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I had hoped to get some pictures of it going through Corpach at
lunchtime on its way back Mallaig but never saw it.


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On 2026/3/28 15:40:22, JMB99 wrote:

I had hoped to get some pictures of it going through Corpach at
lunchtime on its way back Mallaig but never saw it.

I suspect you might have picked the wrong 'group - something with
railway in it intended perhaps?

Sorry you missed it anyway! (If it was there, of course.)
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On 28/03/2026 16:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

I suspect you might have picked the wrong 'group - something with
railway in it intended perhaps?

Sorry, it should have gone in ukr!
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On 2026-03-28 15:40, JMB99 wrote:

I had hoped to get some pictures of it going through Corpach at
lunchtime on its way back Mallaig but never saw it.

As a belated public service announcement, let me pass on the following
advice to anyone in the Corpach/Fort William area, based on annoying experience ...

I am staying with my cousin in Glenfinnan again, still trying to
complete work on the family archive. Because the beginning of my visit
was precipitated sadly by the funeral of his wife who died in a care
home a few days earlier, and I don't live anywhere near a barber, I
wasn't able to get my already long hair cut before travelling down for
her send-off - a massive event BTW, about 130 attendees and music from mid-afternoon to midnight, and stories and jokes continuing into the
small hours. She would have loved it.

Thus, by a couple of weeks into my visit, I had rather long hair and
needed to get a hair-cut.

I went into Top Cut in the Fort William Station buildings and received
the least skilled and worst but also most expensive, -u17, haircut of my entire life. The guy used mainly a trimmer, and seemed to have no
scissor skills at all, and I was left with two tufts of longer hair
either side that make me look a little like a Macaroni Penguin.

My head and wallet are both a lot lighter now. Avoid.
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On 05/04/2026 12:59, Java Jive wrote:

I went into Top Cut in the Fort William Station buildings and received
the least skilled and worst but also most expensive, -u17, haircut of my entire life.-a The guy used mainly a trimmer, and seemed to have no
scissor skills at all, and I was left with two tufts of longer hair
either side that make me look a little like a Macaroni Penguin.

Needless to say, a Turkish 'barber'!

I go the locally run barber in the small group of shops near Iceland,
across the road from the High School.

And I think cheaper than that though I get a discount.

Typically for that type of 'barber' they seem to have the latest
equipment and four or more chairs but most of the time the staff are
outside playing on their mobile phones. Someone claimed they were only trained to do one type of haircut.








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On 2026/4/5 13:15:25, JMB99 wrote:

On 05/04/2026 12:59, Java Jive wrote:

I went into Top Cut in the Fort William Station buildings and received
the least skilled and worst but also most expensive, -u17, haircut of my

[]
Not sure if it was you last time, but this is the second time in a few
days that I've seen a railway-related thread in a non-ry-related 'group
(not sure if the other one was here or another 'group I take). I'm not objecting (the posts were quite interesting), just curious as to how it
got posted into the wrong 'group!
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J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

Not sure if it was you last time, but this is the second time in a few
days that I've seen a railway-related thread in a non-ry-related 'group
(not sure if the other one was here or another 'group I take). I'm not objecting (the posts were quite interesting), just curious as to how it
got posted into the wrong 'group!

I see you use Eternal-September, JPG. There was a problem recently with missing articles on that service so the admin manually injected them.
I've also seen a few artives duplicated in two groups. The story is in e-s.support.
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On 2026/4/5 20:11:53, Sn!pe wrote:

J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

Not sure if it was you last time, but this is the second time in a few
days that I've seen a railway-related thread in a non-ry-related 'group
(not sure if the other one was here or another 'group I take). I'm not
objecting (the posts were quite interesting), just curious as to how it
got posted into the wrong 'group!

I see you use Eternal-September, JPG. There was a problem recently with missing articles on that service so the admin manually injected them.
I've also seen a few artives duplicated in two groups. The story is in e-s.support.

That may have been the cause this time; last time, I posted some comment
like "did you intend this to be in something with 'railways' in it?",
and the poster said yes he did, so it _was_ user error. When it happened
again, I wondered if there was something - similar names? He had the
relevant groups adjacent in his system? - causing it to happen.
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On 05/04/2026 17:26, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

Not sure if it was you last time, but this is the second time in a few
days that I've seen a railway-related thread in a non-ry-related 'group
(not sure if the other one was here or another 'group I take).

I think what happens is that you think you are still in ukr but have
actually moved to another newsgroup.




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On 05/04/2026 12:59, Java Jive wrote:

Thus, by a couple of weeks into my visit, I had rather long hair and
needed to get a hair-cut.

I went into Top Cut in the Fort William Station buildings and received
the least skilled and worst but also most expensive, -u17, haircut of my entire life.-a The guy used mainly a trimmer, and seemed to have no
scissor skills at all, and I was left with two tufts of longer hair
either side that make me look a little like a Macaroni Penguin.

My head and wallet are both a lot lighter now.-a Avoid.

I mentioned this to local barber. Apparently most of the 'Turkish'
barbers are not Turkish, said one spoken to was an Iraqi but lots of immigrants are given a quick lesson and sent out as 'Turkish Barbers'.




