Clive Mortimore

Hi Jonathan I did a similar thing with Hanging Hill, my eldest took some diesel loco sounds, mainly idling and short burst of revs along with some brake noises and flange sequel. These were then looped and over dubbed. All clever stuff I wouldn't know how to do. Using an under baseboard sound system , Ok some speakers and a CD player, the noise would begin. We would get complaints from from people the other side of the hall because of the bass sound, still something very missing from on board sound. Setting up use to be fun, we would get the sound system going first and have mainly Goth music playing. Something else that didn't always go down too well. Too many complaints and on board sound put an end to our fun. To me both Mostyn and Hanging Hill gave a more realistic diesel locomotive sound than the high pitch whine of sound fitted model locos. There is nothing better than trying to get the layout up and working before the Fields of the Nephilim have finished "The Last Exit for the Lost".

Hello Tony Having never built the frames for a steam loco I have done so for many diesel shunters and GT3 by scratch and kits. Homemade are by the old fashioned way of sweating the frames and rods together, drilling the holes for the rods and centres for the bearings. Removing the rods and enlarging the holes for the bearings. I use the Perseverance version for the Markits / London Road pointy things and never had a chassis that is not free running. I have a Poppy's jig which works equally as well. Now kit chassis are a different proposition, the Gibson class 03 chassis has cut outs for the hornblocks with a solid coupling rod, where the old A1 class 05 chassis kit no means of compensation on the chassis but the rods between all wheels and the drive are individual so both were not good to start with. Others the rods and frames hole centres are not always the same. Thankfully using the Perseverance jigs any errors show up as nothing fits before anything is soldered. My first scratchbuilt chassis, an LMS jackshaft drive shunter, an 0-8-0 with one wheel in mid air. The look on Richard's face in Karlgarin models that was in Chelmsford when I asked for four axles and seven wheels. 😮

This might be the photo that is confusing people. The caption states standard blue but lacking them arrows. It clearly has the two part radiator.

I have drawn the under gubbins for the 302 and 308s motor coaches. Colin Craig drew the under frames for the 304s for DEMU, the non powered cars are basically the same across all the MK1 EMUs. 304s DBTS(L) has both battery boxes on the left hand side and the charger on the right where all the GER units had a battery box each side and the charger in front of the battery box on the left. Can I suggest you join DEMU to view Colin's drawings and find other information members might be able to help with EMUs. Also a good source of EMU photos is Facebook's Great Eastern & LTS EMU'S, 302 to 315 There was also a good series of article in the GER Soceity's Journal about 15 years ago. My very first question on RMweb was about class 305 and 308 underframes many moons ago. It is still strange that information on 25Kv overhead Mk1 EMUs is thinner on the ground than hair on my head.

Oh forgot to say I went to sleep after listening to this.

I woke up to find this lovely song on You Tube. Alicia is wonderful.

The GER did do some cute N-gins.

Hello Tony I agree with you A class tanks carried "clean products" with a low flash point normally. They would have very little evidence of spillage and that would show up as dirt sticking to the said spillage. The exception being crude oil that was a "dirty product" with a low flash point so was carried in A class tank wagons covered in muck. As far as I am aware only BP transported crude form the Swanage area to a refinery some where, which I cannot remember. Conversely to crude, diesel is a high flash point product but is clean. After the improvement in bottom discharge valves so that A class products didn't need to be siphoned diesel would be carried in A class tank wagons even though it was at lower risk of going bang.

Hi everyone Thanks to the wonderful team I have supporting me, especially Simon the treasurer, some hocus-pocus was performed and the website and forum are up and running. Thanks to Andy for hosting our announcements. Clive Acting Chair DEMU.

No idea but has gone 😟

Hi Jonathan I haven't looked her history up. YouTube suggested the song the other day, so I thought I would give it a spin and share it on here. John Cale wrote the forward to my mate Barry Lazell's book "PUNK An A-Z". One of my then work colleagues was telling me about this punk book she had bought her boyfriend for his birthday. I said would you like me to get it signed by Barry as we were friends. She then asked did I know him from when I was a punk, the look on her face when I said he was a fellow member of the model railway club I went to. 😮 Sadly Barry is no longer with us.

Got a new toy this weekend, a class 113 DMU. They were plagued with problems so were never Speedy Gonzales.

There is a problem with the DEMU website and forum. The web manager has been informed. Please can DEMU members not contact myself or other committee members as we are fully aware of the problem. Thank you Clive Acting Chair DEMU.

Yo Sainty You have it all wrong. I wait until it is blocked then spend 10 minutes raking through my pile of tools looking for the "special bit of wire." I have noticed that some bottles/tubes/containers block the second you stop using them where others flow freely a week or so afterwards. Who keeps hiding the blue cap? Is it the same blighter who hides my special bit of wire?

Hi Steve if a 'ammer is involved then it is proper engineering, trust me I was in REME.

They might be more import as railway artifacts but to the thousands of people with no railway interest who passed the "Shenfield Shark" twice daily for 30 plus years it will be missed with some affection.

I am sure the digger thing they used to break it up was able to drag it along 500ft of track. No matter how the shifted it it is now gone and will be missed for the next few days.

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Richard, have a chat with your scientist wife. 3/8ths is a ratio. So if your wheel base, X, is 30 mm long you multiply by 3 then divide by 8. 3x30=90 90/8=11.25 Therefore the swing arm pivot points, A and B, are spaced at 11.25mm apart.

The Shenfield Shark was more than a puffer nutters celebrity, it was part of the traveling experience to London for many from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. To hear children say "Mum, look that old truck is still there" as they pointed to the Shark sums up how important it was.

I am concerned about the impact it will have on the thousands of commuters without their well known landmark. They will be in a panic thinking they are on the wrong train.

No the AM9 Clacton unit.

It won't go anywhere, some blighter seems to have nicked the third rail. Excellent work as normal , well done Darius.

Didn't some Dusty Bins have a slightly different window arrangement in one of their driving cars as well? Following being banished to the wrong side of that wall and their repatriation to the GE lines and before the Stanstead sets got new seating to make them 321s they ran with 321s. It was always worth sussing them out as the seating was far more comfortable after a days work on the trip home from London. Railway seat design has a team of experts making them as comfortable as possible...........they must have had a very bad off day when the designed the seats in the 321s. I use to catch the second or third train waiting to head off to Chlemsford from the Street, so I could get a seat. This became more important when the 312s and 305s had been replaced. Only the seat on the window side, either the three seat bench or the two seat was wide enough for a human to sit on and then only a few lined up with a window.