trisonic Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Been playing trains all afternoon... an eclectic mix of stock for Chapel en le Frith how did an ICE get there?? Baz Baz, You know I only looked at your avatar at a glance all this time - for some reason I thought you had very long hair!!!!!!!! Best, Pete. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post New Haven Neil Posted October 18, 2015 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) Project X all finished bar installation of power. There's that permissive shunting signal disc we talked about ages ago! Edited October 18, 2015 by New Haven Neil 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Neil, I hope that the tea is good when I pop over.... Best, Pete. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted October 18, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2015 I sincerely hope that you never need the fire buckets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Simon G Posted October 18, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) Two more return trips on the Ratty today, and very enjoyable they were, with one funny incident and one very sentimental. The funny one was a passenger showing me a Ratty leaflet and asking if they could get off at Aira Force. I had to politely explain that Aira Force is about 40 miles away and located near Ullswater, therefore we would not be able to oblige them. The reason it is on the brochure is that the Ullswater Steamers and the Ratty offer half price tickets to each other on presentation of a suitable voucher. The sentimental one was a lovely lady in her 80s, with her daughter and daughter-in-law in tow, who was visiting for the first time in over 70 years, after she had been evacuated from Tyneside in WW2. She had been housed in one of the Dalegarth cottages now owned by the Ratty. It was a pleasure to be able to help in her reminiscences. Inspired by Dom's tram photos, I took a camera on todays and last Friday's trips, and thought I would post some views from the Ratty. Neither the camera or its operator are particularly good, so they are not the best quality: River Mite working hard up to Miteside on Friday: River Mite entering Irton Road loop, with Northern Rock waiting to cross over on its way back to Ravenglass: Belted Galloway bull in field near Irton Road - an impressive beast: To quote an advert for Australian beer - I can see the pub from here! If passengers ask to be dropped at the nearest station to the pub, it is at The Green for the King George IV. Forge Bridge over the River Esk in the background: Miteside Halt "station building"! Yes, it is a boat: New sleepers loosely positioned for forthcoming track work at Spout House, near Fisherground halt: Finally, it is nice to see one of the local residents on the correct side of the fence for a change! Edited October 18, 2015 by Simon G 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted October 18, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2015 Neil, I hope that the tea is good when I pop over.... Best, Pete. It can be arranged.....we have a wood fired garden heater/cooker too! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted October 18, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2015 I sincerely hope that you never need the fire buckets. Not much of that sort of thing here, unless you're a certain person that is now in Government.....who once burned down a cottage he thought belonged to people from 'across' as a holiday home. However, it was owned by locals.....d'oh. He has served his debt to society and is now a Minister...words fail me, but we can't talk politics in a nice place like this! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 18, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2015 Neil, I hope that the tea is good when I pop over.... Best, Pete. Only £30 from Stansted. However you can fly from Southend for £497! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted October 18, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2015 Baz, You know I only looked at your avatar at a glance all this time - for some reason I thought you had very long hair!!!!!!!! Best, Pete. Pete I am not on the picture... there are two Morris brothers and the owner of Grantham (LNER4479 on here) Graham. Last time i had long hair was 40 years ago at Uni in Leeds - then I had it cut short when I started playing rugby again! Baz 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyram Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Evening all. I hope today finds you well. I am just posting this on the IPad whilst sitting in Amber's room waiting for her to drift off to sleep, it is taking an age this evening. Sarah has already angrily given up so I have had to down laptop tools and the school work to take over. I do have a small glass of Glen Moray next to me so all is not too bad. All smiles earlier thanks to Derby County actually playing as if they may fulfil their potential thanks to a 4-2 win over Wolves that could, and should, have been more. A busy week ahead beckons with parents evenings to do. Hopefully it will go well, half term begins on Friday night. Good wishes for week ahead. