War Department Light Railways - Light railway equipment used by combatents during WW1; the primary method of transporting supplies to the front lines.
Fairford station 1873 - 1962 - A history of Fairford Station, once the terminus of a 25 mile Great Western branchline.
Flying Scotsman Railways - Fosters and promotes world-wide interest in the history, documentation, photography, restoration, preservation, operation and all other interests in the legendary steam locomotive Flying Scotsman No.4472/60103.
Tyneside Railways - History and pictures of the development on the railways in tyneside and northumberland with maps and pictures of bridges and stations
Great Northern Railway Society - Society dedicated to the history of the former railway company, its predecessors and successors.
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) History blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') History
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire History We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren History
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) History Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) History
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock History There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins History
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) History Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student History
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) History To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. History
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) History I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold History
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt History A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly History
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) History Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle History
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth History There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill History
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper History Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? History
