Railways in North Wales - Information about the branch line between Llandudno and llandudno Junction. Includes pictures of trains from 1984 to 1993 on the line with detailed commentary on each.
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can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Railways "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Railways
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
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-- Robert Short Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Railways
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Railways Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Railways
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Railways If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Railways
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Railways It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Railways
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Railways Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Railways
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Railways Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 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. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Railways
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Railways Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Railways
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Railways It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Railways
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Railways Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Railways
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Railways Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Railways
