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It's a new year, and a new beginning for all caption comp fans (yes, both of you). Can Junglecat retain his crown of King of Caption Comps, will Neil (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=302) Channing (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=302) still have a huge penis, and can Sofa finally win one of these things? All these questions will be answered as the year progresses, but for now, feast your eyes on this week's caption comp and be free to go to town on our hapless victims.

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Excellent!

FML

why pick on me for the new year.,.,.,just as people were starting to think i was funny.,.,now you've fooked it all up.,.,.,.happy new year daaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwggggggggggggggggggggggggg

+1

(Possibly the only time I will ever agree with Kev.)

If it helps, I still think you are funny, "Touched" but funny.

lol FYL indeed :D 

Hope Bainn has a sense of humour. That is all!!

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Indeed.

Bless.

Possibly.

Where are the winners shown?  I dont think i've seen any last year.  Must be looking in the wrong place! 

Sigh, do pay attention, please!

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=39128.0

Brilliant.  Tikay, which is your fave steam train?

"Steam train"? I assume you mean Steam Locomotive.

A "train" is the Locomotive & Rolling Stock (carriages, in the case of a passenger train), combined, whereas a Locomotive is the tractive power unit - what you might call "the Steam engine".

A "steam train" would, in days gone by, be a "named Express", or a "Headboard Express".

The GWR had many - The Fishguard Express, The Torbay Express, SR had "Brighton Belle", & LMS had "The Flying Scotsman".

Here, to answer your question precisely, is the best of both. GWR Loco King George V1, with the "Cornish Riviera Exprress" Headboard, easily the most famous, & best combo, ever. I travelled on it many times, a great thrill, and my Dad, & my Grandad (Grandad Angell) both fired it, & drove it, & on several occasions they were rostered together, as Driver & Fireman.

There is quite a story behind that gold bell, clearly seen below.

Tell us then, dont be such a tease!

OK, you force me......

She was built at GWR's famous Swindon Works, in 1927, & then immediately shipped to America, for a big exhibition, a sort of "Centenary". Grandad Angell went with her, as Fireman. Both returned, but remained closely associated. She was based at Old Oak Common (OOC had, & still has, the UK''s most iconic Shed Code - "81a"), in West London, near Paddington. She retired from main Line work in 1962, & was purchased, & has been restored & preserved, by Bulmers, I believe. She travelled nearly 2 mllion miles in GWR Service, many of them with Grandad Angell as Fireman or Driver, ditto with a guy called Jimmy Kendall. My Dad.

Oh, the Bell. Well the Ameicans presented the Loco (!) with that commemorative Bell, & she is often referred to as "Bell" to this day by anoraks.

It bears this inscription.....

"Presented to Locomotive King George V, by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in commemoration of its centenary celebration, Sept 24th - Oct 15th 1927"
 

Here she is, in action, on the Paddington to Snow Hill Birmingham Line, now defunct I assume.

The pic was taken at Acton Wells Junction, where I lived as a boy, & also I went to Acton Wells school, barely a mile from Old Oak Common shed.

Acton Wells Railway Junction runs alongside the LT Central Line at this point, alongside & parallel, but not through, North Acton Tube Station.

I'd stand on that station with my schoolmates after School, on my way home, & now & then my Dad would drive a Steam-hauled train past, & blow the whistle & wave. Can you imagine how proud that made me? "Look, that's my Dad". Never happier, never prouder.

I went googling to find this pic, & it's made my day.

No idea where this was taken, but I'd hazard a guess at Gloucester.

The Bell was always shiny bright, polished so you could see your face in it. That was the Fireman's first job, on reporting for Duty, to shine the Bell. Then they'd bunker the Loco, go round it with an oil-can & some cotton-waste, & once the steam pressure was up, off they went. They were always "fired", the fires were never allowed to go out when "on Shed", as the contraction & expansion caused by heat variation caused problems.

A Loco on which the Fire was out was known as "dead".

I better stop now, I've hijacked snoops thread, & if Kiv or bolty see this, there'll be a ruck.

Oh, I have seen it allright ... I am now removing all sharp objects from easy reach in case the urge to self harm gets too strong.

Sheer jealousy, imo. You'd have loved to be told to shine your bell.

I dont need telling !

I always remember my dad referring to the train from London to Sheffield as "The Master Cutler".

I would guess that was one of the express trains. Damn fine breakfast in one of those posh 1st class dining cars too.

That is such a good call Ralph. "The Master Cutler" & a BR Breakfast sreved off a sliver tray, were synonmous. It was a wonderful train. St Pancras was the London end - St Pancras as was, not as refurbed.

TY Tikay, very interesting stuff.  Seems some members of the forum dont appreciate your tales about steam engines, more fool them!

Indeed.

Have you ever visited my home village of Haworth, Tikay ?  http://www.kwvr.co.uk/events/index.htm

ban plz

was a good page till i saw a pic of the railway children, completely fucked it up.

Have to agree with gatso here ... I think sov was flaming there, may have to sin bin him for 2 weeks !

Blimey ... brings back memories.

When I lived in Burnley, we used to take any family visitors to Haworth, must have been in the Bronte museum dozens of times and walked up that frigging cobbled hill (where they filmed the old hovis adverts) too many times !!

Great Pub there ... is it the Bull ?

And have dozens of pics taken on the bridge at the train station as the steam trains chugged by.

Ahhh....the good old days , when a real walk was from Burnley to Shaftesbury and back  ;)

http://www.shaftesburydorset.com/content.asp?sid=10

Mate, every town/Village with a fkin cobbled hill claims it was used in the Hovis ads ;)

When is this demonstration of creative wit going to be put up ?

fuck knows, snoopy does these things then disappears for 8 months

I think he's hiding from the online community in case the dean tries to submitt to him a another article of SnG wizardry

You are not a fan then ?

The Fleece was better, Kev - full range of Taylor's Ales - all the pubs in Haworth are rubbish now though, they all just pander to tourists wanting to eat.....

And, as far as I'm aware, the Hovis ad wasn't filmed in Haworth.

twas Dorset.