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13 minutes ago, 62613 said:
Well, Northern have been advertising "More services" from the December timetable change, seemingly including restoring the Piccadilly - Hadfields to half - hourly throughout the day. So maybe, maybe not.
The December timetable changes were already set some months ago, it's next May that will be interesting, they're currently being decided.
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2 minutes ago, RANGERS said:
Unfortunately what the passenger pays means this is all that some will get. Usually better to have less than perfect trains than no trains at all 🤔
If Internet chatter is to be believed, seems likely there will be places with no, or at least less than currently, services come next May's timetable change.
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2 hours ago, 2750Papyrus said:
when the Christmas paper chains in the DO fell down and actuated the motion sensors on the alarm system....
And I was the alarm engineer called out to investigate and reset the damn alarm!
Used to find myself regularly on call around Christmas, most of the others had other things to do, I was one of the few non drinkers!
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Minor pedantry if you don't mind David?
J5069 and 3226 might be better described as New Basford than Bagthorpe junction.
The bridge shown is Perry Road, Bagthorpe junction is at the far end of the cutting seen through the bridge, spent many hours on those sandstone rocks in the early 60s, I was born in 1953.
They were at the rear of Basford Carriage shed, and probably now the only, even slight, evidence that any of that existed at all.
The bridge has been underfilled I believe, so possibly the deck still carries the road.
The cutting beyond has been filled back to original levels and houses built up.
As for Bagthorpe junction itself, it stood on a massive embankment which has been completely removed down to original ground level, leaving a low retaining wall as the only remnant of the Valley Road bridge abutment.
What I, as a child, thought of as permanent had already more or less gone by the time my son was born in 1980.
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25 minutes ago, dibateg said:
I did think of putting the Northern Baths in - but it is a very big building!
Regards
Tony
True, still there as well, some sort of church I believe.
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Walking up the path after school swimming at Northern baths, heading (slowly) back to school!
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My dad had been to visit his parents after work. I told him when he came home, took a while to believe me!
No 24 hr telly then, let alone rolling live news feeds from all over the world. Seems a bit more innocent looking back
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Probably an appropriate place to express my thanks to Andy for getting it all going and sticking with it through the tough times, I hope things are a bit easier at times now with Warners back up.
I'm stuck in hospital for a while so this is an outlet to a small, safe part of the real world.
Although my modelling pretty much came to a halt ten or more years ago I still take interest in what others are doing and offer a little, probably outdated, advice if it seems applicable.
Main thing is
THANKS ANDY!!!
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1 hour ago, DaveF said:
Mainly the Great Northen (and Great Central) around Nottingham in the early 1950s this afternoon. Once again I'm not sure I could find these locations Dad used if I went there now.
gif Kimberley GN J5 up goods c1951 JVol7163
gif Kimberley Junction J39 up coal c1953 JVol4062
gif Moorbridge Junction GN and GC between Bestwood Colliery and Bulwell Forest c1952 JVol4292
gif Moorbridge Junction on GNR-line between Bestwood Colliery sta and Bulwell Forest O4 up coal c1952 JVol3189
gif Moorbridge Junction WD up coal c1952 JVol4094
David
Moorbridge junction area may still exist in some form, some of the lines have been made into footpaths, intending to do more exploring of such things when I get out of hospital!
The one showing 'forty bridges' as it's known locally has been totally obliterated apart from the odd bit of brickwork.
I presume the J5 is standing in the same area so again untraceable.
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1 hour ago, Michael Hodgson said:
Sink six cans of pale ale and you'll to spend that penny.
Free shot of what I got earlier in hospital and you spend about 3 quids worth!
Intravenous water tablets effectively, my mouth tastes salty now as well!
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12 minutes ago, Davexoc said:
Dave, I think that 153358 is the correct number. It appears that after initial conversion from 155s, 155308 which was comprised of vehicles 52308 and 57308, led to 52308 becoming 153308 and 57308 becoming 153358. 153358 some time later fell into line and adopted the set number within the vehicle number and became 57358.
I'm presuming this was due to the advent of the class 57s, which in the longer term it would have meant the Virgin Thunderbirds would not have been able to use those numbers.
The aforementioned 153308 in West Country black and gold livery on transfer to EMT - vehicle number 52308
Ah! I stand corrected over my correction. Hope I haven't caused you too much confusion David.
Nice picture of Sleaford which incidentally looks very smart in it's recently completed heritage refurbishment, at least it didn't finish up the purple, grey and yellow patchwork inflicted on many EMR stations.
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3 hours ago, Market65 said:
Good evening, David. That’s a fascinating set of replacement photo’s of Millmeece and Badnall Wharf, on the WCML, between Stafford and Crewe, June 1976. The comparisons between your photo’s and your Dad’s are most interesting, and well explained. The first photo’ of 310 076, on an up passenger service, it is warmer and more natural than the following photo’ of the same train as taken by your Dad. Same results, of course, for the next two photo’s. The last photo’ is a good warm one of a class 85 on an up express. So your camera, as used back then, gives, to my eyes, the better overall results.
Now the latest Morpeth photo’s are superb, with J13294, of 153358, on a Newcastle to Morpeth service, and a MklV DVT leading an up express train, in August, 1992, shows what appears to be a small dent, of some kind, just below the driver’s side window, on the DVT.
With warmest regards,
Rob.
Dent on a DVT? Almost certainly a bird strike, they can make quite a mess and receive a massive headache for the privilege at 125mph!
