RJS1977

The construction costs will only be paid once. The economic benefits of HS2 will continue to be felt for as long as the line remains in use. As the saying goes "Quality is rememberer long after price is forgotten". Most people have probably already forgotten how much Crossrail cost now that they see how much easier it makes getting across London. Unfortunately the British media (irrespective of publication/political colour) never really quite seems to know what it wants. For years the media were publishing stories of how "terrible" our railways were and "Why can't we have a high speed railway like the French and the Japanese?" - and as soon as construction started it became "Scrap it, it's too expensive."

That's another good point. Those of us involved with 12":foot railways will probably agree that many safety rules are reinforced by a historical knowledge of how the rule came to be introduced in the first place. Apparently a steam locomotive in India was found to have a note taped in the cab: "Check the token. Remember Abermule!"

Three ordered (skips, not Manors!). Now trying to work out if there's a way of fitting a servo under one of them to tip it at the required moment!

Yes, Karun has a good point. Watching the footage just up to the point of collision, it could have been argued to have been Lewis's fault. However when you watch it through and see that Max failed to make the corner, at some point he would have collided with Lewis irrespective of how much space Lewis left him.

It's not about covering their profits. Hiring Hall 5 of the NEC won't be cheap. Nor the hotel bills and fuel expenses of the operators.

I would have thought there would already have been other places where TfL has had to share Oyster revenue with a TOC. West Ham/Barking/Upminster springs to mind. (Admittedly in that instance the trains use different platforms but I think at least at West Ham they share a gateline - I've never actually got out at Barking or Upminster so I can't confirm the situation there, although I don't remember having to pass through gatelines to change from the District to C2C at Upminster).

No, I'm suggesting that those of us who can't make it still buy a ticket anyway (to help Warley cover their costs) and go on retailers' websites and buy what we would have bought anyway (so that the retailers don't lose out on sales). Whilst arguably it leaves us out of pocket in buying a ticket to something we didn't attend, it's money that we would have spent had we gone, and we'll still have saved the cost of getting there/parking.

If I may make a suggestion to those (who like myself) are unlikely to be able to go because of the strike: Book an admission ticket online anyway, and visit the websites of the traders you would likely have visited at the show and buy from them (if possible leaving a comment to say you would have bought the items at the show but were unable to make it anyway). It would be a shame if we were to lose Warley from the calendar as a result of the club and the traders not being able to cover their costs this year due to events outside their control.

I think until they finish reviewing their rosters (bearing in mind the strike was only announced yesterday), they won't know which trains are running and which aren't.

I would imagine revenue splits for Twyford-Paddington would work exactly the way they do for any other route where services are operated by more than one operator (which IIRC means that the revenue for a journey is split between the operators in the ratio of the number of services they offer over the route). Splitting revenue for journeys from Reading to London are sufficiently complicated anyway that I don't think the EL will make a great deal of difference - you don't need to pass through a barrier to change on to the Tube at Ealing Broadway or Richmond either. For example, there are at least four different routes from Reading to Whitechapel which would only involve passing through barriers at each end of the journey!

Best route I've managed to find from Reading gets me to the NEC at 0332! After that it's either arrive at 1117 via Heathrow, or 1222 via Oxford. Coming back, routes would be via Victoria Coach station and Heathrow (leaving at 1738 and getting home at 0032 or 1938 getting back at 0117). Alternatively there's a direct bus just after midnight that gets back to Reading at 0442!

London Bridge is in Zone 1 so a Travelcard will be valid.

Except that at the moment the floorplan on the website is the 2019 one....

No, alternate services are running through to/from Bournemouth (at least on Saturdays, I haven't looked at other days). However services between Reading and Brum are currently hourly rather than half hourly (all trains going via International with none via Solihull).

Mine's gone to the East Indies. Jakarta? No, she went by boat!

There is a 3d printed bodyshell for an NGG16 available, unfortunately I don't have the link to hand.

Three if you include Worzel Gummage!

And, in my opinion, a much better use for guitar picks than their originally intended purpose ;-)

Though of course lack of knowledge of the prototype doesn't necessarily just extend to overseas railways, but also to other regions and eras within the UK. The fact I have very little knowledge of the Great Central Railway c1902 doesn't stop me appreciating Buckingham :-)

That's interesting, as from memory the demos are usually towards the pedestrian entrance to the Hall (opposite the Squires stand?) rather than near the vehicle doors, so I would have expected quite a few layouts to need to be dismantled before vehicles could get that far into the hall anyway,

I usually get in Hall 5 at 9:15 or shortly afterwards (depending on how many people are in the queue in front of me) and just about manage to see everything by the time the show closes on the Saturday (usually one of the last out!). Whilst I wouldn't quite go as far as describing it as a race against the clock, I do use the pillars throughout the Hall to help me keep a mental picture of how much time I have left. Generally speaking I think it works out at 3 minutes per layout with a bit of time for trade stands. A lot of stands I find don't warrant much more than a cursory glance as they're not my field of interest. If a layout is having "gremlins" or just a long delay between trains (if a DCC layout, the operator is usually either struggling to read the number on the side of the loco, or to find it in the list on the controller!), I tend not to hang around but may call back later if I have time. And strangely I don't seem to bump into that many people I know - quite a few of those I recognise are from my own club anyway. Other than that, maybe some of the bods on the 009 Society stand, a couple of well-known traders and that's about it.

Though arguably, in Enzo's time, Ferrari wasn't really a factory team either. Ferrari made road cars to subsidise the racing team (i.e. the racing cars came first), whereas most factory teams race to publicise their road cars.

Now you come to mention it, I did take quite a few photos at RMWeb Live, and looking through them just now, I find: I have now identified this as being another Kingsway kit - they have a remarkable nine fire stations in their range, of which this is the largest at nearly two feet wide! https://www.kingswaymodels.co.uk/shop/1-76-scale-oo-gauge-999-emergency-fire-police-ambulance-stations-card-kits/13?page=1&limit=60&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc (And no, that isn't me in the photo - I was behind the camera!)

I remember building a very large fire station kit as a demonstration at the Harrison-Brown Models stand at "RMweb Live" some years ago. Unfortunately I cannot remember the make of the kit. Nor do I still have the model - it was too big for me to take home on the train, and I would not have had room for it at home anyway, so I gave it back to Adrian Harrison. I have no idea what happened to it after that but I suspect it was disposed of.