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I mentioned this to local barber.-a Apparently most of the 'Turkish'
barbers are not Turkish, said one spoken to was an Iraqi but lots of immigrants are given a quick lesson and sent out as 'Turkish Barbers'.

a quick lesson in what ? - pretending to be Turkish ?


there no evidence of any increased need for barbers, or any sign of any
of these places being "busy"


and most of them men I see on the street have only one head
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On 2026-04-10 07:55, Abandoned Trolley wrote:

[Quoting snipped: JMB99 said]

I mentioned this to local barber.-a Apparently most of the 'Turkish'
barbers are not Turkish, said one spoken to was an Iraqi but lots of
immigrants are given a quick lesson and sent out as 'Turkish Barbers'.

a quick lesson in what ? - pretending to be Turkish ?

there no evidence of any increased need for barbers, or any sign of any
of these places being "busy"

and most of them men I see on the street have only one head

As per the usual saying in retail, it's all about Location, Location,
and Location. The shop is in the Fort William Station buildings, and
opposite the Morrison's car park, the latter being the major supermarket
in the town, so it's the first barber anyone sees when they embark or disembark from a train, or come into town to shop.

I suppose it's a living ripping off the tourists on their way to the
Harry Potter experience at Glenfinnan - such as it is, a trail around
the viaduct and over the shoulder of the hill to the Railway Museum at
the Station; only the viaduct of which has anything specifically to do
with the HP films, but the building of it is an interesting story in
itself [*], it and the Museum have their own interests for Railway
buffs, and the walk is pleasant and of a convenient length and a
sufficient climb from where I'm sitting typing this to get some useful exercise, so I'm happy enough to walk it most fine days on its own
merits. But despite this apparently tenuous connection with the HP
stories, the tourists come in droves. The local community have had to
get a car park and visitor centre built the other side of the road from
the monument, which costs the tourists to use, so at least the local
community now get to earn some welcome cash from all the hype.

* If you're interested, if and when it is repeated, try and catch the following programme about the discovery of some old photographs
documenting the building of the West Coast Line from Ft William through Glenfinnan to Mallaig. It's introduced by my cousin's daughter-in-law,
Ingrid Henderson, one of Scotland's leading cl|arsach (traditional harp) players, and is mostly in Gaelic with some spoken English and with
subtitles for the former:

Ceol na Loidhne / Song of the Track
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qrjs
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On 10/04/2026 10:56, Java Jive wrote:

As per the usual saying in retail, it's all about Location, Location,
and Location.-a The shop is in the Fort William Station buildings, and opposite the Morrison's car park, the latter being the major supermarket
in the town, so it's the first barber anyone sees when they embark or disembark from a train, or come into town to shop.

I suppose it's a living ripping off the tourists on their way to the
Harry Potter experience at Glenfinnan-a --a such as it is, a trail around the viaduct and over the shoulder of the hill to the Railway Museum at
the Station; only the viaduct of which has anything specifically to do
with the HP films, but the building of it is an interesting story in
itself [*], it and the Museum have their own interests for Railway
buffs, and the walk is pleasant and of a convenient length and a
sufficient climb from where I'm sitting typing this to get some useful exercise, so I'm happy enough to walk it most fine days on its own
merits.-a But despite this apparently tenuous connection with the HP stories, the tourists come in droves.-a The local community have had to
get a car park and visitor centre built the other side of the road from
the monument, which costs the tourists to use, so at least the local community now get to earn some welcome cash from all the hype.

*-a If you're interested, if and when it is repeated, try and catch the following programme about the discovery of some old photographs
documenting the building of the West Coast Line from Ft William through Glenfinnan to Mallaig.-a It's introduced by my cousin's daughter-in-law, Ingrid Henderson, one of Scotland's leading cl|arsach (traditional harp) players, and is mostly in Gaelic with some spoken English and with
subtitles for the former:

Yes, I have been to a talk about the finding of the old photographs and
have a copy of the book as well seen the TV programme.

I missed the talk about the line at the Local History Society a month or
so ago.

It is the anniversary coming up, I got an invite to the centenary dinner
a few years ago

At one talk, someone asked how many died during construction of the line
so I collected together details of as many as I could find (I had
previously done the same for the Lochaber Water Power Project)


http://www.mbriscoe.me.uk/Accidents,%20incidents%20etc%20on%20Highland%20railways%20-%20Main%20Table%20Query%20Report.pdf





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On 2026-04-10 12:08, JMB99 wrote:

On 10/04/2026 10:56, Java Jive wrote:

*-a If you're interested, if and when it is repeated, try and catch the
following programme about the discovery of some old photographs
documenting the building of the West Coast Line from Ft William
through Glenfinnan to Mallaig.-a It's introduced by my cousin's
daughter-in-law, Ingrid Henderson, one of Scotland's leading cl|arsach
(traditional harp) players, and is mostly in Gaelic with some spoken
English and with subtitles for the former:

Yes, I have been to a talk about the finding of the old photographs and
have a copy of the book as well seen the TV programme.

I missed the talk about the line at the Local History Society a month or
so ago.

It is the anniversary coming up, I got an invite to the centenary dinner
a few years ago

At one talk, someone asked how many died during construction of the line
so I collected together details of as many as I could find (I had
previously done the same for the Lochaber Water Power Project)

http://www.mbriscoe.me.uk/Accidents,%20incidents%20etc%20on%20Highland%20railways%20-%20Main%20Table%20Query%20Report.pdf

Thanks, have downloaded and will take a look.
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:40:22 +0000, JMB99 wrote:

I had hoped to get some pictures of it going through Corpach at
lunchtime on its way back Mallaig but never saw it.

What has this to do with Broadband?
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David wrote:

JMB99 wrote:

I had hoped to get some pictures of it going through Corpach at
lunchtime on its way back Mallaig but never saw it.

What has this to do with Broadband?

Finger trouble, but it was explained 17 days ago ...

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