Porcy Mane Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 I dread to think what that particular compartment of a past its best Mk1 might've looked like after a Footex in the '80s...(shudder). I guess you never partook? At least the Rimet will not need cleaning. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted August 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2016 Remember reading in a 70s RO about a Cup Final Footex - the train had to be taken out of service straight afterwards as nearly every coach had been wrecked. Then mentioned that the other team's supporters must've been better behaved as their train was ok! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 The difference between who won and who lost...? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2016 Oddly enough I thought the mods might have a little bit of an issue were I to upload a photo of one of my actual postapocalyptic turds. TOO MUCH INFORMATION! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Oddly enough I thought the mods might have a little bit of an issue were I to upload a photo of one of my actual postapocalyptic turds. Nah! Get snapping and posting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 (edited) Back on topic. Curl one down in and O gauge wagon and put it back on the O gauge layout after wiping your bottom on their layout drape!!!!!!!! Other smaller scales apply. If you can fit one into their wagons. Edited August 2, 2016 by andytrains Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 (edited) Build a scale model of Minworth sewage works and use the real stuff to fill the hoppers in the trains! Edited August 2, 2016 by andytrains Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted August 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2016 There were certainly prototypes for such movements, apart from a complete canal that took Plymouth's waste north alongside the Tamar, certainly Dewsbury Corporation had some wagons for movement of 'night soil', there are even photos of the livery. Perhaps it could be modelled accurately. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyram Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Back on topic. Curl one down in and O gauge wagon and put it back on the O gauge layout after wiping your bottom on their layout drape!!!!!!!! Other smaller scales apply. If you can fit one into their wagons. Think I would need to find a Gauge 1 layout! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2016 Nah! Get snapping and posting. NOOOOOoo! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 chatmoss and Carrington, manchester had a 2'3" gauge systems for nightsoil. the "soil" being loaded rom barge to wagon at Boysnope wharf. the loco shed on the left survives this was on a Corris thread on NGRM last month 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 chatmoss and Carrington, manchester had a 2'3" gauge systems for nightsoil. Trumped ya. Newfield in Co. Durham had a standard gauge railway that was used for emptying the lavs. The village still has wooden houses. A number of mining communities in the County had standard gauge railways that run along the back streets that was used for collecting of night soil. (And delivering the coal) https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/420163/533436/12/101064 Ashington (especially Hirst) had probably the most comprehensive narrow gauge system in the world for collecting night soil. Most back streets had two lines of railway tracks. https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/427941/587551/12/100709 It was only with the introduction of flushing lavatories and decent sewer systems that made these railway sysems obsolete. I suppose we should look on Thomas Crapper as being a bit of a Richard Beeching? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Apparently, getting back on topic is impossible here, it seems to have gone in the sh!tter.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 (edited) Worra load o Crap. Can you Imagine what the smell would be like at a model railway show if we didn't have flushing lavs. What goes around comes around. Especially in Spanish porcelain. Edited August 3, 2016 by Porcy Mane 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Apparently, getting back on topic is impossible here, it seems to have gone in the sh!tter.... Oh I don't know. There are lots of useful ideas for an original exhibition layout. Now that we have sound fitted locos, maybe the next development will be realistic smells . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 (edited) According to some, a smell chip will not be necessary. Just ask the right wrong type of people to stand by your layout all day. p Edited August 3, 2016 by Porcy Mane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted August 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2016 There was even an animal waste disposal system built in central London in IIRC the 70's. The Household cavalry barracks were fitted with a narrow gauge system for transporting the rose manure under the stables. I can't remember much else about it but seem to remember photos of some hand pushed hopper wagons. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trevellan Posted August 3, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2016 There was even an animal waste disposal system built in central London in IIRC the 70's. The Household cavalry barracks were fitted with a narrow gauge system for transporting the rose manure under the stables. I can't remember much else about it but seem to remember photos of some hand pushed hopper wagons. Jamie Given the payload, it was obviously an atmospheric railway... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted August 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2016 Apparently, getting back on topic is impossible here, it seems to have gone in the sh!tter.... Can't you tell it's not really exhibition season? Just wait until the NEC Warley show, then the lynching really starts......... Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted August 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2016 How to get lynched on RMweb (at times like this I wish it was possible): Take a thread off topic, so it ends up on the subject of toilets, then insist on keeping it off topic. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted August 4, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 4, 2016 From the LNER forum: http://www.lner.info/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8791 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted August 4, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 4, 2016 ^^^ The anecdotes in that thread were colourful to say the least! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 (edited) Izal packaging was colourful too. Maybe they could have been prosecuted under trade descriptions though. A bit of a cheek using the word Tissue. I bet many a cheek felt like it was being sliced by a rusty razor upon encountering the crease of some crumpled Izal. p Edited August 4, 2016 by Porcy Mane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 I was touring a National Trust property last year, and there were various rooms set up with authentic-looking furniture, etc, including in one room a discreetly placed bathroom. Next to the toilet was a pack of two Izal Medicated toilet rolls. An old couple were touring with a younger couple and the younger woman was heard to remark that she'd never heard of Izal Medicated. The old gent immediately went off with "Yeah, it needed to be medicated, it scratched your a$$ to bu99ery!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted August 4, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 4, 2016 ^^^ The anecdotes in that thread were colourful to say the least! 50 shades of brown. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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