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  1. After problems with ordinary Peco points (they didn't like being upside down) and then Seeps (hiding the Pecos in scenery to switch the frogs), I have now installed Peco Twistlock points. No problems so far.
  2. Evening all. I've been on holiday in Germany for 10 days. Anything important happen in TNM land that I should know about? I went to the Spur Null Tage in Giessen yesterday and purchased a Model Signal Engineering lever frame at a ridiculously low price. I also bought a 1950s Till Register and somehow lugged it back in my luggage. Worn out! Bill
  3. As speaks someone with experience .....
  4. Not sure about aging, the Prussian BR 58.0 were less than 30 years old. the BR 50 were a couple of years old and the BR 52 Kriegsloks were brand new. Auschwitz impacts me more than many of you, as my father was a prisoner-of-war in the camp. I'm very aware of the subject but this hasn't stopped me modelling German railways.
  5. My late friend, Tony Adams, modelled the DRG in 1937. I asked him the obvious question and his reply that, in a Franconian town, the only indication might be an NSDAP flag flown outside the Rathaus (town hall).
  6. Less of the "professional". Although I've just received a certificate to the effect that I am now an Emergency Responder, candidate number 1111902555.
  7. ..... and thirdly, the patient has to give the correct information. Me - "are you on any medicines?" Patient - "No." On arrival, paramedic asks the same question, the patient delves into their bag and produces a list a mile long. Paramedic and I roll our eyes.
  8. I will never diagnose a patient - that is outside my competence. My role is to keep the patient alive until the professionals arrive, take a set of accurate observations and obtain a coherent patient history. I can spot if an observation appears anomalous, hand it over with a verbal question mark and most times the professional replicates my observation. It has taken a decade but we are now trusted by the professionals in London.
  9. You mean they kept the xx and the rest is new.
  10. And the nose. We all have one, but mine has been broken twice.
  11. I went to a 6pm free concert in the Royal Festival Hall today. Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. The stalls were about 75% occupied. Impressive. There was a borough election today. I voted about 1pm, having shown identification, and I think was the first from my road to vote in person. I've heard a rumour that the government want to put forward legislation that the identification must be a Conservative Party membership card. It will stop the extremists being able to vote. Three bones broken (actually two. but one of them twice) - none set.
  12. The reason for that was that on the afternoon of 23 March 1988, Deborah Linsley was murdered on a train between Petts Wood and London Victoria. She was on her own in a single compartment. A consequence was that BR rapidly eliminated compartment stock. The BR 4-EPBs had two Semi-open trailers but were riddled with blue asbestos and were not going to be converted. Ian will know if the SR trailers were converted or whether it was a matter of moving an open trailer from another set.
  13. Just checked my certificates: First Responder on Scene - level 3 (this is the important one) Medicines Management level 1 & 2 (not a bad idea) Drugs and alcohol Moving and handling principles Counter fraud Keep yourself safe Introduction to safeguarding Safeguarding level 1 General data protection regulation Equality, diversity and inclusion Care Quality Commission level 1 I don't think a Sergeant Major can shout "you horrible little **** man", any more. Little is "sizeist"; ***** must avoid reference to creed, colour etc., and a fair proportion of the armed services are now female.
  14. Thinking about yesterday's post, it is of course the wrong time of year to be painting trees. I either take a sketch book up to the National Gallery and sketch The Hay Wain or wait until summer and go (say) to Petts Woods. I'm in no hurry, the layout isn't going out until the autumn.
  15. There is a "rolling" factor in providing troops for WW2. The BEF was formed from the regular army. The territorials were called up in 1939, trained and were available for the African campaigns. This included my father, captured at Knightsbridge, which meant he was pre-8th Army so never got that campaign medal. Oh and probably the Singapore debacle. The Dunkirk survivors were meanwhile training up conscripts for the 1st Army and Normandy campaigns. The problem then for the British Army that the country had basically run out of suitable men by the end of 1944. My father was in the Honorable Artillery Company (not as a "gentleman" member) - the 11th went to Egypt, the 12th were in 1st Army, the 13th (and 86th AA) went to Normandy.
  16. Evening all. Someone, no names no pack drill, forgot to renew his television license, so I have pulled the plugs on both my sets and am rather relying on RMWeb to provide entertainment. Two church services today, then a brisk walk around Greenwich Park. I have the classic exhibition layout backscene problem, an unnatural vertical line where the baseboards join. The answer has to be trees painted across the joins. I've sized some ply with "White Tundra"; I'll let it dry before calling up my inner Constable.
  17. Over 50 years ago I worked over a Christmas in the laboratories of the Whitbread brewery in Chiswell Street. And the lab was probably built in the nineteenth century - linoleum, wooden benches and the rest. One of the jobs was to test the volume of carbon dioxide in a bottle of beer. This was done using a Martin Machine, balancing the level of mercury in open apparatus. Of course there were spillages, with globules on the floor and in the sinks. I knew mercury was a poison, so was very careful and was grateful I was only there for three weeks.
  18. Lez, I was taught that the benzene bonds were all interchangeable so I drew it as a hexagon with a circle inside. Not my favourite bit of organic chemistry, much preferred organo-phospherous which was good for clearing a train carriage in the rush hour.
  19. Jon, have a look at www.muellers-bruchbuden.de I have a resin kit of his Spur Null wooden goods shed. He does a similar one in HO. Bill
  20. So yesterday was spent at Lord's - becoming an ER. This doesn't mean a conversion to the dark side of RMWeb but a requirement to take four modules to become an Emergency Responder. Two modules were patient handling in the Warner Stand, in the freezing cold with a brisk north wind. It would have been a blade of grass on the cricket square, with an electric heater trundling back and forth keeping them all above freezing.
  21. Walschaerts? Belpaire? Cesar Frank? Tin-Tin?
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