OT; Sausages!

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , alan_m escribió:

[damduck-egg]

No they were not, the original 1899 ones were similar to the vehicles on the Railway that runs along Brighton sea front and some ended up there when the Electric Southend Railway was upgraded in 1949. The trains supplied in 1949 were built by AC cars more famous for building both fast Sports Cars such as the Cobra and at the other end of the spectrum those 3 wheeled mobility cars that were once used by the disabled. While the 1949 cars have been loosely described as a cross between a London tube train and a Blackpool tram in reality they wern't based on either and certainly never ran in London. Wrong gauge as well. photo here

Possibly you are getting mixed up with Ryde Pier on the IOW where ex London tube trains do run along on the line from Ryde Pier head to Shankin.

G.Harman

[damduck-egg]

It was elephants according to the evening regional news a few years back.

Presenter meant to say "is being demolished by the elements" but said elephants instead. Comes up occasionally on of those TV bloober shows.

G.Harman

[John Rumm]

I stand corrected... the tube train connection was something I read years ago, but it does not stand up to closer inspection when you think about it - especially the gauge difference.

(I stand by the assertion that the modern ones are dog slow though!)

Indeed - I remember riding that model a number of times as a kid.

No, because the Southend one is the only pier train I have ever been on. However I can see how the Ryde use of ex tube trains could lead people to make the same (erroneous) connection with the Southend ones.

[alan_m]

Although most of the planking looks OK (much has been replaced) the structure beneath has seen much better days. One of the original rail lines, closest to the seaward edge, has been removed just leaving the line that is better supported. I suspect that the original trains may be too heavy for the existing structure and they too would have been subjected to a speed restriction if operated today.

The rail itself doesn't give a particularly good ride being made up of short sections held together with fishplates and with each section of track seemly to head out in a different direction to its neighbour. This is probably due to the rails being laid on metal supporting beams that have distorted due to rust. Increase the speed of the train and we'll have the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879 all over again.

[Charles Hope]

I don't think the track guage is different. The District line at Richmond runs on the same track as the Network Rail service (now called the Overground) and from Wimbledon to Putney sometimes Network rail services run on the District line tracks. It's happened to me once when commuting into London.

It's on the Isle of Wight that old underground trains are used. I think they ran onto Ryde Pier.

[John Rumm]

IIUC the width has changed on the pier - initially being 3'6", but the most recent version reducing to 3'

[damduck-egg]

What happens there is irrelevant,the gauge difference I mentioned was between Southend Pier which was 3ft 6 inches and what was LT. Not LT/National Rail.

G,Harman

[F]

Then you may be able to answer a question that's been bugging me for some time. When I were a lad, a cooked sausage always had a delicious crunchy appendage at each end. They no longer do, so what's changed?

[Adrian]

That "appendage" was the crispy knot from the skin. Few - if any - supermarket sausages use natural skins, and even if you buy real butcher's sausages that do, there's rarely much space between sausages, and no knot, just a twist.

[Andrew Mawson]

It all depends on the twist in the skin between the sausages. With 'natural' skins there tends to be more left between than the modern artificial ones.

Andrew

[Jonathan]

And then there is 'girly' food

Jomathan

[News]

In message , Jonathan writes

That'll be hundreds if not thousands of variations of 'salad'.

[Andrew Mawson]

Food that consumes more energy to eat than you derive from it :)

Andrew

[News]

In message , Andrew Mawson writes

Even my salad loving wife laughed at that :-)

[whisky-dave]

Men eat salads too, but I don't know any men that eat those crisp bread things such as Riveta ....