laurenceb Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Be interesting to see which one works 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted October 12, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2021 2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: This was nicknamed a Hippo: PRR I1 2-10-0. That's unfair on the locomotive. Dave 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted October 12, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2021 Not sure this will be universally popular here. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-58881613 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 51 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: Not sure this will be universally popular here. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-58881613 You pays your money and takes your choice. Do you think I could get a refund then. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 3 hours ago, laurenceb said: Be interesting to see which one works I have already had good results with the commercial attractant. The rodent seems to be a bit more savvy than its Bretheren. I also bought 2 traditional type traps the other day on clearance from B&Q for a pound I have baited 1 with each bait and managed not to get my fingers caught in the trap. I will get the bl00dy thing one way or another 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted October 12, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2021 Just got back in from a training afternoon down in Broseley. Running short trains on an indoor line and longer ones out doors. It was quite nippy, not helped by me not having put on an extra layer of clothes. I was still dressed for going to the pharmacy this morning and getting my flu jab. On the rodent front, our traps appear to be running at 50% efficiency. Bait two, get one.... Sounds like some from of knitting technique. I've decided that providing the rain holds off, tomorrow will see the lawns get a good cut: Usually I put this off so early in October, and then end up with everything too wet to cut, so it ends up like a forest by the time the spring comes. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 It seems I missed a great Aurora Borealis display last night. Did anyone see it? 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted October 12, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2021 46 minutes ago, AndyID said: It seems I missed a great Aurora Borealis display last night. Did anyone see it? My great Aurora is always on display. 2 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted October 12, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2021 Realising that Telford & environs are somewhat north of the West Country, it would be remiss of me at this juncture not to mention the annual, every-year-without-fail-apart-from-the last-two-years, SWAG Members' Day extravaganza in Taunton. There will be cake. There will be pasties. There will be pie. There will also be some of the finest layouts to grace these pages and appear at several discerning exhibitions within the UK. Your attendance, ladies & gentlemen, would be most welcome, should you find yourself in the vicinity on Sunday 24th April, 2022. 5 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted October 12, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2021 I don't know whether anyone else here is having the same trouble but if I try to log on to RMW using my iPad, as soon as the site page appears so does the 'we care about your privacy' box and that's it - doesn't matter which buttons I press nothing happens. Access via my laptop, PC and iPhone are unaffected but since the iPad is my device of choice as a good compromise between screen size and portability it's annoying. I PM'd Andy Y about it and he tells me that folk have been reporting the issue since last week but so far he and the team can't find out what is wrong. I've tried clearing the cache, using a different browser and uninstalling redundant programs to clear up space but all to no avail. Bu**er. Dave 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted October 12, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2021 7 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: That's unfair on the locomotive. Dave it is alleged that the other nickname was Ti**ies due to the pair of large air tanks immediately above the pilot beam! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Afternoon all, My last proper day at my current school today (thankfully). Tomorrow I’m just here for four hours or take the PSAT, then I’m off until Monday for fall (autumn) break. In other news I was eating breakfast downtown on Saturday at my usual haunt and saw this pen. Very confusing. Douglas 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted October 12, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2021 25 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: Realising that Telford & environs are somewhat north of the West Country, it would be remiss of me at this juncture not to mention the annual, every-year-without-fail-apart-from-the last-two-years, SWAG Members' Day extravaganza in Taunton. There will be cake. There will be pasties. There will be pie. There will also be some of the finest layouts to grace these pages and appear at several discerning exhibitions within the UK. Your attendance, ladies & gentlemen, would be most welcome, should you find yourself in the vicinity on Sunday 24th April, 2022. Nicely said, Stu - but don't you owe it to these sensitive souls to warn them about those they might meet? 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 26 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: There will be cake. There will be pasties. There will be pie. Quick call HM’s Customs. