Joseph_Pestell

No, honestly, this is not hindsight. The whole basis of fire safety in tall buildings is containing fire within each individual unit. You can't do that if you put a flammable product up the outside of the building. Anybody with an IQ of more than 60 should realise that.

Not much space for a train set then?

I fear that we are going to find that the Builder and Architect did comply with the Regulations: i.e. that the Regulations are hopelessly inadequate. Whether, under Civil Law, there may be a claim against them on the basis that they should have used their common sense and used a genuinely suitable material rather than just slavishly follow the Regulations is another matter for m'learned friends. My late father often commented on the human propensity for overlooking the obvious. You would think that any five-year-old would use a totally fireproof product on a 24-storey building.

. I would think the liability lies with the owners of the property. And there lies a big problem. Who are the owners? Under right-to-buy, many of the flats were owned leasehold by their occupiers.

I don't know of a UK supplier - although I am sure there must be one. If you are going to Paris (or know someone who is), take a look at Weber. They seem to have everything!

There was a spark eroder available at auction last week for next to nothing. I was tempted but I would not have a clue how the thing works. If anyone on here wants one, I will keep my eye open for another one.

News today that First MTR have ordered Bombardier Aventra trains to replace the Siemens units that SWT had ordered for the Windsor/Reading services.

I can't see any easy way to divide up that area to make portable boards. And by comparison with Little Bytham you have a lot of point motors to take into consideration. For me, this says L-girder. That would allow you to make up some areas of trackwork on ply sub-bases and then fix the ply sub-bases to risers off the L-girder. Joy of this is that you can easily shift the risers slightly to get round the point motors. The L-girder base can be constructed very rapidly once the loft is finished.

There were still some Swifts when we visited Malta nine years ago - shortly before the Arriva fiasco. Maltese roads have some fairly spectacular potholes so I don't think that any integral body vehicle such as the Solo is going to survive long there.

There was one summer timetable (1974?) where all the various addenda added up to more pages than the original. Or so some reckoned at the time.

I wonder how many golf courses have their own beer. Had lunch yesterday at our local club, Rushmore Park, where the cask bitter is Rushmore Gold brewed very locally by Waylands Brewery, Sixpenny Handley.

I was thinking more of the Standard 4MT. I don't think a small Pannier would have gone that far (as per other answers).

Stopped on the way back from Salisbury last night at The White Horse, Quidhampton. Pub that I had not been to before but very welcoming and some of the best pub food that I have had for a long time. Guest beer was Salopian Oracle, one of the trendy citrus-aroma beers. Absolutely perfect on a hot day.

But she was not "cutting it fine". And we don't object to the principle of an additional charge for transferring to the later flight. But £800??? But in relation to this thread, the real issue is way of getting to Heathrow. SWT was for some reason running late so she just missed one RailAir coach. The next one was already delayed by the traffic and I simply don't understand why the coach goes back onto what is known to be a blocked motorway when they could get to Heathrow perfectly well on ordinary roads.

I don't see why one would need to change the loco on a run like this. Plenty of stops to take on water.

SWMBO is a very timely person. But if you get stuck on a coach on the M25 for more than an hour within site of the terminal because the RailAir link people are too daft to send the coaches on the ordinary roads, there is not much one can do. We don't have an issue with the security people. What we object to is BA charging an extortionate amount to transfer to the next flight. We got stuck in a not dissimilar situation a few years ago. Then, the much maligned Ryanair got us back to the UK at short notice. Yes, we did pay rather over the odds and got back to Stansted rather than Southampton. But it was nowhere near £800.

Certain units/locos may be banned from a line not because they would be out-of-gauge but because no work has been done to prove that they would be within gauge.

Yes, of course. That's the real reason why the railways were privatised.

Four of the players from Everton. So I, too, hope that they get a chance and are successful at Premiership level. Not too optimistic though as we have gone on a spending spree this week and our track record with young stars is not the best.

Today being a case in point. SWMBO delayed for about one hour on the bus and missed time for going through security by 2 minutes. Not allowed to fly unless willing to pay £800 to transfer to later flight. Thank you so much British Airways. I hope all your flights in future have lots of empty seats. We certainly won't be booking with you again.

How disappointing! When I read the title I was hoping for a passenger excursion train formed solely from buffet cars selling excellent Belgian craft beers.

Those last two iterations of the plan look very good to me in terms of being a good representation of Victoria. But will you be able to get to both sides of the baseboard? Unless you are a very unusual looking person, you can't reach across 4ft of baseboard.

Speculating but it sounds as though Hatton's have paid him.

Swansea suffered more than most from WW2 bombing. Hence a lot of fairly grim 1950s/1960s buildings in the city centre. Being right next to the docks, it is hardly surprising that Victoria sustained a lot of damage.

We did have a thread similar to this a couple of years back. I would prefer to see clubs combine to provide fewer but better exhibitions. But that is not easy to achieve. Other than the total cost, you need to look at the cash flow. I used to manage by having the trade stand income paid up front so that I could cover the advance costs; Hall hire, publicity, etc. The admission money covered the layout expenses with, most years, a reasonable surplus. Finding the right balance of trade stands so that they all have a financially-viable weekend is a bit of an art. You will gain a lot of brownie points by communicating fully with your traders and reassuring them that there is not going to be too much direct competition. We saved a bit on van hire by doing a lot of the transporting ourselves but that was a nightmare to coordinate.