The Night Mail

[bbishop]

I have just returned from the consultant and the MRI scan revealed a meniscus tear.  So will be resolved by an arthroscopy, hopefully in a couple of months.  Bill

[DenysW]

Until I saw the bird images I thought this was a plan to hex all panniers by sticking pins into this one. Pannierphobia to excess, I feel.

 

Given the large number of these 3Fs, was there a (Top Secret) Small Engine policy at the Great Wander 'Round, leaned from a certain Midlands enterprise?

 

 

[Tony_S]

12 minutes ago, DenysW said:

Until I saw the bird images I thought this was a plan to hex all panniers by sticking pins into this one. Pannierphobia to excess, I feel.

The birdie vinyl tablecloth is to protect the table from spillages when modelling takes place in the dining room. All our tablecloths for use when dining are capable of dealing with food and drink spillage. 

[Tony_S]

26 minutes ago, DenysW said:

Given the large number of these 3Fs, was there a (Top Secret) Small Engine policy at the Great Wander 'Round, leaned from a certain Midlands enterprise?

When I was young ( we lived in Somerset), there was a branch line at the end of the road (three houses away) and there were only small engines like panniers and small prairies. I was really excited one day as my Dad said a diesel would be going past for some sort of trial run. I don’t know what I expected but I thought it just looked like a coach. 

Edited January 17, 2022 by Tony_S

[Gwiwer]

BLT has been a Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato snack (sandwich, baguette, roll, bap or whatever) in my life for longer than it has been a Branch Line Terminus.  At least two other options are available   

 

I don't suffer from Pannieritis nor GWRitis.  Maybe a touch of Essaremuosis (go on, work it out  ) and a predisposition towards Scenication of the Micromensae.  (You can work that one out with the aid of a little Latin too)  

 

In other news a surprise and very unplanned visit occurred when the MD of a well-respected Camborne-based business stepped off a train almost in front of me at the House of Fun early this morning and well over 300 miles from his front door.  In between safely coaching a trainee it was good to have a long-overdue catch-up before he went on his way towards a Green Train Railway depot in deepest Sarflunden.  

 

Matters might become more frequent at the House of Fun tomorrow as I was offered beans for lunch  and am threatened with tagine for dinner which includes prunes   A good thing, perhaps, that Who Gives A Cr@p delivered a box of 48 rolls when I ordered 24 and invited us to keep them without additional payment! 

Edited January 17, 2022 by Gwiwer
"Little Latin" NOT "Little Latino" ffs @ Autocorrupt!

[SM42]

1 hour ago, bbishop said:

Pornography!

 

Ooo! Ooo! 

 

Class 40 video next then 

 

Andy

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, bbishop said:

Pornography!

Yes, that German DCC is disgusting!

[Winslow Boy]

For those of use poor sods in charge of cemeteries there were special procedures that needed to be followed when a poor soul had passed away due to pannieristis.

 

The coffin had to be lined with lead so as to ensure that the surrounding graves did not become infected. Plus the grave had to be bricked lined and a special note put on the burial records to ensure that it wasn't used again for a thousand years.

 

However for a small donation to the C O E F - that's the cemetery officers endowment fund to you, this could be reduced to a mere twenty fives, if the donation was large enough of course. Not that I would consider such a thing of course but I heard about from a friend of a friend.

[AndyID]

3 hours ago, Canal Digger said:

00 Gauge, 3rd Rail Linear Induction anyone?

 

Please see 

 

Expand  

 

Nice, but I don't think it's a linear induction motor. Induction motors induce an alternating current in a conductive rotor or linear plate. That looks more like a magnetic impulse thingy 

 

Is it powered by AC or DC?

 

According to the instructions '12v DC or 20v AC....if using a transformer  it should have a output of not less than 2A owing to the starting loads'.

 

Re Linear or Impulse: Yes it's called Impulse Drive on the box and in the instructions. To me the same thing, please explain the difference.

