Castle Aching

[Edwardian]

On 22/08/2023 at 11:57, Northroader said:

Kevin, the terminus was the Gare Denfert Rochereau, one of the names that comes up on the Paris Underground map, but previously for the Sceaux line, a small independent suburban line built early on. Noteworthy for being built on the Arnoux system, allowing very tight bends, so you didn’t need runrounds at the termini. It went broke, was absorbed into the P.O., who didn’t  take to to complications of the system.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_de_Sceaux

 

 

 

Here is asome context. One can see that the station, in 1855, is very much on the southern outskirts of Paris.

 

 

[Edwardian]

Model making in the age of Vauban and Malborough...

 

 

[Compound2632]

56 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

Model making in the age of Vauban and Malborough...

 

The model is of Besançon, isn't it? I went to a conference there in my metrology days.

Edited September 6, 2023 by Compound2632
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[Edward]

On 04/09/2023 at 23:10, Michael Crofts said:

1688 (or 1689, depending on which reckoning of dates is used) means nothing to 90% of the current population of these Isles, but the Act of that date has been the foundation of a lot of good things, and I think it did make the English exceptional, for some time. 'It is my analysis that the people do indeed have indubitable rights and that placing politics above the rule of law is unconstitutional.' https://everyright.org/ 

 

As for termini, I miss 'the sigh of midnght trains in empty stations', which I remember from European travels as a teenager. Also that romantic evocation in gold letters on blue above the carriage windows: 'Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens'. Those were the days when a destination boad on a carriage showing Rome, Zurich, Marseilles,  Vienna or even Munich meant luxury travel to exciting places.

Or the Glorious Revolution! Mentioning this to a school history teacher,  received blank looks. " The war of 1812 you mean?"

[Compound2632]

3 minutes ago, Edward said:

Or the Glorious Revolution! 

 

Distinctly lacking in glory if you were Irish, Scottish, Catholic, or believed in the sanctity of oath-taking.

[Edwardian]

Or tyranny!

 

Yes, Besançon, 1720-22, well done!

 

Geography quiz?

 

Number 1:

 

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Number 4:

[Compound2632]

Is No. 4 Toulon?

[Edwardian]

Yes, indeed!

[Compound2632]

The scene of Bonaparte's first victory.

[Adam88]

On 06/09/2023 at 14:01, Edwardian said:

Model making in the age of Vauban and Malborough...

 

 

 

One thing I remember from seeing these Vauban models is that some of the roofs were thatched using human hair - I wonder if that's where Roye England got the idea or was it an independent discovery?

 

[Donw]

When Roye was showing us his models he said how he did things but never claimed he was the originator of techniques except  the use of the spines of blackbird feathers for Hollyhocks and Phoshpor broznes for rabbits ears.

[Adam88]

Found my pictures of the same.  A most fascinating visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Andy Kirkham]

2 hours ago, Adam88 said:

Found my pictures of the same.  A most fascinating visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where is this, please?

[Adam88]

10 minutes ago, Andy Kirkham said:

 

Where is this, please?

 

It's one of the museums/exhibitions at Les Invalides, well worth visiting if you're in Paris.

 

Vauban models

 

[monkeysarefun]

These days you press a button and a building rises slowly up out of a bath of gloop.

 

Edited September 8, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[Andy Kirkham]

10 hours ago, Adam88 said:

 

It's one of the museums/exhibitions at Les Invalides, well worth visiting if you're in Paris.

 

Vauban models

 

 

It's going on my bucket list right now.

[Edwardian]

In Paris, I came across something else new to me and very pleasing. Consciously inappropriately, I'm going to call it 'Viking Nouveau':

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Edwardian]

The nights start to draw in and I find that, after a difficult summer healthwise, I am starting to feel a bit like my old self. Hope I find the rest of the parish in rude health.

 

Via a fantasy terrain project, I am easing myself gradually back into modelling and will let you know when my attention turns to Castle Aching.

 

In the meantime, when bin raiding goes horribly wrong ...

 

 

[Compound2632]

24 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

rude health

 

Good to hear from you!

 

Health: maybe; rude: as required.

[Donw]

Nice to hear from you James. The sympathy is from Marion for the dog.

 

Don

 

[figworthy]

2 hours ago, Edwardian said:

The nights start to draw in and I find that, after a difficult summer healthwise, I am starting to feel a bit like my old self. Hope I find the rest of the parish in rude health.

 

Via a fantasy terrain project, I am easing myself gradually back into modelling and will let you know when my attention turns to Castle Aching.

 

In the meantime, when bin raiding goes horribly wrong ...

 

 

 

"It wasn't me, honest, a big dog did and ran away."

 

 

Adrian

[Buhar]

Life always feels more pleasantly rounded if a dose of @Edwardian pops into it.  I was concerned you'd decided to stay in Silloth incommunicado.

 

Alan

[Annie]

Lovely to hear from you James and that you're feeling like your old self again.  You have been much missed around here on the pre-grouping forum.

[nick_bastable]

its like finding your favouite slippers as winter approaches I look forward to developments and perhaps setbacks

 

[Caley Jim]

16 hours ago, Edwardian said:

In the meantime, when bin raiding goes horribly wrong ...

 

 

Is that a beagle perchance? If so, you have my sympathies! 

 

Good to have you back here, James. Having been through a period of Ill health earlier in the year (major bowel op) I can confirm that modelling is the answer! Now what was the question? 

 

Jim 

Edited October 9, 2023 by Caley Jim
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