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted October 18, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2015 Two more return trips on the Ratty today, and very enjoyable they were, with one funny incident and one very sentimental. The funny one was a passenger showing me a Ratty leaflet and asking if they could get off at Aira Force. I had to politely explain that Aira Force is about 40 miles away and located near Ullswater, therefore we would not be able to oblige them. The reason it is on the brochure is that the Ullswater Steamers and the Ratty offer half price tickets to each other on presentation of a suitable voucher. The sentimental one was a lovely lady in her 80s, with her daughter and daughter-in-law in tow, who was visiting for the first time in over 70 years, after she had been evacuated from Tyneside in WW2. She had been housed in one of the Dalegarth cottages now owned by the Ratty. It was a pleasure to be able to help in her reminiscences. Inspired by Dom's tram photos, I took a camera on todays and last Friday's trips, and thought I would post some views from the Ratty. Neither the camera or its operator are particularly good, so they are not the best quality: River Mite working hard up to Miteside on Friday: P1040147C.jpg River Mite entering Irton Road loop, with Northern Rock waiting to cross over on its way back to Ravenglass: P1040150C.jpg Belted Galloway bull in field near Irton Road - an impressive beast: P1040152Cropped.jpg To quote an advert for Australian beer - I can see the pub from here! If passengers ask to be dropped at the nearest station to the pub, it is at The Green for the King George IV. Forge Bridge over the River Esk in the background: P1040156C.jpg Miteside Halt "station building"! Yes, it is a boat: P1040161C.jpg New sleepers loosely positioned for forthcoming track work at Spout House, near Fisherground halt: P1040168C.jpg Finally, it is nice to see one of the local residents on the correct side of the fence for a change! P1040173Cropped.jpg Some great pictures there, thanks for posting them. They brought back a lot of very good memories of my time as a volunteer in the 70's before I got married. I actually helped take that boat up to Miteside. It was brought from the harbour by the JCB that they had acquired. I've a vague memory that the engine from the same boat ended up in one of the locos. I'm very jealous of you and hope that you enjoy it as much as I did. I'll have to dig out some of my slides and get them scanned. In those days us volunteers slept in the old Brake 3rd known as skid row, opposite the loco shed. My latin motto below was translated in the Ratty arms one night by the late Pete Fazakerley. Jamie 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I just watched Willie Nelson and Neil Young performing together. Almost made it cool to be old! Willie is 82....Neil turns 70 next month. Must mean hope for the rest us. Best, Pete. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Night all 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Ooh, I’d better say G’night to Laurence , Jock and everyone else now too. I have to drive daughter back to New Brunswick and then set my alarm for 5:00am (what?) as the PD have me on a real early ...... Best, Pete. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 18, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2015 Ooh, I’d better say G’night to Laurence , Jock and everyone else now too. I have to drive daughter back to New Brunswick and then set my alarm for 5:00am (what?) as the PD have me on a real early ######...... Best, Pete. The mind boggles at whatever duty invoked the net nanny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emt_911 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Night all 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted October 18, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) Some of my friends from the Serpentarium! Water Moccasin aka Cottonmouth Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake An Eastern Diamondback/Canebrake rattlesnake hybrid King Cobra (Just the head as he is 9 1/2 feet long!) Indonesian Spitting Cobra (This was the rather testy one that was constantly striking at the glass) All taken at low res on the camera phone with no flash, so not the finest images. Edited October 18, 2015 by Happy Hippo 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jock67B Posted October 18, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2015 Evening all, Hoping tonight's sleep will be better than last night's - looks like I've got a bit of a chest infection and flu like symptoms so I might have to arrange to see my GP and friend if it gets any worse! Gordon(bluebottle), sorry to read that the shine was taken off your enjoyment of the Bill Bailey show. Joanna and I have seen him live a couple of times and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! Pete's advice is very sensible as my late mother-in-law had a couple of unexplained falls and the subsequent examinations showed a heart defect which was then controlled, giving her a few more years! Mal, I thought that was a lovely 'boat train' story with a very romantic ending as you are still together today! My tale of our 'road rail' sleeper adventure continued as we took the car round the inner Hebrides before staying in Oban, Fort William, Loch Lomond, Glasgow and finally Edinburgh, spending a couple of nights in each. We then took the 'road rail' sleeper from Edinburgh to Kings Cross, this time with a well stocked drinks cabinet. I mention this now in response to earlier posts about timetable complexity, as the whole trip was set up by one helpful lady on the telephone, and all the bookings were without problems. I wouldn't like to try to set up such a trip now using internet booking! Not cheap, but a lot of fun! Rick, the weather looked glorious in the photo of you with the Pirate and his extremely skinny pal! Very belated Happy Birthday to LisaP4, and very many more of them. Bill, best of luck with your application for election to the Diocesan Board of Trustees. Neil(NHN), project X certainly looks good. I guess that the colour scheme shows where your current railway interests lie? Simon, thank you so much for the lovely set of images from the 'Ratty', and that was a moving story about the old lady evacuee - she has probably been dreaming of making the trip for all these years! The permanent way looks to be in better order than I recall from my last visit many years ago. It may of course be the memory that is flawed! Jamie, I first saw your 'Latin phrase' as graffiti on the toilet wall of the 'Turf' public house in Oxford whilst doing a politics summer school at Ruskin college many moons ago. I have been known to use it quite often in the past, and I have been known to get myself pretty 'deep' in it! Good luck to our commuters again tomorrow, as yes, the 'Boomtown Rats' least favourite day is with us again! As usual, I hope that all those with ailments continue to shrug them off, Kind regards, Jock. G'night Pete! G'night owls! 