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Whether a pan tilts or not has nothing to do with the accuracy of the pan itself, as whether the base it sits on moves or not does not put any significant constraint on the design. I have replaced the Hornby pan on my APT with a much more accurate Sommerfeldt one, the only issue is that it is HO rather than 00, but it was a direct swap with no modification required whatsoever, and still stays vertical when the train tilts, which is just as well as it actually runs on the OLE and would fall off the wire on corners if it did not!

They almost all stay out because I have nowhere else to keep them!

I think 16mm narrow gauge marks the cross over point between model railway and model engineering. It is quite possible to have a small electrically operated scenic layout that you take to model railway shows just like any other model railway, and yet also a beautifully engineered live steam locomotive chugging around an extensive garden railway, both of which are to exactly the same scale/gauge or any other parameter you care to choose. Hence the case for both sides of the argument is equally valid.

I think he remembers that one...

Deltics were early repaints in to blue, possibly due to the combination of the prestigious services they operated and more frequent works attention. D9002 being the first in Oct '66

Indeed that is what someone working on the project would do. However these drawings are now in the public domain and available to anyone, working on the project or otherwise. You will also notice that this drawing has had previous issues A01 and A02, which may well have been published as part of the procedure. The next one to be published should be a fully signed off A03, not an unsigned A03.1 which is a work in progress and should be for internal circulation only, for information only. It could well be for example that there is some land shown as potentially being compulsory purchased, that subsequently is engineered out. It could cause unnecessary concern to the owner of that land if that was the case and they saw these drawings.

Well it would appear that it is Network Rail that put them in the public domain. They should not have, as those drawings are basically a 'work in progress', not signed off and therefore could be subject to change, with all the implications that has if someone tries to use them as a reference. However whats done is done...

The servicing technique eventually settled on seemed to be the 'little and often' Put a few squirts of water into the boiler every five minutes or so, and you will only have to stop for a few seconds at a time. When the gas runs out you will still have a boiler full of hot water, so it will be ready to go again almost as soon as the gas is lit.

They are using 45mm gauge, and as far as I am aware that was always the intention.

Do you have permission to publish those drawings? Anything revision XXX.1 has not usually been signed off - note the blank signature boxes - and has therefore not been officially issued. I will be making enquiries in the morning...

My wife just stopped, and said “You weren’t even listening, were you?” I thought to myself, “That’s a very strange way to start a conversation......”.

Wacton? Clalton?

And here we have the winner of this years most pointless thread resurrection! What makes this particularly stand out is that when this thread was last added to, it was so long ago that Jordan probably was more current at the time!

It was a repeat of one of the other ones.

But BR got fed up of the brakes fighting each other to the death, so fitted them with dual brakes instead.

My wife just stopped, and said “You weren’t even listening, were you?” I thought to myself, “That’s a very strange way to start a conversation......”.

Did something significant change in around 2006/2007? I ask because until that year the rate was fairly constant, and then it started dropping substantially. As this also applies to the motorcycle stats it suggests it may be something other than improved car design.

Sending letters and parcels is conspicuous by its absence. Unless they have a separate 'worst for' list?

I am of the opinion that for any problem there is an optimal solution that is the best compromise that the laws of physics will allow. Once you have that solution then it is going to be extremely difficult to improve upon it no matter how hard you try. The HST is one good example of that. The original mini is another.

Remember seeing that kind of damage being repaired at Doncaster in BR days. Seemed surprisingly straightforward. The loco was put on jacks, a triangular section of frame was cut out up to the top plate, buffer beam then jacked up to the correct level, new triangular piece of frame welded in. Body then repaired where necessary.

I had better not bring my girlfriend to a model railway show, the local A+E would not cope with all the cardiac arrests!

Depends. Is one of your legs much shorter than the other?

Looks like a sliding door that is more narrow than the original.

And there was me thinking it would be in line with the spread of the Siemens mobile phone...