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Catching up a bit here We have decamped to the motherland again to see the various members of Mrs SM42's family. FIL still awaiting an operation and has an appointment on Monday to see if he is fit enough for it this time around In the interests of getting fit we have already polished ( or should that be Polished) off a bottle of vodka. We used to get grass snakes in the pond at my parents. It started as an ornamental pond but became more wildlife pond as time went on. Mum was in the garden one day and heard a strange screech from the pond and on investigation found a grass snake had caught a frog. Grabbing a nearby oar ( don't ask) she hit the snake on the head and it released the frog. A mission to catch said snake then commenced using an old sweet jar and lots if prodding. Eventually we were successful and we released it at a nearby nature reserve. We were quite surprised as it sped off across the ground at how big this snake was. At least 4ft of it. It seemed like about a foot at the time of capture. Andy 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted October 12, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2021 33 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: I don't know whether anyone else here is having the same trouble but if I try to log on to RMW using my iPad, as soon as the site page appears so does the 'we care about your privacy' box and that's it - doesn't matter which buttons I press nothing happens. Access via my laptop, PC and iPhone are unaffected but since the iPad is my device of choice as a good compromise between screen size and portability it's annoying. I PM'd Andy Y about it and he tells me that folk have been reporting the issue since last week but so far he and the team can't find out what is wrong. I've tried clearing the cache, using a different browser and uninstalling redundant programs to clear up space but all to no avail. Bu**er. Dave Since the last software change, when I sign on to RMweb using my iPad, it gets rejected, and it takes another go to sign in successfully. 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I have a question for the flying TNMers. Yesterday as I flew through the stratosphere at 550mph ( in what is laughingly called the cruise,) I was dozing gently as one does, when I was rudely awakened by the plane going over a hump back bridge. Now I accept that turbulence is caused probably by air flowing about in the sky , but how do the guys up the front know when to expect it and turn the seatbelt light on? Andy 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted October 12, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2021 Well we have a Sea Lion and Brown Bear.... ...and as for aircraft bridges....of course..... 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Just now, New Haven Neil said: ...and as for aircraft bridges....of course..... Obvious really Held up with sky hooks no doubt Andy 2 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 8 minutes ago, SM42 said: Obvious really Held up with sky hooks no doubt Andy Alternatively https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_wind_shear_detection_and_alert_system 3 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted October 12, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2021 49 minutes ago, Northroader said: Since the last software change, when I sign on to RMweb using my iPad, it gets rejected, and it takes another go to sign in successfully. Doesn't matter how many times I try, the same thing happens with the privacy box. Let's hear it for software updates. If all updates were 100% able to take into account the updates of all other programs I guess all would be OK but as it is the trouble it entails for Andy Y and his like is considerable. Dave 2 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: Let's hear it for software updates. If all updates were 100% able to take into account the updates of all other programs I guess all would be OK but as it is the trouble it entails for Andy Y and his like is considerable. Dave Oh, yes!! Indeed it does. Edited October 12, 2021 by pH 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 14 minutes ago, AndyID said: Alternatively https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_wind_shear_detection_and_alert_system Isn't windshear associated with things like thunderstorms, which have rain and hail for the doppler radar to work off and a completely different phenomenon which is quite violent compared everyday turbulence? A clear sky or some relatively innocuous clouds, is there enough stuff out there to be picked up? Is it the same system but with various levels of warning? Andy 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted October 12, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Stubby47 said: .........the annual, every-year-without-fail-apart-from-the last-two-years, SWAG Members' Day extravaganza in Taunton. There will be cake. There will be pasties. There will be pie. There will, if at all possible, be me. If you are really unlucky we may be able to arrange a gang outing of the NHOC*. Dave *North Hipposhire Old Codgers 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: Doesn't matter how many times I try, the same thing happens with the privacy box. Let's hear it for software updates. If all updates were 100% able to take into account the updates of all other programs I guess all would be OK but as it is the trouble it entails for Andy Y and his like is considerable. Dave Tell me about it. Our DVT (Design Validation Test) department reported to me. It's one of the main reasons I retired at 57 "Is it working yet?" "Well, mostly, but there's one little corner case where it occasionally craps out." "AAARRRRGGGGHHH!!" Edited October 12, 2021 by AndyID moinfo 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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