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I am attempting to build a North Staffordshire Railways Class B tank engine . I have a body and a chassis but I cannot seem to find and wheels , Motor or gearbox etc .I have contacted the usual companies for information but have either not received any answers or they don't carry what i need . What i have been told that i need is two sets of driving wheels (4) at 5'6" and 12 spoke , also 2 leading wheels at 4'0" and 12 spoke its also says that i need a motor and gearbox that are no longer available :-( I have not done this before so i am not sure exactly what i need for this build and any help would be most gratefully accepted. As i live in the USA it is hard to go get what I need so I have to order stuff by mail , which is a real trip !!!!! If anyone on RMWeb can help please drop me aline at oldknotty@cinci.rr.com , I hope i have given you an idea as to what I need :-) Thanks Martin G Levallee

Took my Skoda superb for the tracking yesterday and discovered the MOT had ran out a month ago, I was convinced it was October and had put it in my diary as so but nope! my wife was going to use it later today to go to Scotland for 1/2 term so the garage fitted it in for an MOT later in the afternoon but it’s failed on emissions so it’s just as well they checked the date or she may well have been stopped! ive decided to sell it on as I don’t really need it any more with not having to commute to Birmingham or use it to go to the caravan, I’ve put it on eBay for £1200 spares or repairs, it’s probably an easy fix, at the minimum it may get through with a bit of injector cleaner, worst case scenario a new set of injectors but I can’t be bothered doing it, loads of interest in it already having just put a recent photo of it on the listing to get it moving, I’ve got to add some more of the bodywork and interior but I recon it should sell for the starting price, I’ve had half a dozen offers of £1100 already but I don’t want to let it go so early on in the listing (plus I’ve got to clean it out and swap the stereo out for the original amongst other things) it’s been a good car, doesn’t owe me anything really, it’s had tyres and a battery in the 2 years I’ve had it but that’s about it, solid as a rock despite its 226k miles! the headlight leveller can be a bit temperamental and it obviously decided to not work at the precise time he was testing it! The low beam isn’t particularly good and the last time I looked at it the bulbs had worked loose within the holder, or hadn’t been fitted properly so the leveller moved up and down fine but the bulbs didn’t, it may just be that again as for the side light not working, I’d not noticed that and I’d not had any light failure indication on the dash since the number plate light went blew just before the last MOT! let’s hope it sells then I can out the money toward getting the FTO back on the road

Interestingly there was a very serious proposal for a heritage railway around 2008-2010. The railway was never formally closed and when BRB (Residuary) Ltd sold the reservation to the Council, this (possibly unintentionally) included the original operating powers granted to the Luton, Dunstable and Welwyn Junction Railway in 1855. It would only have required a planning application to the Council to reinstate much of the infrastructure. The now dormant South Bedfordshire Railway Society prepared a very thorough application for an initial section east of the A505 alongside the then proposed busway with a future western extension to Stanbridgeford. Getting as far as Leighton Buzzard was not considered practical as the A505/Leighton Buzzard bypass gets in the way. The proposal seems to have hit a brick wall with the final plans for the busway taking up too much of the reservation. Unfortunately the web site and all the social media for the society disappeared into the aether around 2010 and only a few fragments are in the Wayback Machine, but it does include a couple of plans that were to accompany the planning application.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/aviation/2024/05/22/saudi-arabia-china-airlines-saudia/ I wonder if Boeing are opening up an unexpected opportunity for COMAC. Airlines need an alternative choice and although the A320 family is excellent I wonder if China may be able to promote the C919 as the alternative choice to keep Airbus honest?

What does the "base 8x4 layout" look like? Is it equally as bizarre?

Japanese people are normally very measured and express dissatisfaction with faint praise but opinions (a typical example is that if they think an idea if dreadful they'll often call it interesting) on these locomotives seem to have been blunt and scathing. Nice looking though, well at least I think so. Something I find amusing is that if you look for the Zoukei Mura model, most second hand examples are in 'as new' condition, i.e. without the huge number of add on parts fitted. The same is true if you look at Tomix standard range 1/80 locomotives. Clearly it isn't just British modellers that hate fitting a mountain of detail parts.

There is a thread covering some of the manufaturing issues with the A3s and A4s and how to solve them - https://community.hornbyhobbies.com/forums/topic/33745-the-main-a1a3a4-chassis-bogie-problems-fixes/#comment-383257 Just the loco if it has to go back IIRC.

Amazing what some colour and trees will do..... Looking good.

heh! - that's what I get for typing late at night. 🙂

I'd certainly be wary of caustic soda around soft alloys. I know aluminium doesn't like it, so while I lack the chemistry knowledge to know what it would do to zinc I'd be inclined to avoid its use.

Me neither, but I got an offer all the same.

