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    is this a trap point?

    in UK Prototype Questions

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    That is not a ground signal by the blades but is called a rotating point disc, indicating the lie of the blades. It is not normally worked by a separate lever. 

     

    Up close it looks like this - seen at Didcot. Note the red/green faces. It is directly connected to the stretcher (tie bar in other terminology).

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    GW loco picture identity help

    in UK Prototype Questions

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    1 hour ago, bécasse said:

    One further possibility given the early 1950s date (when Channel Islands services from Southampton and Weymouth were still operated separately as they had been in Company days) is that it is a Weymouth-Bristol TM Channel Islands express; that would explain the use of roof boards.

    The connection to Bristol for the Channel Island express was to stop at Frome, change trains then via Radstock (in a B set!). This ceased when that line shut in 1959.

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    The greatest layouts you never built (and perhaps now never will!)

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

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    My original plan was to build Radstock GW in P4 (the proper one, not the later arrival), I did a lot of research, but finally realised that it was perhaps just too big. Ended up building Clutton.

     

    Layouts I have toyed with are Pensford in 2mm with the viaduct, Tylwych (mid Wales line) in 2mm with the mountains around, Bilson Junction (Forest of Dean) in P4 (lots of wagons!).

     

    Time now against me, so smaller layouts are being built ...

     

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    The Good(?) Old Days

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    Oh yes, the good old days.

     

    Promised a pension at 65 (for men), a bus pass at 60.

     

    The August bank holiday at the beginning of the month - when the weather was better.

     

    Riding a 250cc motorbike at 16, or with a sidecar a 650cc.

     

    A record getting to No 1 meaning it had sold loads - not just a few 'downloads' - whatever they are?

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    Bletchley Park.

    in Wheeltappers

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    We went ten years ago, before the big exodus.

     

    The model railway club, the post office museum (now at Oakham Treasures - near Bristol), others were in the process of being 'kicked out'.

     

    A 'wedding' venue.

     

    The computer museum was well worth a visit, they had a calculator like mine in their collection! A room full of BBC micros (from when kids were taught programming in schools, not how to use Microsoft office), there were even a couple of machines like we used to have in work.

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    Acceptable standards at exhibitions

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

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    23 hours ago, DCB said:

     

    I would suggest the opposite.   With lots of space a passing station on a single line on a continuous run with lots of hidden loops.  Passing Station with a goods yard and lots of signals would make a better stage for the theatre of a working railway.   Trains stopping and starting.   On occasions two passengers crossing and a goods tucked away in a siding.   North Devon line did this.  Train arrives on scene stops at signal. train from other direction stops at station, first train comes in stops briefly and departs, second train departs, as soon as its gone shunting resumes plenty of time to look at locos mot much chance to get up much speed.  but you need a lot pf space, like 30ft in 00,  30ft X 6 or 8ft or more.

     

    Did all that on Clutton. Single line with passing place. Trains passing, at one point in the sequence (timetable) three trains in with one in the yard laying over. As I said before in this thread, some got it, most did not. One train would shunt, using motorised wagons to recreate loose shunting.

     

    24'x7' no central operating well (it was full of scenery) - operators stood at the back, signaller out the front.

     

    The layout is now retired.

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    Jury Service, your experiences

    in Wheeltappers

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    Called up nearly 30 years ago - sat around for a week sent home.

     

    Then called up again about 15 years ago, did a case. A minor drug case, fascinating how different witnesses could not agree on small matters of detail, but also how the other jurors - in the waiting room could not understand things like fingerprinting.

     

    I did have my service postponed - I said I was on holiday (true), but said I was available after a certain date - which was accepted.

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