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Well those particular rules have not changed on the thirty years + that I have been on the railway,

This is totally incorrect. In order of safety: cess 10 foot (if there is one) four foot six foot. If you like I can quote the rule book/ track safety handbook if you still feel like arguing?

If working on the track you should be aware of which lines are bi-directional, as you would have read the sectional appendix before hand.

Edwin is indeed correct, walking in the four foot facing oncoming traffic is one of the safest places to walk, other than walking in the cess, as you can see a train coming and only have to step over one rail to get to a place of safety. The six foot is the worst, as you could get struck from behind or even trapped between two trains, as well as having further to go to get to a place of safety. Mind you if you were totally oblivious to your surroundings and not looking out for trains then the four foot would be dangerous. We were told that lying down in the four foot was worse than lying down in the six foot (obviously) but one would hope that the training had been sufficiently well carried out to make the above distinction clear enough for a guard to understand it.

It is my Godsons fourth birthday next year, I am not sure that I can resist the temptation...

Is pulling up short so that the break is between the loco and 4TC an option? Place an appropriate figure on the platform to mark where the break is, or if that is inconvenient opposite the end of one of the coaches such that when it lines up there the break is not bridged. Make sure you remember which end of which coach though or you might crash the buffers... Of course it does not have to be a figure, any sort of platform paraphernalia that you can place inconspicuously as a mark will do.

That was pretty much the case. I could just about lift one end of it so not overly heavy. Almost loaded it single handedly but common sense kicked in and got help. Did not have to remove the middle seats so at a push could have sat four + piano in the back!

Well, I always look for a vehicle that is capable of doing everything I want. Not yet found anything it can't do. It is unexpectedly quick too.

Well I have a long day to look forward to tomorrow.

Classes 21,24,29,31, peaks and possibly others all had hatches in the roof for filling with water, often with footsteps fitted in the bodyside to climb up. They were of course eventually removed and plated over, but they would have had them under the wires for some time and probably closer to the OLE than hatches on a tender.

I think Deltics had a similar problem. They would fail with high water temperature going downhill. The reason was that after a period of full power, and then shutting off the throttle the engine driven fans would slow right down when there was still a lot of latent heat in the engines from the climb. Even with the engine idling the temp would climb until either the thermal dynamics of the engine equalised the temperatures within in the power unit and all parts reached their normal idling temperature, or it would overheat. This was resolved by a campaign reconditioning of the radiators just before the summer of '76, which was fortuitous as it meant that the Deltics handled the heat wave without too much bother.

Not sure anything can beat the censored counting song from Sesame street! https://youtu.be/6AXPnH0C9UA

Oh no, not again!

Surely they have missed a trick by not making them sleeveless and calling them tank tops...

Whilst the flat itself a bit difficult to make out, especially with all the other dings from the derailment, what is clear is the nicely blued heat affected area, so yes - pretty conclusive.

The one on the right must be a Bee T telephone box.

Was that the one where they wanted to borrow a Deltic, but the ER said no so they used 2 x class 37's instead and ran them at 100mph to much the same effect?

No need to guess. It states clearly in the link the reason, but to be fair the article could have been updated since you read it.

Well... If the remodeling was done to the plans I saw a few years ago, when the platforms are renumbered there will be an actual but disused platform between 9 and 10...

Gone with the Windrow?

What, that Arnold Schwarzenegger will get off and kill everyone on the platform?

I thought code 100 coped OK with Triang flanges? I have never had any issues with Triang stock on my Peco track, other than having to adjust back to back on some items. Hornby silver seal wheels with square axles are banned though...

I have heard of this trick being used on faded plastic bumpers using a hot air gun.

Would that be the one on the corner of Ascot Drive and London Road? It had a legendary bar with a double row of just about every variation of whisky you could think of. In the diesel school behind it there was a six cylinder sulzer power unit that could be run up. When it closed some preservation society got it - it had got just over 100 hours on the clock so practically brand new!

Pretty sure that was what took me to my interview several years later, although I think it was a Dodge version by then!