One's Cooking Fat Express...

[Aperitif]

I think he has just run a coach and horses through any credability I might have thought he had. £500K for the train set, before it turns a wheel, then £50K for a week's excursion.

I would like to see the reaction if I tried to tour with a train, how many years would it take to get the pathway agreed. Still, he has some magazines to read and dvds to watch. Possibly he will need them at Stourbridge Junction, while he waits for the 11.12 from New Street to overtake him.

Stourbridge Junction?

Chuffing hell!

 

[Speicher]

I sit corrected, Aperitif, well spotted.

I should have said Stourbridge Town Branch Line

 

[Aperitif]

I stand astounded Speicher! I only picked a random place...Where is chuffy chuff chuff anyway?

Fools team ahead.

 

[Speicher]

I think he is having difficulty finding the exit.. er.. entrance at his nearest station.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

At the end of the article it talks about the on board entertainment...

'The most eyebrow-raising entertainment option is Extreme Maniacs, cert 15, which appears to have come free with a copy of Bizarre – a gore and fetish sex magazine.'

If Chaz gets over excited with the whip, Camilla could end up like the engine - with a tender behind!

 

[Speicher]

Someone ought to blow the whistle on that sort of behaviour.

 

[TheDoctor]

I think he did it just to gauge the reaction...

 

[dellzeqq]

So he won't be doing any "shunting" with Camilla then----Sorry, thats a horrible vision.

thankyou. My psychotherapy bill is on it's way to you now...

 

[Speicher]

I think he did it just to gauge the reaction...

Not sure that I wish to N guage with him on this topic.

 

[Aperitif]

Not sure that I wish to N guage with him on this topic.

HO HO

 

[Aperitif]

with a tender behind!

 

[Arch]

Not sure that I wish to N guage with him on this topic.

Boring!

Zzzzzzzzz

(Z gauge is sooooo cute!)

Leaving the puns aside for a mo, there's an account in the NRM of one of Queen Victoria's overnight train trips from Balmoral to London. About 3 separate train crews, a train that went ahead to check the line, all other traffic on each section cancelled, and a slow running stage in the early morning, to allow their majs to have their baths without too much slopping water.

 

[661-Pete]

Leaving the puns aside for a mo, there's an account in the NRM of one of Queen Victoria's overnight train trips from Balmoral to London. About 3 separate train crews, a train that went ahead to check the line, all other traffic on each section cancelled, and a slow running stage in the early morning, to allow their majs to have their baths without too much slopping water.

Didn't they have to have a man with a red flag, in front?!

Seriously though, I've read all sorts of stuff about Q-Vic's railway habits. It seems her maj expressly ordered that her train would on no account exceed 40mph. The railway company knew that, at that speed, she'd never make her schedule on time, so they quietly made up the speed during the night in the hope that both Vic and Alb would be sound asleep and wouldn't wake up .... If they'd found out, what would have happened to the driver?

And there was something about all the points along the route had to be locked into position with padlocks. Thing was, in those days any young rascal could alter the points just with a pair of wire cutters - and the thought of her maj's train being derailed with a bump, even at 40mph, was too much to countenance...

 

[Aperitif]

The points padlocks were easily opened by a monar key though...

(Sorry Vi Adduct, Arch, but it's back to the other things...)