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« Reply #780 on: Today at 10:40:51 »
The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
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« Reply #781 on: Today at 14:38:23 »
Today's Guardian has a piece at https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/21/the-kindness-of-strangers-dazed-confused-and-far-from-home-a-train-worker-offered-me-a-place-to-stay with a well-travelled M7 class tank loco.
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Quote from: Witham Bobby on Today at 10:40:51
The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
Where's your sense of adventure   Shocked
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Quote from: Witham Bobby on Today at 10:40:51
The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
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It's not my sense of adventure that's the problem.  More concerned about how I could eat anything en-route and hang-on to it
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