Nick C

Easiest option there is to allow a certain number of days - say 4 per year? - for religious observation, for which the employee has to declare in advance which set they wish to take (so that the employer has plenty of time to plan). Not sure how you'd decide on dates for atheists though, unless you just make that as something to be arranged on an individual basis... YouTube creators get paid based on the ads shown. By blocking them you're depriving them of their income, unless you're a member of their 'patreon' or similar - and it will be your loss too once they can no longer afford to make the content because too many people are taking it without paying.

I believe (from what I've read on other fora) this type of situation is fairly common on quite a few railways - particularly if an item of stock is part owned by several people, you may find it easy to contact some, but others have moved on or passed away, possibly without their heirs even knowing about their share in the item - the paperwork set up in the 60s or 70s between a few mates wasn't always as robust as it needs to be nowadays...

In my second year at university I shared a house with three other engineering students - all of us were left handed...

IIRC Roxey sell the roofs from their kits separately to get the correct profile - or look out for a cheap Bachmann birdcage? I've got a pair of the Bedford sides for one that have been sitting in the "to do something about" pile for several years now!

I'm jealous! I've not managed to get hold of a copy at all, let alone at a sensible price. However chatting to one of the guys on Hepton Wharf at Uckfield, they seem to think it's likely there will be a reprint.

This looks cool - cheap, lightweight, no-frills and modular, basically a modern version of the Bedford Rascal...

Looking in the PP book, I think you need this drawing: "Two More Pull-Push sets (SR 1937-39 conversions, sets 1-6 & 656-658) 1 sheet" 656-658 being formed of an LSWR driving trailer and an SECR 'long-ten' https://sremg.org.uk/files/MikeKingDrawings.pdf

Blacksmith's is long gone, I'm afraid - and looking on https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/, as are quite a few I remember from my student days (which weren't that long ago - early 2000s!) - including the delightfully named pair "The Honest Lawyer" and "The Bent Brief" - which were on the same road, one junction apart... The tiny one-room "Guide Dog" is still there though. I was referring earlier to the "South Western Arms" by St Denys station, I suspect it's changed a lot since then though! If you're happy with bottled stuff, there's several now do mail order.

The kind of stuff that, if the landlord doesn't know you, he'll only sell you by the half - and it's not labelled with it's strength, becuase no-one's bothered to measure it. Used to be a pub in Southampton that sold scrumpy out of a plastic barrel on the bar - the same place had labels rebranding some of the well-known lagers, such as "finest Australian cat's piss"

Indeed not - no flat loading bay, which is what makes an estate an estate (rather than a boxy hatchback) - it might not sound like much, but it makes a big difference if you're trying to shift anything heavy or awkward!

It's when you see all of those at once that you know you've been drinking proper cider...

That's a terribly drawn diagram - best figured out by tracing it along each link! I think that @MossdaleNGauge is correct - 2/4/6 common, 1 or 3 for 'off', 5 for 'on'. Presumably it's a modern LED one, given the two separate lamps and the 'R/W' for the pivot? On - 5 to 2/6: Off - 1/3 to 2/4:

Good that someone's finally realising that not everyone wants SUVs - but £40k!

A quick google suggests 3 options: a constant slope all the way up. a sharp transition with a couple of rows of bricks proud (I don't know enough about walling to know if that's a decorative feature or structural!) a smooth curve all the way up. I'd guess the first is easiest, but the second most interesting...

The old standard 'sealed beam' type car headlamps were either 5 3/4" or 7" diameter - I'd imagine they'd have used the latter for a loco, probably from the nearest motor factors to the depot! (or lorry-bits supplier as I'd imagine they'd need to be 24v rather than the 12v used in most cars?)

I seem to remember a layout at a show some years ago with various locos on shed in such liveries - it was one of a pair, representing the same station in steam era and modern, but other than that I can't remember what it was called. The locos looked hideous!

You didn't give it away for free, you licenced it under a Creative Commons Attribution licence - and that means that if someone else is distributing it, they have to give you credit - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ They've not done so, so they're in breach of the licence terms.

And an air-smoothed BP in NSE toothpaste?

I'd be tempted to use threaded bar rather than dowels, set into the pillars so it could also be used to secure the building into position with a couple of wing-nuts under the board. I'd also make a temporary base that it could be fixed to during construction (and any future moves) - that way the only time it's vulnerable is while transferring from the temporary base to the main baseboard, but hopefully you'd not need to do that too often!

Nothing wrong with that IMHO. Always better to get something you want rather than some tat that'll just get returned or passed on afterwards. I saw a survey recently of the best European Christmas markets - none of the top 5 were in Germany! Poland, Lithuania and Hungary all came out ahead. Especially the "whole company" type ones - I don't mind a meal with my team/department, but why would I want to socialise with people from marketing or accounts whom I don't ever come into contact with for the rest of the year...

Looks great - no need to reinvent the wheel when there's already a well-established method. I'd also suggest thinking about a way of stopping the stock from rolling off the end when you pick up the cassettes...

If not, then you have to make the decision - which is cheaper/easier to replace, the dishes, or the glass in the door...

All of the preserved Isle of Wight locos have now been produced (barring some that only went there during the preservation era), although not all in their Island liveries. The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway does well in that 50% of it's entire loco fleet has been preserved...

Spotted one in the system today going as a class 2 - 2Q33 Eastleigh to Eastleigh: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:R06742/2023-11-16/detailed The local RHTTs seem to run as class 3 as well - e.g. 3S83 Effingham to Effingham: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C23941/2023-11-16/detailed or 3S01 Totton to Totton: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C23935/2023-11-16/detailed

It's also common, I believe, to use odd numbers for down trains, and even numbers for up trains - at least on the Southern. Looking at RealTimeTrains for Eastleigh, none of the freights are randomised any more, although the TOCs are - they're all listed as ZZ, wheras the passenger ones are listed SW, XC etc