RMweb Gold Regularity Posted July 12, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Edwardian said: S, as he has done one or two locos in that scale Yes. I know. One of them still sits in a box, awaiting the day… The one at the back is Knuckles’ own lovely model. The one in front is 68.5% bigger by volume… Edited July 12, 2021 by Regularity Photo showing 34 months’ indolence added… 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckles Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 Ah, that café : ) Was a nice day that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted July 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 13, 2021 Yes. Enjoyed it muchly. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfisher9147 Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 Edwardian great work slowly catching up with it. Did you find a model to do 0-4-2 loco for gnr loco? I found one based on early gwr auto tank. https://www.shapeways.com/shops/stafford_road_model_works Mike 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 13, 2021 Author Share Posted July 13, 2021 1 minute ago, kingfisher9147 said: Edwardian great work slowly catching up with it. Did you find a model to do 0-4-2 loco for gnr loco? I found one based on early gwr auto tank. https://www.shapeways.com/shops/stafford_road_model_works Mike Thank you Mike. And well done! Yes, I must return to my chassis fettling. I do want a 517, one with the straight-backed Swindon bunker. Thank you for the link to Stafford Road Models, I was forgetting that Elliot had produced 3D-printed 517 bodies. Elliot Powick is the very talented designer who produced the Rails of Sheffield's ex-SE&CR van. He and our very own Guy Rixon being the project's very talented CAD designers. You got me thinking, of course, how nice it would be to have a GNR 0-4-2 for Castle Aching! 7 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfisher9147 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 What chassis are you using on the 0-6-0 sharp Stewart? I am looking to find one to do the Manchester and milford loco used on the Aberystwyth to carmarthen before the gwr took over. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 14, 2021 Author Share Posted July 14, 2021 53 minutes ago, kingfisher9147 said: What chassis are you using on the 0-6-0 sharp Stewart? I am looking to find one to do the Manchester and milford loco used on the Aberystwyth to carmarthen before the gwr took over. This One 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfisher9147 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 Thanks. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 19, 2021 Author Share Posted July 19, 2021 F-cking Highways England! This is a bridge over the former NER Eden Valley branch, which opened in 1862: This is what Highways England has just done to it: This trashes a beautiful Victorian bridge. It also frustrates any chance of the preserved Eden Valley and Stainmore sections ever joining. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 The Cumbrian Railways Association have taken up this case as other bridges further along the old SD&LU/CK&PR line are seemingly also at risk. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 What was the reason given for doing that - as a bridge reinforcement it seems a poor civil engineering solution so was it instead meant to create a dam to help floodwaters back up and immerse the area? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2021 There seems to be a lot of stupidity around with the destruction of historic railway infrastructure at the moment. Network Rail was keen to destroy a listed Brunel era bridge and were only blocked by a firmly insistent parish council. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-52425866 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? The 'excuse' for Great Musgrave was bridge reinforcement. Apparently the British civil engineering community is horrified and shamed. 7 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2021 4 hours ago, Edwardian said: The 'excuse' for Great Musgrave was bridge reinforcement. Apparently the British civil engineering community is horrified and shamed. Ashamed, not shamed! Shame is due to HRE, who have spent 25 times more than the cost of repairs in the name of vandalism. But a few contractors were paid well out it, no doubt. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 After the widespread horror at the treatment of Great Musgrave bridge, it may be felt that Highways England are not fit custodians of the Historical Railways Estate. I, however, view this as more of a communications issue, to be solved by amending the HRE Group logo to reflect better what it does: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 5 hours ago, Edwardian said: Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? The 'excuse' for Great Musgrave was bridge reinforcement. Apparently the British civil engineering community is horrified and shamed. It is good to see such economic prudence being demonstrated by Highway England. Choice A: Infill with aggregate and concrete, £124,000. Choice B: Repoint the bridge's brickwork to allow the load rating uprated from 17 to 40 Tonnes, £5000. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2021 1 hour ago, rocor said: It is good to see such economic prudence being demonstrated by Highway England. Choice A: Infill with aggregate and concrete, £124,000. Choice B: Repoint the bridge's brickwork to allow the load rating uprated from 17 to 40 Tonnes, £5000. Ah, but governments and their agencies - and by extension their contractors - are spending someone else's money which, by definition, is not as valuable as normal money. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2021 Personally I think the extra £119,000 shoud come out of the Highways England salary budget that might just concentrate their thinking. Oh and a pro rata reduction in pension for any of the perpetrators that have retired, tripled if they are now 'consultants' to the contractors. Don 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 (edited) Turn those frowns upside down and look on the bright side. Modelling bridges has become really easy, no tricky arched brickwork to scribe, just needs a kg of plaster poured in a pile and whack a bus on top. Edited July 20, 2021 by monkeysarefun 2 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2021 5 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: Turn those frowns upside down and look on the bright side. Modelling bridges has become really easy, no tricky arched brickwork to scribe, just needs a kg of plaster poured in a pile and whack a bus on top. Bus? You must be joking - you don't get those in the countryside any more. 2 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 14 minutes ago, ian said: Ah, but governments and their agencies - and by extension their contractors - are spending someone else's money which, by definition, is not as valuable as normal money. Indeed. I dislike litigation against any form of public authority. Without fail it is characterised by: (1) An incredible self-righteousness ("we are the government/council/ statutory body etc, we are always the good guys and cannot be wrong') (2) Far dirtier fighting and far less integrity than is usual with commercial opponents ('Because we are the good guys and must be right, whatever we do in defence of our decisions must also be good, or, at least, justified') (3) Doubling-down, destructively if necessary, rather than change position ('While you may think that we make our priority @rse covering by the mediocrities in our organisation responsible for this mess, we assure you that we are motivated only by the public interest. Besides, we are the good guys, so our good is the public good') (4) No imperative to settle. They are playing with other people's money, so there are really no consequences for them ('We are the good guys, incapable of acting save in the public good, so we can justify all this money on defending what you consider indefensible. Shame on you for suing us and making us spend so much money on digging our heels in') Commercial parties, on the other hand, have a scrap and then do a deal both sides can live with. And then get on with what they are actually supposed to be doing. My experience has suggested to me that there are a number of government ministers and civil servants who are, to adopt a phrase 'f-cking hopeless' and who deserved to be 'sacked multiple times' I know the Egregious Cummings is an arrogant so and so convinced he is the most intelligent bloke in the room, but I can quite believe that, whilst in government, much of the time he may in fact have been right about that. 