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Whatever, the only tarring with the same brush is your rant. Plenty of professional competent drivers, unfortunately a sizeable minority who are not. Amazing the range of commerical vehicles that get seized for no licence or no insurance - 4 axle tippers, artics, mobile cranes.....

"My satnav said it would fit...."🤣

Looking at it again it looks like the Loram logo is wonky, it is not in parallel to the nameplate or the grills on the left. It rises slightly from left to right. Important to note for anyone modelling it, although can't see if it is wonky on the other side.

After a GTA style Pay n'Spray presumably! When you say 'ex-Anglia' is that the turquoise livery?

The Loram livery doesn't look so bad on the Mk2's and the 08 in my view, but doesn't work on the 37 at all. I assume that means a high fidelity model of it is unlikely as there probably won't be a queue of customers, although as it operates with the yellow NR rolling stock fleet (which is popular with modellers) so maybe Accura will take a punt?

Unlike a traditional height related bridge strike this one raises various questions we won't get the answers too. I am still wondering why it was taken through the town centre at all as there is effectively a ring road around Chelmsford that covers what ever route they were presumably taking (unless they were lost and were going round in circles!) that avoids the town centre traffic and the viaduct, as well as several complex junctions and traffic lights. Just to add to the excitement(!), the haulier may be Scandinavian not German. "Bred load" is used on Scandinavian abloads, where as the traditional "Convoi exceptionnel" is used in Germany, and the trailer numberplate appears to lack the circular seals on German plates, various Scandinavian ones being white background and characters only.

Yes. Falling in an ash or inspection pit falls (sic) under Working at Height Regs.

Yes. https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/dpd_chatbot_goes_rogue/ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68025677

The issue for the heritage sector is that it has been home-brewed for some time, for various reasons discussed earlier in the thread. The risk is that this has not translated into a noticeable number of injury/death incidents, but the number of incidences of safety issues and the amount of bent rolling stock seems relatively high. A competent safety practitioner knows that ongoing non-injury incidents (and some have been serious in terms of damage etc) are often a good indicator that something more tragic may well eventually happen if there is not effective intervention. ORR seem to be doing this but the WCRC fiasco should be used as a wake up call for the heritage sector as a whole to review its safety performance and get over any lingering 'elf and safety gone mad' or 'we know best' ideas and improve performance. And before that triggers anyone, I'm not saying it is bad however any organisation and sector always has room for improvement, and courtesy of WCRC it is now in the public's and media's conciousness so any incident is more likely to get traction in the news, social media outrage etc etc.

The sound on the 56's is next level, the model itself is outstanding but the sound really has moved things on. I hope everyone else can get their sound to match Cavalex going forward.

Amuses me when people jump to conclusions without considering the possiblity that their opinion based upon zero evidence may be wrong. I have spent quite a bit of time around LGV's, mostly inspecting them and their drivers as well as working on safety initiatives to reduce LGV related fatalities. Time working at multi-agency enforcement and compliance stop sites gives me something of an insight to the issues, and the presence of satnavs is by no means universal nor does it guarantee things don't get hit as my experience of attending incidents has shown me. I could fill several pages of all the things I have had to deal with with LGV drivers, and various bridges around London that continue to get hit by lorries despite the magical satnavs..... Here's what NR say based upon actual evidence: Most of the vehicles that hit railway bridges are Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) and buses, at a cost of around £13,000 per strike –costing the UK taxpayer around £23m in a year. Our research has shown 43 per cent of lorry drivers admit to not measuring their vehicle before heading out on the road, and 52 per cent admit to not taking low bridges into account. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/safety-in-the-community/railway-safety-campaigns/wise-up-size-up/ So the idea that was originally put out in response to my post was that no one gets in their truck without doing their homework properly and everyone has a super-duper satnav is simply not true as trucks still hit bridges and other things, or get wedged in viaducts. Worth repeating those stats 43% of drivers don't check the vehicle height and 52% don't take low bridges into account. I think the keyboard warriors are the ones in denial of reality that a significant proportion of LGV drivers are not as professional as they should be. The proof is in the pudding......🤣 and the data.

