Titan

At well over two tonnes and only 135 bhp, there is going to be very little on the on the road that is slower. The official top speed does not even make three figures. Even the three cylinder poverty spec 1.0 Toyota Aygo out performs it.

I think the answer is No, and No...

I think you may have your wires crossed. It was never a test bed for gas turbines. It was a test bed for high speed tilting train technology. Gas turbines were used because a lightweight power source that could be used on non-electric lines was required. They were pretty much adapted off the shelf automotive items, just for powering the experimental train only and not for future use. As such any reliability issues of the turbines were irrelevant to the success of the train, just an inconvenience if problematic. The production APT-P's and subsequent versions were always going to be electric, even before APT-E was even built, let alone started testing.

Bus loads of topless women?

They are still in use today, here is a modern equivalent: http://bance.com/4manpetrolalumicart/

I hate noah alls...

"I am glad I saw you start to change lanes, it gave me a warning that your indicator was about to flash!"

Its not just the nose and ride height that is not right. The rain strips on the grilles on the nose side are made far too heavy - Lima got this about right, and the thin supports in the middle of the radiator slats are missing, again Lima got this right. Not only that, but the sandbox fillers are molded on on the Lima model, but are just printed on the Bachmann, as is the access hatch on one of the noses, although I can't remember if Lima molded it or left it off all together. Not such a biggy as you could always assume you were looking at the loco from the other side. It is such a pity about the Lima model being under length! Someone somewhere must be capable of doing a Deltic properly!

Some rolling roads are motorised so that with the clutch disengaged they can back drive the transmission to the speed that the test was undertaken and measure the power required to do so. There may still be a bit of fudge factor involved as the transmission is not under load, but it is still far more accurate than guessing completely.

TBH these days I am not sure there are that many that do. I have driven a few hire cars recently and have no clue how big the engine was because it did not have it written on it. My own car has a fairly unpretentious 'TD4'. Perhaps the embarrassing days of the poverty spec "1.3L" are too much for the modern driver,,,

The tall masts are probably to accommodate the Autotransformer Feeder wires. Instead of a return conductor you have a wire energised at 25kV A.C., except 180 degrees out of phase with the contact wire. Thus between the Feeder wires and contact you have a difference of 50Kv A.C., and the benefits of extra power that brings, yet the trains still run on 25Kv only requiring 25kV insulation and clearances to Earth. It does mean that you have to keep the Feeder wires a good distance away from the rest of the wiring though hence the tall masts. The performance specification for the OLE is probably the toughest applied to the UK so far, has to be able to easily handle trains with three pantographs at any spacing running at 125mph, as well as single pantographs at 140mph.

No, the masts have holes in the bottom for drainage. There would still be studs/nuts/washers between the mast/adapter plate/foundation so there would be gaps between them allowing water out. The Swiss seem to have some very strange ideas sometimes!

so no 'tender' listings?

We really need a groan button!

Do bear in mind that by law speedometers have to be factory set to read up to 10% fast, so by setting his cruise control to 75mph he could well be doing as little as 68mph in reality. Sat Navs are not encumbered by this, so I cruise at 70mph according to the sat nav, which corresponds to 74mph on my speedo. Sometimes the obvious answer isn't the right(eous) one...

It is an inelegant solution, normal practice would have been to have a single plate adaptor - nothing more than a piece of steel plate with holes drilled to suit mast and foundation, to which you could bolt both parts to. Why two plates joined by square hollow section is required I have no idea, Nevertheless it ought to be plenty strong enough.

It is an adaptor so that a mast designed to fit a 762mm diameter pile can fit on a 610mm diameter pile. It was because the foundations were designed and installed before the basic design of the steelwork was complete. Either the design for the expected mast type was not forthcoming, or it was withdrawn from the range after the foundation was sunk.

Blimey, if someone has done it in N with no visible intrusion as far as I can see - maybe some under the centre seats perhaps? Then 00 should have been a breeze!

Its a shame really. They don't need to move fast so even a very small motor with appropriate gearing would have been able to shift it. When you see what can be achieved in T gauge it would seem that they did not try that hard. I'll stick with the gandy dancer. Might not be in any way accurate but always gets a smile - especially when chased by a full size train!

Trouble is finding a wreck of a car with a FSH. Very few and far between. You would be hard pressed to find one or two, let alone enough to con half of us.

Ah, but sometimes it is not the destination, but the journey...

Exactly. The car I drive is not best known for it's reliability. If the gearbox does not have its oil changed it will certainly give trouble at about 80,000 miles. With a 'Magical' FSH it will last the life of the car. So a cast iron example of something that would break without FSH, but does not break with FSH. As can be seen 'If its going to break it's going to break' could not be further from the truth. And I am sure I as well as others can find more real world examples to back that up than you can find hypothetical situations.

Unfortunately not as there seems to be a limitless supply of individuals for nature to select...

Whilst your statement is true, it is not relevent. What is relevent is the risk that something will break, which will be much less on a car with a proper FSH than one without.

Unlike your ability to count!