I'm assuming you really want to know the answer: the 8 trains on order didn't quite come in on time, but near enough not to cause a major problem. (Nope, I didn't know but I asked a railway engineer.)
Apparently, this guy, Geoff Marshall (link to YouTube) has a vlog on it, the one I've linked to is the last Pacer ride ever in May 2021, on the Welsh lines. All the railway geekery anyone could possibly want.
Noooo, now you've reminded me of Mr Marshall and his train adventures and his and his lady's All The Stations, which I followed avidly. Damn. There goes my free time. I need to catch up!
Yes, you what have thought it was possible to have an exact number - I mean, there are still fingers to spare with the counting.
On a nerdy point, I'm not sure if said trains have been "launched" - they are rebuilds of much older trains (and I've travelled in them in both their old and new guises). So perhaps "released from dry dock" would have been a better phrase!
The same manufacturer also builds trains called KISS ("Komfortabler Innovativer Spurtstarker S-Bahn-Zug" or "comfortable, innovative, sprint-capable suburban train") and WINK ("Wandelbarer Innovativer Nahverkehrs-Kurzzug" or "convertible, innovative short train for local transport").
The same manufacturer also builds trains called KISS ("Komfortabler Innovativer Spurtstarker S-Bahn-Zug" or "comfortable, innovative, sprint-capable suburban train") and WINK ("Wandelbarer Innovativer Nahverkehrs-Kurzzug" or "convertible, innovative short train for local transport").
I'm not sure why the heroin is relevant to his bum cleft.
If I'd been asked to defend him, I think I'd have argued "You can hardly believe my client had either been selling the stuff or able to persuade anyone to buy it if that's where it had been".
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/father-of-marine-killed-in-kabul-blast-says-meeting-with-biden-didn-t-go-well
[ A bad thing, no matter which was killed; I read it, 'the father was killed'
Coming up in the MSN feed on the front page of my browser "Queen will reportedly spit time between Windsor and Buckingham Palace". It's a typo from the Mail Online, but one does wonder if she has secret knowledge of time travel denied to mere commoners?
The Railway Gazette tells us this morning that the Railway to Hell to be electrified ...
I knew without even opening the link that that story would be about Norway.
I have fond memories of a choir tour of western Norway which included stretches of road with signposts for Hell on them.
I suspect that the station nameboard features on as many selfies as a certain one in Anglesey. (However the Norwegian one is much easier to fit into the picture).
Coming up in the MSN feed on the front page of my browser "Queen will reportedly spit time between Windsor and Buckingham Palace". It's a typo from the Mail Online, but one does wonder if she has secret knowledge of time travel denied to mere commoners?
My Dear Wife can't stop laughing. It reminds her so much of all my years of masochistic car repairing (now ended). The deadpan delivery of the last sentence was beautiful, leaving the clear image - and the pain - in the mind of the reader.
According to the Washington Post this morning, Why the French are so furious... ...over a derailed submarine deal. At first glance the image of a novel approach to naval warfare was quite enjoyable.
Church newsletter I shall not name: Member offering "fairly priced" transport to stores, doctor appointments, light cooking, raking leaves, sow shoveling....
That's where I quit- was having laughing fit.
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Apparently, this guy, Geoff Marshall (link to YouTube) has a vlog on it, the one I've linked to is the last Pacer ride ever in May 2021, on the Welsh lines. All the railway geekery anyone could possibly want.
On a nerdy point, I'm not sure if said trains have been "launched" - they are rebuilds of much older trains (and I've travelled in them in both their old and new guises). So perhaps "released from dry dock" would have been a better phrase!
It just seems so ... un-train-spotterish ...
No WANKing?
<reaches for the smelling-salts>
In Philly, someone has been shot every day since Jan. 2
I'd sure hate to be that guy!
Rapper who had heroin and crack between his buttocks found not guilty of dealing
I'm not sure why the heroin is relevant to his bum cleft.
[ A bad thing, no matter which was killed; I read it, 'the father was killed'
@BroJames posted a link in AS to website selling Aberdeen butteries, and the first page went something like this:
Why don't they just use the butteries?
So: can spacecraft put things down and forget where they've put them? Or ...?
On first and second readings I couldn’t figure out how this wasn’t a very strange story about freight elevators wanting bigger homes.
I have fond memories of a choir tour of western Norway which included stretches of road with signposts for Hell on them.
Was the road paved with good intentions?
I suspect that the station nameboard features on as many selfies as a certain one in Anglesey. (However the Norwegian one is much easier to fit into the picture).
A Russian proverb has it that the road to Hell is paved with priests' bones, and the lampposts are bishops' skulls.
So THAT is where time comes from.
That's where I quit- was having laughing fit.
UN says global carbon emissions set to rise by 16%by 2030.
Followed by:
Men fart more when eating a plant-based diet due to good gut bacteria.
That's because cows are already there, in the fridges and freezers.
ETA: BTW, are you sure about 'pubic' transport?
I think they are ruminating quite often, and rather loudly. If they can muster the energy. (Classic comedy line.
in Mumbai?