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  1. woodenhead
    Reckon you could covert that to an EV, it would run on a couple of Duracell Ds
  2. woodenhead

    I feel a need to sell some stock,  I hope it's the right decision, time will tell I guess.

    1. Northmoor

      Northmoor

      I read your post explaining why you're in this position - my sympathies - but would just say the obvious: Don't rush into it.  To avoid accidentally disposing of something you regret later, try following this process:

      1. List the layouts you plan to build, in order of likelihood from most to least (we're all planning more than one, aren't we?).
      2. Map all your rolling stock against the layouts.
      3. Pick out those that are only mapped against one layout and rank them in order of least likely layout to most likely.
      4. Sell the lowest value items first, as they are probably the easiest to replace if you've made a mistake.

      That's probably all blindingly obvious but sometimes I find doing something like this makes it easier to justify a decision to myself.

       

      Rob

    2. woodenhead

      woodenhead

      It's going through my head all the time.

       

      The OO stuff has been away since mid 2019 when I moved rooms, I got rid of some at the end of last year which was the easy bit and it funded the foray into DCC sound in N which I am quite happy with.

       

      In OO I have stock covering SR and GWR in the 1930s, it is the SR stock I am thinking of selling and keeping the GWR stuff as a little GWR branch is in my head whereas a similar SR one isn't anymore.  I thought I'd regret it when I sold my OO SR tender engines, but I didn't, but I really don't want to part with a GW Bulldog.

       

      What I don't think I will be having is a large OO layout anytime soon, the N gauge takes up half the room, I have space for a small OO layout but even a branch line station terminus needs more space than I have for an OO railway at the moment, certainly with the amount of stock I have. 

       

      My thinking is a return to what I was meant to do when I first went and bought some OO gauge - sidings for a bit of shunting and one or two locos.

       

      What I am stuck between is wanting to dabble in North American, but also something in OO that is BR Blue and the solution I have at the moment is a small stabling point at the end of an industrial spur with a couple of sidings for shunting wagons and a line for stabling locos - keeping the scenics basic this could swap out to an NA shortline end of spur.

       

      However, I do recognise that I may regret selling the SR stuff and I could just spend a chunk on diesels and see where it takes me before I sell the other stuff.  My days of collecting though I think are behind me, I also have to much N gauge which at some point also needs thinning out tad, the diesels are out at the moment but in the box are ex GW, SR and LMS locos plus stock.

