john new

You don’t have to watch them all at once. If you watch them on YouTube there is your personal watched history option within the YT menus for finding the last one watched. If you stop one part way through the scrubber bar at the bottom lets you restart from where you stopped or go back and rewatch a specific bit of tuition. I missed them on video or DVD first time round and was glad to find them on-line.

Some odd decisions made, or at least odd from my perspective, example the no intermediate destination tickets - just a flat £45 fare valid for twelve months. For a couple that is £90 in one hit just for the fare plus ancillaries like fuel and food making it well over a £100. That is a lot when many have big mortgages and the lowish incomes of the contemporary gig economy. Add on more on top too if they are parents. The cost discourages riding on the first trip so they don't come back. I know it has deterred other members of my family from going. If the NYMR is like many other organisations existing volunteers are ageing and not being replaced in the same numbers before issues and management actions like the Levisham debacle lead to lost free labour. Whichever side was right or wrong the adverse press coverage won't have aided volunteer recruitment in the short term Do the galas make a profit overall after loco hire and transport fees? Seems to be a big expense to attract photographers/videographers who don't ride, and then put their films on YouTube so prospective visitors have no need to attend either. Sadly interesting times for the heritage movement across the board as the NYMR isn't the only railway and Society with either financial woes and/or a drop off in membership and levels of volunteering.

There is a first step, or even several, before this filtering and deciding what the set-up’s physical design is aiming to be. What is its fundamental purpose, I.e., what need has it to fulfil for you? A lot of projects get abandoned/scrapped unfinished I suspect because not enough thought went into this issue of what do I want out of the project.

Have seen your videos. They may be elderly films but still excellent tutorials on the art of kit building.

If you are in any doubt regarding switches, and whether you have the right sort in the wiring for the point motor, set up a simple stud and probe alternative. Regarding the OPs simple wiring diagram it looks correct. The AC input - One wire from source to the switch’s input - a wire from each output on there to the corresponding input on the motor - then from the motor’s output terminal back to the opposite terminal on the AC source. Check one is done. You have already proved power output works OK to the point. How, it fires one way. That answers 2/3rds of the switch and wiring continuity check too. Why one half of the switch works (proven), the return from motor to AC source also works. Check 2 - if you have the motor bar at the end it has fired to and then swap the working power feed from that end to the opposing end and it fires the problem is inside the switch or the connecting wire. if it doesn’t it is the motor solenoid.

A few domestic and modelling activities delayed the start of the above. I am able to confirm that the following two pages are now fully complete with the expected line-up. The Layouts, Demonstrators and Travel pages will be reviewed and updated later this week. I apologise for the updating delay since posting the above. Traders Societies. We can also confirm the link bus is running for all three days and the timetable will be added on-line later this week as the travel page gets checked and updated. Riders need to note (1) the fare has slightly increased this year (£2.50 single £4.00 return) and (2) it is not a public service therefore age passes are not valid. The stand number opposite the station will be RJ. Update: Have now received confirmation fares can be paid by either cash or card. Parking will be on the Knavesmire on Saturday, and off the end of Racecourse Road on the other two days. To set a Sat Nav for the Saturday parking pick the junction of Knavesmire Rd & Knavesmire Ave. The gate onto the Knavesmire is immediately opposite the end of Knavesmire Ave. It turns the T junction into a cross-roads. The cause of last year's Saturday parking issue has been resolved and the gate will be unlocked.

Does anyone reading this know the name of the deceased modeller whose items were brought in? Two fold request, (1) we were asked to donate to Exeter Hospice as payment for what we picked up and it would be a nice touch when I do so to be able to say - Donation in memory of ????? & (2) one of the items I took on was a part finished road lorry kit again it would be nice to add his* surname onto the owner name panel above the cab. More than happy for any response to be by PM rather than an open reply here. I pretty much finished the kit over the weekend (but it isn’t yet painted) which triggered the thought about what name to go on the owner panel. * I am assuming a his.

Back home from the spring 2024 course. Thank you organising team and tutors. I wanted to come away with two mental barriers broken, not attempting metal kits and white metal soldering. Both broken over a very enjoyable, if tiring, weekend with congenial company.

