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16 hours ago, kevinlms said:
Why did you bring religion into the discussion?
I have no interest in religion and anyway it is against the forum rules! Also you made negative comments about people, who you obviously despise.
As I said, it is a changing world, in that people are increasingly taking notice, especially regarding Climate Change matters.
If you want to ignore it and carry on the with 'business as usual' approach, you are entitled to do so. I can't and won't attempt to stop you!
Hi Kevin,
Have you not yet noticed that Climate Change IS the new religion ? It is part of a process that is known as Hypernormalisation.
Should you not get any sort of reply from me it is because I have gone against, Guardian-BBC-Daily Mail-RMweb- Woke Mentality editorial and have been booted off yet another thread for not engaging in hive mind-group think !
Gibbo.
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On 08/10/2021 at 06:56, Johnson Street IEMD said:
DB Cargo Class 90035 returning to Crewe from Rectory Junction, having finished its sabatical on the DATS Midland Mainline Electrification testing project, seen here Barthomew Junction, with DB pool mates Class 67005 and 67025.
Hi There,
Get it while you can because global madness is affecting electric locomotives:
You can't make this stuff up !?!?!
Gibbo.
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7 hours ago, Ron Ron Ron said:
Alexander Mercouris operates as part of Sputnik's corrosive disinformation programme.
A lot of truths and factual analysis, used to back up an agenda of disinformation, with particular aims in mind.
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Hi Ron,
Surely, only the goons that trust the BBC wouldn't know that ?
Gibbo.
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2 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:
The last two times I filled my petrol tank up it was with E10. The drop off in performance and the increase in consumption was quite noticeable. I normally fill up when the gauge drops to a quarter but as I was going to do a fair few miles this weekend I topped up even though the tank was two thirds full. But this time instead of E10 I used premium unleaded. The change was palpable, it ran even better than on the old E5.
Hi Phil,
I'd be more bothered about the increased ethanol content rotting the fuel system of your car's engine from the inside out.
Gibbo.
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8 hours ago, woodenhead said:
I imagine what is actually happening is the localised shortages are being spun by the likes of the MSM into national shortages, just like with the fuel issue.
Can't help but think it is part of some concerted campaign by the MSM to get rid of Boris, they don't appear to like him and creating national panic serves their objective as well as bringing in readership and therefore advertising revenue.
It is quite clear that there are challenges in supply chains caused by a mix of Brexit, lockdowns and the general disruption around the world from Covid that will take time to recover. Internationally, Russia does appear to be using gas supply restriction as a means to get a new pipeline agreed which has rather exposed our dependence on gas and that the only way is up when it comes to the cost of powering and heating our country.
7 hours ago, Gibbo675 said:Hi Woodenhead,
The long term contract gas prices for Nordsteam II were considerably lower than spot prices are currently, however the USA insisted upon sanctions upon its building which the Russians did not challenge. The result effectively terminating the contracts at the original lower prices with non completion through third party as the reason. The pipeline was not finished in time because of the USA and the supply contracts fell through as a result.
Should Europe now wish to buy gas from Russia it will have to do so at the new spot prices set via the exchange in St Petersburg at approximately four times the price of the long term contacts that Nordsteam II promised before the sanctions imposed by the USA. Conveniently even Gazprom's own storage facilities in Europe have been run down.
Additionally, high gas prices make sending LNG from the USA to Europe, including Britain cost effective which is something that the MSM very rarely mentions for some reason.
Снова обманули !
Гиббо.
Hi Folks,
Here Is Alexander Mercouris explaining it all to much greater detail than I am able to:
Gibbo.
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Hi Folks,
How about this for robotic brain interface:
https://futurism.com/neoscope/chips-human-brain-neurograins
Gibbo.
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38 minutes ago, woodenhead said:
I imagine what is actually happening is the localised shortages are being spun by the likes of the MSM into national shortages, just like with the fuel issue.
Can't help but think it is part of some concerted campaign by the MSM to get rid of Boris, they don't appear to like him and creating national panic serves their objective as well as bringing in readership and therefore advertising revenue.
It is quite clear that there are challenges in supply chains caused by a mix of Brexit, lockdowns and the general disruption around the world from Covid that will take time to recover. Internationally, Russia does appear to be using gas supply restriction as a means to get a new pipeline agreed which has rather exposed our dependence on gas and that the only way is up when it comes to the cost of powering and heating our country.
Hi Woodenhead,
The long term contract gas prices for Nordsteam II were considerably lower than spot prices are currently, however the USA insisted upon sanctions upon its building which the Russians did not challenge. The result effectively terminating the contracts at the original lower prices with non completion through third party as the reason. The pipeline was not finished in time because of the USA and the supply contracts fell through as a result.
