RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 18, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 18, 2019 Quote "It is often better to travel hopefully than to arrive." Did Confucius say that? It definitely applies to golf today. But I must remember that it is "only a game". It is busy on the Up just now, and next to arrive is the 1130 from Kings Lynn, Ivatt hauled, of course. Not one of my better efforts, but the tried and trusted rear three quarter shot from under Crescent Bridge came out better. Recently transfered to KX, 60048 is revisiting its former home with the 1040 KX- Grantham. I've just noticed some more starlings. They must fly in after I've finished photoshopping. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 There murmurationing I believe. Or should that be Infuriating. Golf is only a Game ? The legendary Bill Shankly said of Football "it's not just a game it's more important than life itself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 18, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 18, 2019 16 minutes ago, CUTLER2579 said: There murmurationing I believe. Or should that be Infuriating. Golf is only a Game ? The legendary Bill Shankly said of Football "it's not just a game it's more important than life itself. No, he didn't. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 On 17/05/2019 at 09:48, great northern said: The paint and lining finish on that Pullman is gorgeous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said: No, he didn't. OK he actually said "'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that".' Edited May 18, 2019 by CUTLER2579 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 42 minutes ago, CUTLER2579 said: OK he actually said "'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that".' He was so very wrong, the matter that is far, far more important than football is finding an automatic coupling/uncoupling system that works on your model railway. Empires have risen and fallen over this greatest of philosophical and mechanical challenges. 1 1 1 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 18, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 hour ago, CUTLER2579 said: OK he actually said "'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that".' Accurate quote but not put in context. He was answering what he, rightly, considered to be a silly question from a journalist. He did not really mean it. Scottish humour can be a bit "special". 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 18, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2019 9 hours ago, Martin S-C said: The paint and lining finish on that Pullman is gorgeous. More of Tim's work Martin. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 18, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 18, 2019 I travelled hopefully, and arrived. Hope lasted until the 7th hole, where I took ten. B***** ball hit a tree, and shot sideways fifty yards and out of bounds. One does not win with a ten on the card. Tonight's pictures. First, Doncaster at rest. Then the Up Yorkshire Pullman, behind Copley Hill's A1 Pommern. Another very common sight, as all that shed's engines were. It was a nearly new ball, as well......... 21 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 19, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 19, 2019 More Yorkshire Pullman. Pommern under the roof. and out into daylight again. On with things I shall now get. 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podhunter Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 On 17/05/2019 at 09:48, great northern said: I did not notice all the mess in the sky. Those look like a murmuration of starlings. Though how you make a 1:76 scale starling is beyond me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 On 16/05/2019 at 08:06, stewartingram said: Just a thought if I may? As a 31A loco, would it be more appropriate for it to be carrying discs rather than lamps? Stewart I have only heard this anecdotally , so I can’t say 100% , and please correct me if anyone knows better , butmy understanding is that regulations relating to headcode discs only applied to the Eastern section, and then probably trains coming to the London area. Its seems probable to me though, because there is plenty of photo graphic evidence of trains on the MGN lines , carrying lamps rather than discs, and they would have come through Peterborough. Also the LTSR section, which by 1958 came under the Eastern region always used lamps. I am only summising but it seems that discs were introduced primarily for route indication on the busy lines out of Liverpool St where coloured as well as plain discs were used to identify route of suburban trains but they don’t seem to be used as much North of Cambridge , except on the Norwich line. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted May 19, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 19, 2019 Hi Gilbert just spent a very pleasant hour or so catching up on your thread. So much to enjoy, A1s, B17s, N5s, C12s, D16s, Dub Ds and many others, all in such a superb setting. Thanks so so much for your continued posting of inspirational modelling, it’s helping me to keep pushing on with my own feeble efforts. And sorry for being so quiet of late, work has been intense over the last 6 months or so that I haven’t had much time for anything, though there are a couple of J6s that are nearly ready for the paint shop, so not all has been at a standstill. Cheers Tony 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 19, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2019 10 hours ago, Podhunter said: Those look like a murmuration of starlings. Though how you make a 1:76 scale starling is beyond me. Even more difficult to make them fly. 2 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 19, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2019 Having read the lamp/disc posts, I decided to look at some prototype pictures and see what they show. I found two, one an Ivatt 2 on its way down to East. That had a Class B lamp. I'm pretty sure though that it was a GE bound train, as it had come out of Platform 6, and it was a Cambridge engine. However, I then found the image below, which is shown by kind permission of the copyright holder, A C Ingram. Here we have a B2, again a Cambridge engine. It is either on its way to Spital Bridge shed after working into East, or heading from Spital Bridge to East. This is a bit puzzling. The loco shows one disc, and one lamp. Put together, that should mean a Class H goods. If so, it has lost the wagons somewhere. It doesn't answer the query one way or the other, but it is certainly somewhat unusual. All suggestions gratefully received. 