RMweb Gold Graham T Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2022 "cowing lush" definitely warrants a funny. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 10 minutes ago, Graham T said: "cowing lush" definitely warrants a funny. A traditional Welsh phrase, believed to have originated from hen nights around Splott and Barry island.... Source: Wikidrunks. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JustinDean Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2022 1 minute ago, MrWolf said: A traditional Welsh phrase, believed to have originated from hen nights around Splott and Barry island.... Source: Wikidrunks. The mental images of Rob embroiled in a Barry Island hen night are not needed at this time of day. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2022 Barry Island hen nights - shuddering at the thought... 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JustinDean Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2022 1 hour ago, MrWolf said: That's a real relic. It's a contraption known as a Station signal and said to probably date back to the 1860s when the line was built. IIRC they were designed to show approaching trains that the station was clear to enter. There was never any other signalling on the line. Impressive bits of wrought iron lattice work though. Horderley looking south. Bishops Castle, to the right of the engine shed It would be a fun challenge to make a working model of that signal. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrWolf Posted June 3, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2022 I'm already ahead on the scruffy ex light railway van body. I'll have to dig it out and finish weathering it. 20 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 2 minutes ago, JustinDean said: It would be a fun challenge to make a working model of that signal. I can't figure out if it's a lamp or balance weight halfway up the post. It would definitely make an interesting model. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 44 minutes ago, MrWolf said: A traditional Welsh phrase, believed to have originated from hen nights around Splott and Barry island.... Source: Wikidrunks. I can vouch for that as an ex barman who used to work in one of the Cardiff City Centre pubs back in the day (but not Splott). Hen nights were always good fun, and I even had my bum pinched on occasion when collecting glasses from the tables. Yes O.K they were probably very drunk. "Well lush" was another term, and if you were a guy who saw an attractive woman - you'd comment she was "smaaaart" - (extended A's). or "cracking". In the interest of equality females may well have used the same terminology about males . 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 From what I have seen in work environments where women are in the majority, the language, innuendo and general behaviour is far worse than that of men. In fact if men behaved like that in the workplace, they would undoubtedly be sacked and quite probably prosecuted! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2022 52 minutes ago, JustinDean said: It would be a fun challenge to make a working model of that signal. Why make it work? The prototype didn’t, or at least, didn’t for very long. 2 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JustinDean Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2022 (edited) 23 minutes ago, MrWolf said: From what I have seen in work environments where women are in the majority, the language, innuendo and general behaviour is far worse than that of men. In fact if men behaved like that in the workplace, they would undoubtedly be sacked and quite probably prosecuted! Maybe it’s because we’re conditioned not to expect that behaviour from women so that when it does occur it seems worse? Edited June 3, 2022 by JustinDean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2022 1 hour ago, MrWolf said: I can't figure out if it's a lamp or balance weight halfway up the post. It would definitely make an interesting model. I've chopped this photo of a similar signal at Horderley down from a larger original. Rob. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Balance weight about 6 feet up, ground signal style spectacle plate at about 14 feet, semaphore at 18 or so the lamp seems to be on a windlass for servicing, hence no ladder. That's a very useful picture Rob and not one I've seen before. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2022 When telephone exchanges had lots of ladies on the switchboards making young apprentices blush was a favourite. Wandering into a pub which a hen party has chosen can be a bit of a shock too. Don 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2022 Of course, this is all based on men’s ideas of how women (should) behave. Being the sensible half of the human population, they simply comply when (the wrong sort of) men are around, and then do what they want to when left alone… 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Quite. We're all as bad / good when it comes down to it and flirtatious behaviour is part of our animal make up. There are of course those whose behaviour is totally unacceptable. Our half assed and unequal attempts to prevent harassment have proved to be ineffective, as they're not applied equally to everyone. This has resulted in the continuation of often barbaric behaviour on the one hand and on the other created thousands of young people who daren't strike up a conversation with the opposite sex. It works both ways. It took a divorce for me to realise that women too can be malicious coercive ###holes too, just like men. It certainly didn't colour my view of women, Miss Hood doesn't put up with BS from anyone! 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 I've had four attempts at uploading some progress pictures Every time I get the message "unknown server error" . I give up. Maybe tomorrow. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted June 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 3, 2022 7 hours ago, Donw said: When telephone exchanges had lots of ladies on the switchboards making young apprentices blush was a favourite. Wandering into a pub which a hen party has chosen can be a bit of a shock too. Don Forty-odd years ago, after hard day's work playing trains at IMREX, a few of us went for a drink in the Frog and Firkin and found ourselves in the middle of a hen night with some very attractive young ladies from the BBC, including a very well-known children's TV presenter of the time. Very pleasant. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted June 4, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2022 12 hours ago, MrWolf said: I've had four attempts at uploading some progress pictures Every time I get the message "unknown server error" . I give up. Maybe tomorrow. Morning Rob, I've had the occasoonal glitch since normal service has been resumed. However, the image has loaded on the second attempt. Last time this happened was, funnily enough, yesterday. Rob. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted June 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2022 Morning all, I've come across this image in Ken Lucas' "The Bishops Castle Railway-A Pictorial Presentation which perhaps better illustrates the signals used at Horderley etc. The caption is self explanatory. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 5, 2022 Author Share Posted June 5, 2022 Now that is an image and a book that I have never seen. Interesting to know the makers of the signal too, I think that has long been a mystery until that picture surfaced. I think that is the winding drum for the lamp mechanism to the left of the worker's head. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JustinDean Posted June 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2022 Posted by the Bishops Castle Railway Society’s Facebook page on Jan 1st this year “Today we go to Horderley Station. The original ticket office is on the right. The signal is believed to be at the National Collections Centre Storage facility in Wroughton near Swindon. The Society has contacted them with a view to returning the signal to Bishop`s Castle for display at the Weighbridge Railway Museum.” May be of interest given the current conversation. Jay 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 5, 2022 Author Share Posted June 5, 2022 It certainly is. I thought they were all scrapped in 1936 when the line was cleared. What stands at Horderley now is apparently of Great Western origin. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted June 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2022 (edited) Stephen’s & Co supplied signals to the LSWR, amongst others. The MSE kit for the lattice post signal is ideal for making a model: even more do in S - that’s the source of the signal on Lydham Heath. However, these signals remained in situ, despite being unused, as the BCR remained privately owned and esoteric. We’re it to have been foisted on the GWR, I imagine that the signal would have been removed. Edited June 5, 2022 by Regularity 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted June 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2022 On 02/06/2022 at 23:09, Winslow Boy said: I don't think Mr Musk is sending rockets to mars just because he's concerned that we might all die in the next pandemic he sees a business opportunity. Is that greed though? I don't know and whether the cost is ours - we buy things from Amazon- or his it's motivating him to do it. You're mixing up Musk and Bezos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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