john new

Thank you. Excellent search work, much appreciated. Sadly the missing parts include the glazing mentioned and those protective side bars. Now to track down more images of the prototype and then fabricate some of those extras..

The Whitby service can be almost regarded as the town’s second Park & Ride service. From the south it is far easier to park in Pickering and take the train over the moors and back. Given how busy Whitby’s car parking gets that is one reason why people go through on it for their day at the seaside.

This image found via a Goole search is what made me think it is a model of the Foden R type. Managed to find it again. This one also seems similar.https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1265287

In the past we have often parked at Goathland station to get the first train. It is a worthwhile option but only ever has, presumably now it is had, limited spacing so you needed to be on the first train.

Thanks @Flanged Wheel. Most of the kit images I have found are for lorries that are 8-wheelers or have twin rear axles. This one has single axles but twin rear wheels/tyres. I am hoping when I get to York over the show weekend I find someone will have one. My suspicion is that there should be a horizontal bar across the front windows as many in that era had a top bit that opened outwards for ventilation but I don't want to fit that and find that type didn't.

A question about a white metal kit. At last week's Missenden weekend I picked up a couple of boxes of assorted white-metal parts to practice soldering on - the bonus finding in amongst them a mostly complete part finished truck kit (2/3rds roughly). I have progressed it, including fabricating a few bits to replace the missing front axle and adding a radiator protection bar. My white-metal soldering fear now overcome, with a truck model in due course as the bonus. Plenty of extras still to make and fit. My query though - what is it? At first I simply assumed (always a mistake!) it was the common model of the AEC Monarch (Springside?) but the current version of that is IIRC plastic as is the ex-Airfix AEC Matador. I found a (the) radiator loose in the box and from the location pimples I think it is the right one: that isn't an AEC rad' though and it is just readable on the casting as Foden. I don't recall a Foden kit, nor does Google find one. From looking at photos the prototype might be a Foden R. Has anyone any ideas as to what it is (prototype) and for my curiosity what kit it began as?

After a full day's editing the site's maintenance and updates review for 2024 has been completed all bar one still outstanding public transport matter (noted on the relevant page). The most recent blog post made today also looks at the current situation surrounding the question of - is the hobby too expensive? Feel free to comment on that in the comments option on the website's blog section but please keep this thread here on RMWeb just for YMRS issues.

When I was an active volunteer a few decades back Newtondale loop was on the cards and, at the time, the partial remains of the former signal box were still extant. It was subsequently demolished.

I can’t recall which book, or booklet, it is in but I have in one of them a copy of the mining map showing the gallery layout for the level mined under the station. Over it is the overlay of the surface level station. Best guess as to which source is one of the small A5 booklets on the Cleveland mines.

Either (1) Maybe they have updated the policy since my family last visited as group for my wife's birthday trip last summer or (2) we were given false or more likely misleading information. That was what both my married daughters were told last year at the booking office. Not relevant for my wife and myself as we are life members.

The Demonstrators and the most important Layouts listings both re-checked again today and are current: therefore, barring any unexpected occurrences, all four of the pages for attending stands should be final. If a late change should occur updates will be posted on our website, here and on our two social media feeds [Facebook & X (Twitter as was)]. Today's remaining updating is a general site review and update to the travel page to include the car parking, bus fare, the bus timetable etc., as per my earlier post above. A repeated warning of a scam email, they even sent one to us this morning! Idiots. Please don't fall for it. Email scam - An email scam is, again, circulating ostensibly offering to sell recipients an attendance list for the Show. Such a list is NOT compiled. The YMRS Directors confirm that any attendee data that we do hold is not released to 3rd parties as we comply with data protection principles. As a further point some versions of this email illegally include a copy of our registered trademark logo. Please forward any you receive to report@phishing.gov.uk NB. This warning was originally posted following the 2023 event - it is recurring for the forthcoming 2024 event. Pre-purchase tickets - a reminder these are on sale through Eventbrite until Good Friday, the day before the show opens.

You don’t have to watch them all at once. If you watch them on YouTube there is your personal watched history option within the YT menus for finding the last one watched. If you stop one part way through the scrubber bar at the bottom lets you restart from where you stopped or go back and rewatch a specific bit of tuition. I missed them on video or DVD first time round and was glad to find them on-line.

Some odd decisions made, or at least odd from my perspective, example the no intermediate destination tickets - just a flat £45 fare valid for twelve months. For a couple that is £90 in one hit just for the fare plus ancillaries like fuel and food making it well over a £100. That is a lot when many have big mortgages and the lowish incomes of the contemporary gig economy. Add on more on top too if they are parents. The cost discourages riding on the first trip so they don't come back. I know it has deterred other members of my family from going. If the NYMR is like many other organisations existing volunteers are ageing and not being replaced in the same numbers before issues and management actions like the Levisham debacle lead to lost free labour. Whichever side was right or wrong the adverse press coverage won't have aided volunteer recruitment in the short term Do the galas make a profit overall after loco hire and transport fees? Seems to be a big expense to attract photographers/videographers who don't ride, and then put their films on YouTube so prospective visitors have no need to attend either. Sadly interesting times for the heritage movement across the board as the NYMR isn't the only railway and Society with either financial woes and/or a drop off in membership and levels of volunteering.

