Metropolitan Main Line Question
On Jun 26, 10:22*am, Chafford wrote:
On 26 June, 17:32, allantracy wrote: Incidentally, when I visited a few years back for Steam on the Met I felt slightly conned that the steam trains seemed to be operating on the Chiltern tracks and not what I would consider as LU proper. Try this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJT9h...eature=related Wow, beautiful. |
Metropolitan Main Line Question
On 26/06/2010 18:39, E27002 wrote:
On Jun 26, 10:22 am, wrote: On 26 June, 17:32, wrote: Incidentally, when I visited a few years back for Steam on the Met I felt slightly conned that the steam trains seemed to be operating on the Chiltern tracks and not what I would consider as LU proper. Try this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJT9h...eature=related Wow, beautiful. As much as I feel being excited by steam trains is silly and old-fashioned, I just can't help myself. |
Metropolitan Main Line Question
On Jun 26, 10:47*am, Basil Jet wrote:
On 26/06/2010 18:39, E27002 wrote: On Jun 26, 10:22 am, *wrote: On 26 June, 17:32, *wrote: Incidentally, when I visited a few years back for Steam on the Met I felt slightly conned that the steam trains seemed to be operating on the Chiltern tracks and not what I would consider as LU proper. Try this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJT9h...eature=related Wow, beautiful. As much as I feel being excited by steam trains is silly and old-fashioned, I just can't help myself. Why? It is living technology. It is true heavy engineering that we do not see every day. Moreover, it takes us back to a better age. |
Metropolitan Main Line Question
E27002 wrote:
On Jun 26, 10:47 am, Basil Jet wrote: As much as I feel being excited by steam trains is silly and old-fashioned, I just can't help myself. Why? It is living technology. It is true heavy engineering that we do not see every day. Moreover, it takes us back to a better age. "Different", rather than "Better", I think. -- MatSav --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
Metropolitan Main Line Question
On Jun 27, 6:42*am, "MatSav" wrote:
E27002 wrote: On Jun 26, 10:47 am, Basil Jet wrote: As much as I feel being excited by steam trains is silly and old-fashioned, I just can't help myself. Why? *It is living technology. *It is true heavy engineering that we do not see every day. *Moreover, it takes us back to a better age. "Different", rather than "Better", I think. Matter of opinion: technologically we advance by leaps and bounds. OTOH the sorry state of Western Civilization is there for all to see. |
Metropolitan Main Line Question
On Jun 27, 9:09*pm, Ian Jelf wrote: In message , E27002 writes Matter of opinion: technologically we advance by leaps and bounds. OTOH the sorry state of Western Civilization is there for all to see. Couldn't have put that better myself, I'm afraid....... Must say I didn't have you down for a 'what is the world coming to' type Ian! (And - how do I put this diplomatically - E27002's comments come with a degree of baggage, shall we say.) |
Metropolitan Main Line Question
On Jun 27, 2:35*pm, Mizter T wrote:
On Jun 27, 9:09*pm, Ian Jelf wrote: In message , E27002 writes Matter of opinion: technologically we advance by leaps and bounds. OTOH the sorry state of Western Civilization is there for all to see. Couldn't have put that better myself, I'm afraid....... Must say I didn't have you down for a 'what is the world coming to' type Ian! (And - how do I put this diplomatically - E27002's comments come with a degree of baggage, shall we say.) Well thanks Mizter T. I had you down as one of the thinkers on Usenet. |
Metropolitan Main Line Question
On Jun 28, 12:42*am, Ian Jelf wrote:
In message , Mizter T writes On Jun 27, 9:09*pm, Ian Jelf wrote: In message , E27002 writes Matter of opinion: technologically we advance by leaps and bounds. OTOH the sorry state of Western Civilization is there for all to see. Couldn't have put that better myself, I'm afraid....... Must say I didn't have you down for a 'what is the world com ing to' type Ian! I hadn't used to be like that. * Honestly. * And I still believe that we live in a fabulous country in a good age where technology and liberal social attitudes have given us more care and comfort than in history. But I see people (a minority but a large one) who simply don't conform to society's norms and just at best don't care about the common good and at worst are positively hostile to it. * They don't see reasons for a rule, so they just ignore it. * That applies to everything from theft of metal to low-level stuff like feet on seats. I've not been at the Daily Mail (honestly!) but I do see a lot (and I mean a *lot* of different bits of Britain. The degree of vandalism suffered by many preservation societies should give us all pause. I can think of few things more disheartening than painstaking hours of work by volunteers being destroyed in seconds. |
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