Owen Abbott

Geek level 26. I like statistics, data, football, steam trains, cars and sci-fi. Works @ONS, on stats methods and data science. OBE. All views my own.

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@HancockAnalysis Pardon?

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@BronHebog @festrail Coming to a 009 Welsh highland model layout soon then I hope??

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@Pompey

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@HancockAnalysis is it me or does he always look like the kid who outgrew his clothes and his mum didnt buy any new ones?

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@jwldopp @Pompey Yep, that chance came from silvera not tracking. Mistakes like that need to be ironed out.

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@HCfootball01 Band of brothers

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@mrandrewmoon My take on the morrell/Swanson is they want to tie them to longer deals, so they don't leave on a free end of next year. They are bankable assets.

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@BronHebog @festrail @railnigel @SRichardBowker Love the comments about doors, fences etc - they are spot on, us volunteers don't like to bodge stuff we do a proper job and have jgf while we are at it! (Jolly Good Fun for ref)

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@BronHebog @KevinColley1987 Small cassettes just for the locos then so you can be extra careful, and keep the prototypical fr take formations

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@pn_neil_allen @JSweetman92 Thank @JSweetman92 lucky hat for the win

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@stuarthardman @princessclairin @suedeHQ @Emma_Judd_ Poor choices all night stu....

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@henrylau_ONS @ONS @fryford Beautiful

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@Stephen_PFC1898 What, that you put yr dirty dishes in the dishwasher?

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@pfc_benbissett @nisbeckian When he asks what we repeatedly chant at refs, we are telling them to 'wake up'

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@jon81700 @mrandrewmoon Not enough spaces on the bench?

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@ptid1976 @OfficialFPL @LambsNavyRum It's an annual treat! Baaaa!

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@BronHebog @festrail We sat in there on the way back, was rolling quite a lot. Nice seats tho!