Nick C

This might be a "depends on the company" one, but I'd have thought it could be locked such that a shunt signal could be cleared into the platform - that only allows the driver to proceed as far as the line is clear, which would be to the toe of the points.

Except they're not. Plenty of articles out there about how poor the Tesla build quality is compared with other cars of a similar price range. I remember a few years ago they were showing off one in our local shopping centre, so I wandered over to have a look - the panel gaps were worse than anything BL ever managed! Plus as has been mentioned earlier, having all the controls on a single touchscreen is not in any way safe - goodness knows how they managed to get that through type approval.

My point exactly - I'm just under 40 now, and grew up with CIGs and VEPs on the central division in the 90s/early 2000s, but for anyone in much of the rest of the country they'd already gone by then - plus I'm from a railway family and so would have used the trains a lot more as a kid than most people my age. Last VEP was withdrawn in 2005 - there were two CIGs lasted to 2010, but they were confined to the Lymington branch.

That doesn't always work though - you can easily end up in "Think of the children" situations (especially when the more excitable media get involved) - just look at the various attempts on a regular basis to regulate the internet - It's easy for a paper or politician to say "let's ban the kind of encryption the bad guys are using", but you first need to listen to the experts when they point out that what's being demanded is impossible... Exactly - the last slam-door stock in regular mainline use was withdrawn 20 years ago - a very large proportion of the population will never have come across them...

I fitted a dashcam after one of my wife's colleagues got caught up by a 'cash for crash' scam - they didn't have one, so had no evidence to dispute the lies told by the scammer... Getting back to driving standards - I had three of those yesterday, tailgating me through 30 or 40 limits (in which I was driving at the posted limit) - all younger people in small hatchbacks...

Required reading anywhere on the railway in my opinion - and was on the reading list I was given before starting training as a signalman. First thing the district inspector said when he handed me my rulebook (the current one, not the 1933 edition! ) was "just remember, every rule in that book was written in blood"

As @John Besley says, rule 55 - which runs to 10 pages in my 1933 SR rule book - including variations for all four companies...

Still the case with many European languages...

She looks just like our Benji!

Apparently the actor Daniel Radcliffe wore the same black Leather jacket every time he went out for six months, just to frustrate the paparazzi...

Like this? The 40 signs applying to the slip, the main road being 70...

But that's not the fault of their power train, it's down to the marketing machine conning people into thinking they need a humongous fancy car to show off to their neighbours - and for those who can afford it, buying an electric version means they can show off even more, by pretending to be green... (That's not to dig at the people who actually need a larger vehicle due to off-road capability, high entry, large load capability etc - but we all know the majority of them are only used for the school run and supermarket...)

For a more direct comparison - comparing identical spec Vauxhall Corsas (SE Nav) Electric - 1455Kg Petrol - 1165Kg That's a 290Kg or 25% difference in otherwise identical cars - but the EV is still less than most SUVs...

I have to say I wouldn't put too much faith in a study that didn't actually carry out any real-world tests (see the next paragraph after the one you quoted...) I agree with your last comment - all the studies I've seen so far are only comparing new-with-new, and usually make so many assumptions or omissions as to be utterly useless...

The problem with that is that there's no checking on caller ID - so they can spoof any number they like - which could be a perfectly valid number belonging to an innocent bystander...

A bit like the one that was floating around a few years ago where the callee spends quite some time going through with the caller speccing up a fully equipped, top of the range conservatory with all the trimmings, only to get to the point of being ready to place the final order and dropping in: "So, how exactly do you fit a conservatory to a third-floor flat anyway?"

It seems more likely to me that, as @TravisM says, the clips have been edited and you don't see the signaller going back to the box in between. For those unfamiliar, the correct procedure would be roughly as follows (I'm not sure whether the current NR rule book would require both trains to be brought completely to a stand at the home signals first in steps 2 and 3.5, I know from @The Stationmaster that this used to be the case). I'm going to use up-train-first for this example, as I don't know which direction is which on that line... Close Crossing gates Up train is signalled into the up platform. Signalman goes to that platform and collects the token as the train arrives, verifying that the train is complete. Signalman returns to box and: Replaces up home to danger. Resets road for down train. Returns token to instrument, sending "train out of section". Requests 'line clear' for the down train, withdraws token. Clears home and starting signals for down train. Signalman goes to down platform and exchanges tokens with the down train as it arrives. Repeat step 2 - Back to box, replace down home, reset for up train to depart, cycle token, clear up starter Deliver token to up train. Replace starters once trains clear, open crossing gates.

Or answer with something silly if you don't recognise the number? "Hello, Fraud squad. How can I help?"

The one our bus company offers is utterly useless as it always wants to tell you the next bus - from the start of the route. Not much use if you're waiting for the one that's due at your stop in 5 minutes, and so started it's journey half an hour ago...

Mine has a definite step in the webbing, with a slot for the tiebar - it's oo-sf though.

That is the case for many high-speed trains on the continent I believe - certainly PKP IEP services are reservation-only.

Do you glue those on? I tried using them on mine and found it really difficult to get them to stay in place - this might of course be down to my ham-fistedness, but I ended up breaking or losing several... Alternatively can anyone recommend any other insulating fishplates that might be easier to use for code 75 Bullhead? The Peco Bullhead ones are good for conducting joints, but they don't do an insulating version...

I have one, built by the previous owners of our house. It's terrible. You can't insulate the walls, you can't fix anything to the walls (the logs can't be fixed together as they need to be able to expand individually). The doors stick and constantly need adjusting. It's cold and damp in the winter, too hot in the summer. Basically, if you want a building totally unsuited to building a layout, get a log cabin. If you want something suitable, build it properly, with proper framing and insulation - it'll probably cost you less anyway...

Plus two of those three are supporting charities - so even if you did overpay slightly, the funds are going to help the railway...

Easiest way to do that is to search for each item and then click "completed listings" from the filters on the left - it'll then show you sold prices in green and unsold ones in black.