6 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted May 19, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2019 18 minutes ago, great northern said: Even more difficult to make them fly. Not if you use DC I am told...…………………………………………………………… 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 19, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said: Not if you use DC I am told...…………………………………………………………… No, that's pigs, not starlings. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 19, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 19, 2019 A very dark day for mid May, but with all blinds open, and six second exposures, I did get a few pictures. If they were both on time, the Yorkshire and Queen of Scots Pullmans should have passed each other within the station area, and it appears that they were on time today. We've already seen Pommern, and another Copley Hill engine, Kittiwake is on its way home with the Queen of Scots. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted May 19, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2019 61616 seems to be in forward gear, but I wondered whether the lamp might be the tail lamp for a light engine move, but they didn't bother to take the disc off? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 7 hours ago, great northern said: Having read the lamp/disc posts, I decided to look at some prototype pictures and see what they show. I found two, one an Ivatt 2 on its way down to East. That had a Class B lamp. I'm pretty sure though that it was a GE bound train, as it had come out of Platform 6, and it was a Cambridge engine. However, I then found the image below, which is shown by kind permission of the copyright holder, A C Ingram. Here we have a B2, again a Cambridge engine. It is either on its way to Spital Bridge shed after working into East, or heading from Spital Bridge to East. This is a bit puzzling. The loco shows one disc, and one lamp. Put together, that should mean a Class H goods. If so, it has lost the wagons somewhere. It doesn't answer the query one way or the other, but it is certainly somewhat unusual. All suggestions gratefully received. If you Google “Headcodes Part 2 - Great Eastern Society “ it should take you to relevant section of the GERS website which is probably as close as you’ll get to finding an answer at this distance of time. I can’t get my head round it all , but trying to make sense as best I can I would say you won’t be far wrong if you keep lamps on GER engines through PN, but it’s difficult to pin it down to a definitive answer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 20, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 20, 2019 Almost time to get in the car and head for deepest darkest Lincolnshire, to which I have not ventured for many a year. I just hope the natives aren't restless, or if they are, that they recognise one of their own even after all these years. I shall be seeing a lot of diesel type thingies today, and shall return with a greater knowledge of the many types of multiple unit. Hopefully, we shall also have a duck to keep us company. Anyway, I'm looking forward to it, though not necessarily to my home county's hopelessly outdated roads. One more photo of Kittiwake still to come, though it turned out darker than I intended. B1 61282 has been lurking in the bay for a while, waiting for the procession of expresses to go through. It can now start away with the 1.12pm to KX. Time to go. Louth by pass, here I come. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 12 hours ago, great northern said: Having read the lamp/disc posts, I decided to look at some prototype pictures and see what they show. I found two, one an Ivatt 2 on its way down to East. That had a Class B lamp. I'm pretty sure though that it was a GE bound train, as it had come out of Platform 6, and it was a Cambridge engine. However, I then found the image below, which is shown by kind permission of the copyright holder, A C Ingram. Here we have a B2, again a Cambridge engine. It is either on its way to Spital Bridge shed after working into East, or heading from Spital Bridge to East. This is a bit puzzling. The loco shows one disc, and one lamp. Put together, that should mean a Class H goods. If so, it has lost the wagons somewhere. It doesn't answer the query one way or the other, but it is certainly somewhat unusual. All suggestions gratefully received. Could it be that the loco is working light engine to East, hence the lower middle lamp? The disc could have been either left on from a previous working, or more likely I think, put on ready for a working from East to (Cambridge?). Not what would be the rule I know, but I think the upper disc is a tad more difficult to fit, also some drivers (I know from personal experience) "hung on" to the discs as personal property, and wouldn't want to lose them. It is but a short journey from North to East. Stewart 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Ah, Louth, or Laweth, as it's pronounced round here. Spent many a happy hour at Hubbard's Hills in my younger days. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 On 15/05/2019 at 22:16, great northern said: There's a train to Cambridge due to leave shortly, which means a GE engine is likely to be seen. The pilot brought the stock in, and the loco is backing on. We do indeed have one of Cambridge shed's sadly diminishing number of B12s, so let's enjoy it while we can. We enjoy A3s too, but mot so much when they have been allowed to get into this sad external condition. Gladiateur sets off for home with the Glasgow. Good evening Gilbert, I don't normally make locomotives which derail, but it looks like that's what's happened to the second axle of the B12's bogie. How? It's back on in the next picture of it! Regards, Tony. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 20, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20, 2019 23 hours ago, 31A said: 61616 seems to be in forward gear, but I wondered whether the lamp might be the tail lamp for a light engine move, but they didn't bother to take the disc off? Probably Steve. I think that we all try to get everything as it should have been, but forget that professionals will always find short cuts, and agree to ignore minor infractions if they save a bit of time. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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