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    EBay madness

    If it's any consolation, I know my height in feet and inches, and my weight in kg...
  2. Given the relative angles, I think a sector plate would make more sense than a traverser (and be much easier to build!). If you use a point, would there be room for a long enough headshunt?
  3. So was the dedicated possession simply a way of allowing both trains to be in the same block section?
  4. And more to the point, a tourist with kids who has probably never seen a train with manual doors before...
  5. I think it looks good having the whole thing open like that - there's so much detail inside that it's good to be able to see it all.
  6. I'd have thought he'd be in the leading vestibule giving handsignals to the driver?
  7. I've heard quite a few things suggesting that around 30-45 minutes each way (so around 90m-2hrs total journey time by the time you've included the break at the far end) tends to be most popular amongst 'normal' visitors - long enough to be worthwhile, but still short enough to stop the kids getting bored. We went to the Eden project a few years ago, and they offered two options, either the standard day ticket or the "as many visits as you like in a year" option - I can't remember the price difference but it wasn't much, certainly a lot less than two days, and gift-aided as it counted as a 'membership' rather than a 'ticket' - so they got the extra 20% on top.
  8. If the original plan was done to 16.5mm and later changed to EM without any alignment changes, presumably the 6ft would be 2mm narrower - assuming the alignment is based on track centres?
  9. The GM of the Spa Valley has posted some fairly candid discussions on cashflow over on National Preservation - the basic gist being that their last gala made a small profit, but the various kid's tv-show-branded weekends make quite a bit more, and normal running days can often result in a small loss. It seems to be the dining trains and other 'specials' that make the best money.
  10. Shame the EN57's have gone, I rather like them! I suspect the general public don't though! The last time we went there, the whole line was shut for the aforementioned relaying, and we ended up on a minibus all the way from Krakow to Sucha Beskidska...
  11. If it's any consolation, most of the locals do too - the big Brighton Hill roundabout had just finished a two- year "upgrade" and has been constantly in the local paper ever since with people bemoaning it, largely because the lanes shown on the signs don't match the road markings!
  12. I was over in ECS doing Computer Engineering (2/3 computer science, 2/3 electronics, as we used to joke at the time...) - I knew quite a few mech and aero students though.
  13. Funnily enough I was just looking at that same cover thinking I'd read it this evening! I didn't know that you were at Southampton Andy - I studied there (rather scarily, 20 years ago...)
  14. Any reasonably fit person could walk it in less than that!
  15. H & A models had a big stand at Southampton, with kits etc. I'm not sure which other shows they do though.
  16. Didn't Kernow's have any? I know they stock Slaters, Cambrian and Parkside, but didn’t look through their stand yesterday.
  17. Yeah, we did have a bit of a chat while you were shunting the yard, but I forgot to introduce myself! I was the one in the green Watercress Line fleece operating Merstone behind you.
  18. Good to see Ropley today. I did note at one point at least three MHR people all watching!
  19. Good to have a natter this morning, though I never did get the chance to come and have another play!
  20. I got my copy for £25 from a second-hand stall at an exhibition a few years ago - that was one of those "don't think, just buy, before someone else does" moments!
  21. Will be good to see 'Daisy' again - I'm helping Mark & Chris with Merstone & Ventnor West on Saturday, and I believe we're right next to you and Ropley.
  22. Totally off-topic, but I've just learned something about heraldry after seeing that photo - that insignia changed in 1993 to put the white square top-left (as shown by the fourth and rearmost aircraft) as the colour of the charge (in Poland's case, the eagle - white) is more important than that of the shield (red). Somehow this thread seems like that sort of place where such persnickety would be appreciated!
  23. I hadn't spotted that all four island ones are now available, that's impressive!
  24. Probably the only item of Stroudley rolling stock to gain BR livery, S3370, the Isle of Wight horsebox, rarely moved from a siding at Yarmouth for the last few years. Does anyone know of any photos of the other side to confirm whether the lettering was in the same place?
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