 

Induction motors have a lot in common with transformers. An alternating current in a primary winding (or windings if three-phase) induces current in the secondary. That creates an opposing force that makes the rotor turn or, in the case of a linear motor, repels the primary from a static secondary.

 

In linear motors the secondary it typically an aluminium plate. There is no magnetic repulsion or attraction involved.

 

Your impulse thingy will run on DC which means it isn't an induction machine. I think it operates by kicking the vehicle along by periodic magnetic attraction.

 

More on linear induction motors here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_induction_motor

 

 

[Tony_S]

33 minutes ago, SM42 said:

 

Ooo! Ooo! 

 

Class 40 video next then 

 

Andy

I am sure I have a Class 40 green diesel but I definitely have a Class 45. Unfortunately it isn’t a sound fitted one.

[jamie92208]

2 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

For those of use poor sods in charge of cemeteries there were special procedures that needed to be followed when a poor soul had passed away due to pannieristis.

 

The coffin had to be lined with lead so as to ensure that the surrounding graves did not become infected. Plus the grave had to be bricked lined and a special note put on the burial records to ensure that it wasn't used again for a thousand years.

 

However for a small donation to the C O E F - that's the cemetery officers endowment fund to you, this could be reduced to a mere twenty fives, if the donation was large enough of course. Not that I would consider such a thing of course but I heard about from a friend of a friend.

I'm sure that my late friend Tony Bond would have agreed, not only was he a former head of cemeteries  and parks but he was a life long red engine fan.  He it was who gave me his EM gauge Turbomotive when I was off to operate Hungerford at the GWR study group AGM at Portishead. On Sunday afternoon,  i replaced a King on IIRC the Ocean Liner Express with Turbomotove. The line of GWR glitterati  in front of the layout were a sight to behold as there jaws hung open in turn as the loco ran along the layout. "What's that " shreiked one of them. "I'ts what Stanier would have built if he'd stayed at Swindon said I.  I wasn't invited as an operator again. I wonder why.

 

Jamie

[AndyID]

7 hours ago, br2975 said:

 

Your trip to Ely was enjoyable, because you visited Ely in Cambridgeshire.

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The Ely to which we refer, is a western suburb of Cardiff.

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Trip Advisor would be hard pressed to find one reason to visit Ely (Cardiff) let alone ten reasons - albeit, Trip Advisor could find dozens of reasons NOT to visit Ely (Cardiff).

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Be thankful for the 200 or so mile gap twixt the two Elys.

 

Thanks for the clarification. I was once offered a job in nearby Diss which we rather liked. I was beginning to think we must have missed something 

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Gwiwer said:

BLT has been a Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato snack (sandwich, baguette, roll, bap or whatever) in my life for longer than it has been a Branch Line Terminus.  At least two other options are available   

 

I don't suffer from Pannieritis nor GWRitis.  Maybe a touch of Essaremuosis (go on, work it out  ) and a predisposition towards Scenication of the Micromensae.  (You can work that one out with the aid of a little Latin too)  

 

In other news a surprise and very unplanned visit occurred when the MD of a well-respected Camborne-based business stepped off a train almost in front of me at the House of Fun early this morning and well over 300 miles from his front door.  In between safely coaching a trainee it was good to have a long-overdue catch-up before he went on his way towards a Green Train Railway depot in deepest Sarflunden.  

 

Matters might become more frequent at the House of Fun tomorrow as I was offered beans for lunch  and am threatened with tagine for dinner which includes prunes   A good thing, perhaps, that Who Gives A Cr@p delivered a box of 48 rolls when I ordered 24 and invited us to keep them without additional payment! 

 

I thought the otterspeeling version was better 

 

I'd say more but I'd likely be banned.

[Dave Hunt]

23 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

........when I was off to operate Hungerford at the GWR study group AGM at Portishead. On Sunday afternoon,  i replaced a King on IIRC the Ocean Liner Express with Turbomotove.......

