JeffP

I wonder if anyone knows anything about the above?

It's a name given to long trains, travelling between the Calais area to Spain via Port Bou. Some seemed to originate up near Luxembourg. Most seem to go east of Paris, then Dijon, Lyon, etc.

But before the last year ended I'd picked up from a Facebook group that SNCF had either lost, or dumped the contract, and private owners would take over?

Anyone know?

Looking good.

My experience with French telephone technicians tells me your neighbour will be very lucky indeed if the machinery doesn't turn up anyway and redo the job...

Is it a flux capacitor of some early type?

JVol1462 looks like 60109 which was local.

I like the rudimentary point lever.

The turnout may have been made at Volker Rail's plant in Scunthorpe.

The loco number does look like 26 to me, albeit quite a curly 6

Have you looked at Ragstone?

Much of the A4 stuff was/is common with the A3.

Some MAY also still be available on selling sites from either the Hachette Scotsman, or more recently, the Hachette Mallard.

But be prepared to do research: you'll need to find out which issue your part/s is/are in, and some are now £££

I found it on a Facebook site about SNCF.

It would appear to be a map of the entire SNCF network, showing trains, their speed and direction, signals, permitted line speeds etc.

I've not had time to do any more than look, briefly.

https://carto.graou.info/45.99792/0.16891/10.58373/0/0

On many diesels, the loco could be named/numbered differently on each side.

Another vote for Severn Mill.

They come as precut sets with any relevant works, or shed, plates included.

Have a look at their website.

Card?

Well I'm disappointed.

With the standard of the other work going on, I was expecting mild steel plates, genuine steel sections, (girders to those who don't come from a steel town), and scale steel rivets.🙂

The Tintin figures will be heavily copyrighted.

Those found in shops in larger scales are €€€€

Is that X2 a 2-2-4?🤔

J2170, the chimneys of John Lysaght's or Normanby Park steelworks in the background.

Long gone.

In those days Scunthorpe had three large steelworks and one or two smaller, employing around 24,000 men.

Town was booming, if a little dirty.

Calls for the council to attract other industries were treated with derision.

Now we have one medium sized works employing around 6000 men, we no longer make our own coke for iron making, so the "four queens", the blast furnaces that make virgin iron, are also under threat.😒

Still, we can make poor quality steel from scrap, and it'll improve our net zero standing...

Have you looked at MMP?

I'm pretty sure David does some.

That's very impressive.

What was in the rooms on the ground floor?

Class 37?

13 hours ago, Busmansholiday said:

John Lysaghts Normandy Park Steel Works and their Blast Furnaces in the background, brings back memories of working there in the late 70's and until it closed in the early 80's.

Looks like Spell check has got you:

NormanBy Park, not NormanDy.

Sounds like they were very much like the real ones?

Ferrero Rocher?

7 hours ago, John Besley said:

 

While I have used clips from the Internet, I do intend to gather up my own clips, one of which will include a skylark as it's so typical of a warm spring day as they climb higher and higher.

 

Buzzards in the distance again is something I want

Not heard a skylark in years.

We used to find their nests by watching the adult bird hovering.

Farmland in north Lincolnshire that had been bought for housing, but stayed undeveloped for 4-5 years.

Yellow hammer another I've not heard in years🙁

"A little bit of bread and no cheese".

J5627.

Another one that looks like the photographer was standing IN the Murky Trent.

Scary river....

Fibre?

That'll be France Telecom-Orange, then?

Best of luck.🤫