snaprails

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[–] snaprails 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Buy 4 of the one on the left, you’ll be quids in πŸ™‚

[–] snaprails 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why have I immediately thought of Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley? πŸ˜€

[–] snaprails 2 points 6 months ago

Even the BBC are happy to do bollocks clickbait headlines which are contradicted by the first sentence under it πŸ™„

[–] snaprails 1 points 6 months ago

β€œThat exhaust will clear right up” I’d be surprised if it did, even when they were newish Class 50s could produce an impressive plume of exhaust smoke. When I was a kid spotting on the Western Region main line and these were in regular service we learned not to stand directly above them on the footbridge at the station πŸ˜€ They make a great noise going at full chat though.

[–] snaprails 2 points 6 months ago

Party Gas=Ether aka Easy Start (or "Start ya bastard" in Australia). Sprayed into the air intake to encourage reluctant engines to fire up. It was a frivolous humourous remark, I think you'd need unfeasibly large cans for an engine that size πŸ˜€

[–] snaprails 3 points 6 months ago

Simple, servants πŸ™‚

[–] snaprails 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not enough of the ol’ Party Gas, Class 50 needs two full cans at least πŸ˜€

[–] snaprails 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s the block of flats that’s Art Deco rather than the interior of that particular one, which is as you say more Louis Quatorze. If he’d been from Essex.

[–] snaprails 9 points 6 months ago

They complained that the original set of photos were all in portrait mode. This was the corrected set πŸ™‚

[–] snaprails 2 points 6 months ago

Yes. Fuck knows how that happened πŸ™

[–] snaprails 2 points 6 months ago

Announced on the same day that he returned to the telly in season 2 of The Responder on BBC1. Bugger.

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