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WCRC - the ongoing battle with ORR.
62613 replied to 6990WitherslackHall's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Sounds like a good idea to me!😁 -
IKEA mannequins?
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Overhead EMU Photos
62613 replied to Claude_Dreyfus's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Had one of them on the Hadfield line a few weeks back. -
Transpennine Upgrade : Manchester/Leeds
62613 replied to beast66606's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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Northern Powerhouse? Unlikely if this is true.
62613 replied to jonny777's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Too many cars on the road delaying public transport, then. -
Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day
62613 replied to DaveF's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Jvol 6153; what's the provenance of that 4 - plank wagon behind the loco? -
Idea: Fort William to Glasgow via Perth
62613 replied to FelixM's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Agreed! And the proportion of central government grant making up local government finance has been falling quite steeply since before 2010, while the means local councils have to make up the shortfall has been limited. hence liesure centres, libraries, etc., being closed or privatised, and local roads falling apart. -
Idea: Fort William to Glasgow via Perth
62613 replied to FelixM's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
But you implied that it was used exclusively for roads maintenance and construction, which it isn't. I'm happy paying £3 - odd a week just to let my car rust away on the road (if that's what I wanted to do!) -
Idea: Fort William to Glasgow via Perth
62613 replied to FelixM's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
If you mean by "taxpayer" that exclusive group paying income tax (as if there are no other taxes, which everyone pays some of, somewhere), then those skipping meals won't be paying much of that, since they will be in low - income groups; that includes large numbers of people on minimum wage, or pensions, or state benefits. YE Gods! There is NO such thing as "Road Tax"; there hasn't been since 1937. What we have is Vehicle Excise Duty, which goes into the general revenue pool, some of which will be spent on roads. -
West Coast Franchise Changes
62613 replied to Stevebr's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
That's been the UK employment strategy for at least the last 30 years; and if employers can't find UK citizens who will do the advertised work for the pay provided, they are poached from abroad. -
Transpennine Upgrade : Manchester/Leeds
62613 replied to beast66606's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Which what I was saying. Marsden doesn't look right brilliant, either, come to think of it -
WCRC - the ongoing battle with ORR.
62613 replied to 6990WitherslackHall's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Anyone up for the challenge? A pure mechanical system is non - starter, I think. I'm thinking about something that works directly off the brake cylinder actuating a solenoid, with an electricomagnetic lock. Against such a system might be; why operate it off the vacuum cylinder when you can operate the lock without it anyway; and, what would happen when the vacuum is destroyed when braking? -
WCRC - the ongoing battle with ORR.
62613 replied to 6990WitherslackHall's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Why do you think anyone would want WCRC to go away? There might be some who are sick and tired of all the shenanigans of dealing with them, but force them out? -
A bit like the two 32,000 dwt tankers built for BP in the 1950s, which were built with sufficient speed to operate with the RN.
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Surveying Railways in the Victorian Era
62613 replied to ikcdab's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Which accounts for the way some of the earliest wander all around the countryside (around hills, rather than through them, and so on). You only had cuttings, embankments, viadusts and tunnels, as well as lock flights, when there was no other way of doing things. -
Surveying Railways in the Victorian Era
62613 replied to ikcdab's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
I would imagine that, just as with tunnelling, cutting and embanking, there would have been a fairly large pool of surveying experience from the canal builders.. Weren't some of the engineers from a military engineering background as well? -
BR poster nostalgia at Huddersfield
62613 replied to Mol_PMB's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Are these on the building on the island platform which is going to be "carefully dismantled and rebuilt" on the island platform? -
And, note, newton not newtons.
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Nope! Units are only capitalised if they are named after a person, e.g. Volt, Amp, Watt, Joule, Newton and so on. I've never heard of anyone called kilo. Among the multipliers, the only ones I know of are Mega, Giga and Tera.
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Prototype for everything corner.
62613 replied to jonny777's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Fewer! -
Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day
62613 replied to DaveF's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Got to ask Dave; was Heworth more or less Felling renamed? -
South Western Railway - Chaos
62613 replied to Joseph_Pestell's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
The trains used on my local line date to 1992; 32 years old. We've just had a transfer in of the remainder of the class from the West Midlands. That's not to say they don't do the job; they do! -
What slam door stock would I have taken >1990 from Lewisham?
62613 replied to Lacathedrale's topic in UK Prototype Questions
I think I saw that service at Dartford one time in the 1970s, as, IIRC, a 6 - HAP. There was a 4.16 p.m. (at London Bridge) in the early 60s, which was LB - Woolwich Arsenal - Erith - Dartford, which was always EPB. Can't remember which way it ran between North Kent East and Charlton, though.