So the outcome of this is the conclusion that people learning English might not immediately understand the short form of the phrase. Given the full phrase itself is a bit of a word salad they'd probably struggle to understand with it in either form.

Except I am British and have been using the phrase for many number of decades without any issue, as have friends, family and colleagues. Since clearly pedantry is flavour du jour, whilst the links are American they do not provide any proof as to whether it is in use in Britain or not, they were simply top Google search results to make the point that it is a short form of the original phrase. It does not provide any evidence either way as to whether it is in use in the UK, although I am happy to wager that many Brits understand it, as did Budgie since they managed to post about it being the short form. Feel free to do some research to confirm whether or not the short form is in regular use in the UK and report back. I suspect the vast majority of people reading my post on RMWeb knew what I meant, and if they were not immediately familiar with it are more than capable of figuring out.

No I didn't. The phrase I used is well known as the short form of "the proof of the pudding is in the eating". https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/origin-of-the-proof-is-in-the-pudding-meaning https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_proof_is_in_the_pudding

Different countries have different tolerances and legal systems. I was surprised to find on the Rhaetian Bahn that at some stations the 'platform' is a bit of concrete between the tracks and you get off onto that and then have to wait for the trains to move before you cross the track to leave. Given the space between the trains isn't much bigger than the dynamic envelope it is an interesting place to stand, this lady has got off the train I am on and the Pontresina service is departing. You can literally step out of one train into the path of another...... The Swiss for example are big on personal responsibility (which I like) but appear to have a less strict safety culture compared to the UK in my experience. Germany is an interesting choice given its huge number of fatalties (compared to the UK and much of the EU) on the railways. 151 people died on its railways in 2022, versus 27 in the UK for the 2022/23 period. That is 5x as many deaths, despite the populations being 83m and 67m respectively. Figures exclude suicides. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Railway_safety_statistics_in_the_EU https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/ The article below gives flavour from the workforce perspective, a recurring series of fatal accidents in recent years including passenger train crashes and rail workers being killed on a regular basis on German railways. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/14/xaak-s14.html

Calm down Captain Keyboard, just a suggestion based on local knowledge and real world experience. Ultimately the proof is in the pudding, if they didn't just jump in and drive off how did the truck get stuck? 🤣

Good question - possibly following his satnav. They will take you through Chelmsford rather than use the A12 bypass if you have the setting on shortest distance (although not generally via a route under that viaduct). Are there roadworks in town, or did he miss the turn to go up towards Chelmer Valley Retail Park?

If a building is Listed then it is a legal requirement to maintain it. Failure to do so is a criminal offence. However finding anyone willing to enforce it is a different matter. That sits with the local planners. They also have the power to step in and carry out repairs and then claim it back of the owner. However that is often easier said than done. Altering a listed building requires planning consent and listed building consent. Leaving it to deteriorate doesn't mean you will get it Also note that on the one hand everything within the curtilage of a listed building is considered listed, equally the actual listing is defined in writing and can be very specific eg just part of the interior. It doesn't have to be the whole building or site

Just for fun this is the platform at Herrenberg in southern Germany, on the line between Stuttgart and Zurich. Train is a DB double decker EMU. Platforms are the correct height for the local and regional single deck EMU's. Quite a step but at least there's the platform that comes out of the side of the train to stop you falling onto the track. Phone images so rotated for usual reason.

The bridge is amazing piece of work. Must be scope to sell a kit or the design!

Came across this on Linkedin, may be of interest...I can't comment on the accuracy etc but believe it is the current standards and there are previous iterations so will be different on older containers. Link to original post (requires LI login) below (author offers hi res PDF version if you send him your email, do so at your own risk!!) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/r-serzo-onesphore_what-do-the-numbers-and-codes-on-a-container-activity-7190281094372446208-28pE

Giant modular layout!

Something to discuss with Guinness World Records, they adjudicated it.