ZiderHead

That seems like a rather clever idea, especially with trains passing which don't have holding tanks. Yuk.

I can see the Nover Scosher - top pub!

No mention of RailCom ... am I really the only one who wants to know what speed my loco is going?

Stopped on Wolvercot bridge this weekend but didn't bother with a photo because … it looks exactly the same as Sep 2014 … There was a multiple unit of some kind heading off down to the Cotswold line so we gave him a wave. Its the first time Ive not got a bee-baaarp from a driver there … must have been a metal fan because instead he gave us The Sign Of The Horns! Cracked us up

The economist in me wants to see intermodal wagons fully loaded, but theres something really appealing about the skeletal look of them unloaded, very nice BTW How long is it? It looks immense!

Yeah what did Brunel ever do for us!

I can't believe its taken me this long to get "Box Cutting" … doh! Phill do you have to clean the track before each session? Im guessing slugs and snails would quite like the trackbed, and birds like slugs, and cats like birds …

Digitrains do a Zimo "Sentinel diesel shunter", not sure if its set up as a DM or DH though … I'm sure Paul Chetter could tell you (I'd be interested to find out too)

I figure if I can improve my skills and have a little fun with no risk or inconvenience to myself or others, within the law, and at ~40mph then it would almost be negligent not to!

More than enough!

I think it very much depends on where you live as to whether crossings are unusual or not. A quick google suggests 6,300 crossings in the UK and 250,000 miles of roads - a crossing for every 40 miles of road so everyone should be very familiar with them. I'll bet that isn't the case for the vast majority of motorists though. I can drive all year without crossing a railway, and I would if I didn't regularly choose a route which includes one. It adds 10mins to my journey but … I might get to see a train! And it has a wicked right-left which requires pretty much all the tools in my box to get through swiftly and smoothly (trail braking while heel'n'toeing, roll oversteer etc.) A green light would be reassuring - I always look left and right to check for trains anyway but sighting isn't great - the absence of red/amber lights does not tell me its safe to cross, it just tells me there are no red/amber lights lit. Whether thats because there are no trains coming, or signal failure, or some scrote has nicked the cabling … who knows?

Catfish!

It does seem odd that railway/airfield crossing traffic control lights are different to those used everywhere else on the road network.

Wow, presumption of guilt is alive and well in this topic …

Just one of these on each side. Approaching from the North it looks on google maps that the Eastern gate could have swung a good 20deg before a driver would even see it, due to the road curvature and the oblique crossing. Now this is very speculative, but it looks to me that closing the Western gate first would vastly improve sighting for drivers from either direction.

It appears so, and since there are no lights to stop traffic the first thing a driver will know about the crossing being closed is seeing the gates start to swing close (or not …)

So a system designed to stop traffic moving at walking pace doesn't work safely with traffic moving 10x faster … big surprise! Hope the signalman makes a full recovery.

I was wondering if you'd spot that Jordan, you must have developed quite a bond to Lister having spent so much effort on that kit BTW any idea where the name came from? Lister reminds me of Red Dwarf and racing Jags … neither of which have much in common with D6300s!

And heres an exception to the exception: D6320 1970-05-10 Cardiff Canton

Witney branch for sure, all over Oxfordshire Ive been told

Interesting shot there Ozzy, given the date I'm guessing the plated over window and the canopy are for blackout? That must be tempting to model

http://www.pbase.com/image/151879825 Looks like a decent place to work

Great photos as ever Sorry if I'm being a bit dim but why run around when there are locos at both ends of the train?

If you go for the chair/timber set, the machined switch/vee set and stretcher bars it works out at about £30 a turnout plus some rail, with no machining or high temp soldering required

Hi Phill Nice to see DW68470 out and about, looking good. Its not often you can use a brake van to add a splash of colour to a train. Some weathering tips would be great - those grampuses (grampi?) look spot-on to me.