PLD

Born in Exeter in 1804, I am an architect best known for my work for a particular railway empire. A notable feature of many of my stations was the overall roof, of which several examples survive and one has recently been rebuilt… I was also Sheriff of my adopted home city at the same time as the Chairman of the railway company was Mayor of that city…

Not sure Phil, I'll go for Douglas Ferreira, General Manager of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway from 1961 to 1994... Paul

I actually make it an average 68 passengers per journey, but even that is totally unrealistic. Given that a typical double decker is 72-78 seats (and not all the guide fitted buses are D/Ds), to achieve that average either means crush loading and lots of standing passengers at peak hours or very high utilisation at all times from 5am - midnight!

Born 1925 I am a British Peer, (the 7th to hold the title) who's title is associated with an island of the British isles, but connected to a railway on a different island which I saved from bankruptcy in 1967 by leasing and operating parts of for 5 years. One section of the railway in question survives today in nationalised ownership and it's latest loco is named in my honour. [P.S. Name, not just the title please.]

Alfred de Glehn?? Paul

The only problem I can foresee in replacing the thread with a gallery album is that there is no function (that I’m aware of) in the Galleries to go to the first new / unviewed image in the way you can go directly to the first unread post in a thread. I presume the gallery is sorted on upload date but even so, when the gallery grows to a few hundred images, I wouldn’t be keen on trawling through them all to find new ones…

Just had another 'autopilot ' example at the supermarket... "do you want any cash back?" the checkout girl asked So tempted to say "Yes £50 please!" but actually said "just the change from the £10 note I've just handed you..."

Friend to serving girl in cafe: "I'll have a black coffee please" serving girl: "would you like milk or cream with that?"

Except HGVs fitted with EU mandated Speed Limiters...

Tramways: Add 'Kew Bridge' by members of the Thames Valley Area group of the TLRS Also about 10 years ago there was a Trolleybus layout 'Walford Arches' (I think) on the circuit. I understand the builder died but I believe the layout still exists.

A few of Blackpool Tram combinations I dug out for a similar thread on another group... Refurbished Brush railcoach 626 and un-refurbished 632, both carrying the 1970s livery style in 2010. Ironically it is the refurbished 626 which has since left the tramway for preservation at Birkenhead... First and last of the Centenary class 641 and 648. Refurbished Balloon 723 and un-refurbished Balloon 703, both carrying the 1980s livery style in 2008. Twin-car sets 682+672 and 685+675 at Fleetwood Ferry; 685/675 are overtaking 682/672 parked up for a meal break while on private hire. Unusually both are trailer-car leading. Millennium Class rebuilt Balloons also showing the two variations in layout of the bus inspired 'Metro' livery as applied to the trams. The entire fleet of Jubilee class (and the only two O-P-O double deck trams in the world!) in contrasting Advertising liveries... Finally bonus prize is three trams which were originally of the same class... Rebuilt Balloon 713, restored Balloon 700 and Millennium class 724

My only worry with doing that is that the extra rolling resistance may not be significant on one coach but by the time you get a rake of six or seven together it adds up and some locos may start to struggle... As other have said, you need to put in at least the partitions in a corridor coach... as for the white metal seating again the worry is how much weight will that add to a ful rake of coaches? I use the plastic seating that Colin Ashby used to produce. I've seen someone else with something very similar recently (can't remember who - maybe someone else can?) It comes in about 6 inch lengths for you to cut up to suit. Otherwise looking good! Paul

Go for it Mark! 'cause if you dont.....

This is a list of other tram & tramway related content elsewhere on RM Web such as members’ blogs workbench threads and photo galleries… Workbench and layout Threads/Blogs The Grime St blog: Leeds Tramway Layout A DLR Train: Scratch building a Docklands Light Railway unit. Mr Simons Workbench: Scratch building a 7mm scale tram Galleries Crich Tramway Museum: General photos from the National Tramway Museum Edinburgh Tram: The first of the new trams for the Scottish Capital on display Great Northern Steam Fair – Beamish: Includes the trams as well as other transport Irish Railway Images: - Includes photos of the Hill of Howth Tramway and the Fintona Horse Tram Seashore Trolley Museum: This US Tramway museum includes several UK trams in it’s fleet Skipsea Tram: The body of a Hull Tram car used as a holiday home at Skipsea on the East Yorkshire Coast. 60s & 70s Photos: Includes photos of the Great Orme Tramway The Tramways Forum in the previous version of RM Web I’m sure there will be more that I have missed. If you have content you want adding to this list or you find anything else of interest please sent a PM.

The only UK outline modern tram available ready to run is the Manchester Bombardier M5000. See this thread in the Tramways group for information on sources etc. If you are looking specifically for Sheffield Supertram, there isn't anything currently available but a few options for modeling it were discussed in this thread. Paul

Welcome to the Trams & Tramway Modelling Group! The intention is to build on the content of the Tramways special interest forum and encourage more modellers to think about tramways as a modelling subject. The hope is that a one-stop dedicated group may also encourage a few more who are only interested in trams and not other railways, so are not currently members of RMWeb to join in. An early aim is to provide a list of links to other tram/tramway related content elsewhere on RMWeb that could be easily overlooked, but we will leave it to the Author to decide whether they want content moved into the group structure or to leave content where it is and provide a link from here. So now it’s over to you…

Well some body tried to make use of the busway yesterday... http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/You-could-waste-away-waiting-for-guided-bus.htm

I like the look of that Mark! and if you want it testing to destruction... Paul

Certianly worth a try, but if you want to visit their archives write/e-mail to book an appointment at least a couple of months in advance - they're not known for the speediness in responding...

That is one of the two Fairfield's shipyard locos, as I mentioned in post #6... One of the other shipyards also had a similar loco. Picture below is another variation on the theme - the single trolley pole on the Blackpool Tramway freight loco which was originally used to haul coal wagons between the rail connection in fleetwood and the yard at Thornton Gate, then when that traffic ended was used by the p-way department and is now preserved at Crich.

Indeed the Loco was a standard EE product, but one of those standard designs where no two were actually built the same!! There were quite a number built for overhead power collection - most famously the Blackpool Tramway freight loco and the ones operated by the Govan shipyards over the Glasgow Corpotation Tramways. The unusual thing about 'Ruth' and the Bedfordshire Brickworks was the twin wire overhead as per trolleybuses (note the two trolleypoles) rather than using the running rails as the return. Probably a practical arrangement given how well a nice sticky coating of clay would act as an isulator... With reference to the map - I'm sure I've seen a version somewhere with the 2'6" gauge forming a complete circuit around the clay pit. Given the 'abandoned' line shown on the plan above across the lower end of the pit, would that have been an eairlier arrangement?

Erm, shouldn't it have been an apropriately named chocolate biscuit you won???

Slightly left-field but I think meets the criteria: Great Orme Tramway cars 6 and 7 at the Upper Section passing loop...

You should avoid the topographical errors which are often the result of copying features from other layouts or lack of thought/observation of the prototype, and hopefully won't have the 'humorous' business names, but you can still park the bus on the bridge, have the frozen running man on the platform etc, and still run that 12 coach express into the country branch line terminus...

I'm modelling the UP mainline in Nebraska. I'll have a hard time justifying NOT putting one in. Perfect example of what I meant in the second paragraph: The grain silo is apropriate (almost essential) for your region of the US, however that doesn't excuse seemingly 95% of US based layouts having one regardless of where in the US they are supposedly set... Paul