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Ah second class riding beats first class walking

I read a article last week the cost 300 Million a mile I can see by the time this gets built the technology will be obsolete Not trains just the high speed travel

To late Maurice have already sent Wendy a PM

Luxury shear luxury growing up we wished we could see a bob the most we ever seen was a Tanner then we was not allowed to touch it

So may I recommend a book by Thomas J Glover here in the States it's about 10 bucks get the black cover I have a copy now and have had since the early 90,s it is the be all and the end all for conversion tables it's one of those little pocket reference books that makes you look like a white...

A little off topic but my wife has been in the hospital a couple of times in the last week and they weighed her and gave the weight in kilo's No one here in America knows a thing about the metric system I could go on

I still do that round up then subtract of course I'm no longer allowed in Tesco

Never thought about this till just now I wonder if and how much the government saved not having to mint so many coins and not having a ten bob note.

I remember my pop calling 5 shilling a " Dollar " I suppose that came from a exchange rate after the second war, he found himself In Germany on a base with a bunch of Americans and they had all the money and whatever they wanted My pop use to collect the Coke bottles for the deposit

Its funny how reading something sets off your mind about things long forgotten.. When the 50p coin came out they were rare so my dad said to my mom when you get one in the shop I will buy them from you and collect them So he started collecting 50p coins in a black plastic horse head with a slot...

It's hard to imagine these days some of the old math problems in old money. Fist off who ever had that much money that it was a problem, a pound went so far back then there was a need for small amount coins plus remember a pocket full of pennies the weight would pull down your trousers and you...

I was lucky enough to get a couple of those

John Birch guitars was the guitar maker in Rubery it's worth a Google

We have the same deal here in Florida but what ever happens we have to have a station at the Mouse House.. The three fingered little bigger that whats us to write the check

No not at all the cost would be about 14 Billion if it got shut down The projected budget at the moment is 105 Billion with no guarantee that would be the final cost There is still 15 years to go if it stays on track (pardon the pun)

I am not arguing yay or nay here but now I read if the HS 2 gets shut down along with the 9 Billion spent it would cost a additional 3 or 4 Billion to shut it down.

Well the plot thickens I read that Japan will now switch to Mag-lev trains for it's high speed lines Projected start date for sevice 2027. With others coming on line

Well some big numbers mentioned. Both for pay and construction already triple the original budget This is starting to look like the big dig in Boston. The problem for most we really do not know what a billion is I am talking a U S billion if you threw away a dollar a second every day it would...

Thanks Ell, I would come wizzing up Holiday Street under the aqueduct on my way to work and I was always late. P J Evans Rolls Royce and Jaguar sevice department was on the corner.

So that must be a " Woodbine " .