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On 06/11/2020 at 15:13, DaveF said:

 

Newcastle Class 143 and 142 1st April 91 C15709.jpg

 

 

David

'InterCity' Pacers - nope...

1 hour ago, luckymucklebackit said:

DRS Motherwell has a new shunting "loco"

 

https://twitter.com/DRSgovuk/status/1323569242692820993

 

OK who's up for a model!

 

Manufactured by this company

 

http://www.zwiehoff.com/en/products/shunting-technology/rotrac-e2-up-to-250t/

 

Jim

Any idea what the TOPS classification is?

21 hours ago, Edwin_m said:

The conflict at a flat junction depends on the number of trains using both routes.  Assuming the Westerleigh east curve was negligible as it appears to be, the number of trains diverging at Yate and Westerleigh (west) would be the same.  So the "straight through" traffic was the only variable - was the Midland between Mangotsfield and Yate busier than the GWR Badminton line?  

I would think it would have been on a Summer Saturday...

I always thought 'Cark and Cartmel' was a Cumbrian Curse...

C14200 - my first effort at a similar (straight-walled) cutting on one of my first layouts came out a bit like this - a shame that, at the time, I didn't know I could justify leaving the whole mess as it was...

The first tranche of the Dapol N Gauge R4 High-window Maunsells have finally gone on sale. These are the individual coaches in SR lined Olive Green:

2P-014-020 6-compartment BTK 3733

2P-014-040 CK 5635

2P-014-060 FK 7226

2P-014-080 TK 1122

There are two sets awaiting delivery: 4-set 193 and 6-set 456.

As you can see, the single BTK is numbered 3733, not 3730 (a 4-compartment BTK) as in the pre-release publicity and listings on all the major shopping websites - The change was due to my advising them of the error and they have obviously taken the correction on board. At the same time, I also advised of the error in the BTK in set 193 (publicity lists 3735, should be 3738) so presumably that will be corrected, also.

2 hours ago, jonny777 said:

 

I may have posted these before, but if you have a weathered WD but love the idea of a Hornby 71 in mint condition - just model the GC in the late 50s/early 60s era. These are screen grabs from a video of a grimy 2-8-0 hauling a brand new SR electric through Nottingham Victoria. The number appears to be E5021 which would date the footage to around July 1960. 

 

 

 

By the time it got to it's destination, that 'HA' would be nicely weathered...

Must be because I was posting on Mobile; it wouldn't post my message until I deleted the Emoji from my post...

On 26/10/2020 at 01:20, kevinlms said:

No, because it's Manchester United!

I nearly fainted when the Eagles got a pen at Old Trafford last month...

As an aside, any idea why we can't use Emojis here?

On 26/10/2020 at 09:56, Jack Benson said:

Sorry to crash the party but I am looking for images of the 'SDJR' low window coaches in use. They seem to be particulary elusive......

 

Thanks and Stay Safe

The only accessable one I can find is this one of a stopping service at Masbury Summit posted by Matt Pinto on the Dapol Digest forum...

Looks like there's a high-window TK 'swinger' on the back.

On 06/10/2020 at 19:16, stewartingram said:

That Hermes van must be a Photoshop - I thought they all used their private cars!

Only for parcels up to a certain weight and/or size. Chaps in branded vans are delivering the parcels to the 'last mile' couriers to deliver in their private cars and/or picking up parcels from the shops that take in parcels.

4 hours ago, 40F said:

 

 

Split box 45 yes TTG47 no. It is in the original two tone green livery. Warships had all long gone by the time TTG came in.

TTG at that time and in this instance does mean two-tone green...

In C18120, I see a bit of woodwork replacement has been done on the 'Shark', but no-one got round to wielding the paintbrush yet...

On 15/09/2020 at 20:14, Southof1E top tmd said:

Apologies for Kodak Instamatic quality but those who spent hours/days/weeks at the West end of Temple Meads will have memories stirred by this view of 832 Onslaught on Bath Rd in October 72

 

NR

As well as the split-box 45 and the TTG 47. I mourn every time I go southbound out of BTM...

3 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

I think I'll adopt "popty ping", onomatopoeia always does it for me!

 

Years ago in mid-Wales, dad stopped at a small garage to top up our really thirsty Ford Pilot.  It was a hot day, and we had all the windows down, so we could hear the mechanics in the workshop discussing a really sick car that they apparently had in bits.  Amidst the stream of Welsh were familiar words like "crankshaft" and "pistons"...

