Labour suffers big council losses

[Black Rose]

Steam trains, not Diesel-electrics?? These are excursion trains then??

 

Excursion trains, which don't really go anywhere, they past though the village in the morning and a couple hours lately they past back though the village going the other way.

 

But due to the rail works between salibury and basingstoke this weekend, no steam trains :(

[chuck kottke]

Glad you get to see them David (I have a fondness for the old steamers as well..)! We do get an occasional steam train here as well - the National Railroad Museum is down in Green Bay, and I had fun as a kid hopping up in the engine room, opening and closing the valves (of the retired engines, that is!), and pretending to be operating the engine. Good fun to be on a working steamer as well! Here it was mostly logging engines - Limas, and the like. I did catch a ride on an excursion train a few years back - beautiful scenery, and good fun in the summer - but the route was just too short - it would be nice to go for a few hours and see a little more of the country on one..

What are the engines and cars like on your trains?? I have a rail-road gene in my family - since my ma worked for Electromotive (engine works), and her dad worked on the Pullman car line as a carpenter many years back, so I'm quite interested to hear about them!

Rail works - well, better to straiten the tracks when it's needed - god, you should see how bad ours were getting here - the trains would "wiggle" slowly to avoid derailments.. thank goodness they did the upgrades!

[chuck kottke]

I do actually bloody love trains - wrote my dissertation on 'railways and the Victorian concept of modernity'... my girlfriend's family do think i'm obsessed and go trainspotting though, which isn't the case... yet! ;-)

 

@Chuck Kotte: Very interesting post - I think most western politics are becoming increasingly carried out this way, although hopefully not to the extend of Italy, where governments are replaced by the opposition so frequently, until people quickly tire of the opposition now in charge, and replace them again after a year or so, and so on and so forth.

 

I do think (hope!) that the way in which politics and election campaigns are conducted will change, although I don't see when or how that change is going to come about!

Hooray! Trains are something I do very much enjoy as well! Hey, tell your gal's family that you're not obsessed, just enthused!:) I always marvel at the steam age's engineering - it was the dawn of a new era, and moving mechanical parts were not to be hidden away, but something to be proud of, and put on display! (& if I lived closer to the tracks, I would do the same - they're beautiful machines to see in motion..)

Politiks - well, unfortunately, global trends being what they are.. but maybe there is hope - we've pulled away from the brink before, so an era of reform would be most welcome at this point. Yes, I saw a special on Italy's political troubles - and here I thought only Americans could be that insane!:laugh3: Perhaps it's just as corrupt here, but the corruption in shared amongst more large power groups, instead of just one or two. But everyone knows it's a problem - just it gets tossed to the background in the heat of elections, and that could all change with the economy doing a bit of a bellyflop lately..(tends to wake people up a bit to the underlying problems..at least I'm hoping as much.)..:thinking:

[::Hayley::]

Could never understand the congestion charge. They want a fiver for someone's car then serve beer, beans and eggs everywhere in London. I think most of the pollution is in the form of farts. :lol:

 

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Way to break the heated debated my friend...:P