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  1. Is this sort of thing any use? I took loads of pictures during the rebuilding, and some from the shard. My indexing isn't good so it will take me a while to trawk through them, but I'm happy to do it if they are useful. Cheers Dave
  2. Maybe a silly idea, but... Locate a suitable street, and search local authority planning hubs for applications in that area. These may well contain plans submitted for the work, hopefully before and after. They should be good for the overall dimensions. I don't know if submissions for listed buildings are on the same planning hubs, or whether there is a separate resource for them. Hth Dave
  3. I'm just starting with an Aldi printer and I had some similar problems. One reason I found given on a website was absorbed waterin the fibre, suggesting it should be stored in a dehumidifier, if the printer is normally in a humid area. Hth Dave
  4. 1:76.2 surely? Actually I've often wondered whether manufacturers/designers sometimes forget the decimal. Or am I wrong in allowing for it. I grew up on imperial units, then we went to cgs for O level changing again to SI for A level. "Systeme Internationale, that's bl##dy French" said the Physics master. Engineering at university seemed to vary by subject. One early, under the radar and unrecognised, bit of metrication I learned about well after university, was that BA threads were essentially metric, only expressed in imperial units. Supposedly a collaboration between scientific bodies, possibly without political interference. Were there metric threads used on the continent interchangable with BA, or was the subterfuge too good, I wonder. Dave
  5. Is it this (Without the winding hole)? Usually numbered 44 Dave
  6. Lemarco have a slightly smaller footprint, and have the motor at one end. I have some if you need a replacement. Dave
  7. I have Bilteezi dairy, ( also engine shed, Scats building and goods receiving depot) kits if any or all would be of use in the project. Btw, the last two are dated 1982, so might be too new... Bought about 10 years ago in a fit of nostalgia, I won't get around to building them. I'm trying to think whether I have anything bulkier to donate, a few sheets of card aren't going to make much impression on the "to go" pile... Cheers Dave
  8. Will you be able to positively identify the returned item as the one you sent? I don't know if it's a frequent ebay fraud, but this sort of thing is not uncommon on the high street. I bought an angle grinder at Aldi, and when I opened it found it was a manky old one of a completely different make. Someone had obviously put it in the box and returned it for a refund. I think that the commercial argument is that below a certain value it's not worth the hassle of checking. Whether the manky device went back on the shelves I don't know... Dave
  9. Could you steal a bit of length from the hidden part of the scenic board and make a parallelogram traverser. The direction of slide would be parallel to the face of the scenic break bridge, which would stay where it is. The traverser track length would be a bit longer than on the original design. There is a possibility that the front right of such a traverser would hit the side wall, before full extension was reached, but I can't be sure without drawing it out. Dave (purveyor of silly ideas...)
  10. I too bought an Aldi printer last week, and after one issue, when the provided SD card went faulty on first use, have managed a couple of successful prints. The provided software, which I had to download, makes a perfectly good starting point. It will accept a range of file formats, including ,jpg, where it treats black as zero height and white as the maximum you want for that print. This has meant that I have been able to do some test prints without getting into the complexity, (yet), of doing 3d cad. I have been an occasional user of Turbocad, so far only in 2d mode, and will delve deeper into that, but my next test will be to try to see how a greyscale .jpg translated into heights, as this seems to have a lot of potential for some of the things I want to do. Dave
  11. Better late than never, I hope, here are a couple of images of the Wheatley sign. The first is a bitmap image, created from a photo by straightening and removing perspective effects. This is of the area inside the white border seen in the photo. This is only a painted edge, the casting is smooth. The second is a jpg made from a drawing I have created in Turbocad, drawn from scratch from measurements taken from the image above, and checked from the sign. It still needs a bit of tweaking, but so far I'm pleased with it. I will be drawing up other letters as I have pictures of similar signs contailing most of the alphabet. I have yet to do the cross section drawing. The overall size of the sign, ignoring the mounting and locating lugs is 90.25"x23". If you have a suitable cad program I can let you have the files in an appropriate format.. Hth Dave