 

Many years ago when I was stationed in Germany the RAFG model railway club had a couple of exhibitions at the clubrooms. The main layout was a large OO tailchaser that was vaguely GWR-ish and featured several express trains headed by Kings, Castles etc. I had made an Airfix 'Rocket' kit that although unpowered would run on OO track and was part of a static exhibit. On the Sunday afternoon two of the non-GWR orientated club members hatched a plot and one of them put Rocket in front of the next express to leave the fiddle yard while the other one at front of house told the viewers that the GWR was suffering from problems with their locomotives and had to have assistance from another company. When the train appeared there was laughter and applause from the public and muttering from the GWR aficionados.

 

The following year one of the club members had just bought a Hornby HST and was desperate to put it in service so the terrible twins did the same trick with my Rocket.

 

Dave

[Compound2632]

59 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I was off to operate Hungerford at the GWR study group AGM at Portishead.

 

You were doing what?

 

The dark (green) secrets of your mis-spent youth are coming out...

[iL Dottore]

3 hours ago, bbishop said:

Pornography!

That’s really tame. No more racy than a 40s pin-up.

 

For the real under-the-counter stuff for “gentlemen connoisseurs of a certain proclivity“ you have specialist publications such as “Gleaming and oily! inside motions in all their naked glory“ or “Lust for coal: the red hot fire boxes of the LMS” or even “without chimneys - for lovers of all things electric”

 

Or so I am told.,,

Edited January 17, 2022 by iL Dottore

[iL Dottore]

4 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

When a poor soul suffering from acute Pannierphilia gets to the stage where (s)he starts to lust after the likes of Swansea, Penzance or Paddington, you know the condition is  now terminal.

I can understand it a predilection for Paddington or even a penchant for Penzance; but Slavering over Swansea? For God’s sake, why?

 

Now that IS perverse!

[jamie92208]

13 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

You were doing what?

 

The dark (green) secrets of your mis-spent youth are coming out...

I had the vaccine before I went.

 

Jamie

[polybear]

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

For those of use poor sods in charge of cemeteries there were special procedures that needed to be followed when a poor soul had passed away due to pannieristis.

 

The coffin had to be lined with lead so as to ensure that the surrounding graves did not become infected. Plus the grave had to be bricked lined and a special note put on the burial records to ensure that it wasn't used again for a thousand years.

 

However for a small donation to the C O E F - that's the cemetery officers endowment fund to you, this could be reduced to a mere twenty fives, if the donation was large enough of course. Not that I would consider such a thing of course but I heard about from a friend of a friend.

 

Bear seems to recall a documentary many moons ago about Northern Ireland - and graveyards.....

It was mentioned that there was a dividing wall across the cemetery, one half being for catholic and the other for protestant beliefs.  The wall went done nine feet (or was it twelve?) so that spirits couldn't cross in the afterlife....

[Dave Hunt]

I think that the spirit of Irish funerals was encapsulated in Spike Milligan's Puckoon.

 

Dave

[jamie92208]

On 17/01/2022 at 19:46, jamie92208 said:

I had the vaccine before I went.

 

Jamie

And here is the proof, and doesn't it look good.

Jamie

Edited April 23, 2022 by jamie92208

[Happy Hippo]

41 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

I can understand it a predilection for Paddington or even a penchant for Penzance; but Slavering over Swansea? For God’s sake, why?

 

Now that IS perverse!

I'd be careful there.

 

Swansea was the westernmost terminus of the Midland Railway.

[Dave Hunt]

The Midland being the only company to have an involvement in lines and stations in all four countries of the U.K.

 

Dave

[Compound2632]

4 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

The Midland being the only company to have an involvement in lines and stations in all four countries of the U.K.

 

Ahem. LNWR.

[Compound2632]

12 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

And here is the proof, and doesn't it look good.

 

There really is something wrong between eyeball and brain. I read that as: "And here is the proof and it doesn't look good."