Edwardian Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Wellington's famous quote about the Highland regiments, when inspecting the lines before Waterloo, is 'I don't know what they do to the enemy, but they scare the hell out of me'. Jim Ah, yes, the Devils in Skirts were truly terrifying .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2017 Ah, yes, the Devils in Skirts were truly terrifying .... I was wondering how long it would take to get us to that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I was wondering how long it would take to get us to that. I felt that the train had, indeed, arrived at Mornington Crescent, so far as that was concerned. A searing commentary upon post-war and post Imperial British society, this seminal film is as relevant today as it was in 1968 .... Khasi of Kalabar: They will die the death of a thousand cuts! Princess Jelhi: Oh! But that's horrible! Khasi of Kalabar: Not at all my little desert flower, the British are used to cuts! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I felt that the train had, indeed, arrived at Mornington Crescent, so far as that was concerned. A searing commentary upon post-war and post Imperial British society, this seminal film is as relevant today as it was in 1968 .... Khasi of Kalabar: They will die the death of a thousand cuts! Princess Jelhi: Oh! But that's horrible! Khasi of Kalabar: Not at all my little desert flower, the British are used to cuts! The 'Dinner Party Under Fire' scene is one of my all-time favourite scenes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcD Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Ah! Her Majesty's 3rd Foot and Mouth. Always ready to serve. A regiment with a great pedigree. Marc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 The 'Dinner Party Under Fire' scene is one of my all-time favourite scenes. I agree. I can't hear Strauss's Vienna Woods waltz without thinking of it and chortling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 The 'Dinner Party Under Fire' scene is one of my all-time favourite scenes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l_3-23zAWM 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted October 4, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2017 (edited) Back to Louis XIV. Modest chaps, these absolute monarchs. Perhaps we can work back to railways via his namesake and biggest fan? I did try a funny line.... It was rubbish..... Edited October 4, 2017 by tomparryharry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted October 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2017 What about this for pregrouping,etc, etc, Louis XIV defends a station? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 What about this for pregrouping,etc, etc, Louis XIV defends a station?IMG_1471.JPG Last stand of the Old Guard at Waterloo! Is the station nearby, perchance? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted October 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2017 I think that's the idea, but you know what my French or my geography is like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted October 4, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2017 (edited) Sorry to be pedantic, but those fishplates are on upside down. Wrong wood on those sleepers, for that period. Merehead quarry ballast, really? Also, 3rd guardsman (from the left) seems to have the incorrect button spacing. Maroon window frames didn't happen until 19th August, 1951..... Fred the Office Boy. Edit: Forgot, it was raining that day, with a north-easterly breeze. Edited October 4, 2017 by tomparryharry 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2017 Also, 3rd guardsman (from the left) seems to have the incorrect button spacing. Going OT (on this thread?) but friends who are also military modellers tell me that these issues cause internet rows that put our “rivet counters” into the shade. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 3rd guardsman (from the left) seems to have the incorrect button spacing. You mean Grenadier, of course? One might assume that the figure in the centre is intended to be General Cambronne. If so, he is about to express his sense of frustration at the railway's lack of punctuality by shouting 'Merde !', which only goes to show that Napoleon's officers simply weren't gentlemen! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted October 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 5, 2017 I forgot to say they were in defensive posture expecting an assault from the Brigade of Pedants. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 I forgot to say they were in defensive posture expecting an assault from the Brigade of Pedants. It is comforting to know that we can turn our pedantry to almost any subject, arguing for an underlying personality defect that surely relieves us of much of our responsibility for this behaviour. When we stand convicted of pedantry, diminished responsibility must be our get out of jail free card! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted October 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 5, 2017 (edited) I forgot to say they were in defensive posture expecting an assault from the Brigade of Pedants. Obviously expecting an assault by frustrated passengers already on a train not from prospective passengers. Have they been travelling by Southern Railways? Edited October 5, 2017 by TheQ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2017 Going OT (on this thread?) but friends who are also military modellers tell me that these issues cause internet rows that put our “rivet counters” into the shade. You mean Grenadier, of course? See what I mean? I forgot to say they were in defensive posture expecting an assault from the Brigade of Pedants.It is comforting to know that we can turn our pedantry to almost any subject, arguing for an underlying personality defect that surely relieves us of much of our responsibility for this behaviour. When we stand convicted of pedantry, diminished responsibility must be our get out of jail free card! Not at all, not at all. I am proud of my pedantry, and freely and grandly accept the persecution which follows. It is entirely because of pedantic critics pointing out the errors that off-the-peg-shelf models gave improved so much over the years - a fact which those who use “pedantic” as a term of abuse so easily forget whilst they enjoy the long-ripening fruits of our criticism. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 It is entirely because of pedantic critics pointing out the errors that off-the-peg-shelf models gave improved so much over the years . A trend that is in full reverse in some quarters ..... ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 When we stand convicted of pedantry, diminished responsibility must be our get out of jail free card! If we are accused of being round the bend, the important thing to assert is that we are happily round the bend. I'm in my own little world, but it's OK, they all know me here!! Jim 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killian keane Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Ok I have one, some modern image loco called a '2MT' in the seven percent solution We are not amused Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted October 7, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 2MT could be anything. For instance, 2MT is the taper fit sometimes found in a lathe tailstock. This size increment is most commonly from 1MT, up to 5MT. For more information,if you wish, I'll need to dig out my ZEUS. I once saw a model wagon, with HB on the sides. How was I to know we were talking about pencils? Fred the office boy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 7, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 I once saw a model wagon, with HB on the sides. How was I to know we were talking about pencils?Fred the office boy. Was it being propelled, or le(a)d? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 A few months ago, one of my students told me he had won a 3MT ! Turned out to be a Three Minute Thesis competition (i.e. explain your doctoral thesis in three minutes), not a BR 2-6-2T / 2-6-0... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 11, 2017 I've been reading Major J.W. Pringle's report into the accident on the Midland Railway at Bromford Bridge on 13 January 1913, which gives a fascinating insight into the working practices of the time and preserves more-or-less authentically the voices of ordinary railwaymen. One point that struck me is that one of the engines involved, a 2000 Class (Flatiron) 0-6-4T, No. 2033, is described rather cumbrously as having "six coupled wheels and a bogie under the footplate" whereas the other engine, No. 507, is described (erroneously) as a 2-4-0. We've looked at carriage and wagon terminology - what about engines? When did the Whyte notation come into common use in Britain? One finds many nineteenth-century engines described chiefly by reference to the number of coupled wheels. Starting from the assumption that engines have six wheels, we find variously: single = 2-2-2 four-coupled = 2-4-0 or 0-4-2 - but how distinguished? six-coupled = 0-6-0. Passenger engines with a leading bogie are distinguished by reference to that article (just as was the way with carriages - a composite, 4 or 6 wheeled, a bogie composite...): bogie single = 4-2-2 bogie four-coupled = 4-4-0 - in Scotland especially, simply a bogie. bogie six-coupled = 4-6-0. The term 'atlantic' for a 4-4-2 seems to have been in use from their first introduction at the end of the century. Any others? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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