  12. My few pictures. 6150 in the yard in early 1965. Two signals, understood to be from Wheatley, resited to a private garden. The position of the black/white paint on the distant suggests it has been shortened. Summer 1964? Wylde is making glacial progress, currently waiting for Peco bullhead single slip, then tracklaying can begin... Dave
  13. No problem, I'll get on to it in the next few days. My father bought the sign from the person who did some of the demolition there after closure. I should have some pictures of two of the Wheatley signals, after they had been transplanted to Longsides. I will post them here when I find them. Dave
  14. Nothing much to offer, but I can give you accurate measurements for this if you need them. It has clearly had a blue background at some point, before a final poor quality coat of brown. The other one, now at Didcot was for some time at Longsides, at the top of Ladder Hill, along with much other railwayana. Dave
  15. Looking convincing. I've just uploaded some more photos taken in the Greenwich/Deptford area over the last few years. They show that industrial red brick is OK for south of the river, if you want some variety. https://www.flickr.com/photos/unravelled/albums/72157711770750377 I hope they are of some interest Dave
  16. Hi, I'm fairly local to the area, (Brockley), and have taken quite a few photos over the years along the Greenwich-Gallions stretchof the Thames. Unfortunately they are not well sorted, so I can't easily point you to anything relevant yet. This is the street side of what seems to have been a small works complex, with the other side on the riverbank. http://RIMG0147 by David Harvey, on Flickr One of the distinctive features of a lot of the riverside sites is a panel of stone in an otherwise brick wall, usually adjacent to a gateway. http://RIMG0167 by David Harvey, on Flickr If you would like some more pictures like these, I can post them here. Thanks Dave
  17. A few pictures from 1965-67, which might hrlp for variety. I haven't bothered with mainly van trains which have been mentioned before, nor with the mineral trains. First from 1965, milk as tail traffic on a stopping service, Garsdale PW(?) train at Dent, 1966 Opens and vehicle flats, Dent 1966 Presflos, 1966 Ais Gill 1966 Not all Black 5s and 8Fs, 1967 I hope these are of some help. Dave
  18. Wow! The thread I started turns into a conspiracy theory. I hope this helps to debunk it, though I fear it now won't be taken seriously... Dave
  19. Over the last couple of days I have noticed that the "Load nore activity" button is acting inconsistently. Up until a few days ago, clicking on that button would cause it to disappear, and be replaced by the start of a new batch of topics, with the topics above remaining in place. The inconsistent activity I've recently noticed is that on clicking, the button remains in place, with a new batch of topics inserted above it, requiring me to scroll back to see the added content. Not really a big problem, but I think it's worth noting. Thanks Dave
  20. There was an interesting programme at least 10 years ago, (possibly Horizon), which discussed the monitoring of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface. On the two no-fly days post 9-11, there was a measurable increase in temperature, which declined again when flying restarted. Suggesting that air travel reduces global warming. I had heard this somewhere else before the program, and was interested by the suggestion. Of course it may have been reinterpreted as an error, but this new report makes me wonder. Btw, regarding the trackplan, wouldn't reversing the release crossover simplify operation? As drawn, the train will have to shunt back a considerable way before the loco is able to use it. Thanks Dave (Long time lurker...)
  21. A correction to my previous post. The STOP board has been there since at least 2005, as I found after checking through older photos, and now I look for it, it was still there last Christmas. It is at the exit from the engineering sidings where the tampers live. Thanks Dave
  22. Chairs moved while your handbuilt track sets? LT tracks at Stratford 2014. Dave
  23. I don't know if this fits in here, but this stop marker doesn't look modern era to me. It was in use on the Oxford shed site in December 2017, but not there in 2016 or 2018. Were these regularly used so late on or is this just a convenient one-off installation? Thanks Dave
  24. These two pictures are of a gateway near Silvertown station site. I don't know if it had an arch, but I wouldn't be surprised. It served a jam factory. I like the amount of skew on the inset track, to get on to the site Dave
  25. I too have a horror of warm milk from my school days. We are on the verge of stopping our doorstep deliveries, as the keeping qualities of glass bottled milk don't seem as good as the supermarket product. Regarding top colours, apart from some like gold top and possibly green, I think it's only in the last 25 years that a standard has arrived, though I might be confusing the foil bottle tops with plastic lid colour standards. I can't offer much information regarding milk processing, in spite of having visited the Job's plant in Didcot, as a child in the 1950s. Dave
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