woodenhead

Early rise, didn’t go to bed to 23:30.

Off to the big smoke for a long day.

Getting light early now

@PhilouCardiff station is wired but west of Cardiff isn’t I believe.

I would imagine as it is the GWML the Welsh Government expect the UK Government to foot the bill to Swansea and they will pay for the local lines(I.e. as they are doing).

So when Network Rail get it sorted there will be wires to Swansea.

Bit of low level flying by bombers in WW2.

45 minutes ago, montyburns56 said:

86206 "City of Stoke On Trent" Widdrington 1993 by Ajax46

 

 

All sorts to pick from this image - it's a diversion on the ECML, it's running vans first so it arrives vans last after reversing at Carlisle, it's a Motorail service and the DVT is mid-marshalled due to the vans having to be at the 'wrong' end.

Here's how a normal Motorail operated in the DVT times:

Edit, of course Northbound they would be hanging off the DVT otherwise how would the driver see!!!

This is quite a sad story - imagine being told your babies had died when in fact they were being sold on an adoption black market.  Even when reunited there is no happy happy ending as there is no family bond beyond knowing they are family, even the adoptive parents appear innocents in this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68055420

@Dagworth Thanks for that, exactly the sort of anxiety inducing crowd I avoid.

10 minutes ago, fezza said:

 

A better 08 is done by Bachmann and the HST, 153 and 67 are crude by modern standards. The 91 is slightly better but fairly basic. All could easily be picked off by other manufacturers who wanted to produce a modern spec model, just as they have with the 31, 37, 47, 50 etc. 

Interesting on the 08, I've read plenty that say the opposite, but I guess that's where a choice of models is good, you pick the one you like the most.

I reckon a 153 will come from Heljan, perhaps with a 155 off the back of that too seeing as they've put a lot of effort into a 7mm one.

The HST is not something I reckon anyone will touch except Accurascale.  Though Bachmann might be doing the prototype (and so far only the surviving one) with no coaches proposed then unless they are about to surprise us all I think they are doing just the single power car.  Accurascale if I recall have a HST fan in their team.

The 67 might be a future Dapol item, they like their bo-bo diesels and the N model may be due a refresh so why not do both.

We know what happened with the 91 when someone came along to offer one, I don't think they will be trying again but Accurascale do have someone modelling the ECML in modern times but that's not enough to say there is a market for another one just yet and the HST surely would come first with many more regional applications / livery variations.

1 minute ago, Hroth said:

 

I believe that all our ancestors date from the Cambrian Explosion

Yes there was nothing ordinary about my conception 🤣

23 minutes ago, polybear said:

Bear here....

 

A productive-ish morning; I *think* I've finally got my "Lifebook" (see here for a free download:

 

https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/end-of-life-planning/lifebook/ 

 

- finished at long last.  That's a Tick.

Right, was the next bit of the snuffed-it paperwork puzzle?

 

BG

If nothing else it's a useful template to follow for your own version.

Thanks

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

I think we are getting closer to needing to employ people to do things like decorating or at least bigger spaces like the lounge or hallway/stairs/landing. Just looking at the  lounge dining room ceiling makes me contemplate employing a decorator. It doesn’t need doing at the moment but the thought of it is daunting. Fortunately our over the road neighbour would recommend someone, he only recommends people,he would have work in his house. As he is something of a perfectionist we are happy to follow his recommendations. 

When it came to decorating our hall and landing I looked at the top floor (third storey) and did not like the idea of having to be on a ladder on stairs or on a platform to reach the ceiling.

The answer was I painted the walls at the top of the house the same colour as the ceiling - white, then I did not need to consider edging in at a ridiculous height for a house.  I needed though an extra long extension to the long pole that had the roller on and it was great fun trying to put it into the tray to apply the paint to the roller.

16 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Now stop it, you are making me consider what I have done.

Sheffield Midland or Victoria (pre 1955) - but then you'd have to pick a side Eastern or Midland.

I'd stick with Exchange....

2 hours ago, Neil said:

Almost eighty pages in; has WCRC become a proxy for a debate between those who take a libertarian standpoint and those who prefer collective responsibility?

Reminds me of this Marlon Brando interview, so people thinking in black and white, right or wrong, good or bad terms has been with us much longer than it seems, but perhaps is more obvious now due to the internet allowing more and more people to simply express things in these terms.

5 hours ago, TheQ said:

Now I know why I spent most of my working life in buildings and darkened rooms with no windows, still do on a Friday...

