Nick C

Merry Christmas Rob & flock!

For future reference, you can avoid that slip by continuing down the A30 through Sutton Scotney, and joining the A34 at the next junction south. Similarly, the A303 eastbound one can be avoided by using the old A30 to join at Micheldever Station.

Plenty of both groups around here, unfortunately, especially on Sunday mornings!

It's the one going onto the A303 Eastbound that's the really dangerous one, and the close proximity of the bridge means that it'd be difficult to fix.

@MrWolf has opinions on that - particularly buses on bridges 😉

As I said, commonly motorbikes, who can overtake somewhat more easily than cars! Though last time I drove along there I was overtaken by a hot hatch on a corner with double whites...

And also take into account the individual circumstances rather than blanket policies - there's a stretch of A road near here that had a blanket 50 limit applied (with a patch of 40 in the middle), because of the high number of accidents - but most of those accidents were caused by motorbikes using it as a racetrack, and comparing a collision between a bike doing 100 and a car doing 60, vs a bike doing 100 and a car doing 50, I doubt there's going to be much difference in outcome - Proper enforcement of the existing limit would have a much bigger effect on reducing the accident rate.

Shush, that's not supposed to be public knowledge yet...

Have you checked you've not got 'expanded view' set, as that seems to break Wheeltappers? - got to 'view new content' and check the buttons in the top right.

Particularly an issue for wagon restorers - the ironwork has holes in for the bolts, which of course no longer line up if you can only get metric sizes...

There aren't any, that I can see. and I know I won't be the only one on this forum dull enough to check... (red-red-brown, 220 ohm)

Not so much a mid-train helper, more a matter of operational convenience, but there were some Waterloo-West of England trains that ran combined with a Southampton or Portsmouth train as far as Basingstoke, with the formation 4VEP-class33-4TC - so EMU, loco, push-pull set.

I've not tried, but the ones of his I've seen are just plain brass sides with droplights and vents, you'd then use the rest from the donor, and figuring out how to fit them etc is down to you.

The problem with that is that it's sold as a spoof - but the entries are better and more meaningful than many of those in the real competition!

The wikipedia article on the band has two sections for former drummers - real and fictional!

Mousa models list etched sides for a diagram 2008, but currently out of stock. The Ironclad would need the heavy-duty bogies too, I don't know if anyone still makes them?

Probably more trying to stop people using a paint scraper as a chisel!

There's a note in the middle of there: Note 2: All infrastructure and vehicles wth a track gauge of 350mm or under are considered as automatically excluded from scope through blanket exemption in ROGS, even though some such rail systems might be included in the list below. I note also that the Swanage and NYMR have their own category for working over NR metals. I believe the Tallyllyn do too, though their new coaches have a novel double-action lock which looks pretty good - a 90 degree turn of the handle to release the bolt, then a further 45 for the traditional slam-door catch.

One I saw elsewhere on here was done with a bit of string and a weight hanging below the baseboard - looks like the photos were lost, but see @The Bigbee Line's Hayling island thread: If you're using Peco points you'll need to remove the over-centre spring, then they'll move easily.

It looks like you can still buy new kit cars as well - such as this one for under £5k - I was surprised, I'd expected to see that modern legislation would have made them impossible to get road-approved...

I can't find the clip at the moment, but there was one floating around the internet a few years ago of a near-miss in South London in which the lorry was turning left under a bridge, and the cyclist started going up the inside. He only stopped when the following cyclist (who's footage it was) literally screamed at him - the lorry's cab was already out of sight round the corner (so couldn't have seen anything in his mirrors) and the trailer came within inches of the wall as it swang...

That's asking a lot these days ;)

Yep - I remember an instruction for a Peugeot 205 to "press out the bearing" or words to that effect. It neglected to mention that you'd need a 10 tonne hydraulic press to do so...

Or when you looked up a particular job and it seemed quite simple, just a few steps - except that one of them was "remove x" which turns out to be a horrifically complex job of three pages, needing several helpers, the making of special tools, and lots of swearing...

I'm now wondering how to build (or more importantly, power) a model of the FYNR one...