bradfordbuffer Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 3 minutes ago, C126 said: I fear this will start another drift to 'contemporary dress standards' and the decline of the frock coat (the start of the rot, I.M.H.O.), but I am always glad to see at exhibitions an operating team in a matching 'ensemble', even if only a sweat-shirt with the club/ layout title on it. Always impresses me, and shows effort. I worked with a driver at garston depot who spent two weeks a year in Spain in full! Drivers uniform including hat... Oh boy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold C126 Posted November 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2022 3 minutes ago, bradfordbuffer said: I worked with a driver at garston depot who spent two weeks a year in Spain in full! Drivers uniform including hat... Oh boy If only Drivers still wore top hats... 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradfordbuffer Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 (edited) 1 minute ago, C126 said: If only Drivers still wore top hats... 🙂 If only I kept unused uniform could of made a fortune on ebay Edited November 8, 2022 by bradfordbuffer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradfordbuffer Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 7 minutes ago, C126 said: If only Drivers still wore top hats... 🙂 We would still would being pulled by the rocket and sat in open wagons! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2022 21 minutes ago, bradfordbuffer said: I worked with a driver at garston depot who spent two weeks a year in Spain in full! Drivers uniform including hat... Oh boy i have heard of drivers, probably not in uniform, being in Spain while being paid to be route-learning.... 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2022 (edited) 30 minutes ago, bradfordbuffer said: I worked with a driver at garston depot who spent two weeks a year in Spain in full! Drivers uniform including hat... Oh boy sounds more like a saltley man on a mileage turn Edited November 8, 2022 by big jim 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradfordbuffer Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 2 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: i have heard of drivers, probably not in uniform, being in Spain while being paid to be route-learning.... Oh yes remember watching grand national in TV room at garston....including managers as we had a group bet on and two drivers where on sick on TV waving at camera! Two drivers from a unnamed company should of been routes day....one had private pilots license went for a circuit in local area as had z hours wet rental booked landed after a airbus encountered wake turbulence on landing stuck it on nose! Local TV crew filming ! Two drivers in uniform disembark plane oops...red faced! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradfordbuffer Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 1 minute ago, big jim said: sounds more like a saltley man Coast to coast in uniform Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2022 41 minutes ago, ardbealach said: Getting back to acceptable standards at model railway shows.... I thought I should post this image of how our team present ourselves when we exhibit our Bewdley and Whithorn at exhibitions. More recently it has been noticed that other layout operators are now beginning to follow our trend by wearing bow ties. First rate stuff. As I wear DJ and bow-tie as FoH for our AmDram group, and model layouts in exhibition are a form of theatre, I thoroughly approve of such sartorial elegance. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted November 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 8, 2022 (edited) 7 minutes ago, bradfordbuffer said: Coast to coast in uniform Weren't you a SY seagull for some time? Edited November 8, 2022 by newbryford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradfordbuffer Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 14 minutes ago, newbryford said: Weren't you a SY seagull for some time? Yep SS....Saltley second man! / trainman D...always liked to be a banker..... Licky and St Andrews! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whart57 Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 1 hour ago, C126 said: If only Drivers still wore top hats... 🙂 Why not full-bottomed wigs and tri-corns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold C126 Posted November 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2022 22 minutes ago, whart57 said: Why not full-bottomed wigs and tri-corns? Not as aerodynamic? 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 3 hours ago, ardbealach said: Getting back to acceptable standards at model railway shows.... I thought I should post this image of how our team present ourselves when we exhibit our Bewdley and Whithorn at exhibitions. More recently it has been noticed that other layout operators are now beginning to follow our trend by wearing bow ties. [Alisdair] You don't see many Barbershop singers anymore.... 