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1 hour ago, Hobby said:
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Perhaps I should have taken more notice of the original comment! 😉
A Statler and Waldorf moment!
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11 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:
Sitting!!
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10 hours ago, ikcdab said:Haha! Yes of course!
Apologies, I blame that Wright bloke!!
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7 hours ago, Nova Scotian said:
Disappointing re. spares, given Oxford Rail involvement. I'm assuming these weren't a runaway success given the deals they end up doing on these - but maybe more from over production than lack of popularity?
Poor business model IMHO, spares are factored in at the beginning of the run, Ford don't not make spares in case the car doesn't sell.
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On 21/04/2024 at 19:54, ikcdab said:
Sat by the lineside by Charlton Bridge Junction waiting for the next train...
Sitting!!
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45 minutes ago, tractionman said:
80 quid for a decent loco seems a fair price these days!
I see HMC and KGR still have a few variants available at around this mark:
https://kgrmodels.com/product/gv2012-oxford-rail-golden-valley-oo-janus-0-6-0-diesel-ncb-blue/
https://herefordmodels.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=832_833_842_1062_1061
It's a lot to pay for spares though!, which have been unobtainable since day 1.
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12 hours ago, The Johnster said:
As I said at the top of the page, ‘Cwrfa’, approximately translating to ‘skirt place’. A single Welsh ‘f’ is pronounced like the English ‘v’, as is the Polish ‘w’. One of the best things about RMweb is the rabbit holes you get to go down. Why would a place (‘fa’) in a remote Glamorgan Valley be associated in such a way with ladies’ garments (‘cwr’ = ‘skirt’)? Perhaps in the days before the pit was sunk there was a woollen mill there where skirts were made, the pure, clear water of the Lechyd stream washing the raw wool off the sheeps’ backs and powering the looms, but, hang on, no, because there was a real, actual, forge a couple hundred yards upstream of this spot, the ruins of which are yet extant according to the current OS. It is commemorated on the layout by the name of the pub, ‘The Forge’, which is within a literal stone’s throw of the site.
Even water powered this forge would have caused enough pollution to render the Lechyd useless for wool washing (could this be why the valley is called Dimbath, because you couldn’t bathe in the stream?), though of course dirty water can still power machinery! But it was served by a tramroad from Glynogwr and this suggests that it used coke for heating the iron, transported up from Tondu where there were ovens supplying the local ironworks before the turn of the 19th century. My model is semi imaginary; the place exists and the branch runs up the tramroad trackbed, not an unusual situation in the Valleys (there are still some stone sleepers up there), but it is a remote and forgotten corner that never had a mining village or a branch line in the real world. There was plenty of coal under it, good steam and coking stuff at that, but it was mined from pits in Gilfach Goch, Clydach Vale, and Ogmore Vale, which were connected underground, which brings us nicely back to…
…Rabbit holes. Luvs ‘em, I duz.
I think you've missed a trick, Facwr would be a more interesting derivation!
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11 hours ago, Darius43 said:
I wasn’t happy with the cast detail on the MTK cabs so I have cleaned up the faces.
Quelle Surprise!
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As someone without an artistic bone in his body, this is weathering of the highest echelon, I couldn't even aspire to it!
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1 hour ago, GrumpyPenguin said:
By that time EV's will be obsolete themselves as other technology is perfected.
IMHO anyone who converts Series Land Rovers to electric should be tortured, then electrocuted........
They will be!
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17 minutes ago, ColinK said:
I had my first run cobo sound fitted by Howes. I don’t know if the sound is 100% accurate, but it is really good and distinctive from my other loco sounds.
I'm going to fit a recording of Sean Dyche gargling, not be far off I'll wager!
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9 minutes ago, Strathwood said:
The collection of colour material has taken ages to scan (part of the deal to use them). However, it has yielded a large amount of great material for not only the six-volume hydraulic series, but a massive book on Westerns likely to be over 450 pages with around 600 fresh colour images from the 1960s and 1970s.
Shorter, no...
Much better and longer, yes...
Kevin
Gulp!
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1 hour ago, RichardT said:
absent-mindedly be using your antique dining room table for track works…
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16 hours ago, woodenhead said:
Then I saw it again very recently but a different operator driving this time and the shunt moves were just too quick, the locomotive would run too quickly and then it would be on with the emergency brake; I just walked away in less than a minute.
Not all shunting is bucolic!
