RMweb Premium Popular Post TheQ Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 26 Mooring Awl, 2 hours sleep looooooooong awake 4 hours sleep, I'd have liked more but Ben the I want out now!!! Collie appeared. Dry high, grey cloud, the Victoria plum tree has come into flower as has the Bullace trees. I see Baltimore has a problem, hopefully no one was on the road bridge at the time, unless there was a serious technical failure, someone on the bridge of that ship is in serious trouble. The captain will be anyway.. Last day of maintenance at the Radar Museum this season, we open on Friday, https://www.radarmuseum.co.uk/ Time to get the overalls on. 7 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post New Haven Neil Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 26 (edited) 10 minutes ago, TheQ said: I see Baltimore has a problem, hopefully no one was on the road bridge at the time, unless there was a serious technical failure, someone on the bridge of that ship is in serious trouble. The captain will be anyway.. Hoooooeeee, that's nasty. Nightmare stuff. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071 Edited March 26 by New Haven Neil 1 1 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 26 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 26 RMWeb is playing silly b.....s this morning. I tried to like a post, it didn't work so I refreshed the page. I then had to prove I wasn't a robot by marking the end of the path of a car on a sort of street map. Then ERs took me to the top of a page so I read posts and liked them etc, then realised there must have been posts earlier I hadn't seen, so went back a page. Half way down that page I came across the posts I'd just read. It is still raining here, only 13mm in all but once again it is much too wet to even think of doing anything in the garden, if the rain ever stops. Northumberland's vanishing beaches are causing comment, there is an article on the BBC news pages: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2yk3kgd13o Here the council are considering what to do about the promenade edge as the beach is now over 12 feet down in places, perhaps they will have to install railings. I slept reasonably last night but feel very tired again this morning. It seems that 2 days after I do something I feel exhausted, doubtless my body is using all its resources repairing itself after the surgery, I hope it doesn't take too much longer. I have to admit that looking at my diary from the previous hernia op I am doing more now than I did then so perhaps I should take things easy. The groceries are on their away, once they are put away I think I need to have yet another quiet day. David 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 Good morning everyone A sunny start to the day, unlike yesterday which was wet, very wet. Not a lot on the go here for today, although I’ve already got a fruit tea loaf, that I’d left soaking overnight in the oven. I’d planned to have a day sat in the dinning room waiting for an expected package, but Royal Snail have sent an email telling me it’ll be delivered tomorrow! So much for 48 hour tracked! However, we are out tomorrow for most of the day and Thursday is also a no-no, as is Saturday, so I’ve had to rearrange for it to be delivered next Tuesday, pah. However, I’m still going to sit at the dining room table and do a bit of tweaking of the helix plan, so that I can change its orientation by 90 degrees. This will mean that, apart from one entry road, it will all be beneath the layout. Anyway, time to get the pencil and paper out, back later. Brian 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post roundhouse Posted March 26 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 26 Morning. Calmed down from last nights. I did have chest pains but OK this morning. have had a text from doctors asking why Mum turned away the district nurse on two occassions for a blood test. Mum told them that she would be out last Thursday when they wanted to call and yesterday Mum was at the hopsital when the nurse called. So done a sutiable response to the text. Just seems full on at the moment especially as yesterdays hopsital trip was rescheduled due to her eating when she shouldnt have before the appointment to the hospital and I had to contact the hospital to reschedule the visit. She now has three more appointments to the hospital in the next few weeks and all at afternoon peak times. Anyway bags being packed for our trip up North. I have decided not to pack the DSLR as I doubt that I will use it much and these days often get stopped on stations when using the DSLR but not when using the mobile phone to take snaps. The mobile takes almost as good shots and also automatically backs up the photos in the cloud. This is also very much a pub crawl. 12 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flanged Wheel Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 19 minutes ago, roundhouse said: I have decided not to pack the DSLR as I doubt that I will use it much and these days often get stopped on stations when using the DSLR but not when using the mobile phone to take snaps. I am intrigued as to the justification given, if any, for people being stopped from using DSLR cameras on stations. Have I missed a rule/culture change or have you simply been unlucky? 7 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 Morning all from Estuary-Land. Not a bad night last night, only two callouts from bladder control and the second was just before seven so I got up. The events in Baltimore are now unfolding as per the live pictures posted by @New Haven Neil above. They are now saying that the vessels engine failed and it lost steerage way which as in this instance can be disastrous. Some are questioning the construction of the bridge itself and why it collapsed, but by appearances it's a suspension bridge and once a tower goes collapse is inevitable. 