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Looks like you had a nice visit to the Isle of Wight. Should make for some interesting reading to come.
John | 19.07.15 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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I did wonder how you could see a hovercraft from a tube train
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Thinking of trainspotting, I gather the inventor of "trainspotting" Ian Allen died last week
| 19.07.15 - 8:48 a.m. | #
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Ah - The 1938 tube stock. Amazing they are still running. Would have thought the railway would have bought some 1983 stock when LT got rid of them from the Jubilee line.
Agent Z | 19.07.15 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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ryde,godshill,blackgang,havenstreet, not bad in a day.
mark | 19.07.15 - 11:22 a.m. | #
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was going to say I was in sandown yesterday
mark | 19.07.15 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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1983 stock was too long for the IoW, IIRC.
D9000 | 19.07.15 - 1:33 p.m. | #
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The railways on the IoW are rather odd, where the 'mainline' railway (ie, the National Rail one) has older stock than the heritage railway does.
Richard | 19.07.15 - 1:47 p.m. | #
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Can see St Johns Station from my house,should have called in for a tea DG. look forward to you blog about your visit. Hope Southern Vectis looked after you.
Tim | 19.07.15 - 2:27 p.m. | #
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Well, if you spent Saturday in the 1950s, you wouldn't be using a computer anyway would you?
timbo | 19.07.15 - 4:09 p.m. | #
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11708536/Ian-Allan-trainspotter-obituary.html
One of Allan’s aviation titles “scooped” the national press. Sqn Ldr Eric Annal’s Harrier and Sea Harrier (1984) revealed how during the Falklands conflict experts at Farnborough and Marconi had invented and supplied a “black box” radar jammer to protect the aircraft in 15 days, when such an innovation would normally have cost four times as much and taken two years to develop. An enthusiastic Freemason, Allan could not resist the opportunity to acquire, in 1986, A Lewis, publishers of books on Masonic ritual and the quarterly The Square. He also took on a Surrey fertiliser business, Chase Organics, and through it a stake in (and ultimately control of) a local motor dealership, which grew to five garages in the south of England.
Mike D | 19.07.15 - 4:28 p.m. | #
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@ Agent Z.
re: Replacing 38 stock with a later build from London Underground.
As I understood it during an organised visit to the railway's workshops, the 38 stock has a good old fashioned electro-mechanical control system with none of this computer rubbish.
"You can fix them by sending a bloke down to the local <large orange coloured DIY store>".
Baldrick | 19.07.15 - 5:10 p.m. | #
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Hovertravel have a Hoverbus and do Hoverparcels, neither of which are as exciting as they sound :-(
Sport England recognise a governing body for 'hovering' which does, I suspect involve hovercraft rather than something like quiddich.
http://www.sportengland.org/our-work/national-work/national-governing-bodies/sports-that-we-recognise/
John Styles | 19.07.15 - 6:12 p.m. | #
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Amazing fact.. On a clear day you can just about see Cherbourg from the hills above Ventnor
Simon | 19.07.15 - 9:27 p.m. | #
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Casual giants spotted over Godshill.
Petras409 | 20.07.15 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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