Joseph_Pestell

There has been a mention of when Doncaster had "proper buses", well they had trolleybuses as well but........here's a trolleybus they almost had but never did.

Taken at the Sandtoft museum. 

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One for NHN. Photo taken on the same day and place as previous

Is that trolleybus at Sandtoft a hybrid or completely converted to OHE operation? Would be interesting to convert some current buses so that they could operate from overhead on busy city centre routes. The "Boris Bus" looks rather more like a trolleybus than a Routemaster.

You are correct in thinking that, they made coaches based on the end of each half set, but never proper ones with articulated bogies.

Just been having a look on internet. As you say, only vehicles are the lead car, second car and the one at the other end of the half-set.

Might not be too difficult to make up the ordinary seating cars by cut-and-shut. Bar car would need an overlay though.

Thanks for the quick responce guys. He does seem to have good products but if his porducts are HO, i might have to give it a miss.

Yes, HO, as you would expect of a French producer.

Am I right in thinking that Hornby never made any intermediate coaches for the Eurostar?

Yes, Apocopa is a one-man-band, Max.

Been going for about 25 years now. Deliveries have been known to be slow but quality usually OK.

All of the major centres are compromised by having so much of the wrong type of rolling stock cluttering up what would have been a generous goods yard with a few wagons in it.

So my vote has to go to one of the lesser stations such as Hampton Loade or Kingscote.

Interesting to see a vote above for Harman's Cross, an entirely new station. I rather like the equally new (fake) Kidderminster.

Hit some of the Afro-Caribbean shops. You can usually find the 8% Nigerian export Guinness there. 

The Antwerpen is also at Tesco.  Been wondering whether to try it.

On a little tour starting in Cosham and heading up Portsdown Hill to the "Churchillian" for a couple before proceeding along the ridge to the "George" lovely pub where we greeted with this selection

 

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from which I chose "Goodens Gold" 2nd from the right, from the "Flower Pots" at Cheriton both pub and beer highly recommended! . Walked back down into Cosham for a couple more before hopping onto the train home.

I don't think that I would have bothered with The Churchillian. The George is a nice pub.

OK, I have played around a bit and made the changes suggested, but it has come at the price of the canal and cottages which were set along the front of the scene.  There inst room for them anymore sadly but see what you think?

 

D.

Shame to lose the canal. Can it not go to the rear?

Am assuming this is a parcels working - apologies if it isn't

 

Least Successful Modernisation Plan Diesel design? by Gricer1946, on Flickr

OT, but some very interesting looking coaches in the background.

When doing wine-making talks each week, I always ask if any of the audience have made wine at home. It seems to be a vanishing hobby, probably due to wine only costing, in real terms, about 25% of what it did in the 1960s.

But back on topic, I really like the look of this project. Interesting to see if you can reduce it much more and still keep all its features.

The reality is that most folks don't stay for more than 5 minutes in front of any layout at an exhibition. At the larger exhibitions such as Warley, there is not time for more.

So I think that there is definitely a role for layouts where those 5 minutes can be focussed on some top quality modelmaking (such as Nicktoix' buildings) rather than be distracted by too many trains rushing past.

The snag, of course, with 4' long layouts and proscenium style presentation, is that only about 3 people at a time, whatever their height, can look  at the layout at the same time. That rather limits the show's attendance figures.

Can't we have coaches too... ?

Of course we can. As a (part) northerner, coaches are buses (but you have to pronounce it properly - rhymes with puss not with cuss).

I will edit title thread.

A chance for me to give this pic another outing:

 

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Restored single handedly by yours truly (2001-2005).

Glad that you have posted that photo to this thread. One of my favourite bus types.

I read not long ago that there are nuclear submarines still in service with their computer systems based on XP. Anybody heard from one recently?

Why has anyone rated this as "funny"?

Thankfully, I think that you will find any such systems will be isolated from other computers.

When I was considering doing this (20+ years ago), I was going to make the brickwork masters in etched brass or nickel.  That way one can make a master quite quickly (although not so cheaply) by simple step-and-repeat on a 2D CAD.

The problem I see for small scale things is Vacuum forming tends to radius all edges. It creates much softer angles than we are used to in modelling. So while I would be interested in seeing your results, I dont think they will match your expectations.

I think that could certainly be a problem with 20thou sheet. And anything thinner might not be strong enough. Hence my comment about incorporating the ballast.

Old railway sleepers do have quite rounded edges though.

Be interested to see how this goes. Always been surprising to me that we don't make more use of vacforming in the model railway world, but it had never occurred to me to use it for trackwork. Why not have moulded ballast Roco-Line/Profi-Gleis style?

Nice pictures from Doncaster. Do they still have that awful bus station? I remember pulling in there in 1980 on the overnight coach from Scotland.

I had a vague memory that there was a K's kit of that, and I was right. Made by K's for Jouef.

 

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Jason

Bit of a bargain at €40.

Love the caveat about quality of the pieces and the motor. A lot of us felt that way about Ks.

Another thread recently mentioned the film "La Bete Humaine" based on the novel by Zola and filmed in the 1940s(?) with Jean Gabin driving a Pacific.

The film really should have been set in the proper period using this loco. Perhaps with modern CGI techniques a remake is on the cards. A great novel that was somewhat underplayed in the film. It's quite raunchy stuff and was probably difficult to get past the film censors 70 years ago.

Looks nice. I like quirky layouts.

Definitely better with the loco shed simplified, perhaps even a bit more. And I think I would have the depot only accessed from the main line, not the goods yard headshunt. It might be even better to have the shed on the other side of the line, allowing a longer headshunt.

There used to be a law against articulated buses and riding in a trailer. Does this mean you can now travel legally in a towed caravan? 

Cart pushing the horse in the case of a bendy bus. Dangerous IMO. 

I never travel on trains being pushed from behind via TDM. That's an accident waiting to happen ... wait .... it already did. Polmont if I recall. 

Dead loco's hung onto the rear of a train was always a no-no until privatisation, then the rule book only applied if it suited management.

I take it that you don't take many train journeys these days then. Most EMUs and DMUs have the traction behind at least part of the passenger accommodation.

No not like that.

 

They were conventional bus type vehicles but very wide maybe, 10' - 12', and very long with controls each end. (And 4 wheel steering IIRC)

 

Can't find a picture anywhere.

 

Keith

Main European manufacturer is Cobus. Try googling that.

From an idea floated in the "for those interested in old cars" thread.

It seems that there are plenty of us on RMWeb who are interested in old buses (even if we were not bus spotters as such). Quite a few of us, such as Coachmann, even had a career in buses. Several own or have owned vintage buses. Others have an interest in buses, even if only to make sure that we have the right model crossing the bridge on our layout.

For myself, I have always been much more a trains and trams man. But for many years, I was a member of the Norbury & South London Transport Club where there was a strong bus following and I used to regularly go to see the May Brighton run and other local rallies such as Cobham Museum Open Day. In my childhood, I explored much of London and surrounding areas on Red and Green Rover tickets. So I still have great affection for some of the rarer LT vehicles of the 60s and 70s: FRM 1, RFs, RLHs,.....

My old Disco passed on to my daughter who passed it on to her collie.

 

He loves it.

 

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Dave.

Is he doing dog agility?