.

Still not working from Paypal portal or this website?

This is very interesting.

However, a 45 minute loco change at Oxford is really excessive, as  Martyn has already commented. The Southern Region allowed as many as 4 minutes for a loco and crew change at Salisbury for the "Atlantic Coast Express" - a shunter would be stationed at the platform end, and, as soon as the train stopped, he would be down between the tender and leading coach, disconnecting the vac and steam heating pipes and uncoupling the engine, which would immediately depart, allowing the new loco to back straight onto the train from a nearby spur. The very rapid loco change was applied to the majority of trains that that called at Salisbury. Nine Elms locos and crews rarely worked west of Salisbury; similarly, Exmouth Junction locos and crews rarely worked east of Salisbury. Of course we must not forget that Brighton-Cardiff and Portsmouth-Plymouth trains also changed their locos and crews there, from an SR loco to a WR loco, and vice versa, in the instance of the inter-regional services. I have had several experiences of this and the loco change was very slick, to my young teenage mind we'd barely stopped at Salisbury before we were away again, having exchanged our WC/BB Pacific for either a Castle or Hall 4-6-0.

My own layout, "Trewenn" (needs much scenic work do be done!), is "located" at the end of a meandering Western Region branch from Barnstaple, and at the end of a Southern branch line off the North Cornwall Line, west of Launceston. On summer Saturdays only, the Southern receives an inter-regional service from Nottingham (Victoria)  via the Great Central main line, Banbury, Oxford (loco change), Didcot East Junction, Reading West Curve, Basingstoke (detach the Bournemouth/Pool/Weymouth portion), Salisbury (loco change), Exeter Central (detach the Barnstaple/Ilfracombe portion), and the remaining five or six coaches (Thompsons/Mk.1s), go forward, with a new loco (more usually a Standard Class 4MT 2-6-0, or a Class N 2-6-0), via Okehampton, Halwill Junction, and Launceston to Trewenn. Of course, there's also a service in the opposite direction to Nottingham.

What fun a vivid imagination can be!

 

Liege and Lief was, in my opinion, a masterful piece of work.

At age 91 and living alone I don't get out at all, so have to rely on Tesco and Amazon deliveries.