1 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 There is a thread on the Baltimore bridge collapse here:- https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/185329-bridge-collapse-in-the-us/#comment-5471766 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26 16 minutes ago, Flanged Wheel said: I am intrigued as to the justification given, if any, for people being stopped from using DSLR cameras on stations. Have I missed a rule/culture change or have you simply been unlucky? Many larger stations have security and I guess that they have been briefed to stop anyone with a camera. I got shouted at on Fenchurch station a year or so ago just for getting my DSLR out of the bag and they came onto the train saying that they were going to throw me off the station but didn't. In Scotland apparently you are meant to contact the station staff before taking photos but if you want a photo of the train that you just got off then there isn't time to do so. However they tend to leave you alone if using the mobile phone. its not many times that I have been stopped. Quite a few years ago I remember being at Brighton station with a friend who worked in the depot and he just told the person who was trying to stop us to go away. 2 1 9 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flanged Wheel Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 So no good reason, just over zealous security staff exercising power in an arbitrary and unjustifiable fashion. Seems a real pity. (Tiny little rantette there methinks). Mind you, tomorrow I’m going to be trying to take photographs at the new high speed station in Laos - we’ll see how I get on here. Not sure I fancy a Laotian prison cell… 15 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Rich_F Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 4 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Is it the flue/ chimney for a line kiln as it looks like a limestone quarry. The kiln may be a short distance away with a ground level F, ue to the actual chimney. That was quite common. Jamie I believe it's the last standing remnants of one of the Dietzsch lime kilns that were built on site between 1867 and 1900. A lot of the other buildings were demolished. 4 1 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 13 minutes ago, Rich_F said: I believe it's the last standing remnants of one of the Dietzsch lime kilns that were built on site between 1867 and 1900. A lot of the other buildings were demolished. Frothe research that I've done about rail served quarries ithe Yorkshire Dales, I'm aware of bottle, Hoffman and Spencer Kilns. I'll have to look up Dietzsch. The Hoffman Kiln at Ingleton had a short stumpy chimney on top of the hilwith a ground level flue following the contours from the kiln. Jamiel 10 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26 25 minutes ago, Flanged Wheel said: So no good reason, just over zealous security staff exercising power in an arbitrary and unjustifiable fashion. Seems a real pity. (Tiny little rantette there methinks). Mind you, tomorrow I’m going to be trying to take photographs at the new high speed station in Laos - we’ll see how I get on here. Not sure I fancy a Laotian prison cell… Before the pandemic we had an hours wait at Lancaster station and was appraoched by a member of the station staff who started chatting with me. It soon became apparent that he was just sounding out my state of mind incase I might have been thinking of jumping in front of a train but he soon reslised that I was taking photos aand he chatted for a while. That type of interaction is a very pleasnt one but but the only time that has happened. I have been told to stop taking photos at Amtrak San Diego by a very officious Amtrak female conductor some years ago which wans't what I was expecting as Amtrak were encouraging people to take photos of their trains. 13 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 14 hours ago, PhilJ W said: Evening all from Estuary-Land. Just watched a program on BBC4 about the Darjeeling Railway, very interesting. There's three more programs to come this week at 7 pm Tues-Weds-Thur, you can pick up tonights program on I-player. Delighted you chose to reveal this as I saw a muddle of it at AlyPaly some years ago and fell in love with it! Already had a sneak preview on the mac! Will try and catch up with the first part on the beeb at 1:30 - biggggggggger screeeeeeeen! 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 10 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: What in all the dark Satanic Mills is this thing: It doesn't look like a headstock or winding house. But I'm no expert in such things. I think that rather than being a flue - why have arches and rectangular openings in a flue? - it is in fact kiln and flue combined. I have seen (on the box) a similar arrangement where the arch gives access to 4 kilns - 2 on each side and fuel (coal or maybe coke) and limestone or chalk are loaded into the kilns at that level. The height of the flue above is determined by the need for the fire to draw sufficiently to create enough heat to calcine the rock. The lime/cement is then extracted at the lower level (rectangular openings) once the fire has subsided but probably still too hot to touch.. https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailv2&form=SBIHVR&lightschemeovr=1&iss=sbi&q=imgurl:https%3A%2F%2Fcontent-eu.invisioncic.com%2Fy320084%2Fmonthly_2024_03%2Fimage.png.816cb988f73d8e054961bf0c243a27bc.png&pageurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rmweb.co.uk%2Fforums%2Ftopic%2F229-early-risers%2Fpage%2F12876%2F%23comment-5471532&pagetl=Early+Risers.