martin_wynne

Shoeburynes:

Hi Gordon, You can keep within that grid line by moving the turnout a bit further back, see below. The original design had sharply curved track against the buffer stops, which never looks quite right. Few railway lands are made up of neat rectangles, so it usually looks better to avoid having features parallel to the baseboard edges -- I would angle the shed a fraction too. regards, Martin.

Hi Gordon, Looking good. :icon_thumbsup2: Do these track ends need to be curved? The design would look much less cramped if they can straighten out, and it wouldn't take up much extra space: regards, Martin.

Hi Don, It was fixed at 04:00 GMT today. Not many posts since then. You don't get notifications of your own posts. Martin.

Hi John, Email notifications are now working again. Martin.

Hi John, It's a known issue, Jim and Andy are conferring -- see the pink banner at the top of this and every page. regards, Martin.

Time for a clue? In the next square to the west is a town with a Roman name, and alongside its railway station is a large factory making an essential item of domestic furniture.

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Pontyates:

Hi dagrizz, To get this game restarted on the new server, I am posting your square again: regards, Martin.

Hi DD, It's here. If the dot is green, there are new posts in that forum. If it's blue, there are not: Martin.

Hi Gordon, I found this while browsing RMweb and thought of you: http://www.flickr.co...57622970345171/ The walls of the cutting are brick, not stone. But just over the near parapet is the roof of what I think may be a signal box, dwarfed by the surrounding walls. regards, Martin.

Hi Gordon, I think a stone-built signal box would be a bit unlikely in such a situation. Brick is fine, but surely if the sighting requirements needed a tall box, that is what would have been built -- a tall box all in brick set in close against the stone wall. That stone plinth looks wrong, especially in similar age/colouring to the walls and with the steps at the wrong end for the box. At the time the original stone walls were built the signalling would have consisted of a man on a shaky wooden platform waving a flag. Centralized signal boxes with interlocked lever frames came later, and wouldn't have been designed into the original stoneworks. If you leave the platform as-is, at the very least it will need some heavy modification to allow the rodding runs down the vertical face, and colouring to indicate a later construction. regards, Martin.

Now you tell me.

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Sandwich:

Obviously not. A picture clue -- looking North from the overbridge in this square: Edit: Llanelli and Mynydd Mawr Railway, Cynheidre. See: http://www.lmmrcoltd.com/plans.html Picture: Cycle path near Cynheidre?© Copyright Pan Dodd-Noble and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. Martin.

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Between Themelthorpe and Reepham, M&GN / GE:

Wonderful. Thanks for doing that Mikkel.

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Beckermet:

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Spofforth:

Time for a clue. A battle took place near here, 992 years ago. England 0, Scotland 1.