LucyLandRover wrote:
Hello and thank you for all the kind reply's. Mountain Goat, I too like trains and loved being able to visit stations on the tube network that interested me. I do enjoy traveling by train as well.
I have only just seen your reply. I have in the past travelled miles by train as I worked them.
I have always liked trains.
Never seen or been on a tube train. I do have a book about a manufacturer who made a few of them somewhere.
London is busy. Here, if we get more then ten cars it is a traffic jam. Ok. Exagerating a bit. More like 20 cars...
My neighbour has two Landrovers. A series 1 he uses on the farm along with a modern one which he uses here and on his farm. His farm is about 40 miles away.
I also know someone who has one but it is off the road. It is a rare version which was built to cross the Sahara desert and has crossed it 15 times. No other vehicle was capable of crossing in because one has to carry enough fuel on board as the difficulty is that while other types of vehicle can carry more fuel, they are either too heavy or they drink too much fuel so are unable to make it without additional support. So far this (As this was a type of prototype made for the trip in that it had two rows of seats and a boxed back specifically designed to hold a great many jerry cans which came with his vehicle when he bought it) was the only vehicle to do the whole crossing unsupported carrying all its own fuel.
Whenever you see organized events crossing the desert, they will always have fuel stopping off points along the way.
I like the look of the cab forwards.
Back to the underground. I had a relative who made a model of the entire London underground in his attic with all the stations on multilevels... No one was allowed to go in there. Just him. That was back in the 1950's to 60's I believe.
I like narrow gauge models myself in 7mm scale.
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