Jump to content
 

Phil Bullock

RMweb Gold
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    8,831

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Phil Bullock

    BR Dia.1/801 Fish/Parcels Vans from Rapido Trains UK

    in Rapido Trains

    Posted · Edited by Phil Bullock

    16 hours ago, stovepipe said:

    Good choice, I’ll have some of the ice blue ones. Hornby’s version with the white buffer stocks must be someone’s idea of humour.

     

    Actually the last block fish trains ran on the ECML in1976/7, not 1968. Single wagons were often seen on Far North and West Highland passenger services for a while afterwards too, which makes for some nice variation.

     


    Yes remember seeing one through FP in 1969 behind one of the Haymarket EE4s…. 
     

    In parcels service they were common vehicles on the Aberystwyth-York mails… 

     

    York Mail at Aberystwyth

    • Like 2

    Class 31 111

    in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips

    Posted · Edited by Phil Bullock

    31111 was withdrawn in 1983 and languished at Swindon for 3 years before scrapping so depends on your definition of mid 80s. 
     

    As it is it’s a Hornby lash up …. 31111 retained her raised body side trim until the end which the Hornby blue model lacks … it was only ever paint on the green versions! Most lost that trim when refurbished so that may work to your advantage…. But you can reinstate it with micro strip if repainting

     

    Typing Class 31 skinhead in to a Flickr search will come up with a few… 

     

     

    • Thanks 1

    British Rail Mk1 Coaches

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    8 hours ago, hartleymartin said:

    One question I would like to ask about the BR Mk1 stock is what was a typical consist for a branch line train? I imagine 3 carriages, one of them a composite one of them a brake carriage (probably in the middle) and another 2nd class of some sort?


    Yes that would do … SK BSK CK

    Where have all our garden birds gone?

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Downendian said:

    Just returned from a 10 day trip to Scotland and the Lake District.

    Just the most magnificent bird I’ve ever seen, a white tailed sea eagle. At the limits of my telephoto lens (so slightly blurred) the eagle was being mobbed by a pair of buzzards, one visible in the first image. Tiny in comparison. my daughter took some video where the eagle turned upside down flashing its talons at one of the buzzards- amazing!

    The North of the Isle of Skye. 
    one spotted the day before, although it may have been a golden eagle as the zoomed in shots don’t show the hallmark white tail as this one does.

    IMG_1705.jpeg.03c763fed20c13a53ed9f01d1e52535b.jpeg

    IMG_1710.jpeg.9dc1e598ef3dabc01fe2d746496c696b.jpeg

    Neil


     Brilliant! Sounds like you had a great trip …

    • Like 3

    Bachmann announce NEW Class 47

    in Bachmann

    Posted

    42 minutes ago, James Makin said:

     

    Just to show you can't please everyone, I actively remove cab lighting from all of my locos once they go 'through the works' - taking the circuit board right out to prevent anyone running them with the cab interior light on - just as the amount of times I've been operating the Club layout at shows and you come back from lunch break to find your mates have lit up the fleet like a Christmas tree! 😄


    Yes we do the same but it is a mixed blessing as lights can be a useful indicator to rookie drivers that they have selected the right loco! 

    • Like 1

    Spring is sprung - butterflies are out

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    Working out on drive on layout has its advantages …. Buzzed yesterday by a male brimstone and a tortoiseshell in addition to the more literal bumble bees.

     

    Overwintering peacock had left the garden shed too, hopefully to produce a new year’s generation. 

    • Like 2

    Where have all our garden birds gone?

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted · Edited by Phil Bullock

    New visitors for our garden this morning…, siskins ! Very happy with that.

     

    Re bird apps I use Chirp-o-matic but if it comes up with exotica I treat it with a big pinch of salt. It was persistently trying to tell we there was a golden oriole in woods at Talybont  on Usk last April. 

    • Like 3
    • Interesting/Thought-provoking 1

    Advice on power districts and breakers for Abbotswood Junction

    in DCC Help & Questions

    Posted

    Just now, Dagworth said:

    About the worst thing you can do is to tin wires that are going into any sort of screw terminal. Over time the solder will flow and the joint become loose.

     

    Andi


    Cheers haven’t done that! Where 2 or more wires go in to the same terminal there’s plenty for the screw to clamp on to … with a single small diameter wire I strip the end then wind the stripped core back up around the end of the insulation to give the screw more to bite on.

    • Like 1

    Advice on power districts and breakers for Abbotswood Junction

    in DCC Help & Questions

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Suzie said:

    There is a lot of wire and choc-blocks in line with the DCC feed from the ECoS to the track. I think that simplifying it might help a bit - much as it goes against the grain for making fault-finding easy.


    I have shared your aversion for chock blocks! But have overcome it…. Handy for keeping wiring in place too! 

    It’s all colour coded and am now installing colour coded LEDs on each board so if any bus goes down I will know … and have an idea where to start fault finding. 


    IMG_0348.jpeg.8c0a61c345d82af3c47c0125b8aca823.jpeg


    Red… accessory bus

    Green …. Scenic area track power 

    Blue …. Fiddle yard north end track power

    Yellow…. Fiddle yard south end track power 

     

    Also following @WIMorrisons advice and powering frogs using the accessory switch on the Cobalt point motors powered off the relevant track power bus. 

    • Like 2
×
×
  • Create New...