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold D9020 Nimbus Posted November 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2022 19 hours ago, boxbrownie said: And don’t forget the diesel Loco with drivers that “change ends” with direction. Pretty sure one of the big German manufacturers has made an HO model with this feature… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerzilla Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 They'll have track-emptying toilets on BR Mk1 coaches next. 3D-printed "bangers and mash", as the guys in hi-viz used to call it. 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradfordbuffer Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 (edited) 8 minutes ago, rogerzilla said: They'll have track-emptying toilets on BR Mk1 coaches next. 3D-printed "bangers and mash", as the guys in hi-viz used to call it. They didn't mind when working there rest day's.....they got time and a turd pay!.....😂 Old one but a good one! I did do a reverse flush from secret controls in a class 333 emu once in first weeks of service trying to keep the train in service as bog was blocked... apparently just shutting the toilet seat isn't sufficient to retain 'back presure' you have to fit a plastic cover and weights to seat.....a little knowledge is dangerous! I have never seen a sight like it when I opened door! Defo bangers and mash....defo unblocked!☺️ use your imagination Edited November 8, 2022 by bradfordbuffer 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 4 minutes ago, rogerzilla said: They'll have track-emptying toilets on BR Mk1 coaches next. 3D-printed "bangers and mash", as the guys in hi-viz used to call it. As most of my coaches rarely have passengers I have not found that a problem, the problem is the cows in the field. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted November 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 8, 2022 35 minutes ago, D9020 Nimbus said: Pretty sure one of the big German manufacturers has made an HO model with this feature… Yes there is……which is why I mentioned it 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted November 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 8, 2022 17 minutes ago, rogerzilla said: They'll have track-emptying toilets on BR Mk1 coaches next. 3D-printed "bangers and mash", as the guys in hi-viz used to call it. 🤢 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted November 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 8, 2022 12 minutes ago, fulton said: As most of my coaches rarely have passengers I have not found that a problem, the problem is the cows in the field. I’m not letting the cows muck up my lovely fields, they can wait until they get to the dock 😆 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerzilla Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 1 hour ago, bradfordbuffer said: They didn't mind when working there rest day's.....they got time and a turd pay!.....😂 Old one but a good one! I did do a reverse flush from secret controls in a class 333 emu once in first weeks of service trying to keep the train in service as bog was blocked... apparently just shutting the toilet seat isn't sufficient to retain 'back presure' you have to fit a plastic cover and weights to seat.....a little knowledge is dangerous! I have never seen a sight like it when I opened door! Defo bangers and mash....defo unblocked!☺️ use your imagination That's reminiscent of the German U-boat that met an ignominous end when a panicked sailor failed to follow the correct undersea toilet operating sequence. The captain's name was, and I kid you not, Schlitt. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 On 08/11/2022 at 11:42, C126 said: I fear this will start another drift to 'contemporary dress standards' and the decline of the frock coat (the start of the rot, I.M.H.O.), but I am always glad to see at exhibitions an operating team in a matching 'ensemble', even if only a sweat-shirt with the club/ layout title on it. Always impresses me, and shows effort. I recall seeing a chap exhibiting a broad gauge layout at Swindon some years back who wore appropriate Victorian attire. The layout was also very impressive, being largely built from card. Between the subject, the method and the presentation, it was by far the most memorable exhibit at the show, and it was only a small layout. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Not Jeremy Posted November 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 9, 2022 2 hours ago, HonestTom said: I recall seeing a chap exhibiting a broad gauge layout at Swindon some years back who wore appropriate Victorian attire. The layout was also very impressive, being largely built from card. Between the subject, the method and the presentation, it was by far the most memorable exhibit at the show, and it was only a small layout. That'll be Rich Phipp, a very fine fellow indeed! Seen here as a porter on the "Watchmouth Railway" at this year's Larkrail, complete with memorabilia from the line.... 18 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 56 minutes ago, Not Jeremy said: That'll be Rich Phipp, a very fine fellow indeed! Seen here as a porter on the "Watchmouth Railway" at this year's Larkrail, complete with memorabilia from the line.... That's the one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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