RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 Par won't win, it has been a long time since Gilbert has made it round all 18 and remained on Par. So don't go upsetting by suggesting Par. 1 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 9 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Assuming you don't mean just the ex-SR lines, then Par, naturally. If you do, however, then Grogley Halt. "Any" was supposed to be all encompassing and stuff like that, but I agree I could have been clearer. Par is permissible, but not easily achievable if golfing. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 9 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Par won't win, it has been a long time since Gilbert has made it round all 18 and remained on Par. So don't go upsetting by suggesting Par. Our course is par 70, and my best ever score there is 74, of which I am rather proud. No way was I ever going to equal, let alone get under par, so no upset caused. 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 St. Erth 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 One more for Templecombe... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bude_branch Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Axminster. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Axminster for me too. Martyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2020 Tonight we have a different angle on the trip working you saw last night. Two failed attempts at photoshopping this, so you get it au naturel. Then we have a look from on high as the B12 heads off towards East, and thence to Cambridge. This one I just forgot to photoshop. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, jazzer said: St. Erth As in "Snurfersnives". Edited September 8, 2020 by St Enodoc 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 St Erth for me. Andrew 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 8, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2020 Up on high again, to see the Tees Tyne Pullman, unusually with diesel haulage today. Having expended all that effort to get to the top of the Cenotaph, it seemed sensible to rest there for a while, and capture the next train in, the stopper from Doncaster that comes via the old road through Boston. A proper Castle again, Kimbolton this time. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 8, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 Good turnout for this poll, and very close too. Templecombe Seaton Junction and Axminster with 3 votes, but Par won with 4. Staying down south, wayside stations between London and the Kent coast, Ramsgate, Dover and Folkestone. Even I know a few. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 (edited) Sittingbourne & Milton Regis. We got off there on a school trip in about 1969 to visit the Bowaters system before it closed. I got a cab ride from Kemsley Mill to Ridham Dock in the fireless loco "Unique". At Ridham we saw the ex-SE&CR P class "Pioneer II" sitting out-of-use. Edited September 8, 2020 by St Enodoc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Tenterden. Lloyd 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodnok Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 16 minutes ago, great northern said: Staying down south, wayside stations between London and the Kent coast, Ramsgate, Dover and Folkestone. Even I know a few. Am I straying too far off course with Queenborough? A nice looking station with an interesting history... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2020 I sense this is about the South Eastern, rather than the Chatham lines. I have worked at some, done signalling training at Deal and Sandwich, where I was passed as competent, spent some months as SM at Ramsgate. Minster, with its triangle, would be good, but perhaps Dunton Green would be favourite, formerly the junction for Westerham. And on one occasion my fast train home was stopped there by signal, whereupon my travelling companion leapt smartly out, as he lived closer to there than to Sevenoaks, the next stop. A bit naughty, but as he was Regional Civil Engineer at the time I don't suppose he'd have heard much about it...... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 My vote is for Sandling Junction (but not a junction for a long time!). It is a pleasent station with a good walk down hill to Hythe RH&DR station. Regards Chris H 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 I'd just like to thank Gilbert for giving us the 'heads-up' on Hunt Couplings. Mine arrived this morning and I've already trialled them on a few items. A revelation would be my description and for those of us with wonky eyesight, a Godsend. They're not for use where shunting occurs but for keeping mixed rakes of coaches together and easily attaching stock/engines in the fiddle yard they are wonderful. I shall be ordering a bigger batch this week! This is the sort of thing the trade should be doing but now I really hope they don't because the folks at West Hill Wagon Works richly deserve all the business and credit they can get. Tension locks? They will soon all be in the dustbin - where they belong! 1 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 4 minutes ago, TrevorP1 said: I'd just like to thank Gilbert for giving us the 'heads-up' on Hunt Couplings. Mine arrived this morning and I've already trialled them on a few items. A revelation would be my description and for those of us with wonky eyesight, a Godsend. They're not for use where shunting occurs but for keeping mixed rakes of coaches together and easily attaching stock/engines in the fiddle yard they are wonderful. I shall be ordering a bigger batch this week! This is the sort of thing the trade should be doing but now I really hope they don't because the folks at West Hill Wagon Works richly deserve all the business and credit they can get. Tension locks? They will soon all be in the dustbin - where they belong! I must say that the new Elite polarised range looks very tempting. One thing that's not quite clear from the website - or maybe it's just me - is the price for 10 individual couplings (i.e. 5 pairs) or 10 pairs (i.e. 20 individual couplings)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 5 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: I must say that the new Elite polarised range looks very tempting. One thing that's not quite clear from the website - or maybe it's just me - is the price for 10 individual couplings (i.e. 5 pairs) or 10 pairs (i.e. 20 individual couplings)? 10 individual couplings. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 10 minutes ago, TrevorP1 said: 10 individual couplings. Thanks Trevor. That's what I thought but this page seems to say something different: https://www.westhillwagonworks.co.uk/couplings-new-c-2/hunt-couplings-elite-oo-gauge-new-c-21/hunt-couplings-elite-close-coupling-couplings-for-nem-sockets-oo-gauge-p-81 So to be absolutely clear, to fit a coupling at both ends of one coach will cost GBP 1.39 not GBP 0.695? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 10 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: So to be absolutely clear, to fit a coupling at both ends of one coach will cost GBP 1.39 not GBP 0.695? Correct. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2020 29 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: So to be absolutely clear, to fit a coupling at both ends of one coach will cost GBP 1.39 not GBP 0.695? Still cheaper than Kadees which I've cheerfully used for 30 years. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 I will go with Deal. I like those 1930's style signal boxes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 8, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 1 hour ago, St Enodoc said: Thanks Trevor. That's what I thought but this page seems to say something different: https://www.westhillwagonworks.co.uk/couplings-new-c-2/hunt-couplings-elite-oo-gauge-new-c-21/hunt-couplings-elite-close-coupling-couplings-for-nem-sockets-oo-gauge-p-81 So to be absolutely clear, to fit a coupling at both ends of one coach will cost GBP 1.39 not GBP 0.695? 100 Elite close couplings cost me £64.50, and my view is that they are well worth the price. I already need more though. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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