You've obviously never observed shunting at a one engine in steam/one loco in diesel branch terminus and having to do the entire shunt in the short time allocated to it between passenger trains, I had plans of a leisurely set of photographs of the Pembroke Dock coal shunt, from when the driver collected the token at Tenby I was having to really get my foot down to attempt to get there first, for those who know the roads in the area it was 'interesting' to say the least, and I still came a poor second.
My plans for a carefully staged set of shots became a panic stricken abandonment of the car, running up and down the yard like a headless chicken trying to keep up with the shunter, and forgetting any thoughts of getting some shots of the return empties and the token exchange back at Tenby.
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Apologies, but I can't get this image out of my head!
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19 minutes ago, steve1 said:
Looking at Bradford Exchange on Trustpilot, it’s amusing to note that 56% of the reviews are 1 star. Their five star ones are only 36%.
Makes you wonder how they keep going.
steve
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8 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said:
It's never good to get lots of hairy grot between one's bogies and tumblehome. Gives the neighbours something else to talk about!
I believe there is an ointment for it nowadays.
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16 hours ago, The Johnster said:
I did not know that, and now I do, though in this case me and the van never really hit it off and the 'design clever' running means it is rarely used anyway, so no matter; I will be more than happy to give it an exciting opportunity of a new career in landfill and replace it with the new Rapido, despite preferring the plain side/end look of the Hornby model. There have been several such models over the years which I have given up on due to basic inaccuracies, which are particularly annoying. A poorly detailed model that is dimensionally correct can always be worked up but this sort of thing renders it effectively useless on my layout. The trouble is when a model is fairly near accurate but a bit off, so that the likes of me looks at it in the shop and comes over all 'me wantee', to find out later that the model is a bit of a dog; eventually I learned to do a bit of research first and keep my money in my pocket until I know what I'm buying.
Dogs that have caught me out in the past include:-
.Bachmann-chassis Hornby 2721, bunker too large.
.Dapol Fruit D, ex-Wrenn/HD, too wide.
.Dapol steel open with chain pocket, ditto provenance, sides too high, sold as mineral wagon.
.Dapol cattle/ale van, again ditto provenance, incorrect wheelbase. I am not sure that there is any example of a correctly dimensioned RTR cattle van.
.Neighbour's snappy yappy Jack Russell, all teeth and attitude. Doesn't like me coz I bark back at him...
It would be quicker to list the Dapol wagons of that era which are correct.
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On 16/01/2024 at 21:30, GWR57xx said:
Rhondda railway - Sheer Legs”.
She had a cracking pair of pins did good old Rhondda, earned good money around the docks in Cardiff allegedly.
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6 hours ago, Wheatley said:
It's probably in Heljan's to do pile!
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1 hour ago, AY Mod said:
Do you like
dagstrains?Turkish?
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11 hours ago, SM42 said:
But people are effectively forced to buy an SUV.
Most ranges now have ditched the medium and large family hatchback / saloon/ estate, so if you want a new car it's SUV or small car.
The manufacturers have been pushing SUVs because they cost about the same to build as a saloon but can charge many thousands more for them.
If you want to carry 2 adults and 2/ 3 kids and a week's luggage you will struggle to fit it all in.
We recently had a Kia Sportage as a hire car ( not by choice, our original choice of a C'eed was not available)
Three adults got in.
Their luggage ( cabin bag and small under seat bag each) went in the boot. It was a tight fit. The was not much room left. The coats wedged in around the bags.
Lord knows what damage they would do should you be unfortunate enough to hit a pedestrian
The second hand forecourts are awash with SUVs.
Finding a second hand large estate / saloon or hatchback is harder.
Everyone is holding on to them till they fall apart.
It's one of the reasons I'm driving a 10 year old car as there is nothing practical to replace it.
Andy
A me too post! I bought my Citroen C5 break ( the last of the proper wet suspension models) a few years back as I could see the writing on the wall, at my age and for the mileage I do it will see me out.
Also, those of us like Andy and myself are far more environmentally friendly in whole life terms than the people who buy the latest "more economical/greener/facelifted" vehicles every 12 months, between us we've saved at least 20 cars being unnecessarily built.
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Not too bad at all.
I've got a rake of Accurascale hoppers to do if you feel like a bit more practice!
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For those of us who are not such in depth aficionados of the Sweeney, I find this an interesting channel;
https://www.youtube.com/@Sweenealogy
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8 minutes ago, GrumpyPenguin said:
When complaining about the traffic remember - YOU are the traffic !
But it's always the other drivers that are causing the problem!
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