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2021 (edited) The below has just been posted on Facepest by the Stainmore Railway Company page: We have an update for our followers regarding the infilling of Great Musgrave Bridge by Highways England. This was infilled under Permitted Development Rights which only allows the work to remain in place for a limited period of time before it has to be removed unless Eden District Council give their permission for it to remain. Eden District Council have NOT given such permission and thus Highways England now have to submit a retrospective planning application. If that is subsequently rejected by the Council, then the infill all has to be dug out and the bridge restored. We will obviously notify our followers when the application is submitted and hope that as many of you as possible will submit an objection to the application so that it is rejected and this appalling act of vandalism to our heritage will be reversed. THANK YOU Lets hope that sense prevails and the local council does not approve retrospectively. I also noted that there is a petition to stop Highways England from infilling any more railway bridges: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/588581?fbclid=IwAR1G9umXjhTnpzMHL1M-ewoTuOTpBbPKXuSDnK2XS6xqgdJ2jEZ_dXDqHcw Edited July 20, 2021 by NeilHB Edit to add link to petition. 5 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbcompound Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 58 minutes ago, Edwardian said: My experience has suggested to me that there are a number of government ministers and civil servants who are, to adopt a phrase 'f-cking hopeless' and who deserved to be 'sacked multiple times' I'm certain that all my bosses from the Lord Chancellor's Department, Court of Protection, are now dead, but as an example of the level of stupidity in the 70s I used to recieve documents relating to my caseload, which then had to be "sent up to be filed" (filing evidence is clearly important in legal matters). It took a day each way before the document was returned with its "filed" stamp and I could then action it if necessary. One day I had an urgent requirement to action something, so rather than wait two days I carried it up two floors to the evidence filing section. I handed it over and it was stamped and returned to me. "Don't you have to enter it in a ledger as filed?" I innocently asked. "Oh no. we just stamp it". I duly (and completely circumventing protocol) sent a note to the Master of the Court explaing how this was an unnecessary delay, and that maybe the case officers should stamp their own documents as recieved and filed. I was immediately summoned to the presence, and standing in front of the Master was told in no uncertain terms that filing evidence was of vital importance and I was too lowly to do it. Explaining that the procedure was an empty sham only got me in more trouble. I did not stay long. 1 1 4 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2021 8 minutes ago, NeilHB said: I also noted that there is a petition to stop Highways England from infilling any more railway bridges: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/588581?fbclid=IwAR1G9umXjhTnpzMHL1M-ewoTuOTpBbPKXuSDnK2XS6xqgdJ2jEZ_dXDqHcw Signed. I encourage all UK based parishoners to do likewise. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted July 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Edwardian said: Indeed. I dislike litigation against any form of public authority. Without fail it is characterised by: (1) An incredible self-righteousness ("we are the government/council/ statutory body etc, we are always the good guys and cannot be wrong') (2) Far dirtier fighting and far less integrity than is usual with commercial opponents ('Because we are the good guys and must be right, whatever we do in defence of our decisions must also be good, or, at least, justified') (3) Doubling-down, destructively if necessary, rather than change position ('While you may think that we make our priority @rse covering by the mediocrities in our organisation responsible for this mess, we assure you that we are motivated only by the public interest. Besides, we are the good guys, so our good is the public good') (4) No imperative to settle. They are playing with other people's money, so there are really no consequences for them ('We are the good guys, incapable of acting save in the public good, so we can justify all this money on defending what you consider indefensible. Shame on you for suing us and making us spend so much money on digging our heels in') Commercial parties, on the other hand, have a scrap and then do a deal both sides can live with. And then get on with what they are actually supposed to be doing. My experience has suggested to me that there are a number of government ministers and civil servants who are, to adopt a phrase 'f-cking hopeless' and who deserved to be 'sacked multiple times' I know the Egregious Cummings is an arrogant so and so convinced he is the most intelligent bloke in the room, but I can quite believe that, whilst in government, much of the time he may in fact have been right about that. Oh so true the only real hope is if the national audit office or a select committee finds evidence of deliberate fraud which is probably very unlikely. One point I would disagree on Cummings maybe rather clever but not in my book intelligent there is a difference an intelligent person recognises that antagonising practically everyone is not the best way to get the result you want. As for MPs and Ministers do not have to be clever/ good at their job and being hopeless to any degree is no bar to getting elected or being made a minister. We only have ourselves to blame complete tossers rarely lose their seat at the next election. As for civil servants I am convinced that to get to the top in the civil service is amatter if CS politics and that being right about stupid descisions is probably a bar to further promotion. I have been a civil servant during part of my career good pension rights which we retained when sold off. I would also suggest to Webb Compound that telling your boss that you have an insoluble opportunity doesn't go down well. One boss who would always tell you to prioritise if you suggested you hadn't enough time to complete all the jobs, was totally flummoxed when I responded ok then I choose which are the important ones and which can be left. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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