{"id":2896,"date":"2023-06-25T01:38:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T01:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sunday-variety-9\/"},"modified":"2023-06-25T01:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T01:38:25","slug":"sunday-variety-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sunday-variety-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Treetise On Trees (?) Part 1<\/span><\/p>\n The sentiment is slushy, typically Victorian (penned in about 1900) and not very well thought of in serious poetry-loving circles.<\/p><\/div>\n … in the picture above, four times taller tan the train that passes them by. And those trees are not particularly big.<\/p><\/div>\n This is a beech tree …<\/p>\n … but with no scale. Here are two model beech trees …<\/p>\n They are well over thee times taller than n OO train and taller that the buildings on fbb’s recreated backscene at Peterville station.<\/p>\n The trustees of Peterville Methodist Chapel will be rightly concerned about the damage to the church caused by tree roots and the obscuration of windows by the branches.<\/p><\/div>\n They don’t.<\/p>\n So can the arch-bodger turn dayglo green lurid trees into something a little more realistic. We have already met the project for the back scene, with the smaller trees planted in planters.<\/p>\n And, in case you are wondering, thy do look a much more lurid green in reality. fbb will turn up the brightness!<\/p>\n More treemendous arboreal activity tomorrow.<\/p><\/div>\n GoAhead has already welcomed the staff from these depots as its colleagues.<\/p>\n It is not on record whether the employees at Wigan and Bolton want to be colleagues of staff at GoAhead. Presumably the have no choice in the matter unless they jump ship and seek employment elsewhere.<\/p><\/div>\n GoAhead has failed to win the biggie, namely the former Manchester Corporation Transport depot at Queens Road, which goes to …<\/p><\/div>\n … but it should enlarge if you wish to read it and shed a tear or two.<\/p><\/div>\n So that will make a huge difference to every man, woman and dog travelling by bus, tram and, if Burnham gets his way, train in the great city of Cottononopolis!<\/p><\/div>\n For almost since fbb can remember, thee line between Bedford and Bletchley has been operated by diesels. Once they were painted blue and grey …<\/p>\n … then they acquired he bright and shiny Network SouthEasr livery.<\/p>\n Then the modern (well, less old) class 150s arrived …<\/p>\n …and rattled to and fro in various paint jobs.<\/p><\/div>\n Except that they didn’t work very well and trains were routinely cancelled and\u00a0buses then provided an even slower service<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n But good news at last.<\/p><\/div>\n And the shiny “new” trains?<\/p><\/div>\n But in a different livery.<\/p><\/div>\n Big Excitement Yawn At Seaton<\/span><\/p>\n Work on turning the old Co-op into a new Oldie (whoops, Aldi) continues apace. At a very slow pace. Due to oprn at Easter 2023, Summer 2023, September 2023, January 2024 (your guess is as good as fbb’s – indeed as good as Aldi’s!!) we now know that it won’t look like this.<\/p>\n The former front ot the Co-op has been extended forwards and, tada, it now has a fascia attached.<\/p>\n