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Hi Dave,
Minor correction j13294, the 153 is 308.
It must have moved from the north east further south at some point before privatisation, eventually turning up at EMT wearing black vinyls advertising some of the attractions of the South West!
When it was taken into works, done in house at Neville Hill if memory serves, it was found to be heavily corroded in places and there was also evidence of crash damage at some time in the past.
All this made the overhaul and repaint take somewhat longer than initially expected. Stagecoach were becoming a bit unusual at that time in doing full body overhauls to bare metal before repainting but it certainly helped staff morale rather than the bodge jobs that have become more common, the current EMR ones don't even get cleaned when sending them over from WM, seems something of an Abellio trademark.
Sorry if I've rambled a bit but I'm stuck in hospital so helps relieve the tedium a bit.
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A while, perhaps 4 or 5 years after the crab came out, I picked up a maroon one.
Being a still fairly young but keen modeller then I took inspiration from one, probably the RM, magazine article.
I balked at the idea of taking a saw to the body to widen it as I didn't trust my skills, tools or facilities to not completely trash the thing.
A certain amount of detail was added, can't what remember now, full repaint and added weathering.
Being pretty proud of the result I entered it in one of the competitions at the (then) East Midlands MRE in Nottingham.
The show at that time drew in exhibitors from all over the country including many of the big names of the hobby and I was very surprised to be award a third place, not much in some people's eyes maybe, but the best I've ever done.
I've still got the loco but it hasn't been out of it's box for many years, and I can't dig it out now being stuck in hospital at the moment.
I understand they can be picked up, pretty cheaply so, in my opinion, if you simply want something to have a bash with, why not?
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3 minutes ago, Davexoc said:
Here it is at Heckington with 153357 and 156415 for insurance in August 2008, now wearing EMT branding, and with the three units in different base liveries...
Air con not working, quel surprise!
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158863 in alpha line livery, that would be shortly after 158863-866 were transferred to EMT. One was particularly troublesome for quite some time afterwards, I think it may have been 863.
Turned out it had been the absolute last remaining depot spare to be sent out while with Wessex, even then it rarely managed a full day's work.
EMT fitters eventually got it sorted but took a good few months.
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18 minutes ago, Derekl said:
I have a big lump of lead from which I cut little pieces off (taking lots of precautions, for obvious reasons) and put those wherever is convenient - end vestibules usually works. I paint them over wherever they are.
You can also use liquid lead, from Squires or Eileen's Emporium - this is not actually lead, but is reasonably heavy. You would need to find somewhere in the underframe to park that so not visible on a sideways view.
Eileen's Emporium advertise sheet lead for sale, which might be convenient, but I haven't tried it. I imagine i isn't lead, although if it is, one has to be
a bitvery careful.Don't stick liquid lead in with PVA as in time it all expands and your coach is damaged.
Edit: Good cheap source of weight is the pick and mix washers from Wilko, assuming you've got one within reach
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Wonder who cops the bill?
Given they were specified by the Dft, it wouldn't surprise me if fell to the poor old taxpayers again.
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1 hour ago, Weeny Works said:
Amazon
Alexa. IMO the pinnacle of human laziness.Fixed that for you
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18 hours ago, Davexoc said:
A skating Skateboard....
Is that at Metheringham? I remember a piece somewhere about, I think, a class 60 rescuing a Dog box using the adaptor coupling they all carried at one time.
Talk about power overkill.
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29 minutes ago, kevinlms said:
Surely you must be watching The Crown as well!
I know of such things due to the constant racket on the news media and such like but as for sitting down and watching........
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My simple answer is (almost) don't watch the thing, although I will admit to intending (providing memory works ok) watching Top Gear on Sunday when I understand Fred Flintoff takes part in a formula 1 stock car race.
Can't say I feel I've missed out in well over 5 years now.
If there was only me in the house wouldn't even have one.
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Dore and Totley was reduced to a single line on the 'branch' to Manchester, rationalised in the 1980s?
It's now being redoubled complete with second platform to increase capacity through the Hope Valley.
Many of the so-called rationalisations caused ridiculous bottle necks for what seemed to be little gain.
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1 hour ago, Buhar said:Care home costs are terrible, as I recently experienced, although can be worth it if matched by the service provided. Regrettably that's not always the case, especially where offshore companies and hedge funds are behind things.
I hope Brian is comfortable and that Barbara feels he's in good hands.
Alan
Not wishing to divert the thread but on the flip side, care homes are expensive but often the staff are paid a pittance for what's expected if them.
A friend worked in one for a while, the facilities were excellent more akin to a luxury hotel. But the staff are on basic minimum wage, assaults on them are a regular occurrence and they're just expected to put up with it, because the resident has dementia!
One particular one she told me about would let fly punches that wouldn't disgrace Mike Tyson!
The management of the home simply shrug their shoulders and say there's nothing can be done because it's a medical problem.
My friend's daughter also works in the same place and several months ago was punched in the stomach, accompanied by a tirade of abuse and wishing she never has children.
The girl actually wasn't aware she was pregnant, very early stage, and suffered a miscarriage a few days later!
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Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day
in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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The clock tower has also been extensively re built I understand, due surprisingly to deterioration of the original brickwork.
Truly a station fit for an important city, compared with the low roofed thing in the meadows, squatting under the GC viaduct, that passes for Nottingham's railway station now.