The natural noise from running the WMRA O gauge test track on club running nights is a love/hate thing amongst the members. Some definitely don’t like it (not me) as it really fills the hall with what to me is the glorious rumble of train wheels.

No. There is a big difference between flood plain land in a valley bottom, which is exactly what you described, and water meadows. A flood plain used for agriculture can be grazing or arable but is not necessarily a water meadow system. A water meadow system was/is a designed manipulation of the land so that it can be deliberately flooded in the relevant season as part of the agrarian process. A balancing pond/lake is operated in an almost identical way but the purpose is different. It may or not be located in the flood plain and, given that they are intended specifically to hold back the run off, a significant % obviously are not. A WM on the other hand is not a flood prevention system but designed for agriculture to create a better meadow. Balancing pond systems are designed specifically for run off/flood control, like Clifton Ings in York they may be used to run cattle out of the flood periods but that is the bonus not the prime purpose. Possibly semantics but the difference is significant - water meadows may have always got flooded accidentally in adverse weather conditions like any other low lying land the key point is though that they were a specific man-made adaptation, part of working farmland. Modern building on what were working water meadows is because in essence (a) farming has changed and (b) societal stupidity in building on inappropriately located low lying land.

Water meadows were part of agriculture. Water was let on in controlled systems via paddle/sluice gates into dyked systems. I’m not an expert but my vague memory is that it was done so that silt would be dropped into designed segments separated by raised berms.

Amazing how much the sun coming out improves the mojo. Sorting and tidying the tool boxes today, so much easier out on the drive in the sun. Tidying and sorting can be frustrating though. Wife buys you a new temp controlled soldering iron for birthday. Carefully store it where you expect to find it after last use, go to find it!! Completely forgetting you have done two shows since and what were the boxes at the front are now at the back and what you had out for the show is hiding it.

Had a quad back in 2007. Takes a while but you get there in the end.

A vote for Bothams from here too. Always a stop when up home and either visiting Whitby or other shops that sell their stuff.

Thanks for the replies on the B16/1. My next task before going further is to cross-check exactly what is in the kit against known photos from various sources including the Book of the B16s. As Tony always says, pick one example and you should avoid too many pitfalls.

Kit queries One for the NER/LNER experts. I understand that the B16s had the same tender as the Q6s. (Some or all?). Did the Q6s all have the same tender type therefore I can run my Hornby Q6 tender behind my B16 until I get round to working out/finding wheels for the tender with the DJH kit. I’ve bought the relevant RCTS volume for the B16s but don’t know which, if any, covers tenders. in sorting out my stash of kits I have found a very elderly Airfix box with an unbuilt kit plus a set of frames and castings for a Bristol Chassis conversion kit. Bought for £6, I guess at a circa 1980 York Model Rly Show. In the current shortage of wheels does anyone do the right size of flangeless centre drivers? The instructions refer to the K’s MK2 motor. Long gone. Thanks in advance for any info.

Assuming insulfrog/isolating SetTrack frog points. You are going to need sections and probably a switch panel. The one that totally caught me out a few years back when I did a layout for my grandson was not putting isolating breaks into the passing loop where your station is. This one is essential if you have more than one locomotive on the layout. What I forgot is that power from a power feed connection goes both ways around the circle. You have a point, as that layout for my grandson has, in the loop. If you set the point to go into the siding your outside rail in that element of the loop is getting power right around the outside rail of the circuit so the self isolation by the siding point doesn't. Concurrently the inside rail power is coming through the curved point (you have set that route to be live) and therefore also runs through the rail of the siding point. Result the loop cannot isolate without an insulated gap/plastic fishplate. Ditto too for the sidings to isolate them from the loops. Live frog points - you will need several isolation breaks therefore definitely associated droppers/feeds.

If you have soldered the track joints there is no rail expansion option for a warm day. It will buckle and potentially lift of the chairs. If you ballast and glue it down rigid you've not even got the ability for the plastic sleeper base to move if the rails do buckle.

