ChrisN

Mikkel,

How did I miss this one, or have I just forgotten it?  No, must have missed it as it is brilliant.

2 hours ago, Mikkel said:

 

Did that result in decongestion? (genuine question). I ask because there is political debate here about whether the recently expanded Copenhagen Metro will actually lead to decongestion. The argument is that it only frees up space for private vehicles = more private vehicles.

 

 

Ah yes, at 3:53.  1903 seemed quite early to me, but it seems that while there were only 14-15 cars in the UK in 1895, there were 7-800 by 1900 (according to this page).

 

Mikkel,

I think it is difficult to say if it resulted in decongestion as London was, and still is, an expanding city.  People obviously preferred the Underground as even though it was full of smoke and steam very quickly it was overcrowded.  A much expanded system later, it is still overcrowded.

In answer to today's question, what is known is that when we have a Tube or Train strike the amount of cars coming into London dramatically increases.  What is also known is that the Congestion Charge reduced traffic into London.

Hope this helps and does not hijack your thread.  The reverse is that the motor car stopped this country/ the western world, (?), from being drowned in horse poo and starving to death as we tried to feed the horses.

Tethering Ring?

It could work if you had several wagons in the photo, and several photos, all of the same two companies.  

Someone suggested on Castle Aching that it would be an idea to look at wagons that were known to be red from other companies and see how they appeared on the old emulsions.  I can think of several reasons why this would not work but if you could find a photograph of a known grey wagon, eg., Cambrian against a known red wagon, eg. GWR 1890, then you might have a definitive answer.

And me

I know those buildings at St Mary's Hospital.  Drove there once a year with Radioactive Hazard plates on my/works car.  No parking there at all so in latter years pushed my colleague out the car and parked illegally while he went inside to do what we came for.  Never would have guessed what it was originally used for.  (We went in the new building on the other side of the road.)

Wonderfully painstaking detective work.  (I think I know someone who might want to hire you.   )

Mikkel,

The resting period is interesting, but it does not work with the percentage the GWR had resting unless the figures were fiddled so the GWR management was given a falsely good picture.  A 5% resting gives one day off in 20.  Did most get Sundays off and the rest day was an extra?

Sorry, it just intrigues me

Mikkel,

Does 'Resting' mean not working that day, rather than a few hours off?

Mikkel,

As brilliant as ever.  How many horse drawn vehicles would a place the size of Farthing actually have?

Mike,

I avoid train simulators, and sadly Annie's thread, as I know I could get sucked in and never produce anything.  Good to hear your experiences though.

Have a good Christmas.

I asked my wife if she would tell me what colour she thought the GWR trains were when she went to work last Friday.  Her answer was, "It is cold so I had thought of taking the car."   

However, all is not lost.  Having heard yesterday that there was a bus replacement service from Reading to Bedwyn, we sked the question, "Where is Bedwyn," and today we found out by going there.  Apart from a muddy walk along the Avon and Kennet Canal we also discussed the colour of the trains.  

The answer to which of these do you think it is, 

brought the answer, "Yes."

It depended on the light.  She described the colour as 'slightly blue, green', but when the light was good, it looked like the colour on the left, when it was not so good, like the colour on the right, in poorer light darker, and on Reading station she said it looked black.

Next, I shall get out my time machine that my youngest son has said he will build me, and ask her if the broad gauge engines I show her bear any resemblance to the colours above.

Is there a rattle can, or a Precision paints colour for the new GWR Holly Green?  I have to admit that when I see the GWR trains they look a dark green, perhaps I should look harder next time.  (I will ask my wife next time she goes on one, Friday possibly.  We always disagree about colours so it will be interesting.)

Mikkel,

I have just been told there is nothing in the Cambrian rules about where horse boxes should go in a train.

On 31/10/2019 at 04:46, Mikkel said:

Thanks Chris. Meanwhile I am hunting for photos of horseboxes at the rear of a train. Other than the famous railcar-hauled horseboxes of the Lambourn branch, I haven't found any yet.

Mikkel,

Page 70 Great Western Railway Journal  Spring 2010 No 74 there is a picture of a 517 on a train 'with tail traffic,(? horsebox)'.  It could actually be anything. 

What the article definitely proves is that 517s did not reach the Ruabon- Dolgelley Line until probably 1901 and then they went up to Blaneau from Bala.  So no 517 at Traeth Mawr.  I will have to wait until I build Maidenhead.

"Very interesting Chris. I wonder if that was a result of the same shunting processes discussed above, or an actual rule on the Cambrian?"

Mikkel,

I do not know but I am trying t find out.

All photos/images I have of Cambrian trains with horseboxes have the horseboxes marshalled just behind the engine.  4 and six wheeled stock was the norm on the Cambrian.

11 hours ago, Mikkel said:

 

Thanks Simon. It seems an awful lot of trouble to go to, with the horses and all. But then people didn't exactly travel light in those days!

 

Chris, if you are reading this you need a carriage truck for a certain family 

Mikkel,

I think I have one but it is just a flat truck not a proper covered van.  I have a carriage to put on it as well, but I suppose it would be sheeted so I may just put a sheet with a lump of something under it.

Well done Mike.  Making great strides now, and very interesting

Looks very god Mike.  I love the way you just experiment with the software, which is what I do although 1) there may be easier ways if I had read the manual, (Read the manual? -they are usually completely unreadable.  What I mean is investigated all the function buttons.) & 2) I may well have to on my cutter to set the cutting up, although reading a blog or thread might be better.

Thank you Mike for a very informative answer.  I am not sure I will ever get a printer but it does give me a feel for how they work.

Well done Mike.  You did not print a roof or will you do that separately in future?  I was not thinking of printing the roof in place but maybe on four sprues from the corner.

You do not seem to need the supports that I have seen on other printed 3D models, and it seems to work flat where the others seem to have to be printed at an angle.  Is that a factor of the printer, the plastic, both or what?

My wife gained an interest in a scientific subject that she had been taught at MSc level later in life but had no research experience in.  She then spent the next five years, yes, 5 years, looking at papers on Pub Med and brought together different strands of ideas that people who had been working in the field would not have put together as they would have been pigeon holed, or tramlined in their thinking.  She then went off and did a PhD in her theory during which she found something else that was wrong in the processing which was obvious to her as she came from another discipline and is now a leading expert in that particular area.  

This is not down so much to her untidiness but putting things side by side that others did not do.  Being really clever helped as well.

Well done Mikkel.  another interesting tale, complete with real photographic evidence!

Are these figures modified?  I do not recognise Churchward and Dean.  (No!  You have been fooled, it is not Dean, it's Stroudley!  Obviously has some devious plan that has fooled Finkerury.)   Think I recognise Churchward as well.

Mikkel,

Thank you.  I vaguely remember reading that now as well.