RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2023 Well, I don't know about that. Isn't this a bit more in-period? [Embedded link.] 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 39 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Well, I don't know about that. Isn't this a bit more in-period? [Embedded link.] If somewhat unpropitious 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 59 minutes ago, Caley Jim said: Fellow parishioners. In order to raise the spirits of our esteemed Chairman and Promoter and President of the WNR, who is at present in a somewhat morose mental state, I propose that we furnish him with his own train, one befitting his high office. It has come to my attention that the Chairman of a council to the East of the Urals has already commissioned such a conveyance. I further propose, therefore, that we instruct the Clerk to the Council to communicate with this gentleman, who I understand goes by the name V Putin, to respectfully request a copy of the drawings of his in order that we might emulate it. I will, of course, require a seconder for this motion. Jim I'm sure a director's saloon will suffice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold simonmcp Posted July 11, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 11, 2023 Have you seen the suggested price for the new GWR inspection saloon in OO, I dread to think how much a director's coach would cost. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Ian Simpson said: Seconded as long as it doesn't mean re-gauging the entire WNR! Thank you sir. The train would, of course, be built to WNR gauge and loading gauge. I would propose further that we dispense with the Gym and associated facilities which would leave the space available for a full size model of the entire WNR. Jim 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted July 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2023 Visitors to “Beyond Dover” will know there is a link to “ScaleTrainsClub”, on page 20, which is a site for modellers who can converse in Cyrillic sort of thingys. However, seekers after the truth and searching for details of vehicles from them parts should be warned that you can pick up Trojans in the process on your computer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted July 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2023 I never did trust Cyril 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted July 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2023 3 minutes ago, Andy Hayter said: I never did trust Cyril Nice one. 1 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 On 11/07/2023 at 21:29, Welchester said: Nice one. Oh dear, betraying our age again, I fear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 God, you lot are old. I had to look that reference up! 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Worrying. I think I can remember enough of the lyrics to join in a rousing chorus. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Are folk recalling the Spurs song for Cyril Knowles or the bread advert, or both? Which of course led to the query about the result of rodent FA cup. Mice won squirrel. Alan 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Usually I can keep up, but these references are antediluvian. How any of you can still be alive ... Surely at least one of you remembers seeing Saxony green!!!! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted July 14, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 14, 2023 Well, boss, there were these two pilot engines at York and Newcastle in the late fifties: Im afraid depending on the film and the light, they could appear a much lighter shade. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted July 14, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 14, 2023 I was going to suggest you look up Stephan Kuehn*, but thought better of it. * A prominent Green in Saxony. And like the search for our colour holy grail, Greens in Saxony seem hard to find. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 14, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 14, 2023 4 minutes ago, Andy Hayter said: Greens in Saxony seem hard to find. I dunno - cabbage mostly? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted July 14, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 14, 2023 (edited) Whoops, I notice this photo is taken after preservation, so it’s not the 1950s coat of paint in the picture, like what I remember. (Modern phone box) my excuse it’s hard finding a picture in the right format to download. The Konigliche Sachsiche StaatsEisenbahn didn’t get the green right either.(state flag) Edited July 14, 2023 by Northroader 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 14 hours ago, Edwardian said: Usually I can keep up, but these references are antediluvian. How any of you can still be alive ... Surely at least one of you remembers seeing Saxony green!!!! Saxony no, Hughie I do remember seeing on the telly though, which is indicative of my ancientness. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, Northroader said: Whoops, I notice this photo is taken after preservation, so it’s not the 1950s coat of paint in the picture, like what I remember. (Modern phone box) my excuse it’s hard finding a picture in the right format to download. The Konigliche Sachsiche StaatsEisenbahn didn’t get the green right either.(state flag) The image shows a wonderful gauge 1 model of a Royal Saxon State Railways class 1TV manufactured by the German company Bockholt Lokomotiven. The price is somewhat eye watering though. Edited July 14, 2023 by rocor Spelling mistake 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 I think that's more Invisible Green... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 On 14/07/2023 at 09:55, Northroader said: Well, boss, there were these two pilot engines at York and Newcastle in the late fifties: Im afraid depending on the film and the light, they could appear a much lighter shade. I think that was meant to be LNER Apple Green. I was taken to the York Railway Museum in c1954 though I trust you'll forgive me for not being able to remember the exact shade of green used on the NER locos there. As nobody else will remember either, I suggest you don't beat yourself up about it – just as long as you don't use Brunswick Green! Richard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 (edited) British penal policy in 1798, when suspected or convicted criminls, including 1,400 of the 1,900 convicts then awaiting transportation to Australia, were confined to floating hulks. British immigration policy 2023, when those seeking political asylum in Britain, who have yet to be refused that status on appeal, are confined pending repatriation to a potentially dangerous country of origin or transportation to Rwanda. Plus ça change .... Surely in modern Btritain there has never been such a time of crass inhumanity, such a time to be ashamed of one's country. I will certainly never forgive those who have made it so. Edited August 9, 2023 by Edwardian Spelling! 12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Yet, fit & proper accomodation for oil workers? [Or, don't oil workers count ?] Perhaps we should just let them all get on with finding a job and getting on with life? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 The clue is in the word “worker”. Dormitory accommodation for a bunch of people who spend 12hrs/day working, and 8hrs/day sleeping like logs, for a month or two at a stretch, then go ashore is one thing. Being effectively banged-up in the thing for an indeterminate period with bngger-all to do except wait for the decisions of the home office is different. 1 8 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 11 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Being effectively banged-up in the thing for an indeterminate period with bngger-all to do except wait for the decisions of the home office is different. Having briefly gone through the lists of 'goodies' the immigrants have access to, I think they have a lot more 'freedom' to wander than I do? Plus, the accommodation isn't 'just' a bare bedroom! [They are all en suite.....something my local council says I cannot have, as a pensioner] They have free access to all sorts of stuff [that I don't! At least, not for free!] such as gyms, 24 hour canteens....etc They also have access to lots of external visits, guided tours, etc, as well as free transport, at all sorts of hours of the day & night. All rather PC and gucci, methinks? Not that I would deny the immigrants such basics.......far from it! But we are in a position whereby we all have these bright ideas about policies, etc...but when it comes down to it, there isn't enough manpower available to make anything work as it is supposed to. Especially when, as a nation, we don't want to pay for it. Hence the need to find somewhere reasonably priced to accommodate folk while our undermanned immigration system tries to flounder its way through the paperwork. It's all about human dignity at the end of the day. Something our 'friends' in Europe seem to be unable to muster, if there's such a rush to get across the channel? Makes me wonder why we are bothering with this idea of an 'immigration system?' When we are patently short of the more basic workers throughout our economy? Life's all very well whilst one has the money to pay for it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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