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In terms of trade, if I want RTR I can look on the internet. I appreciated having specialist traders, I picked up bits for an overall roof for my railway and some track making components plus some books. I much prefer looking at a book before purchasing so having plenty to choose from helps. With York I know what to expect and I like it that way.

I actually thought it was an April Fool article when I first saw it on Reddit.

why does a roastie require gluten??? I cook anything Mrs W will eat gluten free - curries, roasts, casseroles and stir fries.

On Saturday we went for a walk and a meal. Whilst parking up Mrs W spied a rather lovely fluffy cat, it was very friendly and well up for some stroking and compliments. Then when Mrs W came back to the boot of the car to get her coat, the cat went to do what cats do in long grass. It took it's time to find the right spot, a couple of times it thought it had found it but changed it mind then it finally it found the perfect spot and let loose. After faux covering the area with animated front paw movements it came back to see us. Mrs W was sure it was looking to jump into the boot and low and behold it did landing on a shopping bag right next to our coats. I immediately ushered the feline back out and it went on it's way. But my god did it leave a foul smell, I could only describe it as the same smell as cat food itself which turns my stomach. Not only was it an awful stench but it seemed to hang around and no amount of wafting the air resolved it. Any chance of me letting a cat live in our house I think has now gone. I always saw cats as the clean smelling and tidy pets, how wrong I was. Used a disinfectant wipe on the shopping bag when I got home. 🤣

But how can the RAIB make recommendations to this sector whilst the ORR allows WCRC to operate on the mainline in the manner it does. Clearly simple CDL may not have stopped the incident on the GCR but perhaps a set of safety rules that first required the driver to indicate he is stopped in the correct location followed by release of door locks would. If there is a known risk that trains might overshoot due to dragging brakes then there needs to be controls in place to manage and mitigate the risk .Simply saying nothing can be done is not the answer and that is what the RAIB will have been asking of the GCR when it comes to looking at safety protocols when running trains. Getting working CDL in WCRC mark 1 coaches would also be a template for the heritage railway sector and perhaps as indicated something for an engineering company to produce a kit for so that those railways can begin to fit to their stock. But for the heritage lines there is the additional complication of Mk1 suburbans and the abundance of pre BR coaching stock to contend with as well. So in reality universal CDL on heritage lines is likely to be very difficult and perhaps cost prohibitive and it may then be that pre BR coaching stock is subject to the sort of rules used previously by WCRC with bolts and stewards. I think change is coming but the mainline railway has to have it's house in order first. link to @John Besley's reference https://www.southdevonrailway.co.uk/special-services/engineering/

I think perhaps the ORR are minded to consider what happened on the GCR last year when it is dealing with WCRC and it's approach to keeping it's doors secure. https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/report-13-slash-2023-serious-injury-to-a-passenger-alighting-from-a-train-at-loughborough-central-station With the local press reporting that other incidents had been uncovered during the investigation: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/disabled-passenger-seriously-injured-after-8871782 The ORR cannot force changes on the preservation movement with regards door control and safety if it is allowing mainline companies to still operate Mk1 coaches without sufficient safety protocols in place. Dealing with WCRC might be the first step towards changes on non mainline operations.

Mrs W needed a brandy before going out for our Easter meal at her parents. So only polite that I had one too, and then a beer. Back at home because we forgot the gluten free gravy granules. Empty house and beer in the fridge…… Only got the dreaded flavour haven’t I. warning rude words about

Good show as per usual, came away with a pile of plasticard, some roof timbers for an overall roof, a couple of books and a code 40 N gauge track gauge. Lots of good layouts though there seemed to be less Narrow Gauge than usual.

Yes, for modellers it means you need at least two engines to operate it. I seem to recall Manchester Central had rather nice run round lines between platforms, but by the early 1960s were redundant, Manchester Piccadilly (not London Rd) only had one set of points I think for running round on one platform and generally the loco sat at the blocks till the train departed again. London Euston - trains would back out ECS to the coach sidings or even be pushed in to avoid too many trapped locos. So beyond a branchline I don't think you need run rounds but they are nice to have perhaps one somewhere in the station.

There was someone ordering a class 25 today on the stand and he was simply asked to put his card number etc onto the back of the order note that just looked like some scribble. Something rather non PCI compliant if you ask me - if they are about to deliver 1000s of locomotives then they are out of the 'smaller supplier' category and need to address card payment handling and fulfilment.

