RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2020 Zoomers aka lemons are bl@@dy awful..bogies are carp, seats are even worse and catering facilities are very poor.... feel sorry for the poor on train catering staff.. Baz 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted January 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2020 And look for where the grunt is underneath and sit well away from it. Paul. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2020 2 hours ago, 5BarVT said: And look for where the grunt is underneath and sit well away from it. Paul. Hi Paul I am a little confused, a grunt is a gun number (crew member) in the Royal Artillery. So named after the noise they make when pushing a filed gun. Do they have grunts under the Azoooomeeerrrs to make them move? It does sound like suitable employment for them. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2020 6 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Do they have grunts under the Azoooomeeerrrs to make them move? You mean Flintstones-style? 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2020 8 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi Paul I am a little confused, a grunt is a gun number (crew member) in the Royal Artillery. So named after the noise they make when pushing a filed gun. Do they have grunts under the Azoooomeeerrrs to make them move? It does sound like suitable employment for them. Clive I thought a grunt is any type of infantry or non tank bound Army person..... In reality the zoomers dont zoom.. it is better described as lurching at speed..... Baz 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Barry O said: Clive I thought a grunt is any type of infantry or non tank bound Army person..... In reality the zoomers dont zoom.. it is better described as lurching at speed..... Baz Hi Baz With the gunners the gun crew were non-tradesmen so were looked down by the drivers, signallers, and TARAs (technical assistant Royal Artillery) but to us REME they were all planks. 1 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi Baz With the gunners the gun crew were non-tradesmen so were looked down by the drivers, signallers, and TARAs (technical assistant Royal Artillery) but to us REME they were all planks. Planks, TARAs, grunts- who cares? They're all pongoes anyway. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2020 (edited) 37 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: Planks, TARAs, grunts- who cares? They're all pongoes anyway. I got called a pongo by a young matelot medic when I had to attended the Navy hospital in Plymouth. I asked him when was the last time he had been on board a ship, he hadn't. I was with 17 Port and Maritime Workshops and had been on a jolly on the RFA Sir Lancelot a few weeks before. Edited January 7, 2020 by Clive Mortimore 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2020 1 minute ago, Clive Mortimore said: I got called a pongo by a young matelot medic when I had to addend the Navy hospital in Plymouth. I asked him when was the last time he had been on board a ship, he hadn't. I was with 17 Port and Maritime Workshops and had been on a jolly on the RFA Sir Lancelot a few weeks before. Sir Prancelot? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sir_Prancelot 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2020 (edited) 14 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: Sir Prancelot? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sir_Prancelot Hi UDJ Are you inhaling too many eucalyptus fumes from them bush fires? Seriously are you and Veronica safe? Edited January 7, 2020 by Clive Mortimore 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2020 8 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi UDJ Are you inhaling too many eucalyptus fumes from them bush fires? Seriously are you and Veronica safe? Well, we're inhaling a fair bit of smoke on some days but so far nothing worse for us. I think I've been overdosing on levity pills to compensate for having to go back to work this week. 2 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KymN Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 In Australia a 'Grunt' is an infantryman. I served in the Royal Australia Artillery in Vietnam - the worst we were called was 'Drop-shorts'! 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 10, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2020 7 minutes ago, KymN said: In Australia a 'Grunt' is an infantryman. I served in the Royal Australia Artillery in Vietnam - the worst we were called was 'Drop-shorts'! Thanks Kym. Hope you are all safe. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2020 3 hours ago, KymN said: In Australia a 'Grunt' is an infantryman. I served in the Royal Australia Artillery in Vietnam - the worst we were called was 'Drop-shorts'! same in the UK especially for tank crews.. when asked why the response was "Cos they go GRUNT when you run over them"... Baz 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted January 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2020 9 minutes ago, Barry O said: same in the UK especially for tank crews.. when asked why the response was "Cos they go GRUNT when you run over them"... Baz Why would tanks run over their own crews ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2020 45 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: Why would tanks run over their own crews ? no they tend to run over grunts.. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 12, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2020 On 04/01/2020 at 22:07, St Enodoc said: Roster duly copied although for some reason I appeared to end up with two different versions in two different places on my hard drive. Once I'd fixed that I chipped and programmed 1021, which is an out-of-the-box Hornby R2211 (1020 County of Monmouth). I'll fit a DG coupling to the tender, and the name/numberplates, but more detailing can wait until another time. 1021 County of Montgomery is now right for work, although as it doesn't appear until the 1400 Penzance - Crewe Parcels on Saturday afternoon it won't be needed for a couple of running sessions yet. It's nice to be getting a few long-standing odd jobs out of the way at last. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 12, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2020 (edited) Another long-standing job that, once I'd found the bits to do it, only took about ten minutes was to get three coaches ready for service in set 531. Let me explain. Set 531 is a three-coach non-corridor set that forms the 0510 Truro - Plymouth stopper and 1410 return on Saturdays. In the fullness of time, it will be formed by a couple of BSL E147 BCs sandwiching an Airfix/Comet C63 S. It will be a good while before these are built so I decided some time ago to run a temporary formation using Bachmann BR Mk 1 suburbans formed BS - C - BS. The trouble was, I had mislaid these so hadn't done anything about it. This afternoon I remembered that they had gone into the box of stuff that I intend to sell off one day so I extracted them, brought them indoors and fitted a DG coupling at the brake end of each BS using the existing Bachmann coupling fixing hole and screw. Job done! The fact that the two brakes have the same number and the composite has the same number as the one that forms set 760 won't matter in the short term. The upshot of this is that trains 508 and 599 will now be able to run rather than being cancelled, to the undoubted relief of passengers for intermediate stations on the main line. Edited January 13, 2020 by St Enodoc typo 10 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesterfield Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 more overtime for the train crews 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted January 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2020 Replacement bus crews will be unhappy though... 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 13, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2020 5 hours ago, chesterfield said: more overtime for the train crews You'll get your standard two hours, same as everybody else... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chamby Posted January 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2020 A rail strike threatens on the mid-Cornwall lines about overtime? Now that’s a level of modelling detail I’d not thought of... 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesterfield Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 On 10/01/2020 at 21:36, KymN said: In Australia a 'Grunt' is an infantryman. I served in the Royal Australia Artillery in Vietnam - the worst we were called was 'Drop-shorts'! Kym, remember Long Tan.One of your majors who served in Korea,had an inkling and ordered up twice the number of rounds the night before and the grunts applauded later on . Dropshirts indeed! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 On 13/01/2020 at 08:37, Chamby said: A rail strike threatens on the mid-Cornwall lines about overtime? Now that’s a level of modelling detail I’d not thought of... (Voice over) And here, we have a platform full of passengers, but no trains moving... Special effects : extra buses and taxis. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted January 15, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2020 Can you get animated placard wavers ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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