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    WCRC - the ongoing battle with ORR.

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

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    4 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

    On Germany and industrial health and safety, I'd offer an observation that when I worked for a German owned electricity and gas multi-national the safety indicators for their German (and indeed most other) electricity generating power stations were significantly worse than those for the UK fleet. At one point they were whinging about the safety rules which were still the old CEGB rules and demanding that requirements to isolate, earth, lock-out and put locks in a key safe and with the key safe key attached to the permit to work be dropped as excessive and that tags be allowed. As well as massive push back from engineering staff I believe they got some pretty robust opinion from their English legal counsel on the position they'd be in if/when they fried someone after plant was re-energised and they'd abandoned a rule that'd have prevented such an incident. The safety rules facilitated work in a timely manner and weren't especially burdensome, provided work planning was good. Then, if work is not being planned that raises red flags anyway.

     

    We were supposed to be working on a lift, and it required the power to be isolated. So when we turned up expecting to be shown a locked power switch, tagged, and a certificate. Instead we were shown a post-it note saying turn this back on when done. We left. 

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    WCRC - the ongoing battle with ORR.

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

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    5 minutes ago, MarkC said:

    It's all very well talking about redevelopment of the 10A site for housing, but I suspect that there would have to be a massive clearup operation, and given that there is likely to be asbestos & other nasties in the ground, excavation to a metre down or more might be required.

     

    I live near the site of an old asbestos works (as does another member of this parish), and before housing could be built on it, it had to be dug down over 2 metres, if not 3, if memory serves, and the material removed in sealed lorries to a processing site, cleaned of nasties & returned to site. Very expensive, and probably only about a third of the area that 10A covers.

     

    Mark

     

    And the asbestos just gets buried in an old quarry anyway.

    Oh the embarrassment!

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

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    20 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

    There was a story about at one time vconcerning some sort of Work Study expert who had spent some time in the Bristol Yard at Severn Tunnel Jcn.  He put in a report that he'd noticed significant gaps between the end of track in sidings and the stop blocks for those sidings.  He concluded from this observation that the sidings had obviously once been longer and that now they were shorter they were still perfect adequate for theh job

     

    Whilet he didn't explain where the track had gone between the end of the sidings and the stop blocks suggested that it would be pointless and expensive to replace it as the shorter sidings seemed quite adequate.   I reckon someone in the yard 'forgot' to tell him how and why there was a gap between the end of the sidings and the stop blocks.   Alas for him his report was not acted on..

     

    A good time to re-post this?

     

    https://www.yfanefa.com/record/11069

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    WCRC - the ongoing battle with ORR.

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

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    Golden Age of mainline preserved steam? My rose tinted specs tell me 1988. Mallard, FS and SNG all in full LNER regalia.

     

    SNG and (I think) Clan Line taking me from Euston to Grange-over-sands and back (presumably a diesel of some kind at the beginning and end) with a silver service breakfast is something that will be forever embedded in my mind as one of the best days of my life. I was 10.

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    Class 37, by Accurascale

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    47 minutes ago, Torper said:

    I've got one of the latest batch of 37s on pre-order and anticipate receiving it in the next couple of months or so. However in view of all the comments about problems of one type or another that so many people appear to have experienced with their 37s I'm rather beginning to regret it. I only hope that steps will have been taken to ensure that the problems encountered in previous batches will have been recognised and resolved in the latest batch.

     

    Bear in mind - there have been thousands of them made, and we've read about a very small number having issues, the vast majority of which the person has said the support on it has been superb. 

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    Fold up chassis - how to do it?

    in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips

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    9 hours ago, fulton said:

    Do not know what scale this is, if 4mm I would use an etch bending tool, they seem expensive but make bending etched kits easy, particularly where there is not a lot of "meat" to get hold of, I have two a short and a longer one.

     

    I have a large and a small one, both from ebay and both very good prices.

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    Have your say with Rapido

    in Rapido Trains

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    2 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

     

    The outers seem to be the well-known Really Useful Boxes, which are tougher than anything we should need.

     

    I've bought several of the 10 litre size, from various suppliers at shows over the past few years. Mine hold either 8 or 9 coaches, depending on how much foam was removed.  

     

    There's also a firm (link unfortunately mislaid) that supplies sheets of high density foam that's diced, but not cut quite all the way through. One cuts through the last bit to make custom outlines. It will thus allow almost anything to fit into the box or tray of ones choice. Something like pluck-foam in the name, I think.  

     

    John

     

    Yup. If you decide you get the boxes separately they sell just the insert part.

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    WCRC - the ongoing battle with ORR.

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

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    3 minutes ago, rodent279 said:

    I think you'd have to be at least 30 to have experience of slam door stock in mainline service, at least 40 for that stock not to be CDL fitted, and probably in your 6th decade to have experienced a mainline railway where slam door stock without CDL was the norm.

     

    I was about to say I remember mainline without CDL, then I stopped to think. Yup, in my 6th Decade... Dang.

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