On the modelling front and talking of jigs, or lack of, a traverser I made with only set squares and clamps to set it up but managed to get everything that slides parallel after the soldering job. Built for an On15 layout back in 2011 but has been in store ever since! It would equally work for N and possibly OO for two tracks feeding one. Could be made longer with extra tubes but probably not wider. The moveable outer brass tube (fixed to the traverser frame) slides over the base tubes and carries the electrical contact for each track. (9mm so suits NG or N Gauge) One tube for each feed (One road live only at a time) and the fourth a common return. Analogue with common return and tracks switched on/off on a control panel. Not seen anyone else use this technique but it was one of the experiments I tried that did work as intended, Decking I used was photo mount card, the angled braces upside down flat bottom rail. [Edit: I need to look at it again to seen how I isolated the tubes from the L girders. I have forgotten. Probably a mix of glue and soldered copper clad sleepers, live side down] Why in store? I promised it for a show unstarted and intending to use some experimental base ideas. They failed and in starting again in a rush under deadline pressure I got so sick of the sight of it by exhibition date it got stuck in the shed and left once I got it back after its' only outing. I will get back to it eventually but the 'burn out' put me off modelling for several months. Lesson firmly learnt, only promise a layout when it is already advanced enough to take it 'as is' even if still as a WIP. I still like the concept so over the summer ideally I should dig this one out for a repair and refurbishment job. Photo 1 taken before I cut the section gaps into copper clad strip and added the deck and tracks,. Photo 2 must have been done in a hurry some time later as the overoof is on backwards and had been damaged. The row of ridge roof covering was one of the didn't get finished in time items!

Can back up @mullie's weather comment. It has definitely turned brass monkey weather since lunch. Just got back from the food shop run in to Weymouth, had to stay in the car for a few minutes as the squall went over with heavy sleet and hail. Before lunch bright sunshine, if windy, and would have been warm enough to comfortably work outside.

And the personal economic boycotts by avoiding buying tinned fruit etc., from S Africa for the same anti-apartheid reasons.

The problem, as I understand it, isn’t the overall long-term average it is twofold (1) the concentration into storms, localisation of those storms and (2) periods of a consecutive year or two of extra above average rain. Here in Dorset there was the Martinstown freak, and record, rainstorm. Further afield Lynton/Lynmouth , Boscastle and other recent one’s in Devon and Cornwall (Dawlish, but from inland not the sea is one). The worry is that climate change is drifting us towards the UK climate becoming warmer, the warmer air holds more moisture, and both (1) & (2) become more frequent. Historically even railways owe their origins to a period of severe above average rain over a prolonged period - back in the early 1600s the ground around Nottingham was too sodden for coal carts and wains, Huntingdon Beaumont built the wooden waggonway at Woolaton to overcome the problem. That was recorded in 1604, the rest is history.

We are used to it at level n, what we seem to be getting is many more concentrated storm cells and therefore what was designed to be able to cope with level n is failing at both the new background n+x level and short bursts of 2 or 3 times n. Add into that other man-made contributory factors and problems occur. Up round where my mum lives on the Vale of York one of the man-made contributions is agricultural machine weights, the Victorian land drains were pottery pipes, the modern heavy stuff has crushed much of it so the fields now have massive puddles where before it ran to ditches. Not digging out ditches is another factor too.

Given the amount of rain and resultant groundwater levels these landslips, and locally to me cliff falls, seem to be increasing in frequency. Cliff erosion is nothing new, that is true, but not with this regularity. The other issue round here is the abundance of newly emergent small springs where the ground water is finding any small crack in road and footway surfaces; drains are working in reverse too in many places.

I am not quite as anti DCC as some as I am trying to modernise my 71 year old brain to master it. I have three diesels bought with sound as I wanted to try it out. Not finding them to be what I wanted. Horn sound on two of them is not right to my ear and for two of the others so many options that if you haven’t passed out as driver on the real thing you’ve no idea when to use them or for things like flange squeal have forgotten the button sequence to activate them at an appropriate spot on the track! As for steam sounds most of what I have heard on other people’s examples is no better generally than Hornby’s old sand paper tricks. Won’t bother in future with sound if there is a plain DCC option at purchase. I’m sure DCC must have more advantages than the number of disadvantages I am finding but if they are then I’m missing them. At present it (DCC) does work for me and I am persevering. As of today though I am still finding that analogue controls are a better overall experience than DCC. When the club test track rewire is complete and we have a DCC oval it might get better but I’m disappointed with DCC on my small end to end set up.