Pannier Tank

Tony, Thank you for sharing the images of the Baseboards, they have given me a few ideas.

I saw the Midland Pullman on the Bletchley to Oxford Line in the early 60s on a Football Special, may even have been this one https://www.railcar.co.uk/images/14751 Saw many Steam Loco's (Britannia's / Scots etc) on Football Specials around that time.

The 'No Claims Bonus' may well not be affected, BUT, that won't stop the insurer from putting the premium up, even on a 'no fault' claim!

And on the 'Up Fast' to boot!

Nice 'Control Panel', I'd be interested to know what method you used for the printing etc

Click on the 'Blue Dot' to the left of the thread title.

One possible solution is to add extra I/O's to the MEGA https://forum.arduino.cc/t/how-pssible-adding-more-i-o-ports-to-arduino-due/965658/6 although as you have a buzzer, you know immediately which lever to put back. With my toggle switches it's easy to pull several levers before realising a mistake. Although in reality with only 12 levers mistake don't often happen, if at all. It's all good fun trying different things with the Arduino.

P.S. When I have the time I'm re-writing the Arduino Code for a pair of Tokenless Block Instruments,

There is some information here https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/171854-passim-interlocking-project/#comment-4815774 and a (very) short video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9k7PS-KxTo of the Lever Frame, but with separate Red & Blue LEDS. I am bit preoccupied at the moment with some re-configuring our bungalow so all modelling has been put on hold. I'll post some more images when I get round to it! I'm using an Arduino Mega which has something like 63 I/o's so plenty of spare pins. I use 3 x 12 I/o's (12 Levers, 12 RED LEDs and 12 Blue LEDS). I'm tempted to follow your path with the cobalt-s levers!

I like the look of your Levers, very nice. For my Arduino based Mortonhampstead Signal box I currently use Toggle Switches and have a Bi-colour LED which shows Red if a Lever is locked and also Flashes Red when the Lever is is an illegal move. When a Lever is reversed (legal move) the LED changes to Blue.

This topic reminds me of an incident at Bletchley with a LE Class 90. See: Bletchley derailment

Looking at this link, probably not! Also, it was a Tinsley Loco. http://www.wnxx.com/images/scrap/index.php?level=picture&id=804 According to WNXX 08880 was withdrawn from Tinsley's FSNT pool back in July 1996 has been disposed of at Norton's Liverpool, RIP. 22/11/05

Hi Nidge, I don't think the photograph was taken at Bletchley. (1) I don't recognise it to be Bletchley, I maybe wrong. (2) 08480 was a OC engine from 05/78 to 11/97 and 08936 was a OC engine from 12/76 to 10/87

Headcode for 'empty coaching stock'?

08 927

13015 was renumbered to D3015 09/1960 - Allocated 1B 09/1960 (from 1A) 13016 was renumbered to D3016 12/1957 - Allocated 1B 09/1960 (from 1A) 13017 was renumbered to D3017 05/1957 - Allocated 1B 03/1960 (from 1A)

The 13000 series later became D3000 series and finally the Class 08 / 09. If you have the full numbers I can let you know a bit more of their allocation history etc.

How many stations on the branch have 'short platforms' ? Surely it would be better to run trains avoiding stopping at the 'short platforms' than to replace all trains with Busses ? I understand that's how they run the bus service, the slow bus service calls at all stations and the fast bus service misses several stops.

The LMS/BR Design 12033 to 12138 became Class 11 under the TOPS system.

1981 according to Roger Harris DMU Allocation History.

I remember the AM10's being introduced on the WCML; thank you for sharing. The first AM10 I travelled on was 053 which was on a complementary introductory run between Bletchley and Wolverton; happy days!

Still waiting for a parcel from Germany, posted over a month ago, not even showing on Royal Mail "Track & Trace" system yet. 😒

There's a photograph of the junction here: https://sulgrave.org/2018/04/slow-middling-and-jolty-also-known-as-the-stratford-upon-avon-and-midland-junction-railway/ and your Plan 2 looks to match the prototype.

My Consultant Urologist told me that the PSA Test result is just a number. My current PSA Level is 12, but the medication I am taking reduces the PSA Level by half, so my actual PSA is 24. Several Biopsies have produced ambiguous results. Bottom line is, get checked regularly.

I would have thought that refurbished Class 153's would have been a preferable to the 230's.