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So yesterday was spent at Lord's - becoming an ER. This doesn't mean a conversion to the dark side of RMWeb but a requirement to take four modules to become an Emergency Responder. Two modules were patient handling in the Warner Stand, in the freezing cold with a brisk north wind. It would have been a blade of grass on the cricket square, with an electric heater trundling back and forth keeping them all above freezing.

Got that question today. On line course called "Counter Fraud".

Walschaerts? Belpaire? Cesar Frank? Tin-Tin?

Only the Belgian ones.

I was watching a cat walking along a six foot high fence at the bottom of my garden and thought of my two pets of some 40 years ago. The fence has a cap about 1 inch wide. Harvey would sway and wobble along. He would never actually fall off but at times it was a damn close call. Toddy would happily march along the fence although he would need someone to catch him when he jumped off. Harvey was a big, fat tabby cat. Toddy was a Jack Russell Terrier. Bill

More digits flying into the ether.

... and I spent today preparing for a brace of Medicine Management modules. Doesn't one have fun when one is retired.

I just charge for fuel for the Yeti. My operating team is fairly widespread, so my quote will also include their train fares. Knowing Chris M will read this, the "profit" we made at Warley was spent on coffee and cakes on the way home. A couple of other possibilities. I would treat demonstrators in the same way as layouts. I would provide a relevant society (ie model engineering or local line society) with a free table (plus tea/coffee) on the condition they only sell their own products (ie journal and monograph) and not compete with the second hand bookstall paying trade rates.

Funny old day. I completed three on-line Safeguarding courses, written an e-mail to an acting Archdeacon, put the seats back into the Yeti and chatted with a gentleman residing in Switzerland. And now to bed.

It only ran a few times. However it was the last train, collecting the remaining wagons from the yard and departing as a mixed train.

At the Tonbridge exhibition yesterday, we were operating a train on Blindheim comprising a Köf and one Donnerbüchse. Bill

Blindheim packed and ready to go.

About 15 years ago my O Gauge British exhibition layout was running out of invites. So the question was "what to do next?" At the time Lenz were developing their Spur Null products and I had visited the Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz preserved railway. I decided to build an O gauge model of a Franconian branch line terminus. Historically there has been very little scratch or kit building on the continent, so I was committed to RTR stock. This meant that the infrastructure and trackplan had to be correct. I had to revise my very rusty German in order to do the research. Höchstädt was born which spent a few years on the exhibition circuit. Audience reaction was varied - a few were very interested, the majority spent a few minutes in front of the layout, again a minority were downright hostile. About 2018 I began the "last great project", a junction in Upper Franconia. Unfortunately the pandemic struck, I can't manhandle 4' x 2'8" boards on my own and so I built the last stage of the project, a 12' x 1' Endstation blocking one of the fiddle yards. So Blindheim was born. There is no possibility of an accurate trackplan in that footprint but all the buildings (some scratchbuilt) are valid for Upper Franconia and the stock is correct for location and era. Conclusions. Foreign layouts are committed to RTR models, but that doesn't mean that infrastructure and stock cannot be correct. Bill

Ye gods! The Bing screen saver is an aggressive looking Hippo!!

Brian, my reading of LNER Wagons Vol 4A is that they either had separate brakes each side or that they had the Morton arrangement with brakes on one side and levers on both sides. The clutch is on the brake side so the action is reversed and you are pushing the brake on. Bill

Mine is bog standard Czech, including the various plates. I asked the corner garage how they go about maintaining it; "treat it like a VW!"

They are executing pancakes? Sadists!

By the by, don't look at the Early Riser thread if you are squeamish. They are discussing the most effective way of killing off each other.

I have a Yeti. No clever switches, paddles, etc. But I feel like Ronnie Corbett in the Corbett, Barker & Cleese sketch.

....... but that is where the owner was born! He just happens to live in The Netherlands.

If you come to the Tonbridge show this Saturday, you can see Obbekaer in P87 by Geraint Hughes - simply some of the best modelling on the circuit. You can also see Blindheim by yours truly - constrained by circumstances but an attempt to represent a Franconian backwater in Spur Null. Bill

So did I, instead I was finding illustrations for an article (written by Norman Pattenden) on rates for agricultural traffic.

The LSWR service from Wimbledon to Ludgate Hill still exists.

The main problem is that I'm tone deaf!

I use aluminium ears on the cassettes. These are on the "Shoe" cassette and the loco cassettes, but not on the stock cassettes. The ears are attached with bolt and nut, the latter extending a quarter of an inch and electrical connexion is achieved with crocodile clips.