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  1. Captain Kernow

    I wonder what some UK train operators might do, to reach this level of rolling stock availability?! - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-63442530

     

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      I thought this was the traditional commercial policy of the WCML back to Victorian days? 3 trains a day to Scotland, loading to 20 bogies....

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  2. Dagworth

    The Spontaneous Multiple Unit Generator has spawned again, another one I don't remember buying, a class 150 this time... Makes a change from 108s!

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      I used the PH Design false seats etch on my Trains4U 150  (I do actually have one running on the layout). It is very effective - and still available

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  3. Dagworth

    The Spontaneous Multiple Unit Generator has spawned again, another one I don't remember buying, a class 150 this time... Makes a change from 108s!

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      If it's spawned a Bratchill 150 I'd be interested in how you upgrade the window frames. I did mine with a set of etches from Jim Smith-Wright , but lost one packing up at Ally Pally one year. My Bratchill 150 therefore remains resolutely unfinished.......

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  4. Mallard60022

    I can't believe there ae still Covid deniers posting on SM and not getting deleted. How can people deny something that has been going on for almost two years?

     

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      This will resolve itself - in the end they will either get the vaccine, or get the virus, with all the attendant consequences. We are into the end game now, and some folk are going to learn that life is not an endless internet argument where everything can be endlessly manipulated and argued . Choices will have real life consequences. Never mind social media: in the next 3 months reality will catch up with them

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  5. Dan Griffin

    The frustration that builds when kit built wagons derail randomly whilst running. 

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Take a deep breath, and check... You need a mirror . Sit them on the mirror , and see if all 4 feet are firmly on the ground . If they rock - there's your problem . Chassis not square.

       

      You say they are Tubes - which is I think the longest wagon chassis you are likely to encounter. Once you are over a 12' wheelbase the precision required to assemble them exactly square gets really quite demanding (The longer the wheelbase, the more any error in alignment is magnified).

      TBH , anything over 12' wheelbase is a strong candidate for building as compensated.

       

      Have you built the chassis "tight"? or is there some slop in the axles, allowing them to float slightly and take up a suitable level? It's the ones that I've built "tight" with no float that have given trouble. You may be able to melt one bearing in a bit with a soldering iron tip to ease one axle out and create a bit of float (Horrible bodge, but can be a life-saver). Alternatively , you may have to remove the axleguards at one end and rebuild with a compensation unit. (Etched W-irons)

       

      I doubt they derail randomly. Find the reason they are doing it, and you'll feel a whole lot better. But building something with this length of wheelbase entirely rigid is sticking out your neck a bit

       

       

       

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  6. 60021 Pen-y-Ghent

    Just finished reading all 20 books in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series back to back. What to do now?

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      On another tack:

      https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/RV5404?result-token=SioqK

      https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AX55114?result-token=SioqK

      https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/RV5819?result-token=SioqK

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  7. Liam

    One has to wonder who decides what music to play while they keep you on hold....

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      I once found a CD entitled "Music on Hold" in my then employer's Liverpool office

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  8. Ian Simpson

    Thameslink, Crossrail, HS2 - not exactly delivered smoothly to time and budget. So a genuine question: did British Rail do any better on large projects such as the WCML?

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      CTRL was much smoother. The WCML took 8 years and was descoped - no wires north of Preston

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  9. Hroth

    Spent the afternoon "watching" the snooker whilst writing xmas cards. The gum on the envelopes tastes like the exudate of putrefying slugs....

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      You have tasted the exudate of putrefying slugs....??

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  10. LMS_LNER_SR_GWR_fan2004

    I bet there aren’t many hs1 layouts

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Surprisingly few, given that all the "signature stock has been available RTR in OO, and much in N. Straford International anyone? nice depot connection to throw in .

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  11. The Fatadder

    Just managed to put my finger in the glue while working on Brent, only problem being it had just come out of the glue gun! On the plus side I cant feel the pain from my broken finger.....

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Ouch!

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  12. The Fatadder

    Very strange HST on the Cheltenham Spa service this evening, seems to have 2 TGS...

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      There are surfies in Cheltenham ? Surfing the waters?

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  13. Bernard Lamb

    A wasted hour at The British Museum looking for a perticular object. After a prolonged search on the computer and in the gallery by three members of staff we found that the object was out on loan.

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      The Rosetta Stone or the Elgin Marbles?

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  14. newbryford

    There seems more than the usual confrontational/argumentative type threads than usual. Is it because the weather's so cr@p and folks are getting cabin fever?

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Do we need a report on the Royston Vacey show??

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  15. Boris

    Beware of cheap imitation Borises

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Are modelu having a sale then?

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  16. Boris

    WTF! Just done my Sainsburys shop to be delivered Wednesday, why do all Sainsburys flower bouquets sat "not safe to eat"? What's wrong with the world?

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      I think the only people who might eat the flowers are too young to read the warnings

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  17. FPH 603

    What caused that crash at Richmond the other day?

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Can't quite believe that a misjudged stop at an obscure branch terminus has received global coverage

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  18. Andrew P

    A big THANKS for all the good will messages following my HEART ATTACK last Wednesday. Ambulance to Burton, Blues and Twos to Stoke and into Theatre withing 15 minutes. Very close according to Professor Nolan that was called in to do the opp.

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Best wishes for a full recovery

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  19. Mad McCann

    I’m wondering now if my Ultrascale EM wheelsets will knock in to OO. Any thoughts?

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Ultrascale use the same wheels for both ast a different back to back - so I don't see why not

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  20. NGT6 1315

    And the forecast for tonight: Persistent darkness.

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Followed by sunny intervals

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  21. Captain Kernow

    We recently bought a small wooden nail brush type thingy from Tesco, marked 'Calcot Manor Spa' (yes, from Tesco of all places). Of course, any visitors to the house will now think we pinched it from the hotel.

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Does Calcot Manor Spa actually exist? Or is it located just outside Lymeswold?

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  22. SHMD

    right! Let's have it out, right here right now. 3 rail Vs clockwork.

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      There ought to be a market for a clockwork Maunsell EMU

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  23. NGT6 1315

    J’accuse…!

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      He's La Bete Humaine

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  24. Trainshed Terry

    I have a job interveiw tomorrow the first one in 15 months that is a record for me. GLUP!!

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      Best of lucj

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  25. ian

    ian

    May and Hammond are in Downing Street - but where is Clarkson?

    1. Ravenser

      Ravenser

      On his way down the M1in a Jaguar?

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