Should Europe now wish to buy gas from Russia it will have to do so at the new spot prices set via the exchange in St Petersburg at approximately four times the price of the long term contacts that Nordsteam II promised before the sanctions imposed by the USA. Conveniently even Gazprom's own storage facilities in Europe have been run down.
Additionally, high gas prices make sending LNG from the USA to Europe, including Britain cost effective which is something that the MSM very rarely mentions for some reason.
Снова обманули !
Гиббо.
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6 minutes ago, rodent279 said:
Have you got "Mentor" to go with E3173?
Hi Rodent,
The locomotive was built for a friend of mine and although we since both looked into converting a coach neither of us have actually got around to it.
Gibbo.
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4 minutes ago, jazzer said:
The one I read had a wonderful story line. It was about a handsome prince who was very rich nut very lonely. One day he heard of a beautiful princess in a far off land so he set off to woo her. He took with him all kinds of expensive gifts and jewellery which impressed her . He swept her off her feet, took her dancing and to the best restaurants in the land .She became , besotted with him but when he asked her father for her hand in marriage, sadly her father refused. So the handsome prince returned home, bought a Harley Davidson and a Ferrari , had his mates round for a party every weekend with plenty of loose women, built an O gauge model of Peterborough North, qualified as a driver on the NYMR and lived happily ever after.
Hi Jazzer,
If you cut a John Deere in half longitudinally very, very carefully, do you end up with two Harley Davidson's ?
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8 minutes ago, PjKing1 said:
Great pic
although the only recollection I have of them was when they were stored at Langton dock sidings (I think) all smashed up
Hi Phil,
Are you aware of these ? :
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6 hours ago, PjKing1 said:
Oh I get you now
thought you were talking about the new fleet which looks like the metrolink trams
Hi Paul,
This should cheer you up.
Gibbo.
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2 hours ago, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said:
Maybe someone will buy multiple LionFalconDP2KestrelHawks, paint them in banger blue and pretend they all went into production. Imagine what a layout that would be, a parallel universe with a familiar but different BR...
I once day dreamed an alternate history where the West of England was the UKs version of East Germany and where steam and hydraulics happily lived on into the late 1980s...
Bristol was a divided city, Gloucester was a border town and Swindon carried on churning out GWR kettles and Westerns like a carrot crunching Meningen.
I even doodled a map.
Anyway, as you were. The meds are kicking in now, and Nursey say's I've to be quiet...
Hi Fritters,
Could that be a consequence of misrepresentation of the objective observation or, just an allusion of the subjective due to the [side] effects of Nursey's medications detaching ones faculties from the conscious knowing ?
Either way, in Bandit country, hardly ideal even if transcendental !
Gibbo.
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2 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:
Yo Gibbo
Dr Gerbil-Fritters likes his books as well.
I personally haven't read one but understand the plot line is a bit weak and the hero doesn't disappear over the horizon with the beautiful lady.
Hi Clive,
I've found Haynes manuals to be a bit like that although I do like the pictures, especially ones that have spanners in the shot.
That said I'm more a reader of Schopenhauer, I say reader, It took me nearly two years to read his big thick book that contains very small point text, only a few diagrams, worse still, no pictures. I've even got a special hat to make me look even more intelligent than usual for when I review such texts !
Gibbo.
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55 minutes ago, John Tomlinson said:
Just picked up on this.
Does the White Rose mean that Death is really a Yorkshireman?
(Runs for cover).
John.
Hi John,
As Freidrich Nietzche once put it:
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
Gibbo.
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19 minutes ago, Mel_H said:
It's only just occurred to me, but how were the AWS batteries charged?
Hi Mel,
There was charging equipment set up in the depot and the batteries were exchanged at regular intervals.
Gibbo.
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1 hour ago, Signaller69 said:
Hi Paul, apparently stretch wrap has been around since the 60s (in terms of bulk quantity pallet loads which went hand in hand with Supermarket warehouses etc) and was further refined in the early 70s. In terms of UK use I really don't know how widespread it's use was, but I expect loads needing protection from moisture etc (eg bagged sugar and grain) were amongst the first users. It may well be a little out of place in my setting I admit!
Thanks,
Martyn.
Hi Martyn,
With a nod to pedantry I have reviewed your stretch wrap pallets and it seems that there is stretch wrap over the top of the stack, this would only happen if the palletised stack had been over-wrapped.
Stretch wrap is often done by hand, simply tucking an end into the pallet and then walking around the stack with some tension on the wrap until it is suitably wrapped. There are machines that do the very same automatically, either way the wrap tends not to stretch much more than six to nine inches over the top of the stack. Here is an informative American chap:
Over wrappers use a machine that draws down a polythene tube that is heat crimped as it passes over the stack before heating elements secure it.