Easter Day - what does that mean to me - well I'm atheist and am careful with chocolate to keep the weight off. But what better thing to do on Easter Sunday than to drive over the Pennines on the M62 from Manchester to York. Set off from sunny Manchester bright and early, hit the Yorkshire border and fog descended, so bad I even had to put on the rear foglight at times and drove carefully. The number of drivers though with no lights on whom I was quickly losing sight of as they speeded past me. On the other side of the hills it was cloudy and from here onwards (and back) it was idiot motorists. The first was just before the A64 turn off from the A1M, joining from the A1 they decided to launch themselves over the hatched lines to my lane and then got stuck in no mans land between my car and the car on the other side of them nearly taking my car out at 70mph. Then on the way back near Ikea in Leeds another car did the same thing launched themselves over two lanes towards my car at the M621 instersection, again at 70. Then the Hiace Commuter idiot whom I had been trailing for some miles, he couldn't drive in a straight line, weaving from side to side and then finally at the Brighouse turn off he attempted to drive between the diverging junction and straight on - i.e. he simply drove onto the hatched lines between the junction and the motorway before again veering towards me, I could see the driver and his mate laughing, so I imagine under the influence of something. Also my sunglasses snapped whilst removing them as I went from sunshine to fog and at the grass car parking at York I managed to find a green beer bottle in the grass with my front wheel - I heard a popping sound, luckily just the bottle going (and sinking into the soft muddy surface) and not my tyre. I need tomorrow off to recover lol.

Did somebody mention pussy?

@ardbealach If you watch the video above from Nigel Harris, you'll see that the Jacobite does not require any subsidy so it will be making WCRC money, around 8:20 into the vlog.

It's not the first time Hornby have turned out coaches that are not free running and purchasers have had to do things to make them run better. And as indicated others manufacturers have too, it could be a bad batch or simply they've gotten it wrong with the bogies and later releases may be better.

Made it out - one refund, some food treats from M&S, some shampoo and shower gel from Boots and a free Coffee in John Lewis. Rain poured whilst we had our coffee and then miraculously the sun was shining when we exited using the car park to get to Asda on foot rather then go back through half the length of the shopping areas. Asda was also crazy but the rain stayed off long enough to walk home including popping in Aldi for some medicinal Brandy and meat for Monday, so all shopped up for the weekend. Keep thinking it is Saturday and I am off to York tomorrow, but I am a day out, tomorrow is Saturday and I am at home. After next week I am back on 5 day weeks at work having run down my holidays with every Friday off since mid January. How pensioners keep up with the day of week I don't know, I guess it just means new routines to replace the old work routines.

Send help! I am in the Trafford Centre and it’s full of people. A visit to Asda is on the cards too.

Better that soft to soggy or worse “soggy to where’s me boot gone”

Add some weight to the motor power car to improve adhesion?

Apart from the fact OO and N gauge HSTs power cars are all capable of hauling a prototypical rake, so given the selling point of more train in less space with TT compared to OO then it would be ridiculous to make them only capable of hauling 4 trailers. I can have short formed TT or full length N - which do I go for? Wait, not only can I have a full length HST in N but there are all those other locomotives and units I can buy and all that rolling stock. No, it would be the end of TT120 if the locos are not capable of prototypical length trains.

Even more strange, it's not like his other stuff has been labled in similar misleading ways, you'd think he'd be happy to correct it - he has plenty of other kit built stuff with correct sources.

@NHY 581 and not motorised either.

It gets more complicated when you consider people going from the UK to work with the IDF in Gaza. The IDF is a recognised army and is presently involved in a conflict with a known terrorist organisation. But the actions of the IDF is receiving some very close monitoring from the UN because of how it has carried out its response to the atrocity last October. Drawing the line between good and bad organisations is becoming blurred.

Just an x-ray today to confirm it was within touching distance of the sinus. It's not causing an issue, it's basically the top of the tooth that is missing, no deep fissures or anything. I'll see how it goes, it's basically been a big giant constellation of fillings for a few years and the top ones have come away.

Most probably, but berating someone for not filming at a particular quality is not fair unless you paid them to do it and to a particular quality. i.e. no-one asked her to film it and it's our choice whether we watch it or not.