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Yeah. But I knew about it long before Tom Scott did. I might even have been on it before he was even born. I saw that video come out the other week and have so far refused to watch it because just who does he think he is, with his millions of subscribers and interests irritatingly similar to mine. I hate him for stealing what should have been my vocation, just like Geoff Marshall and the man in seat 61 have too.
And both Tom and Geoff know that women have elbows.
 
Lacock.

The abbey where Fox Talbot took the world’s first photo.
Camilla Parker Bowles still owns a Manor House there.
No TV aerials are allowed on the outside of the houses.
 
Lacock.

The abbey where Fox Talbot took the world’s first photo.
Camilla Parker Bowles still owns a Manor House there.
No TV aerials are allowed on the outside of the houses.
Not just the abbey, but pretty much the entire town seems to be owned or at least run by The National Trust- I’d never seen that before.
 
Not just the abbey, but pretty much the entire town seems to be owned or at least run by The National Trust- I’d never seen that before.

Yeah it’s the NT that bans the aerials, there’s a nice pub in the village, but a better one up the hill behind it, The Rising Sun.
 
Given fucking Covid and bus replacement services today was the first time I actually got to use the modified ( by sticking a Diesel engine and batteries under the floor) ex District line stock on the Bedford Bletchley Marston Vale line…

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What’s the top speed of such a thing, I wonder…I would imagine that the top operational speed of an ordinary Underground trainset is lower than that of any modern train’s… But I guess with a Diesel engine providing the power those cars can be towed at commuter train-like speeds…
 
What’s the top speed of such a thing, I wonder…I would imagine that the top operational speed of an ordinary Underground trainset is lower than that of any modern train’s… But I guess with a Diesel engine providing the power those cars can be towed at commuter train-like speeds…
Top speed is 60mph. Which isn't bad, considering it's being powered by a couple of Ford Transit engines per car.

 
What’s the top speed of such a thing, I wonder…I would imagine that the top operational speed of an ordinary Underground trainset is lower than that of any modern train’s… But I guess with a Diesel engine providing the power those cars can be towed at commuter train-like speeds…
Not that I am the kind of person sad enough to run a GPS on a train to see the speed or anything, but yesterday the fastest I saw was 56.2…
 
Going to get straight back on the next train to London.

The good people of Worthing, just now:

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Another awful place. Supposed to be on the seaside but I can't see any sea from here. Going to get straight back on the next train to London.

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AS a child when we were driving to the South Coast for the day and potential destinations were being discussed, I never liked the idea of worthing as it sounded too much like worms.
 
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