The infernal combustion engine

[hirez]

Pottered to & from the docks on Saturday. Disturbingly, I'm weak as a kitten that's learned to ride a pushbike and operate a Lomo. Bum.

Anyway, I feel the need to go look at a Deltic and explore the far reaches of the Science Museum. (Assuming they've not buggered it up and hidden the Apollo capsule because it's not interactive enough.)

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[thegreatgonzo.livejournal.com]

The only change for the worse last time I went was that the old telephone exchange is no longer interactive (I assume due to extreme failure) we even managed to catch the Mill engine running.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ah, jolly good.

[meltie.livejournal.com]

Aye, they've done a good job of rearranging the entire engine hall exhibits so that they're actually educationa, instead of just being that bit with the little engines that you met your teacher at before going round the museum.

[spride.livejournal.com]

The capsule's still there. There is a treasonably large number of actual objects in the rocketry and spaceflight galleries. I am sure this will be summarily purged when the next $LARGE_TECH_CORPORATE needs more propaganda space (NPI). See my rant passim (http://spride.livejournal.com/85680.html).

There is also such a thing as the National Space Centre in Leicestershire. I've not been there but several mates have held sequencer-ridden EM fests there and speak well of it. YMMV of course.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I saw. It was partly that which reminded me the museum was still there.

I keep driving past the V2-signs for the Space Centre and thinking 'I really ought to go look at that'. Then I'm confronted with the annoyance that's the M1 and I have to think about avoiding BMWs instead.

One day.

And Kemble. And Bovington. And Porthcurno.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, Bovington. We were taken there on Dorset holidays as kids. Big Centurion tanks...

[nemesis-to-go.livejournal.com]

Warning: the Deltic is no longer in the Science Museum.

It's now in York (http://www.vryork.com/national-railway-museum-2006/source/delticr.html).

There was actually some talk about getting it running again, but apparently certain vital bits are missing.

If you want to track down other Deltics, I dare say the essential info can be dug out of this site (http://www.preserved-diesels.co.uk).

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ha.

I was sort-of-vaguely planning to go to York to look at a bunker.

I'd better dig out my 'Anorak Pilot Corporation' nametag.