+-+Page+12876+-+Wheeltappers+-+RMweb&imgalt=image.png.816cb988f73d8e054961bf0c243a27bc.png&imgsz=281x479&selectedindex=28&id=https%3A%2F%2Fs0.geograph.org.uk%2Fgeophotos%2F03%2F01%2F72%2F3017244_44f03303_1024x1024.jpg&ccid=fyh1nuQd&mediaurl=https%3A%2F%2Fs0.geograph.org.uk%2Fgeophotos%2F03%2F01%2F72%2F3017244_44f03303_1024x1024.jpg&exph=768&expw=1024&vt=2&simid=607996722171161310&ck=C79CEC83FD0AAB6E3793A7B3D8CAB366&thid=OIP.fyh1nuQd7d51tnjpmlndigHaFj&cdnurl=https%3A%2F%2Fth.bing.com%2Fth%2Fid%2FR.7f28759ee41dedde75b678e99a59dd8a%3Frik%3DQ6Qx%2byyAI8BpLA%26pid%3DImgRaw%26r%3D0&sim=11 5 1 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 All about the Betchworth site here . https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1021346?section=official-list-entry Arial view from Google Maps . https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2489018,-0.2705118,142m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu 12 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmisterporter Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 A few years ago there was a bit of a trend for converting structures like the old lime kiln into homes. However, converting a water tower, winding house, or lookout tower would be a good bit easier than tackling a lime kiln I reckon. They made interesting projects for Grand Designs but the cost of most of them would have been lower if they could have demolished the thing and started from scratch. Not possible in most cases though. 10 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 13 hours ago, jjb1970 said: On pronunciation, the most difficult I have found is Vietnamese When working in Australia, where there are many such, one of the most difficult family names to pronounce to the satisfaction of the other party was Nguyen. Some preferred to go by a Western name but most preferred their own. Approximately - given my Western tongue - the more common variations were "Win" "Nwin" and a very shortened version of "Know-when". How does one know which is which until they have introduced themselves? 5 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 33 minutes ago, Gwiwer said: Approximately - given my Western tongue - the more common variations were "Win" "Nwin" and a very shortened version of "Know-when". Using "English" pronunciations, what is most commonly heard here is "N'when" - whether that is accurate or an Anglicized approximate I can't say. Vietnamese noodles in broth are popular. The term is Phở - often spelled as "Pho". It is pronounced more like "fah" - not "foe". Phở restaurants are quite common. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 6 hours ago, TheQ said: I see Baltimore has a problem, hopefully no one was on the road bridge at the time, unless there was a serious technical failure, someone on the bridge of that ship is in serious trouble. The captain will be anyway. 6 hours ago, New Haven Neil said: Hoooooeeee, that's nasty. Nightmare stuff. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071 The Francis Scott Key Bridge carried I-695 an interstate "ring" road / bypass around the Baltimore core. I don't know the area at all, but the disconnection of an interstate highway in a major city is more than an inconvenience. Aside from any loss of life (and I haven't had time to understand what is known there) the financial impact of this accident will be staggering. 6 6 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 16 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said: the financial impact of this accident will be staggering. Am I right in thinking that it blocks a large part of the port? 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 7 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Am I right in thinking that it blocks a large part of the port? Yes, though not the "Sparrows Point" complex to the southeast of the bridge. Once rescue/recovery and initial accident investigation is complete I imagine they will clear the debris quickly - or at least enough to make a 'safe' shipping channel. The impact to the highway will take several years. 3 3 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 23 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said: Yes, though not the "Sparrows Point" complex to the southeast of the bridge. Once rescue/recovery and initial accident investigation is complete I imagine they will clear the debris quickly - or at least enough to make a 'safe' shipping channel. The impact to the highway will take several years. Six missing, according to the BBC News website 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26 ' afternoon all from red dragon land. Yay! Sun has popped out! Lots of cloud around though. A few toot on the flute exercises this morning were not brilliant but do suggest some progress. Another bash, shortly, may pave the way for a better session, tomorrow but no guarantee but I live in hope. I was thinking of putting on my nice newly cleaned up and polished boots and going off for a walk until I opened the front door... Nor'easterlies...Brrrrrrrr. Hmmm.... Decided on a mugadecaf instead. Take care. Be good. When in doubt, put kettle on! Polly 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post TheQ Posted March 26 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 26 (edited) Looking at the accident to the bridge this morning, it's a cantilever bridge of similar style to the Forth Railway bridge. The problem with a cantilever bridge is once it's unbalanced it all falls down as it's no longer in balance.. Afternoon Awl, Museum went well, no muddling done as there was lots of minor reopening things to do. Of highways, Norfolk council highways division, have excelled themselves, the predicted hole in the road for the farmers pipeline has appeared.. They've closed the road without diversion signs from the normal access point.. The alternative routes are.. A currently, till it rains ,hard mud and sand road with potholes over a foot deep classified as a boat, byway open to all traffic. A soft mud and water with tractor tyre tracks over a foot deep, road classified as a Restricted byway. A tarmac and sand road classified as a Restricted byway.. A formal complaint about their stupidity has been submitted... Oh and they've put a road closed sign on our driveway without permission . Edited March 26 by TheQ 2 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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