It's in the oven...3mm scale +118% 21hrs at 24° 0.03mm layer hight Had to place at a a steep angle to squeeze on build plate...forgot drain hole in roof so there will be a bit of collective resin in roof... Will take a sneaky look in morning to see if stuck to build plate....(first print for 2 weeks) G

A recurring theme in human behaviour is that it is much easier for people to commit heinous acts if they believe they are doing it in a noble cause for the greater good, a necessary evil to make a better world. Not just ancient history, there are plenty of examples around us of horrible acts which are cloaked in high sounding rhetoric. I think the difference between all of us and the likes of the men of the einsatzgruppen is much smaller than we'd like to think. Create the right circumstance and environment and history indicates it's pretty straightforward to get people to do the 'right' thing (by which of course I mean participate in evil). It opens the debate over the meaning of evil. Most of the most evil leaders of history appear to have been motivated by a genuine desire to create a better world. We look at Adolf, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc as being unspeakably bad people yet all of them were convinced that what they were doing was necessary to make a better world. It's why I say 'be careful what you wish for' when people call for conviction politicians. Self serving opportunists are not very edifying but the true believers can be worse.

Same job tonight but pass to manchester at the start noticed the drs 37s that were in the coal sidings are now sat on LSL shunt neck my train to Manchester was the mk4 and 67 set 331 323 66708 again and into nuneaton back on the weedspray tomorrow bescot to Bangor and back to shrewsbury via Wrexham, I was hoping to get away to Ayrshire for the long weekend but there are no trains running direct to Glasgow, it’s a bus between Preston and Carlisle

@Grovenor Thank you very much! That looks grand. @Michael Hodgson is correct in that the platforms extend past the road and under the station roof, so any signals at the country end of the station are fully out of sight for the average viewer. Anything terminating from London would come off the 'mainline' and terminate in the branch line platform. I forgot to draw it in but the signal box sits just below where signal #8 is. Yes - I am looking at getting an 08, any suggestions for livery? (NSE/BR blue I presume but anything more niche?) @Flying Pig Washer siding is a dead end, but I could connect it up to the depot if that would be reasonable. I haven't started on the depot trackwork. Above the tunnel is a Scenecraft substation and a little residential street, which hides the track curving round to the fiddle yard.

As the historian AJP Taylor put it, people apply a generosity of interpretation to the actions of their own countries which is seldom extended to others.

After completely forgetting why I was looking for the HST with the milk churn, and, water crane, I found this:- https://www.goodwoodscenics.co.uk/product-page/scrap-virgin-hst-125-diesel-locomotive-f3 this https://www.goodwoodscenics.co.uk/product-page/scrap-hst-125-diesel-locomotive-f6 this https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1373691476/oo-gauge-scrapyard-class-43-125-hst?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details They are sold out, but, the prices are astonishing. The guy with the HST's is Halden Yard, the rusty flock guy is 3 Seas Collectables. Unfortunately I couldn't find Mr. Wolf's HST with the water crane and the dubious guy with the milk churn. If anyone is interested, the post I'm on about is on the 22nd December 2022, at the bottom of page 1407, in this topic.

I think that's why there is so much ill feeling towards Japan. When reported in our media it's generally portrayed as Chinese grudge bearing but if anything emotions on the subject run deeper and stronger in the Republic of Korea and you don't have to poke very far below the surface to find similar attitudes in other countries. A recurring theme for why these feelings are still widely felt is the post war attitude of Japan and the failure to even properly acknowledge the past. Find it rather sad, as Japan is a wonderful country, one of the few I would gladly move to live in if offered an opportunity. Most Japanese I know (but certainly not all) are genuinely oblivious as to why these emotions are still raw. A recurring argument in Japan is it is all just politicking and grounded in contemporary issues. I think it'd be naive to deny there is a lot in that (no Korean politician is likely to lose votes by having a go at Japan) but the reason it is a useful political lever is that it taps into genuine emotion and collective memory. I think that's the essential difference between Japan and Germany. I know there's a perspective that German apologies and guilt are normally qualified by making clear someone else did it and we didn't know, but Germany did demonstrate a sense of shame and guilt at their actions in the national socialist era which wasn't really replicated in Japan. However, I am not too judgemental as I think many (most) countries don't like to face their own past.

I don't really see the difference - I don't think the CLC had such a thing as second in 1948. So pre-nationalisation or post, 3rd or 2nd, you'd be using up the same stock of cardboard under the Edmundson system. You couldn't physically have reprinted everything overnight on nationalisation on on abolition of 3rd even if you could have cost-justified it. I imagine something similar must have happened at Grouping.

