Nick C

Which has the added advantage of ensuring you'll have the original legal tyres to drive home on afterwards...

Totally off-topic, but I've just learned something about heraldry after seeing that photo - that insignia changed in 1993 to put the white square top-left (as shown by the fourth and rearmost aircraft) as the colour of the charge (in Poland's case, the eagle - white) is more important than that of the shield (red). Somehow this thread seems like that sort of place where such persnickety would be appreciated!

I hadn't spotted that all four island ones are now available, that's impressive!

Normally I'm with you on avoiding change for change's sake, but when it comes to cybersecurity, sadly it's not a case of "it worked perfectly well" - everything on the internet is subject to constant attack, and you really don't want someone else getting hold of your medical data...

It doesn't sound like they're stopping PC logins. It's a pretty standard way of doing two-factor authentication. You either need a mobile phone to accept a text message, or some other way of generating the code such as an authenticator app or physical token - requiring users to have either of those is likely to cause more upset, wheras the vast majority already have a mobile, or some other way of receiving SMS messages.

Probably the only item of Stroudley rolling stock to gain BR livery, S3370, the Isle of Wight horsebox, rarely moved from a siding at Yarmouth for the last few years. Does anyone know of any photos of the other side to confirm whether the lettering was in the same place?

I believe in the prototype they're arranged so that the pitch of the locking bars is sufficiently different to the throw, in order to prevent that.

I've just realised that it is possible - 20 doesn't need to lock 2, because 3 being reversed would do so - so you can have inbound movements on both lines simultaneously. Yes, 5 should be locked normal unless 3 is reversed, in order to trap the down yard. As you don't have a facing move over 3 when they're normal, you could remove the notch there on the green bar and extend that - so 3N locks 4N and 5N, either of those reversed locks 3R?

For 20 there's an easy way and a hard way. If you're not worried about allowing the concurrent move from #2 to the down platform, you can simplify it to locking 3,5&14 both ways, and 12 & all the other signals normal. Otherwise you start getting into conditional locking...

If you moved 10 onto 6 or 7, the lighter-purple bar would be shorter and so the orange one would fit next to it?

The Victorian terrace I used to live in had a diamond pattern path like the ones on the left there. Each tile was 3" square iirc, and the whole path around 3' wide (the full width of the porch)

What's the betting that van turns out to be stolen...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68449163

Distance is usually, as @RailWest says, from the centre of the box. A signal on a curve would usually be on the outside, to make it easier to see.

Hand points (except some modern designs) are generally trailable, I.e. you can go through them in a trailing direction when set incorrectly and the wheels will just push them across. Do that on controlled points however and you'll do a lot of damage!

You should be able to check the status by logging into the website too, and looking under "my orders" - it tells me the date of order, shipping and delivery:

If it's any help, I had three emails from them yesterday to let me know that mine had been picked, packed and shipped, followed by one plus an SMS from DPD this morning with a delivery time. [edit] I ordered mine in March 2023 - as they've said they're all processed in date order. [/edit] As for the vans themselves, I'll echo @gwrrob's comment above - plus the best packaging I've ever seen for a wagon (or pack thereof)... Now to think of an excuse for a train of Bananas on a branch line terminus...

I'd assumed mid-30s going by Rob's photos of his stock earlier? Up advanced would probably be off-stage, assuming the change in colour marked the scenic break - same with the Down Distant. The reason for pushing the down home back is to allow a loco to run-round without going outside it (and thus needing to occupy the section), but both variants are found at similar LSWR termini (There aren't any similar SDJR termini to compare with!). Shunt from loop over the release crossover doesn't seem to be a commonly signalled move (again using LSWR examples - Swanage is the only one I can see) I'm not sure when yellow shunts became common, a red one would do just as well, but would then need to be cleared for access to the industry (though I'm assuming Rob isn't planning on working shunts anyway...). The closest example is Lyme Regis, but that has a separate trap and the shunt positioned for that rather than for the slip, so access to the kickback doesn't pass the signal. Rob's already drawn a gate on the siding. I'd imagine it'd just be padlocked in real life.

Something like this

It will be - two running signals and three ground signals (I think the SDJR generally followed LSWR practice for signalling, and the latter tended not to use more than they needed!) Home signal somewhere on the curve on the way in, starter at the end of the platform (which needs to shift about a coach-length towards the bufferstops so that the starter is clear of the crossover), ground signal at the toe of the crossover, yellow ground signal RH end of the slip, and a ground signal at the toe of the loco release crossover. If you've got an up-to-date version of the trackplan I'll draw it on...

Hmm, I have a sneaky suspicion that the historical society in question is actually just James and Colin...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68423991 French satirical newspaper published every 29th February...

Hi Robert, I can't find the diagrams I drew at the moment, I'll have a look on the old computer when I get home, see if I've got them still - unfortunately most of the images here were lost when the previous hosting provider had a crash. The earlier posts were referring to the Pryer drawing in this book: https://www.s-r-s.org.uk/Bookstall/index.php?route=product/product&path=59_71_67&product_id=116 - worth getting a copy if you're interested in the line as it's only £7.