  3. woodenhead
    Regardless of what they end up choosing to do all this, by the time it is built I'll either be dead or not giving a t*ss as I will be too old to want to travel far.
  4. woodenhead
    But only virtually, so you too can enjoy the exhibition at the same time as being part of the exhibition in two places, all at once. Try doing that at Stafford.
  5. woodenhead
    @Strathwood Will those of us who pre-ordered Woodhead Lament get emails to inform when the book is in the post. I pre-ordered alongside an in stock item, so my invoice came as fulfilled when I got my first book, so I want to be sure the Woodhead book is one the way...
  6. woodenhead
    Not so much between Manchester and Penistone and civil engineering could resolve that - it's not about opening it all up, just re-use the trackbed through the Peak district. I am thinking about the alignment that the exact route as was. It would require a new tunnel and some viaducts around Mottram and Dinting to replace the lovely but ancient lash ups that currently exist. Probably a tunnel under Penistone as well.
  7. woodenhead
    Don't forget they were also having difficulties delivering the Northwest electrification projects - Manchester to Preston via Bolton, Preston to Liverpool and Liverpool to Wigan.
  8. woodenhead
    A high speed line north of Sheffield to Leeds? Do I hear cries of reopen Woodhead to Penistone and then an alignment to a triangular junction with the HS2 line to Leeds somewhere near to Silkstone in order to fulfil a true high speed element of Liverpool to Leeds
  9. woodenhead
    I find it troubling that all these arguments about HS2B onwards and NPR for that matter are so far into the future there is a good chance I and many of us on RMWeb will never live to see them. Back in the old days of the last great railway building epoch, people with much shorter lifespans than us got to see steam trains. They dug out the Manchester Ship Canal in 6 years, it took 5 years to build the London Extension from Nottingham to Marylebone. Phase one is taking between 12 and 16 years to complete 140 miles of railway, phase two B is somewhere up to 2040, I'll be in my 70s if I live long enough to see the HS2 station in all it's glory. We are almost onto Bachmann delivery schedules here
  10. woodenhead
    NPR or whatever they want to call it now, Liverpool to Lymm(or thereabouts) - upgraded line and new alignment to join with HS2b into the airport and Manchester Manchester to Standedge West portal - new alignment Standedge East portal - Leeds - upgrades and improvements, some four tracking There is a plan to build a faster Leeds-Liverpool route, it may not be HS2 type speeds, but it will certainly be quicker than current lines and surely a clear option to let HS2 reach Leeds earlier than a route through the Midlands unless they simply upgrade the route through Toton, Chesterfield, Sheffield and on to Leeds that way instead. I doubt at the moment they are about to announce a HS2c route.
  11. woodenhead
    They haven't abandoned HS2 to Leeds they are just looking at it again, once option I imagine is to use the Manchester-Leeds fast route instead of a route up the middle, maybe a piece of new railway to take the HS2 service nearer to Bradford (for a parkway station) and then into Leeds alongside the Bradford to Leeds route. With a proposal for a new route out of Manchester to Standedge and the route after Huddersfield subject to bottlenecks, somewhere between Hudderfield and Leeds there will need to be new line/tunnels so why not shared NPR and HS2 tracks
  12. woodenhead
    Does the continuation of this thread mean Katherine St is no longer being pursued?
  13. woodenhead
    Now that I LIKE.
  14. woodenhead
    I think they will engineer as many firsts as they can to sell the public that HS2 is really innovative. Waiting for first raft glided into position by a woman whilst working from home using a drone with all the power being green energy sourced
  15. woodenhead
    Apparently with no travel link, so they have been infected within the UK
  16. woodenhead
    And as a model Liverpool Central is a beautiful mix of complex trackwork in a very restricted space - a gem for someone wanting something like a Minories but with a little bit more complex operation.
  17. woodenhead
    People use the Barrow service for three main reasons - to get to Lancaster, to get to school or to get to Manchester Airport. That was my experience over 4 years of regular travel there by train. Generally on a three car 185, I could claim a table seat too unless it was high summer and everyone was travelling to the airport.
  18. woodenhead
    Whilst not a valleys terrace, where I grew up the houses had outside toilets and no bathrooms. My grandad partitioned his kitchen where the cellar door was (he then opened out the coal hole with steps) and put in a bath, he used some of the second bedroom to fashion an indoor toilet too. We had to make do with a bath installed at the end of the kitchen and just a curtain for modesty. Two girls and a boy plus parents in a 2 up 2 down with outside loo for about 5 years.
  19. woodenhead
    Didn't the Liverpool / Manchesters split anyway at Preston, so there was always a change in traction. Later on they became part of the BR Cross Country services so passed through Manchester rather than originated or terminated with the Liverpool portion scrapped. TPE now provide this service, from Liverpool there are currently two direct departures to Glasgow, but just a single return. From Manchester there are three trains a day to Glasgow and eight to Edinburgh plus returns. These trains use the Nova 2 class 397 all electric trains, rather sleek looking units. Barrow is a backwater now and the other stations are too small for anything larger than a four car unit. Battery/hydrogen is the future for Cumbrian services. There is plenty of room along the WCML to increase capacity when needed, I was watching a cab ride from Preston, for a good chunk of the route departing Preston it used to be four tracks and a most of the bridges are still wide enough. Plenty of countryside for more four tracking too further north. It's just a question of under or over Shap, by the sounds of things I think they would prefer over with some works to ease curves, the gradient isn't much of an issue these days.
  20. woodenhead
    I thought it was a Decepticon
  21. woodenhead
    How very unfortunate, you’d think they would take a typical loco be it steam or diesel in N.
  22. woodenhead
    Depends how knowledgable Diamond Geezer is.
  23. woodenhead
    Because a load of generic EMUs is nothing like a load of big (albeit fairly generic ) diesels. No bells and horns at Camden either, or wagon load trains and the only SD40s to be seen are disguised as 66s which may make an appearance on civils.
  24. woodenhead
    I had a bereavement last week, my sister, she was only 65 and had had early onset dementia, she died suddenly in her sleep. Whilst I am sad she has passed, at least she is now free of the mental anxiety of the condition and can suffer no more. Such moments remind us of our own mortality, my other sister is worried herself as our mother also died at 65 and she is 64. However, I remind her, neither of us had the life our mother and sister had, we're generally fitter and probably will last a little longer than them, but nothing of course is a given. However, my own mind is now in turmoil, I am not sleeping soundly and I don't really want to converse with people though when I do I am my normal self oddly - probably a mask. I am looking at clutter around my home office / railway room, particularly at the box of OO gauge stuff that has been sealed up since 2019 and was replaced in the room by my N gauge stuff in late 2020. I also have many many railway books in cases around the room and I feel another need to declutter, the last time was when my father died in 2019 so it was likely a reaction to having to clear out his flat and now it is hitting me again. I am generally happy with the N gauge stuff, it's going nowhere, it didn't go when I had my burst of OO modelling, but whilst I feel guilty wanting to get rid of the OO stuff and replace it with less, I think deep down I know an OO gauge GWR/SR railway is not going to be a part of my life again. The biggest change since my N gauge resurgence has been I went DCC and put sound in to some of my locos, what I think I want is a small OO (or HO) layout featuring sound fitted diesels and I am thinking perhaps that I sell up the OO stuff to allow me to scratch the itch as it were. It's either going to be blue diesels (oddly like my N gauge stuff), North American diesels or maybe something that can support either as I am thinking those little stabling points that used to be good to visit on a Sunday rather than anything too built up. What I don't want is something where I have to be constantly lifting stock on/off the fiddleyard. So my mojo is a little off at present, but I think I need to do something that will make me feel happy, maybe it isn't OO gauge steam any longer.
  25. woodenhead
    So really Amazon is nothing special, it hasn't really changed anything it is just the natural progression of all that came before it. Eat that Jeff Bezos
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