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There you are then, work on those for a bit, and you’ll have a big smile on your clock in a week.

One I’ve been working at today is when the point blade is open, is there the right clearance to gauge for the gap?

Way back, we were doing trials on the carbon brushes of the electrical machinery that lived in the nose of a type 4, (class 40) and so headed off down the ECML from Gateshead. Somewhere past Low Fell, the nose clamshell doors flew open, as somebody had forgotten to secure the catch. Rolling along at over 60, with an overbridge coming up about quarter mile in front, me and my mate dives down from the cab, through the door into the nose end and making a grab to pull the doors back down into guage before we got to the bridge. Just made it, but we didn’t catch any pigeons.

Nice poem, it catches a mood, and yes, it is Picardy.

A 4-6-0 with a line of poplars, yes, that would be nice.

On a lighter theme of paddle steamers, here’s a shot of the one that sank, parked in Gloucester Docks in happier times. Not much freeboard for a trip across the Irish Sea? Then over to the Isle of Wight for two old wrecks, both built in 1937. This is quite an old photo, I hasten to add.

And you still ain’t found the cottage?

I thought the Peckett running smoothly in your video looked really promising. Keep going with the modelling with our full support.

Special course of treatment ordered, ducky.

You can’t be watching CBeebies with grandchildren, then?

Cograttyfellations, Kevin, I see you’re the one who made the milepost on the history of the WNR, etc., 10000th post!!! Yeah, high five, man, etc.

There’s easier ways to get plastered.

Looking very good, but I’m worried about that poor little Sentinel having to stodge that chocolate cake on its own.

But cap’n, there’s no sideboard on your lugger.

Not much to do with cakeboxes, but how does Christopher perform, ie the Caley pug chassis. I’ve got some On16.5 bits, running on an old Nellie and slightly more recent Desmond, I just wish they’d go a bit slower. The tunnel mouth is looking good.

Like they say on the X—files: “The truth is out there”. Very good concoction, anyway.

There’s drinks and glasses in it, so it’s a corporate hospitality suite as well.

The one good thing about LCDR coaches is that the mouldings over the panelling is nice plain strip, without any rounded corners, so it can be represented much easier with plastikard strip. I suppose repetitive window cutting on plastic sheet could be solved by using punches, although so far I haven’t tried that. The AnD “aids to modelling” kits are quite good as layers of plastic sheet which have everything very nearly cut out (laser?) Some of the 3D folks have the approach that as it can be made as a single piece, it should be done so, ensuring an exact assembly, even if this makes it more bulky, and possibly more dearer? Others are producing parts which are more indentifiable as kit assembly jobs, which would be my own preference.

British practice is usually all wheels insulated, and pickups both sides. American practice is usually insulate wheels one side, then you can get locos with insulated wheels one side, tenders insulated the other side, and then no pickups, but the drawbar needs to be insulated with a jumper lead tender to motor. The same thing can also be done with the two bogies on a diesel. The British method means you get the maximum number of contact points for picking up, although bogies and pony trucks are a faff to fit pickups to, and can get missed.

Nose pressed to the window today for a trip from Swindon to Bristol TM. The wires are all up at Swindon now, but over the lines through platforms 1 and 3, they’re just hanging off temporary clips. The bay platform 2 is also getting wires, but finishing off the anchor end needs sorting. About the first 200 yards of the Cheltenham line has been done as well. Then down the line to Wootton Bassett and everything is in place,disappearing off round the curve to South Wales. Beyond the junction on the Bristol line and the overhead ends, apart from a few lengths on the down line as far as the top of Dauntsey bank. Pretty well all the masts, brackets, and dangly bits are in place as far as the end of the cutting before Chippenham station. Quite a lot of earthing cable has been done on this stretch, too. Through Chippenham station and over the viaduct there are no masts at all. The masts begin again on the high curving embankment, there’s quite a lot of single masts with double track brackets along here, but so far the rest of the ironmongery hasn’t appeared. At Thingley the high voltage supply arrangements are coming together in a compound with workteams busy. After that....

I’ve found it! (God, I’m thirsty) post 1155. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/107470-oak-hill-lbscr-secr-1905ish/page-47&do=findComment&comment=2862241 Edit more prominence needed: LCDR PUSH PULL COACHES.

Open a tinny and tell us how that happened, cobber.

Lord help us, I did post about LCDR push pull conversions a while back, with drawings. Which thread was it ? Who did I do it for? Why am I trying to remember after two pints of Old Rosie cloudy cider (7.8%) at lunch time. Help! (back when my brain clears)

It’s one thing that really p*sses me off watching bike races, when so-called fans feel the need to run alongside. There’s never enough room anyway, so they get in following riders way, and tripping them up is the least thing I’d want to do. B*st*rds, the lot of them.

Some seaside resorts do have that je ne sais quoi,https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bBZUjgMep94