40152 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 30 minutes ago, 5944 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125441079412?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=D0W6n_e6SoG&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=dltlllrnrym&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY 'Ow much?! The rest of his stuff is well over the top as well. Under the ‘item specifics’ this is listed as a replica of Mallard. I’m sure someone on here might burst a boiler over that particular mix-up 🤣 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2022 So this sold for under £20 the other day (I pushed it up a bit on a punt but didn't get it) - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354168273725 Almost immediately afterwards this one appeared - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195247572284 Yeah, good luck 🤣 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2022 16 minutes ago, Bucoops said: So this sold for under £20 the other day (I pushed it up a bit on a punt but didn't get it) - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354168273725 Almost immediately afterwards this one appeared - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195247572284 Yeah, good luck 🤣 I hope you're not inferring there are shysters on ebay, it's a paragon of virtue! Mike. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 54 minutes ago, Bucoops said: So this sold for under £20 the other day (I pushed it up a bit on a punt but didn't get it) - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354168273725 Almost immediately afterwards this one appeared - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195247572284 Yeah, good luck 🤣 He "makes nothing from postage". I'll accept that, but then with the possible markup he doesn't need to! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2022 7 hours ago, Hroth said: believe there was a similar service from Glasgow to the mouth of the Clyde. I think it was mentioned on a programme about Clyde Sunday pleasure steamers, that turns up occasionally on the digital channels. One was the SS Shieldhall, now preserved and based in Southampton doing day cruises. After the Clyde she was operated by Southern Water dumping effluent out at sea but without the passengers, and was bought for preservation by Southampton City Council's Museum Service. I was part of a group that welcomed her at Dock Head after her final service trip. She was sold to the current Trust after the Council abandoned its plans for a major Maritime Museum. 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2E Sub Shed Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 2 hours ago, petethemole said: One was the SS Shieldhall, now preserved and based in Southampton doing day cruises. After the Clyde she was operated by Southern Water dumping effluent out at sea but without the passengers, Didn't Bristol also dump into the Bristol Channel (reported in Hansard) but at one time also took pensioners out on the vessel for a little cruise during these operations. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2022 Also O.T. but maybe interesting to some. Exeter used to dump its sewage slurry at sea until it was made illegal in1998. https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/threads/whatever-happened-to-the-exeter-sludge-vessel.304849/ SS Countess Weir at Exeter Turf Lock. Before she was named 'SS Countess Weir' 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Re6/6 said: Exeter used to dump its sewage slurry at sea Now wash your hands! A sludge terminal would make an interesting feature for a quayside railway, a difference, or even an addition to the usual small coasters/fishing boats! Edited July 31, 2022 by Hroth Just a little bit more... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2022 🤢🤮🤮!! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Now wash your hands! A sludge terminal would make an interesting feature for a quayside railway, a difference, or even an addition to the usual small coasters/fishing boats! That's one layout you'd just have to add the smell for realism. :) 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2022 23 hours ago, rab said: Was human waste ever carried by rail. If so, it could be tail traffic in the consist. :) I suppose you could run an oil tanker at the back: Eflfuent Storage System Onthemove 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Now wash your hands! A sludge terminal would make an interesting feature for a quayside railway, a difference, or even an addition to the usual small coasters/fishing boats! 18 minutes ago, rab said: That's one layout you'd just have to add the smell for realism. :) I know a few layout operators who would gladly provide the smell, SBD's anyone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2022 Can you get 4mm tomato plants? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2022 1 minute ago, Bucoops said: Can you get 4mm tomato plants? You can get HO ones from Noch. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 24 minutes ago, rab said: That's one layout you'd just have to add the smell for realism. :) 4 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: I know a few layout operators who would gladly provide the smell, SBD's anyone? Just invite one of the anorak and rucsack show attendees to sit beside the layout, to add their own peculiar aroma to the scene... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2022 It could be worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 3 minutes ago, Bucoops said: Can you get 4mm tomato plants? We used to stay at a caravan site that had its own sewage filtration beds before piping the semi-treated liquid into the local river*. They used to sell the most amazing home-grown tomatos in the site shop.... We never had tomatos from the site-shop! * This was a long, long time ago, when they were allowed to do such things! 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2022 They now put it in a museum. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: They now put it in a museum. Oh Coprolites!!! But has any been offered on ebay? In one word, YES!!! There you go, back on topic.... Edited July 31, 2022 by Hroth On topic manoeuver... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2022 2 hours ago, Hroth said: Oh Coprolites!!! But has any been offered on ebay? In one word, YES!!! There you go, back on topic.... They even make it into jewellery. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 (edited) 21 hours ago, MrWolf said: I was looking at the second batch, third one down in the pile, the plates are rusty and have slotted guides for the axle, I probably should have mentioned that! The black painted ones beneath those look like K's white metal items? Ohhh...😉🙂 The third one down is also Graham Farish, the supplied bogies, but missing the cover plates. Compare with the second one down... The top one's bogies look to have either been "got at, or a different white metal bogie casting... The white metal ones, I know nothing about I'm afraid. 🤷🏼♀️ 🐉🤷🏼♀️ Edited July 31, 2022 by Ruffnut Thorston Extras 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 12 hours ago, Bucoops said: So this sold for under £20 the other day (I pushed it up a bit on a punt but didn't get it) - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354168273725 Almost immediately afterwards this one appeared - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195247572284 Yeah, good luck 🤣 Someone's playing 'The Great Game'! 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 14 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: Someone's playing 'The Great Game'! Is that the great game called "Extracting The Urine"? 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PeterStiles Posted August 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2022 I like(*) this "repair" https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265795862180?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=motLMPpqRsy&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=v6cpl3kbqqi&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY I bet none of you has though to use a Scalextric track support to repair such a fine piece of workmanship as this! (*) In the same way some people like burning things (**) (**) On second thoughts... 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 1 hour ago, PeterStiles said: I bet none of you has though to use a Scalextric track support to repair such a fine piece of workmanship as this! Not so much a repair, more a lazy prop! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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