Jump to content
 

Tim Dubya

RMweb Premium
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4,481

  • Joined

  • Days Won

    2

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Tim Dubya

  1. Tim Dubya
    Yep but if it's for weighting models it should be "reassuringly" expensive. 🤔
  2. Tim Dubya
    @lezz01 mentioned this stuff over in Lydbrook Dean for modelling lead flashings, but I can't help but think it might be of use in those tight spots in a loco to add some more weight.
  3. Tim Dubya
  4. Tim Dubya
  5. Tim Dubya
    Well it took them 7½ years to make up their minds to scrap it, does make you wonder 🤔
  6. Tim Dubya
    BR must have looked at it and thought it wasn't worth the long term cost after repair, perhaps 🤷
  7. Tim Dubya
    Severn Railway Bridge. https://stroudtimes.com/remembering-the-severn-railway-bridge-disaster There may also be a documentary about it somewhere... iPlayer? 🤷
  8. Tim Dubya
    Hemyock branch indeed, thank you. The photo is at Culmstock with a 14xx and the coach. It's in this £2:99 charity shop find 👍 "..... Consequently, it was still possible on 2 December 1961 to see 0-4-2T No 1451 taking the 1.45pm from Tiverton Junction out of Culmstock towards Hemyock, a scene little changed in 80 years. The return journey will be more profitable for the railway, with five or six loaded milk tanks ahead of the old gaslit Barry Railway coach."
  9. Tim Dubya
    Guilty as charged, and even in a different region, BR(S) / ex-LSWR branchline in the west country in my case. I once saw a photo of an ex-Barry Railway brake 2nd (?) on a GW branch in Devon, which inspired me to apply for the license for this one in a similar location. I'm tempted to add I have ordered a composite 😄🤔
  10. Tim Dubya
    I think there's a TL and a short and long coupling bar in the pack. I'm not able to check ATM unfortunately.
  11. Tim Dubya
    It's one of the new Dapol Toplight Mainline & City Coaches Elliott. It will find itself at the end of a (very) sleepy ex-LSWR branchline in due course.
  12. Tim Dubya
    Glad you're doing all this work for me Elliott 😜
  13. Tim Dubya
    Was this a "War Effort" addition or earlier?
  14. Tim Dubya
    Thanks to Rob for the heads up on The Pannier Papers. I've managed to pick up volumes 2 & 3 for £5:99 each at Strathwood 👍 Cheers
  15. Tim Dubya
    "Berlin was subjected to over 103,000 tonnes of bombs (just shy of 7 Hiroshima bombs) during the war, with 20,400 coming from the USAAF."
  16. Tim Dubya
    The former Mrs Dubya's Warwick shed is on a base of compacted hardcore then over laid with paving slabs to a little under the exact size of the footprint. The idea being that it has a solid base but water doesn't get to splash off the slabs back onto the buildings floor. Last time I looked it was still bone dry under there, the only problem being a swollen door from not treating the wood in good time (not guilty, it was her workshop 😜).
  17. Tim Dubya
    Fair enough, they did start it.... 😬
  18. Tim Dubya
    Boring, I was hoping they'd blow the thing up out at sea for a spectacular spectacle 😜
  19. Tim Dubya
    I've used this before: https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/
  20. Tim Dubya

    A new revelation to me is shrink wrapped pallets, never had a delivery in this new format before.

     

    IMG_20240223_122129612.jpg.1e50077f5849a4244c4d2614df05e1f6.jpg

     

    Of course, it being Friday afternoon and me not having a knife to hand, it looks like a Monday job to me 😜

     

    Have a lovely weekend people 👍

     

    1. Show previous comments  1 more
    2. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      All the red ones 😁

    3. Northmoor

      Northmoor

      That's what I did in my first job!  Shrink-wrapping pallets of bagged dried milk powder at the creamery.  Put the big bag over the top and used a big propane heat gun to shrink it on, then add the strapping to hold it the load together (which you needed to, I think it was about 700kgs on a pallet).

    4. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      Ah, that's how it's done.  We used to get them in bog-standard pallet wrap until now.  They're wrapped so tight there's no strapping, just a sheet of hardboard on the top of the boxes 👍

  21. Tim Dubya
    Not sure but sounds reasonable, I haven't looked at the enclosed destructions yet.
  22. Tim Dubya
    They are rather bright, aren't they, I don't intend to do night time fortunately, otherwise I'd have to have it apart and fiddle with the electrical gubbins.
  23. Tim Dubya
    Spotted on Facebook.
  24. Tim Dubya
  25. Tim Dubya
    I think they're still the 57'ers. Replica still produce the 64'ers I understand. http://www.replicarailways.co.uk/menusep3/menuselfassem
×
×
  • Create New...