You will find that most of us running N gauge Swiss outline have traction from all the main manufacturing sources, the majority of which run without issue. There is generally no tangible difference between the running qualities - this is mainly due to modern construction methods (ie not like the '1960s crappy Lima' versus contemporary Fleischmann comparison we had in the 1970s) I have had issues with Mazak rot on French outline N gauge locos issued in the period (roughly) 2010 - 20, but I've not had the same problem on any Minitrix Swiss outline locos. Some Arnold 1980s/90s models (notably the RBe4/4 railcar) have plastic gears which aren't up to much Lemke is not really a manufacturer in the traditional sense of the word , but a sort of 'enabling company' that gets things manufactured and brands them in various ways (hence Hobbytrain is 'by Lemke') . 'Mass market' locomotives and railcars/EMUs of Swiss prototypes have been/are made by: Fleischmann Minitrix Arnold Kato Hobbytrain Piko Jägerndorfer (Crocodile only) Liliput (Flirt EMU only) HAG (Ae4/7 only - made many years ago and 'prestige' at the time but now available s/h for a similar price to new mass market models) Roco

Thanks very much for your kind comments Craig. Living as I do in New Zealand and only knowing the Minehead branch through old maps and photographs I always feel slightly nervous when someone says that they live in the local area because i know that I've more than likely made a real howler of a mistake somewhere. I was working from an 1880s OS map when I first built up Minehead and that was fine for Broad Gauge times, - only with presently attempting to represent the standard gauge era at the end of the 19th century I can see from the later OS maps that Minehead is going to need a few more houses and another hotel. The track plan at Dunster is reasonably accurate, but there's a couple of houses near the station that shouldn't be there in the 1890s only I can't make up my mind as to whether I should get rid of them or not. Lower Marsh Farm off in the distance needs more work doing to it. The station building is a vaguely GWR placeholder I built up around a station building mesh a good friend gave to me some time ago, - but I would like to have a go at making something that looks more like the station building at Dunster. The timber goods shed is genuine GWR, but it really should be a stone built goods shed. Something else for me to have a go at making.

Hops for the local brewery? Well, that's my excuse... (yes I know they're more likely to come from Worcester).

There's a lot to unwrap here but I'll keep it brief. You did get your ID, that was after you'd bought a drone that was over the weight limit for flying it in a residential area. You flew it and lost it whilst you had no operator or pilot ID, and only when @Andy Y pointed out what you should have done did you then get 'legal'. Presumably you'd also weren't flying it in a Cardiff Council owned park, as their bylaws require you to have an ID, insurance, and have paid a drone use filming license to fly a drone on their property. The thought that the mach loop(ML) is well known to the general public is utter nonsense. Most aviation related professionals have no idea what or where it is let alone the man in the street. If anyone reading this doubts this go into work, the pub etc and ask what's the mach loop? The ML is in class G airspace, it's unrestricted for use by civil/military aviation and drone operators. In that classification of airspace the onus for collision avoidance is on the pilot, just the same as it is for a drone operator. The Welsh Low Flying area is only tenth in terms of traffic volume out of 18 designated UK LFA's. Military low flying are authorised down to 250ft or lower depending on tasking and aircraft type. Civil aircraft are allowed lower subject to complying with Rules of the Air Regulations 2007, and they can (and do), I've seen them, fly through the loop unrestricted and against the clockwise flow of the RAF traffic. A drone operator is fully entitled to operate their drone up to 400ft above ground level within that (ML) area. It's not listed within drone apps, so how is Mr Smith from Milton Keynes when he sees the vista above and gets his legal drone out checks his app to take pictures of the pretty valley to know? Much of the UK except for the larger conurbations and the South East are open to military low flying down to 250ft activity, the busiest areas being around Shropshire and Wiltshire. The more likely and most common events at those heights are birdstrikes. So your responsible drone flyer is quite legal and not an idiot flying in non restricted areas up to 400ft and is not endangering aircraft unless they're acting irresponsibly. If someone wants to get a drone, check out what your countries rules are first, they will be easily found with a google search, and use the regions civil aviation authority site as first port of call. Generally they are pretty straightforward, and quite often similar. The main cut off for more onerous restrictions is weight related with a cut off weight at 249g, less or equal to that and in most jurisdictions those will put you into the hobbyist camp. That also (generally) allows the operator much greater leeway in where they can fly, and at what distances from people and buildings etc. Your country rules will identify those parameters, use them, not the bloke in the pub, or some ill informed journalist who can't be rsed to do any research. Prices vary massively as does quality and reliability, the more you pay the better the product. Get insurance. If you want to know where you can fly legally use a recommended APP from a regional supplier, often the country CAA will point to one they recommend, and then take time to learn how to use it. That saves you telling people a heliport 300m away from you has a restricted zone when that zone doesn't exist. For example I wouldn't suggest using a UK APP for Singapore, as it shows the area around Changi as just a risk area, whereas in reality using Onemap, its a restricted zone with maximum penalties of up to 2 years inside and a Singapore $50k/£30k GBP fine. ^^ You can't fly here, it's a restricted zone... You can fly in restricted zones, you do need permission though, procedures vary worldwide and any geofencing legally disabled. Learn how to read NOTAM's, again easy decodes are available on line and they are an international standardised format. These are notices to airmen and show restrictions and hazards to be aware of. The good apps will show the relevant NOTAMS and update frequently, for example a large industrial fire may have a temporary restriction put around it which prevents flying in that area, same thing for events etc. None of the above is particularly onerous, or time consuming. its just common sense preparation, you are legally (UK) flying an 'aircraft' after all.

Larry the Downing Street cat didn't seem too impressed either.