In the real world I cannot ever recall...

[F-UnitMad]

5 hours ago, Reorte said:

Has no preserved line ever put some 5 plank private owner wagons behind a 66, just to see the reaction? :)

Class 66 aren't preserved yet, are they? 🤷‍♂️😉

[Phatbob]

1 hour ago, darrel said:

Cars waiting at level crossings and none of them have drivers or passengers in them. 

Buses at bus stops and none of them have drivers or passengers. 

 

 

I plead not guilty M'Lud.  My busses on the bridge have a driver, conductor and punters in them. 😉

[big jim]

6 hours ago, BMacdermott said:

Hello again

 

Island platforms that are so narrow as to give the Health & Safety Executive apoplexy

acton bridge up side? 
 

 

 

[Fishoutofwater]

7 hours ago, AY Mod said:

. station lamps on in daylight.

Overton, Hampshire. Never seen the lights OFF.

 

[big jim]

7 hours ago, AY Mod said:

... people in shiny clothes

unless you model lime st in the early 90s!, plenty of shiny shell suits

[Welchester]

7 hours ago, BMacdermott said:

Island platforms that are so narrow as to give the Health & Safety Executive apoplexy and platform end ramps so steep that they make the north face of the Eiger look easy.🙂

 

There was always Haresfield in Gloucester. Not strictly an island, but the very narrow platform was between two tracks.

[Gilbert]

47 minutes ago, big jim said:

unless you model lime st in the early 90s!, plenty of shiny shell suits

Cheeky....

 

[sir douglas]

The Floriana tunnel, Malta, under the St Publius church. it was originally intended to go under it but had to divert a few yards after they found an under ground revervoir

[bodmin16]

7 hours ago, Skinnylinny said:

I acknowledge that these are both underground, one in London and one in Glasgow, but...

 

[Nick C]

6 hours ago, darrel said:

Cars waiting at level crossings and none of them have drivers or passengers in them. 

Buses at bus stops and none of them have drivers or passengers. 

 

Steam locos without crews...

[Derekstuart]

Just now, BroadLeaves said:

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

I remember that well. I had not long purchased my first coach- a nearly new touring spec vehicle only to find the company I was going to contract to went into liquidation. Not good.
Then Tesco's contractors did me a favour and put in their cut and cover tunnel. Over the next few months the amount of rail replacement I did with it almost paid for the whole vehicle (around £200,000 of a total price of £250,000 give or take, allowing for inflation). It was down there 168 hours per week with myself and 2 other drivers in turns. When you consider that this was only one of perhaps 20 or 30 vehicles in use and you see that this was a VERY expensive mishap. Not all the coaches would have been earning this much but I got on very well with the organiser (Fraser Eagle- who later went into liquidation themselves) and so got a lot of work.

 

I wonder if the people of Gerrards Cross have got used to Tesco yet- they were not happy about it even before the accident.

Sorry for the OT. Might interest someone. Probably won't.

[Derekstuart]

Just now, bodmin16 said:

 

This reminds me of some of the stations I encountered in Bulgaria. Particularly one called 'Bu**eroff'... Now before moderators get upset that is exactly how it was pronounced in English, the local spelling being impossible on a European QWERTY board.

 

BTW I wonder how many Western tourists can say they've driven a Bulgarian train at 90 MPH down past the communist (Bulgarian/ Russian) Black Sea Naval dockyards during the height of the cold war.

[Flying Pig]

4 hours ago, Nick C said:

Steam locos without crews...

 

Or the correct headlamps.... 😁  

[Andy Hayter]

12 hours ago, darrel said:

Cars waiting at level crossings and none of them have drivers or passengers in them. 

Buses at bus stops and none of them have drivers or passengers. 

 

 

But they have sat there for hours waiting for the crossing gates to open and eventually they have all got out and walked home.

[Helmdon]

8 hours ago, Nick C said:

Steam locos without crews...

I think that cuts both ways though - I’ve always found it much easier to overlook the lack of crew in the 2-3 locomotives that are moving vs having a backdrop of 18-20 on shed, in rows, all with crews….

 

consequently, I don’t crew my locos. 

[Enterprisingwestern]

4 hours ago, Flying Pig said:

 

Or the correct headlamps.... 😁  

 

, or even head/tail lamps at all.

 

This seemed to be quite rife at York, even on layouts I thought should have known better.

 

Mike.

[APOLLO]

Narrow platforms at Ardsley Yorkshire - Breathe in, train approaching !!

 

 

Brit15

[F-UnitMad]

5 hours ago, Flying Pig said:

 

Or the correct headlamps.... 😁  

 

12 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

, or even head/tail lamps at all.

 

This seemed to be quite rife at York, even on layouts I thought should have known better.

 

Mike.

PLEASE - don't start all that again...!!!

 

(can't be bothered to find & link to The Johnster's topic that thrashed this out recently)

[Dunsignalling]

5 hours ago, Flying Pig said:

 

Or the correct headlamps.... 😁  

 

Just model the Southern, nice convenient uniform route codes (unless you model a major junction)... 😇

 

Tail lamps only become an issue in termini when the "lesser of two evils" argument comes into play unless you are very handy with tweezers. 

 

Big roundy-rounds are easy; just run dedicated up and down sets with everything correct.

 

John

Edited April 15, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[Willie Whizz]

Buses on a bridge?  Of course!

 

At the south end of Nottingham Victoria was Parliament Street bridge which had several bus and trolley bus stops. And as most of them were “fare stages”, used as timing points , it was common to see the vehicles stood there for some while without moving. 
 

Realism sometimes IS a cliché!

[Invicta]

18 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Never mind a church - do I not recall some sort of problem with a supermarket being built over a tunnel? 

 

..or a university- Tyler Hill Tunnel on the old Canterbury & Whitstable line which passes under the University of Kent site- with predictable results in 1974 when part of the tunnel collapsed, and a part of the university's Cornwallis Building had to be demolished after it subsided by about a metre....

 

 

[Phatbob]

12 hours ago, Nick C said:

Steam locos without crews...

 

8 hours ago, Flying Pig said:

 

Or the correct headlamps.... 😁  

Again, not guilty M'lud. 😉 🤣
 

[Flying Pig]

3 hours ago, F-UnitMad said:

 

PLEASE - don't start all that again...!!!

 

(can't be bothered to find & link to The Johnster's topic that thrashed this out recently)

 

I was being facetious as I'm well aware of the recent thread where the subject was thrashed to death without resolution.

 

It seems to me that Andy's OP refers to simple errors easily corrected by more careful observation of the prototype, rather than things everyone knows about but are technically hard to implement.  Hence buildings too close to tunnels, but not references to gauge - the one being easy to fix with a little more scenery, the other being a veteran can of worms.  Lamps, of course, fall into the latter category.

 

[AY Mod]

5 minutes ago, Flying Pig said:

It seems to me that Andy's OP refers to simple errors easily corrected by more careful observation of the prototype, rather than things everyone knows about but are technically hard to implement.

 

Exactly this. Dodging the difficult is understandable but incorporating the ridiculous seems to be an objective in too many cases.

[Flying Pig]

Just now, AY Mod said:

 

Exactly this. Dodging the difficult is understandable but incorporating the ridiculous seems to be an objective in too many cases.

 

Perhaps encouraged by the eagerness with which weird edge cases are sought out to justify the modelling of highly unusual situations.  Prototype for Everything is all very well but it needs to be handled with great care or you end up with a freak show at best.  In my opinion a model of the typical will usually be more convincing.