talisman56

21 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Sometimes the TGS DID need buffers : - 

 

 

 

Were they that short of motive power that that was all they could scrounge up for a main line working?

A close call and possible soiled underpants at 19:14 in this Grab Bag...

2 hours ago, beast66606 said:

 

A hollow voice says "PLUGH" - the happy days of Advent on a PDP 11 running Fortran, 40 years ago, then Leisure Suit Larry and not much since.

"You are at Wit's End"...

6 hours ago, Phatbob said:

 

Lovely picture of a 6PUL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Class_6Pul), but the pressence of the Pulman is perfectly normal for these units.

 

 

Looks like another one, or a 6PAN at the other end of the platform. This would be a Brighton or Worthing working, as the Hastings ones would usually be formed 6PUL-6PAN; the PUL left at the Eastbourne reversal and the PAN worked to Hastings (Ore).

Some additions to this sign in a car park in Bristol...

I'm getting quite a few timeouts recently while navigating between pages in a thread, only the error reported is 522:

21 hours ago, 30801 said:

Quicker if you go there in Welsh

As SWMBO is half Welsh, she should get there a minute before I do, then...

On 18/07/2021 at 08:04, Classsix T said:

GPU: 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.0-1.6GHz (up to 1.6 TFlops FP32)

This is the graphics bit (GPU = Graphics Processor Unit). Looks like an on-board video card, using VRAM carved out of the onboard RAM. Not very useful in my case.

5 hours ago, CameronL said:

With my luck, the night I went I'd get one of the three...

I took a look today, price vis-a-vis a full spec Gaming Laptop is very good. I can't see any detailed specs on the video capabilities (ie how much hardware VRAM it has). Most of my Steam Games are pretty heavy on Graphics and require a separate video card rather than integrated graphics. I'm running a GeForce with 8GB RAM on my lappy to cope.

So that van driver couldn't read and/or understand the very clear instructions that were on that sign?

On 12/07/2021 at 11:15, Fat Controller said:

We used to have people who set their 'QWERTY' keyboards to function as 'AZERTY', and not reset them when they'd finished. The first  you'd know about it was when you typed in your password, and you'd get 'Access Denied' after the third attempt.

We had one idiot trainee programmer who didn't like QWERTY so he rearranged all the keys from A-Z - and then wondered why things didn't work properly...

Unfortunately for him, he didn't last long.

On 10/07/2021 at 09:28, Poor Old Bruce said:

 

How about this, a green one taken at Victoria, 12 Dec 1968

 

Four 2BILs - I thought one of them was a HAL but on zooming in, the curvature of the bodyside isn't right..

On 07/07/2021 at 17:54, Hobby said:

What's the phrase we were taught as soon as we started on the railways... 

 

"Regard any track as live and treat it that way". 

Especially if there's a third rail...

7 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Linka System! That's a throwback.

Still available: http://www.linkaonline.co.uk/ - see the section at the bottom left of the page to 'Original Linka'

Although there is a new website linked (ha ha) to https://www.scalecast.co.uk/#/

9 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

What tune are they playing?

 

Something on the Bass, I suppose...

14 hours ago, eastwestdivide said:

A few more Kentish curiosities...

 

Terrible Instamatic shot of 022, a stores unit converted from a 2-HAL(?), heading through Strood in about 1979/80:

 

Those were replaced by newer conversions, this one 019 from an SR-style 2-HAP, here at Strood in October 1983:

 

And a snatched shot on a film that was badly developed (wrong chemicals - long story), a loco which might be 73006 leads an adaptor van and wooden-doored coach S14375S with some more bits of EPB down through Rochester in 1985:

 

The adaptor van was to enable coupling to the centre buffer-fitted ends of detached parts of EPB and similar stock. Somewhere I might have a record of what the actual stock was.

1) 022 was formed from the power cars of 2HAL units 2613/69 (10731/87)

2) 019 was converted from Bulleid-style 2HAP unit 5629

3) The 'adaptor vehicle' looks like an old SR 'BY' van

On 29/06/2021 at 22:38, pete_mcfarlane said:

Here's a few Preservation era shots of mine, 

 

I also went to the EMU days on the East Kent a couple of times - these are from 2011 when one of the 4-COR moto coaches was in use, along with a 4-BEP, 2-EPB and various MLVs. A good day out. 

 

 

 

"Err... driver, we have an issue coupling these two together..."

On 29/06/2021 at 15:42, Steven B said:

Who says you can't run a coal wagon with a Pullman Car?

 

1962 - Clapham Junction from John Turner's collection:

 

 

(I can't seen any coupling dangling between the 21t mineral and Medusa, can you?)

 

Steven B.

Are you not supposed to look directly at Medusa, otherwise you'll be turned to stone?

On 29/06/2021 at 03:14, talisman56 said:

 

Canada is experiencing the same; Lytton, by the junction of the Thompson and Fraser rivers between Kamloops and Vancouver, registered a Canadian record (46.1°C/115°F) on Sunday and broke that on Monday (47.5°C/117.5°F) - apparently this is an all-time record for anywhere north of 50° Latitude.

 

On Tuesday, even that record was history, as the thermometer rose to 49.6°C/121.3°F at Lytton.

7 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Portland is anticipating an all time, record high of 45°C / 114°F today. It will be hotter than Phoenix (109°F) today.

Canada is experiencing the same; Lytton, by the junction of the Thompson and Fraser rivers between Kamloops and Vancouver, registered a Canadian record (46.1°C/115°F) on Sunday and broke that on Monday (47.5°C/117.5°F) - apparently this is an all-time record for anywhere north of 50° Latitude.

I was on the Revelstoke VRF cam Sunday and at the end of the day the yard was full of trains stuck there after having motive power issues due to the heat. There was, I understand, emergency track work undertaken overnight to the west of Revy, and on Monday several early eastbound trains included extra locos that were dropped at the yard to add to westbound trains to provide additional power so the locos weren't pushed as hard on the 'hills' (described in chat as 'use notch 6 instead of 8').

Maximum temperature on Monday at Revelstoke was a relatively balmy 39°C/102.2°F

On 25/06/2021 at 17:49, eastwestdivide said:

As last night's selection seemed to go down well, here are some more.

 

Various, and an honorary EMU on the left

That's how I remember the approaches to LB - Bulleid-style 4EPBs, and BR-style 2EPBs - looks like another train behind the 2EPB on the right...

J9362 - that's about as short as a freight can get, isn't it? Blink and you'll miss it!

An what is that about half-way across (above the tree in the hedge in the foreground) - looks like a carriage of some sort, but there's a low protuberance on its left side - HGV on a road? Barn in a field?

On 18/06/2021 at 18:53, montyburns56 said:

58 005 & 58 004 at Toton 1985 by Adrian Nicholls

 

 

Reminds me of when I used to get tired of all the HSTs going round the club test track and put a 'Terrier' each end of a NGS Inspection Saloon and tell them the LBSCR got there first...

On 10/06/2021 at 15:06, Compound2632 said:

Sign seen in a Watlington shop window today, while queueing to get through the narrow junction there:

 

PLEASE KEEP 2 METERS FROM OTHER CUSTOMERS

 

I've been struggling with this all afternoon. 

Are these ordinary meters or 'smart' meters?