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sibling rivalry

11 hours ago, MPR said:

Ouch! Did it survive?

No consolation, but real Ivatts can suffer from “earthing faults” too…

https://youtu.be/UhsMAjSqg7I

 

Now THAT is what I call a SPAD

Ian , have had a bit of a preview in MRH so pleasantly surprised  to see it in mag format - I am in!

I am about  to fit KDs to a Siverfox  J70. Does anyone have any advice for me ?

On 06/02/2021 at 14:43, St Enodoc said:

A quick test today and both locos can now lift the long china-clay train up the gradient, both bunker-first (as intended) and chimney-first.

 

Another time I'll add more load to see what the limits are but for now I'm happy and, once I've sorted out the roofs (not to perfection but slightly better than on Thursday) the locos will again be right for work.

I am sorry about that - I was hoping there would be the odd banker required.

Now that is a proper sheep!

Just as an aside- going on our experience of the current next door build - some so called architects cannot prepare decent plans and the builders have to rely on imagination and experience sometimes .

Daughter ( architect) who can draw up properly detailed drawings for builders, has been very critical of the  plans drawn for next door- the builders make up for the plan decifiencies

Bungus,

Do you know if anyone videoed any of your exhibition attendances? If so would you point the way please?

Thanks for that

Bungus, what do you use as a fiddle yard?

15 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I hope you will be able to see for yourself next month. Unfortunately it has closed off the complete walking circuit round the layout but that was going to happen sooner or later anyway. I will be leaving space for a duck-under though, for those who can't be bothered to go the long way round.

The long way round is usually the best - saves doing again after you have made a mess of it the first  time by taking a short cut . In this case it would mean I had just demolished your wonderful new construction, solid as it may be, by ducking under.

Mr Nuttall, I have admired your baseboards on many occasions so it is pleasing to see how it is done

proper

On 29/11/2020 at 22:11, Michael Edge said:

For the benefit of those outside South Yorkshire this is what real Barnsley chops look like.

Last night's dinner - these are not small plates either. Chops from McQuillan's butchers, High Street, Royston.

Needs tomato sauce

Cant quite see from the photo, how many wagons have been brought from the minehead  - I assume 6- a half load and then back for the other half?

On 17/08/2020 at 23:30, Clive Mortimore said:

I like this band

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWvrW9HJr2Q

complete with bagpipes - bliss

14 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Yesterday. I was going to post something but couldn't while RMweb was down:

 

https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/commemoration/commemoration-days/vietnam-veterans-day

 

Several of my Australian friends served in Vietnam, including some RMwebbers, and I was thinking of them yesterday.

One story that came out of Long Tan was that officer in charge of the artillery, had served in Korea, - had a "feeling" the night before the battle, and ordered up twice the ordinary supply of  the ammunition which arrived shortly before action commenced. and yes some of my mates served there but not at Long Tan

then appropriate to use a well known NZ swear word

How far were backing movements with partially fitted trains allowed? this would be on say  branch line or dock complex and not within a yard.

I am thinking a (regular) movement where there was no runaround  at the terminus and trains are backed from the last runaround- distance 500 yards -a mile.

I assume it would need to have a brake van leading the backup movement.

I am overwhelmed with the responses to my question. First of all, I note Catherine spelt with a K and Londoan spelt London.

I am hoping for a very rainy weekend (I know Britain is not!)(We have had up to 400 mils and it has put out most of our big fires.)

so that I have to stay indoors and can follow-up all the leads you have given me. My thanks

In Disused Stations entry about Minories , there is mention of a branch line to serve St C's and London Docks built in 1864.

The only line I can see,on an old map, is a line going off  between Lemon St and Minories going to Smithfield- is there another one actually serving the docks as well as the Smithfield ( meat markets, I assume)

On 18/01/2020 at 23:42, St Enodoc said:

Well, as chesterfield and Baz have hinted, we had a very good running session this afternoon. 11 operators showed up altogether so we were able to roster two people at both Paddington and Penzance as planned. The expanded sequence ran pretty well and we actually got through 45 trains in two hours before we stopped for tea.

 

Did everything go according to plan? Of course not!

 

We had a few relatively minor problems:

 

- two drivers found that they were both supposed to be driving train 6

- as chesterfield mentioned, a rough shunt caused a DG coupler mount to fall off a Ratio wagon. That has now been fixed.

- Somehow I'd got two trains starting from the same place. This is a bit of a mystery as the Post-It notes should have shown this up. I think I must have transcribed something wrongly. Fortunately this was fairly near the beginning of the sequence so it won't be too hard to go through it again to check - I hope!

- one loco failed so had to be replaced by a spare.

 

Given the scope and scale of the changes I'm quite pleased that this was all we found.

 

An interesting aspect was that the increased overall number of trains, with the consequent remarshalling, and the increased number of trains between each of the china-clay workings, gave the whole operation a far more relaxed pace.

 

Everyone seemed very enthusiastic about the changes so we will pick up from where we left off at our next session in March and see how we get on with the next batch of trains.

Mia Culpa too enthusiastic with throttle

sorry about the heavy shunting today-everything seemed to go well

On 10/01/2020 at 21:36, KymN said:

In Australia a 'Grunt' is an infantryman.  I served in the Royal Australia Artillery in Vietnam - the worst we were called was 'Drop-shorts'!

 

Kym, remember Long Tan.One of your majors who served in Korea,had an inkling and ordered up twice the number of rounds the night before and the grunts applauded later on .

Dropshirts indeed!

more overtime for the train crews

has the crane been built into the new sequence-breakdown train or major derailment?