Regularity

Technically speaking, to those of Anglo* descent, he was your ancestor, being the “all-father” before being deified by some. That makes you and me distant relatives, which given the pedantic pointless point-scoring petty bickering we occasionally engage in, seems about right… ;) * Never been totally sure about those Saxon types, though: southerners…

That’s precisely my point.

I wasn’t aware of the price, so thanks for that! (They bought two more bogie coaches in 1912.)

Try using a permanent marker pen, or indeed gun blue solution, followed up by polishing the treads but not the rims. Other useful thing to do is buy a 2B block of pencil “lead”, and run that on the surface and inner faces of the rail head. It will keep your track cleaner and improve conductivity.

Is this a minor road? At this era, the gates may have been left open for railway use, and closed to road traffic, unless the line itself was closed for the night. I say I am referring to that era, there are still some like that around, eg between Melton Mowbray and Oakham.

Obviously the driver was letting the fireman have his go at driving that class of loco, and the former having drummed into the latter the importance of not stopping short of the clearance point, was wetting himself with laughter as the fireman tried to stop the loco by turning the handbrake screw the wrong way, instead of using the steam brake…

Don’t underestimate the well-spring of feeling that supports “our”* black and white dairy herds. Don’t want our British cows forced out by these forren rare breeds. * I know that they are called “Frisians” for a reason, but it’s a fair bet that readers of the Stun and the Daily Slur just think it’s a funny name.

Didn’t waste my time watching it: after all, not being a member of any political party, I am disenfranchised from the selection of their leaders.

Already done, Jim, if not so effusively:

A Wednesday afternoon (universal University games period), so it didn’t even impinge on their lessons. It was my first job after putting it off in the guise of “even more higher education”, and going to Union meetings and getting to know the local committee was really useful in finding out what Unions could and couldn’t do, most of which was sensible. Also the frustration felt by the union reps over the demographic split in the workforce. Younger ones like me, who were likely to move on to better paid jobs, and older members who had paid off their mortgages and lived though a period of considerable inflation, but were doing well and marking time until they retired. Neither group seemed particularly motivated to support industrial action.

Question, but is a sag appropriate? I thought that the compression loads on solebars led to an upwards rather than downwards curve - hump rather than sag?

In the early 90s, there was a vote for similar action (I had such a job then) and there wasn’t a desire to strike. One of our local guys told me that he thought that a half-day strike would have shown we were Incidentally, our branch Secretary was the first person in the world to be genetically profiled as she was worked for (the Dr, later Dr. Sir) Alec Jeffries!

Not specifically that coach…

And definitely dangerous to know!

I thought it didn’t look like a prairie.

When I first decided to go to S, local club members asked why, and I blithely (and glibly) answered, “Because 00 is too easy.” Oh, how they laughed at the folly of gauche youth. A few years later, at different times, I was asked by friends to help out with, respectively, a 4mm and a 7mm scale kit. After this experience, of working with someone else’s idea of how to build something, I realised that other scales (at least, these two) were actually more difficult!

GER touch paper would be dark blue… :)

A friend stopped “taking” MRJ (by not renewing his subscription) when they produced an “all diesel” issue. It had been some time in the offing, but he commented to me that WSP had finally produced an issue with zero content of interest in it for him. It’s a bit different with “line societies” as you also get access to other things, though.

Ah yes. Paying off debts incurred by previous governments… …it’s that national debt thing again: spend today, pay off, whenever.

IIRC, he recorded all the costs, but didn’t say how it would be funded. Don’t get me wrong: I fully understand and appreciate how a progressive taxation system works, and why it is fairer. But I don’t remember anyone making the case for it: it isn’t reducible to a simple sound bite. And that’s the crux of the problem. Providing decent services is a complicated thing. That’s why we elect people every five years or so: so that they can get on with making those decisions for us. But the advantage lies with those who peddle simple statements, disguised as populist appeal, but which are lies. Thatcher was clever enough to tap into some things that people wanted, such as buying their own house which was provided at a low rent as part of social provision. The current crop rely on appeals to racism. “We want to control our borders.” Now that we have one, they are complaining about the hold-ups the imposition of the border has created. Never their fault, though, is it?

How about darker but warmer?

And Slaters have provided various sizes of plastikard and MEK for decades, so support if there for those who want to have a go and acquire the skills…

When was the earliest of those coaches introduced, and how long would they have survived in service before repainting? Also, the loco has a number of the buffer plank that looks a bit like it could be 5518, so 1927+ ? We can’t definitively say how late the photo is, perhaps, but we should be able to manage a “no earlier than” date. (Also, all coaches are in a two-colour livery, so probably second half of the 20s.)

I think the remit of the BGS pretty much automatically excludes the “narrow gauge” material, so that’s not a fair comparison. A fairer one might be with say, the NBRSG or CRASSOC, which do include a lot of pregrouping content, but also grouping, BR and up to date content on former NBR/CR lines, respectively. Ultimately, though, any of these magazines are only as good as the material that gets sent to them, or sometimes that is carefully extruded from contributors by a “persuasive” editor….