Random Daily Banter

[Mad Doug Biker]

Well it was banter.

Yes, it was, until you told me to 'fark off' for no real reason.

Yes, I called you a 'know all', but the evidence is all over this forum.

Basically, I could argue this all night without once looking up a table.
So, you were wrong, do you admit? 🤣

 

[First Aspect]

Busted

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Busted

Yep!! 🤣🤣

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Are we all calling each other petal now?

 

[First Aspect]

Are we all calling each other petal now?

Or daffodil.

 

[Stevo 666]

Don't stop now, I was just getting the

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Here's one for you though, a lot of freight locos are from the '50s, '60s' and '70s' (except for class 66 onwards of course).

Freightliner sold their (then) mid 50 year old (1965/66) class 86s' to Bulgaria, who have only set about renewing/rebuilding them to work another 20 years or so.
They already have our class 87s, dating from 1973 - 75.
The Hungarians are, or were, doing similar.

In BR days, things usually only lasted about 40 years because that is when the Warranties would run out, but not now and many other countries have done the same long before us!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Or daffodil.

You said it 😝

 

[First Aspect]

For some reason I feel very drowsy.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

For some reason I feel very drowsy.

You started it.

25 years is nothing on the railways these days! 😀

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

... Oh and the Isle Of White were still using stock built in 1938 until a couple of years back... 🤣🤣🤣

 

[briantrumpet]

Or daffodil.

Steady on, old chap. That's not called for.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Don't stop now, I was just getting the

Trust me, I could go all night, so it's FA who is flagging!

 

[BoldonLad]

Here's one for you though, a lot of freight locos are from the '50s, '60s' and '70s' (except for class 66 onwards of course).

Freightliner sold their (then) mid 50 year old (1965/66) class 86s' to Bulgaria, who have only set about renewing/rebuilding them to work another 20 years or so.
They already have our class 87s, dating from 1973 - 75.
The Hungarians are, or were, doing similar.

In BR days, things usually only lasted about 40 years because that is when the Warranties would run out, but not now and many other countries have done the same long before us!

In the 1990s, I was travelling from St Petersburg to Kiev by train, the carriage we were in had a manufacturers plate affixed to the wall, above my bunk, it was made in Germany in 1935!

 

[First Aspect]

When I were lad, we could still open the doors and windows when the train was moving. And we sat facing each other reading broadsheets, like Reginald Perrin.

And busses had open back foot plates with handy poles to grab at speeds up to 17 mph.