Penlan Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 1956, 'Modelling the Old Time Railways' by Edward Beal. Year Leader in Mathematics at Kynaston Comp, then we moved down to Winchester and a Sec Mod., Still have the book, though to safeguard the cover, it has a further brown paper wrapper on it. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2021 29 minutes ago, Penlan said: 1956, 'Modelling the Old Time Railways' by Edward Beal. Year Leader in Mathematics at Kynaston Comp, then we moved down to Winchester and a Sec Mod., Still have the book, though to safeguard the cover, it has a further brown paper wrapper on it. To avoid the embarrassment of being seen with a book on model railways, hide it within the pages of a pornographic magazine… 2 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 25, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2021 7 minutes ago, Regularity said: To avoid the embarrassment of being seen with a book on model railways, hide it within the pages of a pornographic magazine… Ah, Model Railway Journal, you mean? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2021 1 minute ago, Compound2632 said: Ah, Model Railway Journal, you mean? There’s no call for obscenity… 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 25, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2021 5 minutes ago, Regularity said: There’s no call for obscenity… @Quarryscapes trades as "Coast Line Models". I'd half-remembered the name and googled on "West Coast Models". Wolverton Diners it was not! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2021 24 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: @Quarryscapes trades as "Coast Line Models". I'd half-remembered the name and googled on "West Coast Models". Wolverton Diners it was not! And there, m’lud, the defence rests its case… 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 (edited) 16 hours ago, Compound2632 said: trades as "Coast Line Models". And he produces excellent numberplates - I had some arrive the other day Edited August 26, 2021 by Penlan 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 I still have my copy of David Jenkinson's "Rails in the Fells" that I chose for a school prize (Form 1b year prize, Keswick School, 1976) 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John-Miles Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 I never won a school prize, they didn't think I was worth it and eventually I left and did my A levels at Tech College Emeritus Professor John Miles, BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MICE, MBCS, MASCE - so that's one up to me. 4 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeOxon Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, John-Miles said: I never won a school prize, they didn't think I was worth it and eventually I left and did my A levels at Tech College Emeritus Professor John Miles, BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MICE, MBCS, MASCE - so that's one up to me. What they call a "late developer" 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 26, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 26, 2021 46 minutes ago, MikeOxon said: What they call a "late developer" I thought that was a deceased photography enthusiast - vide: Kind Hearts and Coronets. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, John-Miles said: I never won a school prize, they didn't think I was worth it and eventually I left and did my A levels at Tech College Emeritus Professor John Miles, BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MICE, MBCS, MASCE - so that's one up to me. You could never win, as despite winning a prize every year I was at the grammar school, I told that I would be lucky to get a job running the pick'n'mix counter in Woolies. As John Lennon said, they hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool. Edited August 26, 2021 by CKPR 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 26, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 26, 2021 A friend posted a profile picture on Friends Reunited of him in front of his S class Mercedes with a personalised number plate with the message, “To Mr. Bowen who said I’d never amount to anything, you are welcome polish my car any time you like.” That was his only reason for going on that site. 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 20 hours ago, John-Miles said: Emeritus Professor John Miles, BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MICE, MBCS, MASCE - so that's one up to me. I thought 'C. Eng.,' was supposed to cut out all that proliferation of titles 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 I think it's a separate qualification, not that I was ever that clever. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharris Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, Penlan said: I thought 'C. Eng.,' was supposed to cut out all that proliferation of titles I used to be MIEEE and MIEE, but gave up on those when I realised I was just paying for their magazines which I rarely got around to reading. These days I just use Dr when I feel like it - I like to confuse people by being a doctor of a medical based subject, but not a doctor of medicine. Edited August 27, 2021 by sharris 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quarryscapes Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Talk of the devil and he shall appear.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 27, 2021 6 hours ago, sharris said: I like to confuse people by being a doctor of a medical based subject, but not a doctor of medicine. Ah, the difference between an earned title and a job description! 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John-Miles Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 I did get a certificate at Junior School for swimming a width of the local baths (I still treasure it). Doesn't sound that impressive but the baths were unheated and outdoors. You deserved a prize for just jumping in. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted August 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 28, 2021 My sympathies John-Miles. I likewise learnt to swim (just) in an outdoor, unheated pool in the Peak District. We hoped it would rain on swimming days as it made the water seem "warmer". 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 28, 2021 My other half learned to swim in the Tay estuary - really, the North Sea. I think that trumps nearly all of us! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) Enough! It is abundantly clear that I've not been doing enough (any) wagon modelling recently - nor will I next week as we're off on holiday again, this time near Kington - where we had booked to go at the beginning of April 2020... I'd even bought the guidebook: Meanwhile, here's some advice on packing: High sided wagon No. 88181, built 1892, photographed on 14 February 1902, illustrating method of loading boxes. [DY 2494, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) licence by the National Railway Museum.] Edited September 28, 2022 by Compound2632 Images re-inserted 12 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted August 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) Those casks at the top, you couldn't make it up Nice illustration of a repainted plank, too. PS: Does anyone happen to have a good view of the inside framing on an RCH 1887 wagon? I posted a small query on Dave's blog here. Edited August 28, 2021 by Mikkel 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 28, 2021 18 minutes ago, Mikkel said: PS: Does anyone happen to have a good view of the inside framing on an RCH 1887 wagon? I posted a small query on Dave's blog here. I have replied there. As to the load, I think it's been got up for the photo from whatever boxes, crates, etc. were to hand - in other words it's a set-up for the photo, not a real load. But it agrees with the description of loading given in a 1907 article by F.W. West, the LNWR Crewe Goods Agent, which I have quoted before. Of course a real load would be sheeted and roped (or roped and sheeted?) before leaving the goods station. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 32 minutes ago, Mikkel said: ... PS: Does anyone happen to have a good view of the inside framing on an RCH 1887 wagon? I posted a small query on Dave's blog here. I have always had the impression that all RCH wagon specs until the 1923 one were so generic that each manufacturer could basically make it up as they went along. So I'm by no means sure that any photo of a wagon would mean much without knowing the name of its maker. A bit like C3P0 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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