 

 

I had a similar experience a few years ago. We had driven from home to our town's twin town on the edge of the Black Forest in Germany. We had a rush to get to the EuroTunnel terminal as the offside rear tyre had punctured just east of Reading, and most of our recovery time had been used up by replacing that and the horrendous traffic getting round London. The spare had a little lump in the side wall, and most of the time going through Belgium and Germany on the Autoroute/Autobahn had been a subliminal prayer to whatever deity was around that the lump didn't get any bigger or anything more serious.

We arrived safely, and the next morning, our host took me down to the local garage to see about getting the tyre repaired. Of course, you can imagine the effect a puncture at 70+ has on the side wall of a tyre, and the only two things I understood in the rapid-fire conversation in German between my host and the garage guy was the big puff of wind at the beginning of the garage guy's reply and the word 'kaput'...

J4504 - not a prototypical combination of carriage liveries, but a good display of the progression of same through the years of Nationalised railways in Britain...

Is it what they used before they managed to get a padlock and chain for it?

21 hours ago, Richard E said:

 

 

The reason for the second sign is to, in theory, stop vehicles leaving the fishery on the western side of the road just north of the Stamford line turning north and creating issues at Lolham Crossing.

...and they've obviously had issues with this, hence the additional two signs in the Queen's English...

On 05/09/2020 at 00:23, RJS1977 said:

Looks as if the barrier came down between the cab and trailer and snagged him.

 

I'm not sure how one of the catenary masts wound up going through the trailer roof though!

I think it's more like the side split and the roof wrapped around the mast...

6 hours ago, petethemole said:

Using Google's measurement tool it's 312.7m between the boundary fences at each end.

...or just under 1026 feet = 2.11m in 1:148 scale. Interesting idea for (another) layout...

10 hours ago, Zomboid said:

 

 

As for changeovers on the move, that happens all the time at 100mph or more near Newbury, Didcot and Chippenham.

Every time I've been on a Padd-BTM service, the changeover at Chippenham has been at a speed significantly under 100mph, as the train is either still accelerating away from the station stop, or braking for same... but yes, it is an 'on the move' changeover.

As an aside, it seems that Hitachi still haven't got their minds around the 'First Class at the Paddington end' requirement as at least one BTM-Padd service I saw yesterday was the wrong way round (the 15:30 BTM-Padd, 800 312 IIRC, spotted at the station stop at Bath Spa) and one on layover in Plat 15 at BTM (couldn't see which one as any identifying marks were obscured either by the sister unit in Plat 13 or station structures).

It seems all the BTM-Padd are 9-car 800 units - at least off-peak - before lockdown, a couple of peak services were diagrammed 2x 5-car which split/joined at BTM, shedding one unit for Weston-super-Mare.

Watching the Bond movie last night, and 'GoldenEye' had some olive drab livery Mk1s standing in for Russian rolling stock in the short scene where Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova (izabella Scorupco) arrives in St. Petersburg...

As well as an armour-clad Class 20 and a couple of heavily-disguised Mk1s in Alec Trevelyan/Janus' (Sean Bean) private train.

On 22/08/2020 at 23:28, Holmesfeldian said:

okay - you wanted another view.....

 

here’s an alternative view of “Stacker” Steadman’s.... erm... handiwork

Did the consignees/recipients of the contents of the 'Shock' van still expect them to be protected from the impact?

Does that mean the Blackpool Toastrack has to be upside down to do the 'Circular Tour'?

On 14/08/2020 at 23:28, Andy Kirkham said:

Thanks once more to Talking Pictures, tonight I watched The Small Back Room (AKA Hour of Glory), a 1949-made film set in 1943 about a bomb-disposal expert with a drink problem. The climactic scene takes place on Chesil Beach and our hero is seen both arriving and departing by train. I imagine the location is Abbotsbury, which must make it pretty rare footage. Apologies for the quality of the pictures; they were made by simply pausing the film and snapping the TV with my camera.

 

 

The arrival scene features a genuine auto-train. In the last two pictures showing the departure, I don't believe the coach is an auto-trailer at all, although the locomotive does propel it out of the station. I'm not quite sure of the loco's number but I  think it's 1403. Great Western pedants will be infuriated because of course in 1943 it would have been numbered 4803.

 

Apart from the railway interest, the film - a lesser-known production of Powell and Pressburger -is well worth seeing. The cinematography is of the highest quality in beautifully rich black and white; the pace is leisurely with no cheap shocks, but the scene where the infernal Nazi device is disarmed is utterly gripping and to my eyes technically convincing; the realities of defence procurement and office politics are portrayed with a cynical eye and the relationship between the hero and his girlfriend is portrayed in a very truthful and grown-up fashion - it is quite clear that they were all but living together despite being unmarried.

 

By the way, was there ever any intention to extend the line beyond Abbotsbury? To me the end of the line has a rather provisional look to it.

LSWR 'Gate' stock being hauled by a 14xx 48xx?