RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted September 16, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2018 Electric loco? 86? Possibly having brought the stock in and waiting to be released. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted September 19, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 19, 2018 Ever thought of fitting a smoke/steam unit to your Class 25? Chester 25245 April 83 by Leighton logs on Flikr, on Flickr 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Is that steam heat or broken? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Ever thought of fitting a smoke/steam unit to your Class 25? Chester 25245 April 83 by Leighton logs on Flikr, on Flickr c'mon - nobody would take THAT seriously ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted September 19, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2018 Ever thought of fitting a smoke/steam unit to your Class 25? Chester 25245 April 83 by Leighton logs on Flikr, on Flickr Didn't Bachmann produce a sound fitted version of 25245 a few years ago? Was escaping steam on the sound file? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 I’ve had a model diesel create a very similar effect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 19, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2018 Is that steam heat or broken? It's the driver's brew up! keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
73c Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 There go'es another DCC chip! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
45125 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Is that steam heat or broken? Boiler blowing off............ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 (edited) Hows this for modelling accuracy? Model this and everyone would decry it. Welney Road, Manea, in the Fens. The LC is straight ahead, with Manea station out of picture to the right towards March, and the Welney bridges to the left towards Ely. Note the angle of the electricity poles on the left of the road, along with the road sign. And on the right of the road by the lorry yard entrance, the single pole leaning the other way. Stewart Edited October 6, 2018 by stewartingram 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Hows this for modelling accuracy? Model this and everyone would decry it. WP_20181006_002.jpg Welney Road, Manea, in the Fens. The LC is straight ahead, with Manea station out of picture to the right towards March, and the Welney bridges to the left towards Ely. Note the angle of the electricity poles on the left of the road, along with the road sign. And on the right of the road by the lorry yard entrance, the single pole leaning the other way. Stewart This is not in any way racist related, but could it be polish modelling? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Hows this for modelling accuracy? Model this and everyone would decry it. WP_20181006_002.jpg Welney Road, Manea, in the Fens. The LC is straight ahead, with Manea station out of picture to the right towards March, and the Welney bridges to the left towards Ely. Note the angle of the electricity poles on the left of the road, along with the road sign. And on the right of the road by the lorry yard entrance, the single pole leaning the other way. Stewart There is or certainly were similar drunken poles along the road from Bourne towards Twenty. Having driven along that road quite frequently some years ago if it was windy it really used to howl across the road. I sometimes had the steering wheel a quarter turn into the wind to keep a straight line, so I suspect the poles have been pushed over by the effect of the wind on the wires. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdlcs Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 Hows this for modelling accuracy? Model this and everyone would decry it. WP_20181006_002.jpg Welney Road, Manea, in the Fens. The LC is straight ahead, with Manea station out of picture to the right towards March, and the Welney bridges to the left towards Ely. Note the angle of the electricity poles on the left of the road, along with the road sign. And on the right of the road by the lorry yard entrance, the single pole leaning the other way. Stewart Any chance the single pole leaning in the opposite direction is some kind of strainer post, i.e. the lean is intentional? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted October 7, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2018 More likely to be subsidence as the ground sinks and shifts with drainage. The weight of traffic on the road and the roadway itself will also push the poles outwards. Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted October 7, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2018 There are a few signals out it the fens with a vit of a lean on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted October 7, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2018 (edited) Hows this for modelling accuracy? Model this and everyone would decry it. WP_20181006_002.jpg Welney Road, Manea, in the Fens. The LC is straight ahead, with Manea station out of picture to the right towards March, and the Welney bridges to the left towards Ely. Note the angle of the electricity poles on the left of the road, along with the road sign. And on the right of the road by the lorry yard entrance, the single pole leaning the other way. Stewart Hi Stewart. Any chance of putting a Google Map link? I've been looking around Manea and can't find a road that matches the picture. Cheers EDIT Found it. It's Wisbech Road (According to Google) https://goo.gl/maps/D6Cz7frqfRr Keith Edited October 7, 2018 by melmerby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 This is not in any way racist related, but could it be polish modelling? Don't think they were polished, the finish looked matt to me. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted October 7, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2018 More likely to be subsidence as the ground sinks and shifts with drainage. The weight of traffic on the road and the roadway itself will also push the poles outwards. Regards Ian Agreed; they'd all be leaning the same way if it was wind. Almost everything in the Fens is affected by drainage! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted October 7, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2018 When travelling to Kings Cross over quite a few years it was noticable how many of the poles on Stilton Fen had a "lean" on, in fact it was debatable whether the poles were supporting the wires or the wires were supporting the poles! I also remember 20 odd years ago, a university (it could have been Cambridge) doing some experiments on Stilton Fen with lots of cages of house bricks stacked up to simulate the "weight" of a house to see how much settlement/lean would occur if houses were built on such land (e.g. more than the odd scattering of farm house type dwellings). Not sure what became of the research/results, but by the fact that no large-scale housing developments have taken place on that particular area of land I assume house building was not viable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
45125 Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 When travelling to Kings Cross over quite a few years it was noticable how many of the poles on Stilton Fen had a "lean" on, in fact it was debatable whether the poles were supporting the wires or the wires were supporting the poles! I also remember 20 odd years ago, a university (it could have been Cambridge) doing some experiments on Stilton Fen with lots of cages of house bricks stacked up to simulate the "weight" of a house to see how much settlement/lean would occur if houses were built on such land (e.g. more than the odd scattering of farm house type dwellings). Not sure what became of the research/results, but by the fact that no large-scale housing developments have taken place on that particular area of land I assume house building was not viable. If you look out on most parts of the railway you will generally find poles, signal posts and oil structures leaning at jaunty angles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DY444 Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 There was a Class 365 which brought the wires down on the Kings Lynn road a few years back. It happened because the ole masts had, over time, leaned away from the vertical sufficiently to pull the contact wire outside the allowable lateral tolerance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted October 8, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 8, 2018 There was a Class 365 which brought the wires down on the Kings Lynn road a few years back. It happened because the ole masts had, over time, leaned away from the vertical sufficiently to pull the contact wire outside the allowable lateral tolerance. Unless a mast "went over" all of a sudden, that would suggest maintenance hadn't been doing the "height and stagger" checks for quite sometime. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted October 8, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 8, 2018 If you look out on most parts of the railway you will generally find poles, signal posts and oil structures leaning at jaunty angles. I've not seen many signal posts at jaunty angles in my 45 years on the railway, only the odd one or two. Some of the OLE masts, particularly on the ECML, were set at a slight angle away from the railway on purpose anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 4069 Posted October 8, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 8, 2018 (edited) Unless a mast "went over" all of a sudden, that would suggest maintenance hadn't been doing the "height and stagger" checks for quite sometime. Yes- see <https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/accident-involving-a-pantograph-and-the-overhead-line-near-littleport-cambridge> Edited October 16, 2018 by 4069 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Goldfish Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Yes- see https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/accident-involving-a-pantograph-and-the-overhead-line-near-littleport-cambridge 'Page not found - 404' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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