Good Idea Or Not

[gulliver1]

The power of Tactical voting, is this the way forward?
The public rather than political parties formed a pact to do whatever it takes keep Boris out at the Tiverton and Honiton by election, if they do the same at the G/E ....It will be curtains for the Con's shutting them out for decades.

[gulliver1]

10.56 What's your opinion of Gateshead then N/J...???

[New Judge]

Fine place. Home to one of the three British Rail Motive Power Depots which housed the twenty-two Class 55 "Deltic" locomotives - probably the finest locomotive designed and produced in the UK. Also home to the "Gateshead Games". But not somewhere I would immediately associate sipping a Piña colada on my veranda overlooking the ocean.

[gulliver1]

How long did it take you to google that one N/J.

[Spicerack]

Conservatives can't really complain. They entered a pact with Labour to keep Nigel out.

[gulliver1]

12.50 Another one who is all mouth.

[Spicerack]

^
Now that's not a good idea.

[New Judge]

//How long did it take you to google that one N/J.//

I didn't Google it. I am a railway enthusiast ("anorak" you'd probably call it) and I am a member of the Deltic Preservation Society. The Society has custody of three of the six preserved production Deltic locomotives (out of the 22 built). The 22 were allocated to three depots, 6 to Gateshead and 8 each to Finsbury Park (London) and Haymarket (Edinburgh). They provided the motive power for most of the "top link" express services from London Kings Cross to the north of England and to Scotland from 1962 until they were relegated to secondary services in the late 1970s.

I thought everybody had heard of "The Gateshead Games".