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IIRC the LMS Pacifics didn't run over the Peaks but the Britannias and at least one Bulleid did. The A3 class did run over Woodhead before electrification including 60103

I don't get it on my Android devices just the WIN7 desktop. Perhaps it is the reason for the prolonged loading times. If it is then it's a serious issue, I don't buy devices so others can take it over. Especially not so they are useless for the purposes that I bought them. Advertising is one thing appropriating my property is another.

It went on right through to WW2 and it drove Nasmyth Wilson out of business. Their factory in Patricroft was sold to Royal Ordnance in the late thirties just before the government bought out the AW Tyneside factory for tank production. The effect of the use of British factories by the railways was to drive down prices so the likes of Nasmyth had to rely on overseas orders for their profits, but then they were competing against US and European suppliers who even cheaper and had a guaranteed, profitable, domestic market Bit of a mess really.

Post group the government asked the railways to use the private sector a lot. All it did was drive down prices especially as AW took over the tank factory on Tyneside and started making steam locomotives there.

Bottom rh ! Sorry. Haven't seen it before.

I have started getting an annoying video pop up in the bottom LH. If I click the X it disappears only to reappear the next time the screen refreshes.

Of the German type

I use Amazon all the time, it's just so convenient and their customer service is very good indeed. I accept that there are issues with Amazon but they are beyond my influence which is not to say I wouldn't welcome intervention by the government in those matters. I'm fairly sure that this matter is a temporary spat between Amazon and Visa but I've changed to using the debit card rather than the credit card, both of which are Visa!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/18/revised-hs2-plan-viable-boris-johnson-rail?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

http://news.sky.com/story/all-change-new-rail-plan-is-not-what-was-promised-but-could-it-be-the-right-one-12471656

It's much the same in Cambridge. I was a life-long cyclist until my back gave up in my mid-fifties (I did more miles per year on my bike than I ever have in the car) but being a pedestrian in Cambridge was a frightening experience.

With my tax-payer hat on I'm delighted that this ludicrously expensive railway has been cancelled. I accept absolutely the need for vastly improved rail infrastructure in the north of England but HS2 is not the way to do it.

You need a helmet, you need lights, you need hi-viz, you might need weatherproof clothing. Then you need somewhere to put them when you get to your destination. Also it's not a good idea to wear denims on a bike, the raised seam will cause bruising just where you don't want it!

I thought about one of those but the hassle of the special clothing in anything other than sunshine put me off. I can walk to anywhere where I would want one of these for with the added benefit of improving my physical fitness. An expensive toy.

The cost of Global Warming is immense and it can only get greater. The cost of these units is a piddling amount in comparison.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/16/electric-cars-are-not-a-magic-bullet-for-air-pollution https://www.oecd.org/environment/measures-needed-to-curb-particulate-matter-emitted-by-wear-of-car-parts-and-road-surfaces.htm

You can also use N20 motors which are a lot cheaper and will fit in a HL gearbox

I think you'd be better off starting from scratch with the RT & AGW option. But having said that I'd be interested in how you get on with this. I have Beatty Well Tank in store and I've been pondering the feasibility of just using the reduction part of the drive train with coupling rods and deleting the idler gears.

With added blood poisoning! Putting that to one side, I enjoyed the show today. It was very good indeed.

In his post reproduced above 'Neil- bubbles' said it had been built as an 0-6-0, hence my post.

Furnace 25 was always an 0-4-0. For history see history see link

The St Albans branch was electrified on the basis that it was cheaper to do that than have an isolated bit of diesel powered railway. Much the same was true of the LT&SR branch at Romford. I think the DfT has so had its fingers burnt by the GWML and Manchester-Liverpool-Preston electrification projects that nobody wants another failure on their CV.

I use springs from a retracting ball point pen. The jig from Poppy Wood Tech might be useful. Personally I find High Level destructions confusing but others think they're wonderful. Pig's World. All the Best

Nowt wrong with the track, you built it! Actually it didn't get that far, I made up the gearbox, became unsure and put it to one side. Thanks for the advice.

I assembled one of these at the start of the lockdown and became very unsure of just how compensation was intended to work. I put it to one side but I've never got back to it and I'm still unsure. As I see it having a central beam and the arm with the idler gears in it on one axle means that there are two compensation beams on the axle. Perhaps I'm missing something.