 

I suspect I've lost some high frequency hearing, I've increasing tinnitus, it's a high frequency whine. That may well be to do with the high frequency whine a lot of electronic equipment had when I worked on in those darkened rooms .

 

Interesting that article by the professor, where we live was considerably further inland a thousand years ago let alone 10,000 years.. The village to the East of here lost 90% of the land ( approx 1800 acres) between the Doomsday book and QE1. its lost more since.

 

 

 

There is a scene in Oppenheimer where he describes to his potential mistress (then later wife) how we are all made from atoms and it is only how attracted these atoms are to one another that creates the falsehood we are solid and don't simply pass through everybody and everything we meet because they too are atoms creating a false solidness through attraction.

I've had a low level tinnitus in my right ear for years, quite tuned out from it now so it generally doesn't bother although sometimes it can escalate. But since early this year a new louder one has started in my left ear and when I am in bed it does impact what I can hear. 

It could be the headphones I wear to listen to music, but it doesn't tend to so high it would have done this damage, or it could be related to pressure within my cranium I guess as I've been having other symptoms such as a pain in the neck which characterises my lifelong condition.  Whichever it is, I think the tinnitus might be here for good as it's not noticeably subsided.

13 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

According to No. 1 Son, geologists and in particular glaciologists are highly sceptical of that very early date for the Happisburgh footprints, for highly technical reasons that I only half-understood when explained to me and have now forgotten.

They were Nike and everybody knows it was all about Adidas Samba back then 😄

7 minutes ago, smr248 said:

As someone with an interest in TT120 I'm rather concerned that the loss making 00 models might damage my preferred scale...

TT120 only exists because of the hole Hornby got itself into, if it could make OO pay and those dang competitors stopped nicking it's models then there would have been no need for TT120.

And then there will be the money it has borrowed to create TT120, has that been paid back yet because by no means is TT120 fully profitable yet.  It needs to keep re-running models and selling those out too.

6 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

That was an early consideration but having a few push along tender powered engines that idea couldn't be fully applied.

 

There is always the best idea, just like no crews in the diesels ................................ignore?

Or two of every steam loco, if you can't afford that how about one side half empty and the other side full 🤣

Can you not model all half empty and then have an extra coal load you can add on top after the loco visits the servicing area?

14 minutes ago, Grizz said:

Although Beaker’s career was totally upstaged by Cookie Monster’s career….OMG i have totally cracked a few ribs and busted my nose in the mosh pit to this classic. …

 

18 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

When we did the history of Britain at school I was always concerned about what happened to the Beaker People. Fortunately I found out  a few years ago while wandering through a museum in Dublin. 

What's wrong with just drinking out of our hands?

29 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Britain was completely unpopulated until about 10,000 years ago, so the people who walked were the Mesolithic strand lopers, who were supplanted largely by the people bringing agriculture - and they came in boats as the Channel had by that time reformed.

Which reminds me of a sketch by Stewart Lee where he talks of a certain leader of a certain political party asking the brightest and best people who arrived in boats throughout the ages not to come to Britain bringing their language, skills, cuisine and wares.

"The brightest and best fish need to stay in the sea and concentrate on making it aquatically prosperous"

5 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

My problem was hearing broadcast sound or the beginning of any sentence Aditi said to me. It turned out my hearing was particularly deficient in the female speech frequency range.

Some might argue that's a superpower not a disability. 😄

3 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

... We. Are. All. Descended. From. People. In. Boats. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/covid-different-trends-look-from-a-different-angle-admin-taking-a-long-time/

Speak for yourself, my ancestors were fish that left the water. 😄

7 minutes ago, ruggedpeak said:

surprised you haven't gone the full monte and blamed the Illuminati or lizard people for trying to take down WCRC.

You know we cannot talk of those people on this forum, they are always watching and will come down on the mods like a ton of bricks to remove any reference to them.

Our Masters and Overlords is the correct description.

It's interesting that simple designs can be interesting to operate as complex ones.

But I think it's important to operate them in a manner that elicits interest, an example is a model I saw operated at Stafford, it had no fiddleyard and represented the end of a small short line.  This first time I saw it I spent a good half hour or more watching the shunting and it really got the brain juices going to replicate it myself.  Then I saw it again very recently but a different operator driving this time and the shunt moves were just too quick, the locomotive would run too quickly and then it would be on with the emergency brake; I just walked away in less than a minute.

Completely different feeling about the same model with the same stock but operated like a 1970s train set with just stop and go being the two speeds.