Jacobite 2026

Sorry Martin, my bad I mixed up 35018 and 35006, knew SVR had recently had MN.
I also echo that it is entirely a good thing SVR has cultivated a good relationship with WC, amongst others. Not sure why pointing that out and saying so has been inferred as some sort of criticism and it's an entirely legitimate reason for Harry to be supportive in his postings against the tide of negativity WC generates. From myself included.

 

Well you're hardly a slouch on the postings front yourself, mostly about 10A too. And if you think my wibble takes five hours then you're doing something wrong ...
Be interesting to run some comparative stats on our respective volumes .....
By the way, if you're monitoring my online presence so closely you'd maybe notice that I'm MIA on WNXX and I had an 8 year hiaitus from National Pres ........
I haven't said WC is dreadful either, just some of their actions and conduct could be better/less baffling.

 

To be honest (and I include myself in this) the first 11 words of the above could sum up this thread and also the other on running in parallel regarding 10A, both have just turned into a constant repetition of the same entrenched positions and points by the same people which flares up whenever anything emerges in the public domain either via the media, press release or platform end wibble (which tends to say next to nothing) and is just repeated over and over again. I can't be the only one who sees that there have been a load of posts on this thread, thinks 'oh finally something has happened', opens it and just finds the same old same old, and then like the procrastinating idiot I am I foolishly add to it!

 

Is it any different in the railway periodicals though? Each month something is reported but doesn't add much of substance. People read it, bring "the news" here and it gets debated ad infinitum until the next month. Discussion forums do tend to go that way .....
Largely agreeing though, it is however obvious that a few people don't like certain topics being the subject of debate. Those people resort to the cry of "axe grinding", as if certain expressed opinions could only be formed on the basis of grudge or grievance and motivated by a wish to somehow get even.
I don't possess, or claim to have, any inside knowledge, the only things I've expressed views on are personal judgements on what has been in the public domain either recently or historically. I'm sorry if my views cause any offence but as Kirk Oswald said, I don't think I've been unfair to anyone even if perhaps guilty of being tedious

 

Even worse when you have set up email prompts to watch the thread and you inbox fills with stuff that might have been interesting once but gets boring when repeated over and over.

 

That's one feature I have always had switched off. Nothing that happens on the forum is important so why would one need a notification? Check in when you have time.

 

Sometimes someone does want information fairly urgently, but in that case they can check it frequently.

 

Lucky you, however many times I try to switch them off I still get them filling up my mailbox.