Puzzle Pictures
This was, perhaps a little unfair. The picture is a ' colourised' postcard with colours being chosen by the printer without any public transport knowledge.
The tram is too fuzzy to be identified but the bus can only be from Liverpool city transport. It should be green. fbb pointed out the unique destination blind layout in a recent blog.
Latterly all city trams were similarly endowed.
Picture 3 was The Fat Controller from the Thomas books.
But even childrens' stories have to be politically correct. You cannot cause deep offence to fat people by calling them fat. So the bodily badly inflated controller became Sir Topham Hatt.
Incidentally, thanks to Google's clever (?) search routines, fbb can reveal that you can buy a Fat Controller.
Picture 2 was of Seaton Junction station on the South Western main line.
Correspondent Andrew wondered whether fbb had asked the same question in a previous blog.
The train to Colyton, Colyford and Seaton will depart from the curved platform far right. The very long footbridge is part of a public footpath and provides no access to station remnants. It does, however, allow visitors to view the remnants of a once busy junction.
If he did, fbb cannot find it! But there are over 5600 blogs to consider. How quickly we forget?
How Quickly We Forget! (1)
The Councillor is very excited!
The local press has been equally thrilled.
But it looks like just three trips on arbitrary days.
Surely an occasional round trip is hardly a "trial"?
But from 1966 to 1968 Hovertravel ran a proper service between Ryde and Lee on the Solent.
This followed a trial by an SRN3 vessel in 1964 ...
... with the SRN6 being the standard for passengers once the real service began.
There were not enough passengers to make it viable.
Has anything changed?
How Quickly We Forget! (2)
The Duchess of Hamilton was a 'streamlined' loco of the LMS.
The loco achieved notoriety by being part of a promotional train despatched to the USA, where it was equipped with regulatory headlight and bell.
But the UK railway authorities told porky pies. Because it was thought nobody would have ever heard of the noble Duchess, the loco was renamed Coronation for the visit!
The real "Coronation" was blue ...
... and the special Coronation Scot trainsets were also blue.
The good news us that the Royal Mint has just produced a commemorative £2 coin showing 6229 ...
... in its maroon guise. You could get a "plain" £2 coin for ...
... a modest £17.50. Or coloured for ...
... a modest £27.50. But for the real oficionados ...
... a Silver Proof at £115! Not quite good enough? How about ...
... a Piedfort version for £190?
Piedfort?
It is thicker, so won't work in slot machines. It is also struck "with extra care" and a brand new mallet!
Or maybe you prefer the lure of Gold!
What cost of living crisis?
How Quickly We Forget? (3)
fbb is well narked with himself! Yesterday was Whitsunday (White Clothing Sunday) which is the third most important "festival" in the Christian calendar.
It marks the occasion, 50 days after Christ's resurrection. And very much, yes he did!
A gang of frightened, mostly uneducated blokes were behind locked doors expecting they would be next for the Cross.
And fbb forgot the day! Blame it on the Rangoon Nadgers of the past week or so. The fbbs were not fit to go to Church on 17th when they would have been reminded, and not fit yesterday either.
But Pentecost is so powerful that the thousands of artists impressions of the event can tend to put people off, especially if they try to paint the scene literally or as some sort of "religious" event.
Maybe better to sit quietly and let the words paint the picture for real.
When the day of Pentecost came, all the believers were gathered together in one place. Suddenly there was a noise from the sky which sounded like a strong wind blowing, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire which spread out and touched each person there. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.
What matters is less the picture and more the event. Those humble blokes took the Gospel of Jesus the Messiah and began the exponential spread of Christianity.
Every committed Christian feels the power of God's Holy Spirit from time to time.
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And fbb has struggled to remember ...
Next Three Bridges blog : Tuesday 26th May
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