I only know this for I stacked pallets as a Saturday Job thirty odd years ago and I have had the displeasure of repairing far more ancient over-wrappers to the above in a water bottling plant near Penrith.
Two things I should like to add are that stretch wrap is the very best way to subdue annoying colleagues by attaching them semi permanently to posts, chairs, or even to their own bicycles, and also isn't YouTube just great for such nonsense informative videos !!!
Gibbo.
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Hi Folks,
Just for fun why not post photographs of any of these prototypes that you may have built, no RTR stuff that is cheating !
I can only claim the APT-E as the HST is by the layout owner.
This is E3173 it was the testbed locomotive for the Flexicoil suspension system and was also fitted with a streamlined nose cone as part of the HST program to asses wind resistances though lineside structure especially tunnels and past other trains. Another notable achievement of E3173 was that it was the first locomotive to officially exceed Mallard's 126 mph record in Britain.
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Hi Folks,
Mol_PMB is quite right in that the turbo generators are indeed thirsty for steam for what little electricity the lamps used. I can also say that there was no battery back up should the generator stall for any reason. I had experience of the turbo generator on Tangemere and if a lot of the marker along with the cab lights were turned on then the generator would start to labour. The lights over the driving wheels were good for oiling up in the dark though.
As for AWS batteries were only for providing the power for the electrical signals from the read switch in the magnet sensor, the cancellation button, the sunflower solenoids, and actuating the solenoids that put the brakes on in the event of a missed cancellation. They were not connected to any lighting systems.
Gibbo.
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Hi Folks,
Here is David Bowie to sing a strange song about the same archetypes my strange post indicates:
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Hi Ian,
There were two EECo 500hp 35mph shunting trip locomotives D0226 and D0227 built for test at Stratford.
https://british-shunters.fandom.com/wiki/D0226_and_D0227
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1 hour ago, Northmoor said:
Wow, when I was a teenager, being known as a train spotter made me about as far from those things as it was possible to be! I knew other boys at secondary school who had a train set but never anyone with my all-consuming interest, in a school of nearly 1000 pupils.
Hi Northmoor,
Sounds like you need a bit of Marcus Aurelius also:
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Gibbo.
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50 minutes ago, The 158 Man said:
That's a very nice looking layout, is it yours? Any more pictures?
Hi There,
The layout is Burshaw North Western and it belongs to a friend of mine, I did build the APT-E though.
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4 minutes ago, DBC90024 said:
Casual readers on rmweb .... on the Photos of AC electric traction .... who cant or wont click on the link to see whats on there?
Gotcha
Skodas are 90s, Dysons are 92s, Some are named, some arent, I nicknamed the Grand Central 90s, Bumblebee1 (90026), Bumblebee2 (90029) and Bumblebee3 (90020) ...
So,
a good number of people know trains have headcodes, Number, Letter, Number, Number,
a good number of people know trains have operators, often abbreviated like GBRf, DB, FL, DRS and so on...
a good number of people know trains are named or even nicknamed ...
So, for example, a DB90 is ..... a DB Cargo Class 90 locomotive ... a WCR47 is a West Coast Railways Class 47 ...
The thing is most of the above is in the description of my listings anyway, so its not like this is a foreign language.
Ultimately, everyone has an opinion - people of ''your ilk'' and so on ... or people like me (i have got back into the railways and modelling after a twenty year period out of it - and have been catching up, following 90s and modelling a little too )
I think its actually incomprehensible only to those who aren't rail enthusiasts AND arent prepared to look at it or even care about it ... which is fine, do we need to chuck mud on those who do care ? i dont think that's necessary but maybe you do ... again Opinions ...
If you want to know more ... follow me in my video diarys of Skodas, Dysons, Cans, Vans, Occasional Tugs, Sheds ohh and Skips as well ...
If you dont .. thats fine ... there's a world of other things to get on with ...
KB
Hi There,
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Gibbo.
PS. I'm quite partial to a Roarer !
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32 minutes ago, atom3624 said:
Is this a prototype?
Is that capacitor still visible?
Is it likely to be the same on the production model - is this a production model?
Al.
No, these are the prototypes !!!
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although the only recollection I have of them was when they were stored at Langton dock sidings (I think) all smashed up
thought you were talking about the new fleet which looks like the metrolink trams
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Hi Clive,
We live in an upside down, inside out and backward world where to access the content that we have all created has to be paid for so as to gain access. Don't worry, I guarantee it will all get so much more weirdly worse before it gets anything like better.
I have pulled three cards to divine the future of not just but mainly RMweb, and also social media as it stands.
Two cards jumped out in reverse they were the Eight of Pentacles and the Queen of Cups, followed by the Knight of Swords that was pulled upright.
I could explain why this is the case in much greater detail, and will do so if requested, however most on here would think me even more completely crackers than they already do, not that I care of course !
Gibbo.