Nick C

So what you're saying is, someone needs to make Day-Glo orange jackets for deer?

There would be a distant, about 3/4 mile further back. The home would (probably, I'm not an expert on GW matters) be about a coach-length before the point, but with a bridge there they'd probably have it before the bridge to make it easier to see, otherwise they'd need a repeater (a special signal that isn't actually a real signal, but simply tells the driver what the next signal says). But as always, rule 1 applies, so I'd keep the signal where you have it, and have an excuse for a little stubby signal that the driver can see under the bridge as they approach...

Looks good. In reality, the home signal would be the other side of the bridge, but invoking rule 1 to come up with a reason why it can't be, you might want to think about sight-lines, I.e. making sure the driver can see it as they approach - either by making it lower, or adding a high level repeater arm.

Thanks, I'll have a look next time I'm in my local branch of said orange emporium - I've not seen them there before though

The vast majority were done at Ryde, I believe only one (W29) was sent back to Eastleigh for overhaul. Individual boilers were sent over though - and there was a special boiler truck built (Island-style, bodged from something else) to transport them between Ryde works and St Helens quay.

Though the Drummond boilers (or at least some of them) continued to float around for some time - W22 had one for quite a while, and W31 had one at the end of it's life. As you say they were not popular with the crews!

P does indeed mean ex-PO. Modelmaster used to do a few different sheets of BR wagon insignia, including some with PO numbers, but I can't see them on the website at the moment. CCT do a couple of sheets for 7 and 8 plank ex-PO wagons (https://www.cctrans.org.uk/products.htm) Can I ask where you got your table saw from? I've been quite tempted to get one (though any woodworking projects are limited at the moment until the price of timber drops a bit - there's a global shortage due to Covid apparently, plus a huge increase in demand...)

Not by a long way - Germany lost around 8% of it's pre-war population, while Poland lost 17%, many of the Soviet republics were in the 12-13% range, and Belarus lost over 25%.

That, however, is an issue that can be solved, and I would imagine will be, as public chargers become more prevalent - as hopefully will the issues of broken chargers, incompatible payment networks, etc - these are all "early adopter" teething issues. Yes - especially as construction sites are an ideal place for battery-electric vehicles as they need a very limited range (after all they don't usually leave the site!) and have a ready supply of electricity. I'd imagine the reduction in noise by using EVs instead of ICE will also help on a busy building site.

I'm not sure that's really a problem though - you're replacing a system where you have to go to a specific place to refuel your car, with one where it can be refuelled while you're going about whatever business it was you made the journey for. The proportion of journeys that will involve stopping to refuel mid-journey is actually pretty tiny (the average car journey is under 9 miles) - while there will always be some people who make 200+ mile journeys on a regular basis, most people rarely drive more than 20-30 miles in one go, with only a handful of longer journeys each year.

No need to motorise them - just model them all dumped in the adjacent canal...

Most of the weight in modern solar panels is in the support and protection structures, which tend to be less necessary is panels that are designed into a structure. You can get lightweight flexible ones too now. You wouldn't have to worry too much about the energy density either, as there's a lot of surface area you can cover! Assuming one could solve the problem of getting enough of the appropriate bouyancy agent (whether that be H or He), Airships have a huge amount of potential for low-carbon travel, albeit at lower speed than aircraft.

There was a sequel too: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2549

You could always go for the Arun Quay approach and have the water implied rather than modelled. I like how he did it the opposite way around to most quayside layouts and had the quay at the back rather than the front.

We've noticed this too - on the Sainsbury's website for the last few months, there has been nothing available in the Polish foods section - yet when we went into the store the other week, that part was fully stocked. It can't be Brexit related either as the local Polish shop has been fully stocked the whole time, and their supply chain must be smaller and less resiliant than that of a major supermarket...

Quite right too - it needs to be 25mm each side to keep it even!

Except for many it's not about a week or two in the sun - my wife hasn't seen her family for nearly two years now. They're in a country with under 100 cases/day, so far safer then here, but currently still on the amber list. We could happily self-isolate here for a fortnight if she needed to (we're virtually doing so anyway!), but the hotel quarantine required for red-list countries isn't feasible.

Interesting - the sources I looked just said that it needed financial support from the local authorities, but didn't say who the actual owners were.

A few more southern examples are the Axminster and Lyme Regis Light Railway, the Bentley and Bordon Light railway, the Lee-on-Solent branch, and the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (aka Torrington - Halwill Junction) - the first three all operated by the LSWR. Interestingly the last-mentioned actually doesn't technically qualify, as it was independent until nationalisation, despite being to all intents and purposes an SR branch.

The amber watchlist seemed like a very sensible idea to me - giving you a bit of forewarning as to whether you were at risk of having the expensive hotel quarantine, and giving a bit more confidance to people booking visits to other amber countries.

Maybe they thought there might be a need to haul the sets with conventional locos as well?

Isn't that a "somebody else's problem field", as described by the late Douglas Adams:

Yep, based on the photo you posted earlier, I'd say that's exactly right. I've got three and four respectively for Lyme, but as it's based on a prototype I don't need to worry about where to put them, just copy the real thing...

Yet. Who knows what the next one will be like...

Yep, it looks like it is - a slightly different design but the same principle, the vertical rod won't be able to drop until the horizontal bars are aligned. The rods are attached to the tips of the blades, as that way they prove that they are fully home - also note how they are separate from the tie bar, so that they prove what the blades have done, not what the rodding says they should have done (e.g. if one of the blades came adrift from the tie bar) Note also the positioning of the signal relative to the points - closer than the one in my photo, but still beyond the tips so ensuring that anything standing at the signal will be well clear of the points. Not a stupid question at all, it's getting into proper in-depth signalling!