There is a first step, or even several, before this filtering and deciding what the set-up’s physical design is aiming to be. What is its fundamental purpose, I.e., what need has it to fulfil for you? A lot of projects get abandoned/scrapped unfinished I suspect because not enough thought went into this issue of what do I want out of the project.

Have seen your videos. They may be elderly films but still excellent tutorials on the art of kit building.

If you are in any doubt regarding switches, and whether you have the right sort in the wiring for the point motor, set up a simple stud and probe alternative. Regarding the OPs simple wiring diagram it looks correct. The AC input - One wire from source to the switch’s input - a wire from each output on there to the corresponding input on the motor - then from the motor’s output terminal back to the opposite terminal on the AC source. Check one is done. You have already proved power output works OK to the point. How, it fires one way. That answers 2/3rds of the switch and wiring continuity check too. Why one half of the switch works (proven), the return from motor to AC source also works. Check 2 - if you have the motor bar at the end it has fired to and then swap the working power feed from that end to the opposing end and it fires the problem is inside the switch or the connecting wire. if it doesn’t it is the motor solenoid.

A few domestic and modelling activities delayed the start of the above. I am able to confirm that the following two pages are now fully complete with the expected line-up. The Layouts, Demonstrators and Travel pages will be reviewed and updated later this week. I apologise for the updating delay since posting the above. Traders Societies. We can also confirm the link bus is running for all three days and the timetable will be added on-line later this week as the travel page gets checked and updated. Riders need to note (1) the fare has slightly increased this year (£2.50 single £4.00 return) and (2) it is not a public service therefore age passes are not valid. The stand number opposite the station will be RJ. Update: Have now received confirmation fares can be paid by either cash or card. Parking will be on the Knavesmire on Saturday, and off the end of Racecourse Road on the other two days. To set a Sat Nav for the Saturday parking pick the junction of Knavesmire Rd & Knavesmire Ave. The gate onto the Knavesmire is immediately opposite the end of Knavesmire Ave. It turns the T junction into a cross-roads. The cause of last year's Saturday parking issue has been resolved and the gate will be unlocked.

Does anyone reading this know the name of the deceased modeller whose items were brought in? Two fold request, (1) we were asked to donate to Exeter Hospice as payment for what we picked up and it would be a nice touch when I do so to be able to say - Donation in memory of ????? & (2) one of the items I took on was a part finished road lorry kit again it would be nice to add his* surname onto the owner name panel above the cab. More than happy for any response to be by PM rather than an open reply here. I pretty much finished the kit over the weekend (but it isn’t yet painted) which triggered the thought about what name to go on the owner panel. * I am assuming a his.

Back home from the spring 2024 course. Thank you organising team and tutors. I wanted to come away with two mental barriers broken, not attempting metal kits and white metal soldering. Both broken over a very enjoyable, if tiring, weekend with congenial company.

The natural noise from running the WMRA O gauge test track on club running nights is a love/hate thing amongst the members. Some definitely don’t like it (not me) as it really fills the hall with what to me is the glorious rumble of train wheels.

No. There is a big difference between flood plain land in a valley bottom, which is exactly what you described, and water meadows. A flood plain used for agriculture can be grazing or arable but is not necessarily a water meadow system. A water meadow system was/is a designed manipulation of the land so that it can be deliberately flooded in the relevant season as part of the agrarian process. A balancing pond/lake is operated in an almost identical way but the purpose is different. It may or not be located in the flood plain and, given that they are intended specifically to hold back the run off, a significant % obviously are not. A WM on the other hand is not a flood prevention system but designed for agriculture to create a better meadow. Balancing pond systems are designed specifically for run off/flood control, like Clifton Ings in York they may be used to run cattle out of the flood periods but that is the bonus not the prime purpose. Possibly semantics but the difference is significant - water meadows may have always got flooded accidentally in adverse weather conditions like any other low lying land the key point is though that they were a specific man-made adaptation, part of working farmland. Modern building on what were working water meadows is because in essence (a) farming has changed and (b) societal stupidity in building on inappropriately located low lying land.

Water meadows were part of agriculture. Water was let on in controlled systems via paddle/sluice gates into dyked systems. I’m not an expert but my vague memory is that it was done so that silt would be dropped into designed segments separated by raised berms.

Amazing how much the sun coming out improves the mojo. Sorting and tidying the tool boxes today, so much easier out on the drive in the sun. Tidying and sorting can be frustrating though. Wife buys you a new temp controlled soldering iron for birthday. Carefully store it where you expect to find it after last use, go to find it!! Completely forgetting you have done two shows since and what were the boxes at the front are now at the back and what you had out for the show is hiding it.

Had a quad back in 2007. Takes a while but you get there in the end.

A vote for Bothams from here too. Always a stop when up home and either visiting Whitby or other shops that sell their stuff.