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9 hours ago, 45156 said:

Readers of ERs and Night Mail will already know that I spent 10 weeks in hospital with a chest infection (actually pheumonia), was discharged after a week before it was fully cleared, and then readmitted for 9 weeks with pus on my left lung, the antibiotics they used were so strong that they left me vulnerable in other parts, resulting in two bouts of c diff, but also encephalitis, sepis, and a stroke - now recovering at home.  I am mainly posting this to let those who are only active here know how I'm getting on and why I've not been posting.

Stewart

Get well soon,

22 hours ago, The Johnster said:

and bang 'em around loose to your heart's content in marshalling yards. 

But don't damage the customer's goods as a result, because your employer will have to pay them compensation.

Here's another American one, but this has a better outcome:

https://youtu.be/Ntsl65yUUyE?t=384
 

Getting back on topic, mine, which I ordered on 26 Nov 2014, arrived today. I havent taken it out of its inner packaging yet, although I have opened the box and had a good look at it. 

13 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

 

Along with the time it took you to share that gratuitously negative sentiment. Sometimes manufacturers must wonder why they bother.

Manufacturers bother because we ask them to, and they can make a profit which we do not begrudge them. 

Talking of which, I have ordered one too. I wonder how many pre-orders they need before going ahead.

3 hours ago, rodent279 said:

Don't some sections of (surface line) Underground have >2 tracks?

Yes. Earl's Court going westwards is one of them.

5 hours ago, Bishdurham said:

A 6 PUL or 6 Pan would be interesting, but like a Rolls Royce, if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it!

I remember waiting on Battersea Park station for my train homewards on the South London Line and watching 12-car trains of 6PUL and 6PAN (1 of each) passing through on the fast lines, and also 12-car trains of 2x4COR with a 4RES or 4BUF in between them. Meanwhile the slow lines carried many 8-car trains of 4Subs, next stop Clapham Junction one way and Victoria the other.

Of course, many of the 4Sub coaches were converted into Bulleid-designed 4EPBs in the 1950s and '60s. The change to the bodywork involved just the guards' and driver's compartments on the motor coach; the trailer coaches were basically the same for the Subs and the EPBs.

Another US one, I'm afraid. This is from Florida.

2nd deadly crash involving Brightline train at same Melbourne crossing as Wednesday's wreck -

13 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Not my era - but a 4SUB ( hint, hint ) would roughly equate in size to a Class 31 plus three Mk1s ...... say £360 list DC !!?!

I would buy a couple of 4SUBs to make an 8-car train, just like the ones I used to travel on when I was a teenager in the 1960s.

12 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

One of those very rare vertical cloud formations...

 

Maybe Peco can be persuaded to make a new backscene: a typical South Wales rainstorm.

On 03/01/2024 at 23:40, AY Mod said:

 

You're happy to say I shouldn't have said something but you can't remember if you have read it or the context of the comments and the overall findings?

I am getting on in years, and I am getting forgetful. I've got one of these locos, so obviously I'm not bothered if they are ugly or not.

Maybe I should have asked you which issue the review was published in, so I can go to the relevant issue and read it (again). I normally read all the reviews in BRM, but I've been too busy to look at the most recent couple of issues, which is another reason why I'm not sure if I've read the review or not.

23 hours ago, AY Mod said:

Have you read the review to put context around the comment?

I can't remember. Which issue did the review appear in?

46 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

 

Where has this standard been laid down and by whom?

I would have thought it would be self-evident. If a review is full of the opinions of the reviewer, it is not going to be of much use to people who rely on the review to let them know what the model being reviewed is like.

On 27/12/2023 at 16:41, gwrrob said:

 

Yes, ugly and functional.

"Ugly" is a subjective opinion, and should not appear in a review.

On 02/12/2023 at 13:02, Gareth 73 said:

Looking at Google maps the tree line seems to suggest the middle road was perhaps just a head shunt. Tho it could end up next to some school for wizzards lol

Looks like the middle road went through the woods:

They shut the road through the woods

Seventy years ago.

Weather and rain have undone it again,

And now you would never know

There was once a road through the woods

Before they planted the trees.

It is underneath the coppice and heath,

And the thin anemones.

Only the keeper sees

That, where the ring-dove broods,

And the badgers roll at ease,

There was once a road through the woods.

9 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

Evidence to the contrary.

 

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rossxpres/36236639984/in/photostream/

 

Anyone who thinks that is dull and boring needs to get out more. Probably one of the best looking multiple units ever.

Really. That's been polished up for preservation and is on a railtour. Try comparing it with some of the units that were in day-to-day use and didn't get cleaned very often.

20 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Who wants express passenger engines anyway? Totally unsuitable for the sorts of layouts most of us have room for.

I'm building a roundy-roundy, with the main line going through the middle of the fiddle-yard. I can use an express passenger loco or two.

22 hours ago, The Johnster said:

one with a TVR A class.  

Gettng back to the title of this thread, there's a locomotive that someone could make. I'll have a couple.

Does this count as level crossing stupidity?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-67402745

If you want something that hasn't been produced already, what about this one:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-surprising-story-of-steam-trains-in-the-central-line-tunnels-67050/

On 14/11/2023 at 03:08, Niels said:

GWR surpassed everybody in crazyness,building fourcylinder locomotives with two inside valve-gears in 1950.

How did they do that? They no longer existed in 1950.

5 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Because the rails slide easily out of the chairs it is easy to put them back. but holding the track while you are threading the rails through the chairs while at the same time keeping hold of the rail you've just threaded is one of those jobs that needs three and makes you regret the decision to lose the prehensile tail 6mya.  A spot of superglue on the ends of the sleeper runs (there is a split in the web about a third of the way along the length for some reason) is needed to hold things steady. 

 

But the general impression is one of 'cheap and nasty', flimsiness, and weakness, and there is no re-assurance in the 'feel' as the rails slide happily through the chairs as you handle the lengths, the sleeper web behaving a bit like a Slinky.  I would imagine they would be very easily damaged and pulled out of gauge if one tried to curve them too sharply; luckily, my fy roads are straight and this is no probem.  Then the Hornby rail joiners were a difficult and tight fit. 

 

If you only wanted straight or almost straight track, perhaps you should have looked at Hornby's semi-flexible track.

9 hours ago, JimC said:

With a single or an 0-4-0 largely yes, but AIUI with a coupled locomotive only to a limited extent, since the wheels aren't completely free. Side play on the axles will help align the wheels, but that brings its own problems with friction from alignment of bearings, wear etc.

Isn't that why they invented rail greasers?

2 minutes ago, Reorte said:

Again, how would that solve the problem? People who use them illegally already aren't likely to comply with any new laws... Non-compliance with existing laws isn't a problem that can be solved with more laws.

If the government really wants to deal with non-compliance with existing laws, perhaps they ought to do something about enforcing those laws.

14 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

Surely non-gangwayed crimson and gangwayed carmine are exactly the same thing?

 

Carmine is just a made up name for crimson?

You can tell Stanley Gibbons Ltd. that, then. They've even got a sample of it on their colour card, so you can be sure you've got the right colour.