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two_sugars Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Andyram . .My layout? is 7ft by 2ft 6ins., and consists is double track continuous loops, loosely based on Easington Colliery station and colliery exchange all done in N gauge using code 55 track. No where near show standard, but work continues slowly. I won't be doing a thread. Pete. I have a Squier P-Bass that I am looking after for its owner, my nephew, who is away teaching in the far east. I don't think he will be back to reclaim it. The Squier strat i had was made in China. I swapped the bridge pick-up for a Seymore-Duncan Humbucker to give it a bit more b4lls, and sold it to my mate who sold his mexican "fat" strat when he stopped gigging, and always regretted it. It's got him playing again so we are both happy. Tony, If you do decide to give it a go, do it sitting down 'cos' at our age, the shoulders can't handle it! And so to bed. . .Goodnight everyone. . . .Sleep well. John 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emt_911 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Morning all. The start of another busy week. Jock - I hope you had a better nights sleep and that you don't develop a chest infection. Have a good day everyone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted October 19, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 19, 2015 Morning all. Still dark out. I wonder if I'll ever get out of the habit of getting up at this time. To be honest, I'm not bothered if I don't. I can get so much more done this way. Have a good week everyone. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Good morning one and all Apple Day yesterday could have done without a few ingredients. Drizzle is never welcome but with my second-heaviest boots the ground conditions were manageable. The introduction of a parking charge without any prior warning that I had spotted, while no big deal, marked a further step in translating the event from one inspired by volunteers to a municipal enterprise. Even the job of collecting the gate money was done by uniformed goons who had allowed a queue to grow before I arrived and were not very good at clearing it. Many of the gazebos housing the fringe organisations and traders that contribute to the event were labelled "Bedford Markets". Make no mistake, fellow inmates: I am not opposed to progress, but it must be the right kind. All that aside, I spent loads of money on such delicacies as honey marmalade, bacon with the rind on [a commodity now discarded by most supermarkets], a gammon and apple Bedfordshire Clanger and a kilo of apples, naturally. Oh yes, and a glass of cider. Not so long ago the cider bar was run by the local CAMRA branch but like everything else it is now under the control of the council. Such was the efficiency that although descriptive labels for each cider and perry were provided for the benefit of customers the staff did not know what they were selling. One challenge remains: how can the council take control of the Morris men? Best not ask! What to do today? Best write the cheque for my membership of the RCTS before the renewal slip gets buried. Then there is further exploration of a DVD that arrived last week. Mike Stationmaster will know that station working books are as plentiful as piles of rocking horse droppings so I suspect that he too sent for the set of scans of the Exeter St Davids book for summer 1960. I bought it as a way of trying to help reconstruct what happened in the summer of 1961 a bit further down the line but it is fascinating in its own right. Another thing that needs doing is to check my rather straggly bush tomato plant in case any ripe fruit remains to be gathered. The friend who gave me the plant tells me that mine has done better than his. Fear not, folks: there is no danger of my becoming a gardening expert. Best wishes to all Chris 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) Morning All, We have a rather foggy autumnal morning in this part of the world. It isn't all that cold though - at least, it is a lot milder than it was last week. Time for a coffee! Have a good day everyone... Oh - forgot to add. Hope you are feeling better this morning Jock. Edited October 19, 2015 by Robert 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Morning all. I too regret the passing of the bacon rhind. My only memory of my maternal grandfather is of him having his breakfast in bed (where he spent all his time by then), and giving me his bacon rhind which I remember as being delicious. Pork scratchings are not in the same league. Ed 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted October 19, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) Morning all from a sleeper berth between Watford Junction and Euston. A reasonable nights sleep and this berth is cleaner than on the outward trip. Didn't try the lounge car this time although it did look a much better one. It's straight into work when we get to Euston. A short working week for us as we are off to Utrecht . Edited October 19, 2015 by roundhouse 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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