Better landing on the taxiway rather than on the hotels along the A30 near Heathrow as nearly happened some years ago

I just know you are not talking about competition between two Scottish airports. :p

Is that competition between Glasgow A and Glasgow B airports..?

The first picture is one of the units that is out on the cleaning the rail head from the ‘wrong sort of leaves’.

The FRS shed picture is very nice. What as it pulling?

As for the 47/57 combo. Duffs are duffs even it they have been re-engined…

I went from New Street to Nottingham on Friday and saw three 56s and blue 47270 outside the former MetCam works at Washwood Heath and then a green 56 and blue 45 outside the RVEL site at the former RTC at Derby, plus all the NR class 31s and DRS class 37s waiting for next week’s test trains.

Modern traction? hahahaha

That is because of an agreement between the UK and Irish governments that allowed travel without the use of a passport (I believe this agreement has now been removed). The boarding card was presented only to establish where you had arrived from.

Well, it certainly didn’t work that way on the flight out to Cork where there was most definately a need to show a passport to get into the country and have a valid visa where appropriate as my wife found out out to her cost

A few will be used by QinetiQ; http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2007/2nd_quarter/bvraam.html

Not sure its been posted before :p

That’s two accounted for anyway.

F.3 could be a valuable tactical tanker, similar to but faster then USN KA-6E (Intruder)

I think the key words are ‘could be’ but should now be changed to ‘could have been’ given the rate that they are being dismantled and disappearing off the face of the planet

I also would like to point to a very long running thread in Historical where participants from both sides in the 1982 conflict have been discussing and clarifying what actually happened with no sense of rancour or anger at each other.