DavidH

What I've learned from model railway forums is that if you criticise railway staff, then you get an even bigger pile-on against you. So it's a smart move to play the trump card preemptively ;-)

It is. The museum closed about 3 years ago and the weighbridge has been taken from a wreck to a restored and usable building in that time. Now the weighbridge is the society's base. Opens roughly once a month, and most Tuesdays there's a working party. Modelling group meets alternate Wednesdays. The dog tickets are like gold dust these days!

The banana van has had a top coat of grey and been lettered in the last week - it's looking pretty smart. The weighbridge is open on the 4th June, and there a small second-hand 00 railway items stall too. We're also working on a 4mm model of the station - starting to build up a fleet of the company's wagons, will have a model of Carlisle too at some point this year. david

I don't know, I don't have the model, but my hunch would be that that should only cause an issue on a sharp transition to an incline. Not on a flat(tish) point. Have you swapped the wheelsets round to see if it happens to all of them (assuming they drop out like Hornby D&E locos used to)? Are the B2Bs consistent - but if they are, try widening the B2B on the leading axle to se what happens. I have BILs and HALs where one wouldn't go through a particular point frog, and swapping the wheels with one that did, stopped the derailment. It's often the wheels, before any other issue. Apologies, this isn't meant to be patronising - I'm almost certainly stating the obvious!

If the tread was too narrow, wouldn't we expect all the wheels to do it? I'd try swapping the wheelsets around, to see if it's always the front axle or if the problem moves with the wheelset, but my money is still on inconsistent back-to-backs. (I also feel the bogie loading and flexibility could be a red herring for the 'dipping into the point crossing/frog' problem. If the bogie and axles were independently sprung the bogie might drop with the wheelset, but the wheel dropping problem would still be there? Solve that first before cutting into the plastic to deal with the next issue.) I have EM wheels fitted to 00 axles* that don't behave that badly on commercial points (used in my fiddle yard). (*Wagons with Gibson and Keen wheels)

There's an April update on the website with a different phone number, so must still be operating. Page also has a request to not email them.

Oh dear. Sorry, yes, I inverted your point in my head after reading JSpencer's post. But there, I disagree that I did. I know exactly what the other discussion was about, but this thread is not about that discussion. There are far too many pages on it already.

See quote from JSpencer above for a hint of the likelihood of the impact! Obviously it's a minor matter, and you're right that people often won't build kits. It's just that ... well, I have sympathy for the Titfield position of Rapido ... I guess, what troubles me, is if you use morality as a marketing tool, your actions (immediately after) had better not show you up to be as hardnosed as the company you're gathering support against. That's all. Even though the wagons look really nice.

Hornby's bundles ... the two Southern ones contain a loco and only brake coaches, and the Eastern one with the K1 keeps repeating the ownership of "Sir Nigel Gresley" instead of the details of the coaches. I am starting to question their "carefully selected" and "amazing value" claims. It's basically warehouse supermarket sweep, isn't it?

I think that's what I'll probably do. Tinplate (or other metal foil?) certainly suggests why there is no "spring" in them.

Thanks for the heads-up, Rob. It's presumably not yet available as spares. (Although that I can't find it at the moment is not conclusive ... the only spares on eBay appear to be the same one I've got on 32636.) It's a shame really, having taken it apart, the engineering is (IMO) a beautiful piece of work.

I've just been dismantling mine, and there was no glue at all on the brake rods. Same issue with the pick-ups. It's been run in for several hours, but put it back on the layout and it stutters and stalls. Put it upside down and touch wires to the wheels - same issue; put the same wires to the pick-ups - seemingly no problem at all. I was thinking of soldering additional wires to the pick-up strips, but there are other layout (and work!) things to do first.

First check probably to see that the back to backs are consistent. The traction tyred wheels may be different to the ones that go through ok, in which case if you can ease them on the axles to the same spacing - which could cure it.

BINGO!

A box popped up on the browser I normally don't use for Facebook, with a tiny "Not Now" button to click at the bottom. You still end up with a banner at the bottom, but you can see what's on the page. Of course, that's only testing one browser - Chrome - I can't speak for other operating systems and browsers.

All three are done to pretty high standards, I really can't see a need for Accurascale to waste their money there. Is there really such an untapped need for wishlisting that it has to be done on someone's product page before they've even got that model out?

Mentioned definitely on February 27th, and over the following days. The discussion got a bit bogged down in the inevitable RMWeb argument about the legitimacy of criticism

You're such a naysayer

You didn't imagine it. I was thinking about that story earlier in the week - but after the allegations, it went quiet.

My thanks to all who pointed it out - I missed that detail. See, one can't even trust oneself to get the facts right!

No one on this page (including the linked post by Heyfordian/Dave on the airshows forum) has said he travelled business class - merely Stationmaster's comment that it might have been a 'business trip'. If this was the reason for the trip, he would have only claimed the business part of the trip as expenses. Indeed on the airshows forum he calls it a holiday. I've just noticed that you first queried this "cup" in 2013, and your original comment appears to have been deleted, just leaving the tell-tale of someone's reply and then Dave's explanation as above. Did you delete your question? (Sorry everyone for flooding this thread with multiple posts. You know how it is: you make a comment, then people quote you, and you end up going back despite having other things to do!)

We've been here before, haven't we? Not only that, but no one managed to come up with the name of an organiser of (or helper at) said exhibition to corroborate the story. I guess the more detail given in an account, the less likely people are to investigate. Especially given the sort of people modellers are - an absence of facts tends to get some people immediately digging for more information, just out of interest.

Given the last few pages here, are you absolutely certain about the truth of what you were told?

Bernard Ingham was her only press secretary. Doesn't mean the memory is entirely false, without further research I have no idea how many deputies Bernard had, or whether the recollection of the job is wrong. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_Press_Secretary#List_of_Press_Secretaries) The name Ian Murray is difficult to search online, owing to Ian Murray MP (born 1979) filling the search results. By the way, the Thatcher papers for 1982 are available online, and avoiding doing proper work I've searched them and found no mention of day to day appointments such as modelling awards. Sadly, 1982 was a year dominated by the Falklands, so the focus is elsewhere.

If any good can come out of this, maybe it could be a recognition that not every awkward or unwelcome question is intended to troll, and not every critic is simply being, as Dave liked to call them, a "naysayer"?