Nick C

That is the case for many high-speed trains on the continent I believe - certainly PKP IEP services are reservation-only.

Do you glue those on? I tried using them on mine and found it really difficult to get them to stay in place - this might of course be down to my ham-fistedness, but I ended up breaking or losing several... Alternatively can anyone recommend any other insulating fishplates that might be easier to use for code 75 Bullhead? The Peco Bullhead ones are good for conducting joints, but they don't do an insulating version...

I have one, built by the previous owners of our house. It's terrible. You can't insulate the walls, you can't fix anything to the walls (the logs can't be fixed together as they need to be able to expand individually). The doors stick and constantly need adjusting. It's cold and damp in the winter, too hot in the summer. Basically, if you want a building totally unsuited to building a layout, get a log cabin. If you want something suitable, build it properly, with proper framing and insulation - it'll probably cost you less anyway...

Plus two of those three are supporting charities - so even if you did overpay slightly, the funds are going to help the railway...

Easiest way to do that is to search for each item and then click "completed listings" from the filters on the left - it'll then show you sold prices in green and unsold ones in black.

Looks like you don't need to - there's a plugin for Inkscape to drive the Cameo directly: https://github.com/fablabnbg/inkscape-silhouette

That's interesting in it's own right, if only for the crank arrangements for the wide-to-gauge trap. I wonder how that would have worked with mechanical operation - being on a passenger line it'd need an FPL, but of course there's no tie-bar for the bolt to go through...

Is this any help? It's a modern picture, but of a heritage railway installation (I suspect the orange piping is a more modern feature though!) There's two cables going to the point machine, I would presume one would be to the motor itself (the taller bit on the right), and the other to the detector (the bit with three rods on the left).

Looks like it may have been delayed again: https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en "It is expected that the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) will be operational from mid-2025."

If we think the AI descriptions of models are bad, it seems that's nothing compared to some other categories: https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Selling-Tools/a-i-descriptions-are-rubbish/td-p/7493482 Descriptions of clothing that don't include either colour or size... edit - and from another article: https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Anyone-else-like-the-AI-description-feature/td-p/34144374, is this fantastic comment: Which tells you a lot!

Interesting, as yesterday I spotted a couple of listings that included "below is the AI description" followed by said rubbish...

And that's the thing - it's your choice, which is good - you were able to pick an environment in which you were able to work most effectively. But "encourage them to come back to the office" isn't the correct aim - it should be "facilitate them working in the most productive manner" - which might be giving Fred task A to do on his own at home, but Mary and John tasks B and C to collaborate on in the office. A good manager should know their team's individual strengths and how to make best use of them - and that includes not just how you divide up the tasks but also how you shape each individual's working environment. This is even more important when you're dealing with volunteers, as if someone doesn't like the environment they will leave. Let's say that Bob volunteers on the station maintenance team - he's been doing so for years, and he comes in every Wednesday to paint fences. New manager comes along, and decrees that painting is now to be done on Thursdays, and that the Wednesday team will now do hedge-pruning. That's going to upset Bob, and could easily end up with him leaving, unless there's a seriously good reason for it, and it's explained to him properly*. (*compare and contrast: "Due to Health and Safety rules, all painting must now be done on a Thursday." vs "Hi Bob, I'm really sorry, but there's been a change in the working at height regulations and our insurers insist that anyone using a ladder cannot be lone-working. Would you mind doing the painting on a Thursday instead when there are more people around" - which is more likely to get a positive reaction? The first will lead to Bob being angry - the second might well elicit a "ok, yes, that's fine" - or perhaps an alternative way of achieving the same aim - "well, my niece Alice wants to volunteer too, could she come with me on a Wednesday so I'm not alone?")

That's an impressive selection of bridges!

In my experience, Neurodiverse people tend to be far better at understanding that other people's situations can be different to their own than most neurotypical folks - especially the more extroverted types... As for your second example, just accepting that different people work in different ways would be a good start - something that many people and companies seem to find hard to understand - just look at the discussions on here about flexible working for example (and yes, I'm well aware that this is something I keep banging on about) - I'm the kind of person who can focus best in a quiet environment without a lot of distractions, so I prefer to work from home - but I can guarantee you now I've mentioned those three words, someone will be along to argue that either (a) They prefer to work in the office and therefore everyone must do the same, or (b) some jobs can't be done remotely, so none should be allowed to. I think if you said to another employee that "Fred likes to work in a particular way because of who he is, which is different from your way of working, so be understanding", Fred would not be upset at all, in fact he'd be very grateful...

It's not just railways - Mrs C used to volunteer for a local hospice in one of their charity shops. She and quite a few others quit after they spent vast amounts of money rebranding after a similar change in upper management from 'cause' people to 'fundraising' people - and going on things I've overheard, said fundraising people clearly have no idea that different markets need different approaches - they are apparently trying to turn the shops into "boutiques" - which might work in London, but has no hope in Basingstoke! This is exactly what has happened to our local football club - I still haven't figured out quite how the 'local businessman' who bought the club managed to also get hold of the land, which had been given to the people of the town by the original benefactor, but of course that was all he wanted - and the fact that it has a covenant on it requiring to remain as a sporting facility for the people of the town seems to count for nothing - the stadium has been derelict for several years since he kicked the club out, and the planning application went through despite vast local opposition...

“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.” "Normality. We have Normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem"

A few preservation ones from Facebook this morning: Bluebell Railway - 80100 to run in spring gala. GWSR - narrow gauge to extend to Broadway via a ledge on the side of the viaduct. And my favourite from SLL:

Always make sure to have suitable reading material in the bathroom Credit: Milton Jones, obviously.

If it's any consolation, I know my height in feet and inches, and my weight in kg...

Given the relative angles, I think a sector plate would make more sense than a traverser (and be much easier to build!). If you use a point, would there be room for a long enough headshunt?

So was the dedicated possession simply a way of allowing both trains to be in the same block section?

And more to the point, a tourist with kids who has probably never seen a train with manual doors before...

I think it looks good having the whole thing open like that - there's so much detail inside that it's good to be able to see it all.

I'd have thought he'd be in the leading vestibule giving handsignals to the driver?

Don't be silly, this is RMWeb - he's converting it into Scottish Locomotive engineers...