FarrMan

Just for information, Tony wright has a number of GWR items for sale on his forum. Lloyd

Tony Are the brown vehicles still available? Lloyd

Agreed, Tony. The Avoch (pronounced 'Och') to Fortrose track bed is another. Excellent for several kinds of wild fruit in the summer. Lloyd

Shortest in height or duration? Lloyd

Like West Highland roads. I think that they were designed on the principle that one good turn deserves another. Lloyd

According to GWR Engines Vol 2 (page 121), 'One point not generally known, is that these big 2-8-0's (i.e. the 4700 class) in common with the other 8 coupled classes of the GWR, had thinner flanges on the two inner pairs of driving wheels, and also, to allow a modicum of side play, the coupling rods had spherical seatings at the joints in the rods.' Lloyd

Surely they didn't nip down to halfords. How many rattle cans would a deltic need? Lloyd

Excellent, and I fully agree with the last paragraph as well. Lloyd

PFA (pulverised fly ash from coal fired power stations) and GGBS (Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag) are standard cement replacement products often used these days to reduce the cement content of concrete and hence the carbon equivalent on construction products. What will happen when the last coal fired power station and the last steel works close? Lloyd

What a brilliant idea! and what an excellent way to raise money for charity, and hopefully raise the status of railway modelling in some folks eyes. Hope all goes well. The company are probably getting what they want on the cheap as well. Benefits all round. I look forward to hearing how it works in practise. Lloyd

The most important exams for most of our courses (Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Quantity Surveying) took the form of a real life project within the 'local' area (The Highland region represents app 10% of the land area of the UK, and students came over from the islands, Argyll, Moray, etc., with some from further afield). They had to prepare a report indicating their own research, etc, into several different aspects of the project. They were also encouraged to show and discuss their progress with their tutors and others, so that we could encourage them and guide them along the right lines. We tried to design it to be as near to a normal work situation as possible. Part of the submission was a presentation in front of two tutors, which included answering questions. I always asked them what they had learnt by doing the project, and usually they explained how they would do it differently the next time, which showed us how well they were learning. Lloyd

Not one I set!!! Lloyd

A good exam will test comprehension rather than memory. Fact sheets will be included, or you may be allowed to bring your own notes up to a given number of pages. But what proportion of exams are good exams? Lloyd

Had the pozzilanic qualities of ash been identified at that time? Lloyd

More likely over Spittol Bridge. Nearer for cattle market. Lloyd

If you decide to include the cathedral, (he says tongue in cheek), don't forget to include the scratches on the lectern from the time when Oliver Cromwell kept his sheep and goats in there. I never did discover if he kept the sheep on one side and the goats on the other! Lloyd

The only routes crossing that bridge at that time to use that type of bus would be the longer distance routes to Castor and Ailsworth and beyond, which were not very frequent. Lloyd

SPC? Lloyd

That is why we always go south of the border to buy cars. As for rust, he obviously does not have a land rover! I remember spending most of one christmas day on my back - underneath a land rover removing rust from the chassis. Lloyd

I know the feeling! Lloyd

Thanks. It was quite a few years ago now, probably about 10 or more. The reason he does not drive just now is that the cornea transplant he had about three years ago needed to be rest earlier this year. Lloyd

My son had an outback. It was written off when a motorcyclist overtook too near a corner and got a bullseye on my son's headlamp. Sadly, the motorcyclist was a write off too. I think we still have some spare wheels for it somewhere. Lloyd

Glad that you enjoyed yourself, John, in the better antipodean country! Lloyd

Now that looks a lot more realistic. I have seen what abandoned gardens look like! Though I am surprised that the dandelions have not spread further yet. Also, just noticed, how do they get to their front doors? Not as bad as an exhibition house I once saw, that had the front door at first floor level - and no steps. Lloyd

If not, you would have to starve him there until his girth was sufficiently reduced! Lloyd