john new

Going to be a busy weekend. Assisting on one of the club layouts at the WMRA club open day on Saturday then SWAG on Sunday. Rehearsal running tonight including giving the pre-owned loco from last year’s SWAG bring and buy table a test.

From a pax perspective it didn’t matter - an issue (from whatever cause*) meant the supplied locomotive failed to get the train to the destination. This was as opposed to something external to the operation of the rolling stock & locomotive, such as trespassers (human or animal) preventing the train continuing forwards. *therefore including other potential things like dragging brakes, adverse railhead conditions and the like which even a fully functional loco could not overcome.

Good luck.

It was filmed partly on Weymouth Quay. I gaven't been to see it but in the stills I have seen the well post war Pavillion Theatre is clearly visible in the background!

Ours does the same.

Yes, and it was still on show at Pecorama last time I visited. One or two of the minor lighting ‘cameos’ (to use the current buzz phrase) that I remembered like the cafe patio scene weren’t working but it holds up well despite the age.

Mood is weird, mine is swinging like a mad pendulum currently from high to low then back again. Going to a friend’s funeral tomorrow, that is not helping today and obviously won’t tomorrow either.

Memory is now getting hazy after being retired now for 16 years but IIRC from my days working, which for a while included a planning office support team role, railway operators are exempt from much of the planning regulations. If so will be why they aren’t showing up on the Local Auth’s online applications portal. I think they have to ask for observations but not actually get formal consent. Hopefully a current planning officer give the current position.

I have used the sepiolite version of it too without problems so far.

From my time in L Govt management before retirement going through London's edicts for the missed commas, misplaced words, sentences that didn't actually say what we knew they meant* and such like (which left loop-holes for things they missed thinking of blocking us from doing directly) was part of the job. From posts up thread I have got the impression you (as in the train operator) can lock a door if (a) the adjacent vestibule door is openable & CDL fitted and (b) your concocted risk assessment shows that to be a low enough risk to be acceptable. Possibly a second stab at getting around the obvious block on using non-CDL fitted Mk1s. Step one was taking them on in court arguing they really don't need their full rake of MK1s so fitted. This is step two in their campaign - the full rake is half-CDL half non-CDL, but hey all the useable doors are CDL fitted so we are compliant. Might be able to buy them some more time and revenue over and above any subsequent legal costs, even if they (ORR) say no it can't be done this way. * we did the jobs so knew how it is done locally - they thought we did it in other ways or described the task wrongly so compliance with what they actually blocked wasn't an issue for us.

And it is mildly irritating for pax when it is done as you see it, forget it is locked, and walk to the nearest door when boarding or leaving. Habit I guess from a lifetime using Mk1s. As on the local EMUs there only are end doors going to them is instinctive.

Nice bit of press news about the Rowntrees version. https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/24251609.york-normandy-veteran-ken-coke-presented-model-his-train/

So another one to add to the NYMR’s run something into the ground then dump it list.

What is the background; is it just the NYMR needs the money it will raise or is it a basket case job? Do they have decent non-steam cranes as alternatives for lifting in the civils yard where cranes are useful, arguably essential? Seems yet another potentially useful asset just ignored by the NYMR.

Possibly the few that double up as school transport. My memory is that school buses need to have them fitted but I could be wrong.