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A new "micropub" is about to open in Bournemouth at 10 Queens Rd, Westbourne - so just a few yards from the site of West Station. To be called All Hail Ale.
Met the owner this morning and it sounds like it's going to be a good place with an interesting range of beers. He plans to have a "bottle shop" as well downstairs.
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I think Pete Harvey has some on his Shapeways shop. If it's not Pete, search around a bit on Shapeways. I know they are there somewhere.
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Looks as though it may hold the Guinness World Record for biggest bike shed.
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It's a bit easier these days with new manufacturers able to show 3D CAD renders and pre-production models. We get a much clearer idea of what the final product will look like.
I am more concerned with the financial stability of any new entrant.
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I am loath to ask this: 1:100 or 1:120?
And yes I am aware of the thread on modelling TT metre gauge lines.
For a 3ft gauge line, I think that there is a good case for 1:100 on 9mm. For metre gauge, I would prefer 1:120 although I take Simon's point about fitting steam loco mechanisms into small bodywork.
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Trains available on Friday 11 but not on Monday 14 or Tuesday 15 (a public holiday). So it looks like a blockade.
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I have just been contacted by a friend in Aus who is trying to arrange a journey from Paris to Reims on 12 August. She has been onto SNCF website, as I have now, and there don't seem to be any trains running from Gare de l'Est - whether by LGV or conventional route. Various other odd routes (e.g. via Dijon) are proposed.
Have we missed something e.g. bookings by sensible routes not being open until 3 months before? Or is there an unparalleled total blockade of Gare de l'Est for some reason?
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If anyone is really having sleepless nights about whether they should enter the competition because of the layout height criteria, the simple solution is to make a cameo model of a rack railway. Start it about 1ft off the ground and finish it around 5ft. Simples, and all inclusive too.
I was actually thinking of something based on the Cromford & High Peak. This double benefit had not occurred to me.
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Couldn't find anything quite like it on the Neoplan list (maybe long gone) but following the links I found this which is the sort of thing I can remember:
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Double ended, dual controls, 4 wheel steering, doors on the front (or should that be the back?) both ends
Keith
Not a type that I have come across and so I don't know whose chassis. But we can clearly see that the bodywork is VanHool.
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Mainland? We ARE the mainland.
Fog in the Irish Sea. Great Britain cut off.
Apart from the price, I reckon that Liverpool - Douglas is just about the roughest sea crossing I have ever done (July 1972).
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I think the original plan back in the C19th was for the LNWR to build a terminus close to Silver Street but I'm not exactly sure where. The University blocked this and the LNWR line eventually ran in to the station on a line parallel to the GE line to the south.
That would make a nice model project.
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Cracking stuff! The 4-COR is one big omission from the r-t-r market.
Are your designs available via Shapeways?
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Seems strange for an Italian pilgrimage train to Lourdes to travel via Bordeaux. Presumably a diversion.
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It is handy that, in common with quite a few Spanish railways, it is 3ft gauge. That also gives the possibility of HOn3 on 10.5mm track (Shinohara). I'm not too sure though where one might get suitable running gear. Edit to add: Just googled 10.5mm gauge and find that Peco are now doing HOn3. They can do points for that but have struggled to get out some British OO!
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It's a play on words on 'inouïe', which means unheard of or extraordinary.
The French I work with feel that the only thing extraordinary is why SNCF considered this change a good use of public money. What will probably remain unheard of is the amount of that money it has so far cost and will continue to cost to implement this ludicrous change in title.
I am perfectly capable in French, most would consider me bilingual. I know what they are trying to say and I still think its c**p.
What is unheard of or extraordinary about a service which has been around for 36 years?
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Consignia seems positively sensible by comparison. I wonder how much they paid some marketing consultant for this c**p.
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Had an excellent day at the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust's Morecambe running event on Sunday. From many vehicles that were there on the Prom, these were a few of the many which were running a free service between Heysham/Morecambe/ Carnforth. There was also a short circular run out from Morecambe via Bare.
This was on the latter service
A 1938 Leyland TD5, rebodied postwar with a lowbridge body.
Next up from Morecambe to Heysham then all the way through to Carnforth was this 1967 Blackpool Leyland PD3 with a Met-Cam body.
