RMweb Premium figworthy Posted February 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 25, 2021 7 hours ago, Winslow Boy said: Now hang on a minute you can't just go suggesting something like that just because it seems like a good idea. You have weigh these suggestions up. Consider all the possible outcomes before you make a proposal like that. Besides which the committee is considering the previous submission about the colour of the Robin Reliant. Come back in six months once you've done a feasibility study. I don't know people now a days. They think they can just jump right to the front of the queue. If we allow that sort of thing you'll never know where its going to end. Good idea though. Perhaps one of the staff can sort it out once the crate has been unloaded, or the engine shed door replaced. Adrian 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 2 hours ago, John Besley said: One of those card index systems... with dog eared corners and Manila index card separates? All held in place with a big elastic band ? Go find us a prewar Roladex machine and we'll get back to you... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 4 hours ago, figworthy said: Perhaps one of the staff can sort it out once the crate has been unloaded, or the engine shed door replaced. Adrian Oi, I don't think we can wait that long! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted February 26, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2021 (edited) Railcar waiting in bay platform for passengers to load from local service. Edited March 27 by KNP 32 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheSteam Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 20 hours ago, checkrail said: Bit risky of the LMS letting one of their vans go to LM. Look what happened to the last one. Who nicked the wheels and left it on blocks by the goods shed?. Perhaps LM's venerable PC should stop chatting to the shopkeeper and go find the culprits! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted February 26, 2021 Author Share Posted February 26, 2021 Pssst......do what to buy some wheels!!!! No questions asked. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted February 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26, 2021 9 hours ago, KNP said: Railcar waiting in bay platform for passengers to load from local service. Just an observation, and in no way a criticism but where the railcar and steam engines wait should really have oily grungy ballast as all these drip hot oil, coal dust, ash etc onto the ballast, for a while I've puzzled over this thinking something was missing... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted February 27, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 27, 2021 (edited) From the upstairs window of the shoe factory I stare mindlessly across the station to the engine shed. I see the crane is out and about? Edited March 27 by KNP 33 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted February 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2021 Those back gardens look really inviting- so realistic! Has the photographer up there just been reading the Reliant van catalogue and shown it to his wife. She will be choosing the colour, probably! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted February 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2021 I like these 'new' views, they make for a different perspective on life at Enborne and Little Muddle. P.S. Are you a contortionist by any chance? 2 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 15 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said: Those back gardens look really inviting- so realistic! Has the photographer up there just been reading the Reliant van catalogue and shown it to his wife. She will be choosing the colour, probably! Thanks Already done and transfers in production.... 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulgabill Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 1 hour ago, KNP said: From the upstairs window of the shoe factory I stare mindlessly across the station to the engine shed. I see the crane is out and about? Is that a euphamism for........ in a box, away from the grandchildren? TONY 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 13 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said: I like these 'new' views, they make for a different perspective on life at Enborne and Little Muddle. P.S. Are you a contortionist by any chance? Thanks. Not a contortionist just have long arms. Remote operation, one outstretched arm, camera resting and held on roof, then looking at picture on iPhone to adjust positioning and taking picture. Very much a two handed operation with the iPhone sitting in the harbour..... Encombe? 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted February 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2021 26 minutes ago, KNP said: Encombe? Muddle! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 15 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said: Muddle! Little! (getting the hang of this word association game now) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted February 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2021 I had just been reading about Wash Common, near Newbury. http://www.enborne.org.uk/Home_17056.aspx 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted February 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 27, 2021 41 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said: I had just been reading about Wash Common, near Newbury. http://www.enborne.org.uk/Home_17056.aspx Do have a link for the Little Muddle Parish Council web page ... wonder if they've got a Jackie Weaver 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted February 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said: I had just been reading about Wash Common, near Newbury. http://www.enborne.org.uk/Home_17056.aspx Wash Common and Enborne feature in my family history and railway history: Enborne was the birthplace of Albert Pibworth, "Old Pib", who was one of the drivers on the famous first non-stop Flying Scotsman run to Edinburgh. He also took part in the 1925 exchange trials, driving an A1 pacific on the GWR. In retirement he lived at Wash Common and is buried in Enborne churchyard. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blogs/entry/22886-driver-albert-pibworth-on-the-gwr/ Edited February 27, 2021 by Harlequin 5 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted February 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 27, 2021 5 hours ago, KNP said: Thanks. Not a contortionist just have long arms. Remote operation, one outstretched arm, camera resting and held on roof, then looking at picture on iPhone to adjust positioning and taking picture. Very much a two handed operation with the iPhone sitting in the harbour..... Encombe? Doesn't the phone get wet, sitting in the harbour or is the tide out? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
autocoach Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Ah! The Vale of Muddle.....well muddle on.... 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted February 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 27, 2021 5 hours ago, Siberian Snooper said: Doesn't the phone get wet, sitting in the harbour or is the tide out? It must be a ip phone... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted February 28, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) Lets slow things down and catch the Dean Goods clanking across the viaduct. Must, must get around to doing a transfer for the name stone... Can you remind me please...thanks Edited March 27 by KNP 18 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 17 minutes ago, KNP said: Lets slow things down and catch the Dean Goods clanking across the viaduct. Must, must get around to doing a transfer for the name stone... Can you remind me please...thanks Great pic Kevin, but to me it does beg the question, as to why in heavens name was it designed with such a short roof? On hot day, Sunburn and exhaustion for the Crew and on a wet day, which the GWR seemed to have a lot of, two very wet, cold crew that might catch a cold, or worse still influenza etc. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulgabill Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 But a big improvement over no roof at all. Cutting edge technology in it;s day. TONY 3 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 8 minutes ago, Andrew P said: Great pic Kevin, but to me it does beg the question, as to why in heavens name was it designed with such a short roof? On hot day, Sunburn and exhaustion for the Crew and on a wet day, which the GWR seemed to have a lot of, two very wet, cold crew that might catch a cold, or worse still influenza etc. I seem to remember reading, that when they first started building cabs, rather than just spectacle plates, it was the crews that objected the most! It seems that they regarded it as an insult to their manliness. 1 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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