Joseph_Pestell

Thanks, Jon. An interesting "touristique" that I had not come across before. Stayed at Montoire a couple of times when touring with my parents (over 50 years ago now).

A correction needed. Reading further down the thread shows a withdrawal date of 1971. So I must have seen them on journeys from school to home (1970 , Charing Cross - Hayes). I still find this a truly odd choice when so many other Southern EMUs are still not covered. Did they ever run in service as a single unit?

My father and I did a Freedom of Scotland week in late July 1971. I am fairly sure that we travelled to Oban on a DMU because I recall that we had a good view of the semaphore signals used to warn of rockfalls.

Interesting question. Could it be an issue of gauge that makes it difficult to find space for outside cylinders? Placing them outside the wheelbase of the loco might make it unstable at speed.

A yellow card in soccer is an ineffective sanction. In rugby, a yellow card sends a player off for ten minutes which does usually affect the final score.

Deliberate (aka "professional") fouls is bad enough. Much worse was all the play acting from Fiorentina players going to ground clutching their faces when TV pictures clearly showed that the WHU players hands, elbows, etc had gone nowhere near their face. VAR should be allowed to bring those incidents to the ref's attention and these divas shown a red card.

And into concrete. A friend was converting a roofspace into a music recording studio. That involved putting about 100 fixings into concrete beams. By the time he called me in, he had drilled about 10 holes and got through several bits in a few hours. With my SDS drill (Wickes), I did all the rest in no time at all with very little effort. The Wickes drill did die some years later after some heavy jobs. Moved on to Ryobi, a brand I now use for all my tools because of their battery range.

I never believed that pro rugby union would work out in England. Or indeed Wales and Scotland. I am amazed that it has survived this long. Even well-supported clubs in rugby heartlands, e.g. Gloucester, have been money pits. I don't have an answer but I think it will need a far more radical reform than currently proposed by the RFU.

Easy enough to pull off a tarp. Difficult to put it back again on your own.

In the context of this forum, clerestory is a good contender.

Lots of XC trains terminated at Poole. Originally, they would have terminated at Bournemouth West but had to be moved when BW closed. Terminating at Central would have messed up the Waterloo - Weymouth service too much. One of my many "might-have-been" layout plans is a reduced Bournemouth West in the early 1970s.

As with all rules, there are exceptions. Shaftesbury , a very hilly town, has aerials in at least three directions. It is also on the boundary of three different ITV regions0.

I have been intending to start a thread about this. As a Gold Member, I have not had a problem accessing RMWeb. But can someone explain to me how to get rid of these Adblocker b*stards? I suspect that their ads which come up with every keystroke got installed remotely when I changed to Windows 11.

It's really quite common to see errors in the trackplans shown in the magazines. A recent report on Pete Waterman's Leamington was particularly poor in this regard. The plan for this version of Camden was not the clearest and the fiddleyard an unusual design which does limit the operating potential. As Flying Pig notes, many trains to and from Euston can not simply be turned end to end. There was a lot of remarshalling - either at the sidings on Camden Bank or further out at Willesden Stonebridge Park. I think that Kilsby may be one of the WCML locations that had separate intermediate block boxes on Fast and Slow lines. I will check on SRS.

I know somebody with a Bentley like that.

One of the nurses treating me was on an apprenticeship scheme. Seemed like a much better deal even if it takes a bit longer.

Easier for whom? When was in A&E at Salisbury a couple of years back, there was a nurse that I could not understand at all.

A friend has passed on to me details of an auction at Mitchell's of Cockermouth on 13 April: a large collection of 00 as well as some lots of books, etc. I have only taken a quick look at the online catalogue but looks interesting. Don't like the 25% buyers' premium though.

As part of the initial research for the above projected trip, I have been onto the bahn.de website. Is it me or is there no facility to consult timetables there? All I can see is a form to put in the time that one wants to travel and lets the computer work out the options. That's not really my preferred method for this sort of trip. Given current health considerations, I should probably not stay in too many places but favour several nights at each location with day trips out from each. Cover less mileage that way but this is not going to be the sort of marathon effort that my 1975 Interrail trip was (14,300 mls) in 30 days. Worth noting that the €49 includes local metros, trams, buses, etc.

I am considering a trip using one of these €49 passes. It's been many years now since I was last in Germany. Details have now been made available. Only real "snag" seems to be that they run in calendar months, so you have to watch that you do not run over into a second month. April is going to be too soon so I will probably try for May or June. I probably won't do the whole month but at that price one can afford to "waste" some of the days.

There has to be a red so trains can not pass unless the route is set. Could be 2 aspect or 3 aspect depending on the supposed track layout ahead (including anything off-scene and not modelled).

The restaurant car has hinged folding doors whereas the others have sliding doors. I think I am right in saying that only the sliding door cars should really be referred to as "Eurofima".

Not to mention the couple of hours when all the operators have gone for dejeuner.

Such legislation was proposed c.2010. All new housing from 2016 onwards was to achieve BREEAM level 6. Seems to have disappeared without trace.

I looked at this a few years ago as a possible project in N. Should make an ideal club/exhibition project. One word of caution. The OS maps are very inaccurate with regard to railway infrastructure - even more than usual. Trust only photographic evidence or railway drawings.