On Carnforth Station is this excellent little boozer called the Snug. Highly recommended for a nice range of ales and convivial atmosphere. On Sundays, some of the locals bring in freshly cooked snacks for all to nibble on!
Taking us back as far as Morecambe in fine style was this 1958 Barrow Corporation PD2 which has recently gained a refurbished engine.
Another run out on the Bare circular was taken on this Blackburn Guy Arab with a Crossley body.
The only open topper at the event was this ex Ribble Bristol VR Mk1 which after being transferred to Eastern Counties was given a chop top! As the sun was out it would have been rude not to so off to Carnforth and back again.
Final run of the day was taken on the star of the show (for me anyway!) a Ribble Leyland PD3/5 "tank" . Very loud and snorty with a melodious pneumocyclic gearbox, it did a passable impersonation of a first generation DMU and made all the right PD3 sounds.
Great end to an excellent day. The program was £3 and all our loose change made it into various collection tins.
Hope fully my own bus will be attending next year if I can get my @rse in gear and finish it!
JF
That does look a terrific event.
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I still think you are over-thinking this, Joseph, mind you I know some City types who deliberately support Stenhousemuir, full members, make contributions, arrange outings to home games etc., just for the hell of it. Non of the teams you mention are near Romford......
I played (once) for Oakley Rovers who at the time were members of the North London Combination League - I expect that this league doesn’t exist any more (and only known then for been occasionally on the Football Pools).
By the way the last time I visited Glasgow I also noted many football fields filled with exuberant amateurs on Saturday mornings. I’m certain that such teams in Scotland still exist even now, though maybe Rugby was more popular.
Best, Pete.
Even as a rugby man myself, I acknowledge that soccer is much more a participant sport. That's true even in Southern France. Rugby is followed by most but more play football. Scotland is the home Union with the fewest players - even fewer than in Ireland where Rugby is, to many, a foreign sport. I think that there may even be more registered players in Italy than in Scotland.
Sorry that I did not mention any non-league clubs from the Romford direction. Not my part of London. I only mentioned Harrow & Wealdstone for a bit of balance. But I could also have mentioned Sutton, Carshalton & Wallington, Bromley......
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Much easier solution. Move to Gauge 3.
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Sensational. You get the same effect when repointing a 1:1 scale brick wall. It completely changes the look of the bricks.
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I've not been especially enthusiastic about this season - I've found most of the stories to be simplistic, slightly ephemeral, and not very well written, with the odd dash of student union level politics thrown in (posh people are all racist and evil, capitalists want to kill their employees etc). But the last couple of episodes have been pretty good, and I'm glad I'm no longer 10 - the Monks would have terrified me.
Haven't you got a sofa to hide behind?
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Do the SR trains use a bay platform at Wareham, or one of the NR platforms? Does it involve a fair bit of 'wrong line' running from Worgret Junction to Wareham.
I had look at the SR Project Wareham page, but (like a lot of heritage railway sites these days) it's pretty thin on hard core railway information.
ISTR that they were going to put the section between Worgret and Wareham as two single lines. But the fact that West Coast are operating this service suggests that this has not been done yet.
Google Maps has recent satellite photo that only shows a trailing crossover at Wareham. So presumably timings are to connect with a down SWT train with the train to Swanage arriving/departing from the up platform.
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Thanks for that info. I will definitely get down there for one of these trips.
I walked the line shortly after closure and met one of the campaigners who were campaigning for this reopening. It's taken 45 years of hard work.
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Yes, I used to play on them....., what I really meant is this:
Could not London support more professional teams despite the situation with Leyton Orient? I’m fancying a Romford Academicals
That’s a tad clearer.
Best, Pete.
Don’t take me too literally, Joseph.
On that basis, I think that you could still find some equivalence.
It is only for the benefit of the Pools companies that we get to hear about teams in the third tier of Scottish football, some of whose matches are attended by fewer than 200 souls. If BBC and others were to report on the likes of Tooting and Mitcham, Kingstonian, Dulwich Hamlet, Welling, Harrow and Wealdstone.......... all of whom have much higher attendance figures, you would see that there are an equivalent number of professional/semi-professional clubs in Greater London.
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Oh dear! The windows still seem to be wrong.