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As an addendum, I got out my inspection lamp a few days ago as I had to check something in the loft. Dating from the early 1970s (or possibly earlier if it had been Dad's before I left home), it has the original rubber sleeved wiring, luckily I visually checked it as the individual feed wires had perished coverings where they entered the plug. Not used, and on the bench now for a strip down and possible re-cabling. The warning from Clive, and others, is not a trivial matter.

As an update yesterday I finally got BigSur onto my Apple MacBookPro laptop. It is over five years old now so I am guessing the next major OS upgrade will render it obsolete. If anyone is going to attempt this my warning is that the Apple statement of how much free disk space you need available is very misleading - it is actually double what it says. The reason is because the needed free-space is actually circa 30GB because the download is about 12GB with the quoted working space required to be added over and above. I had enough free space initially (according to Apple's information) but the download then filled a good chunk of it - obviously on attempting to then run the update it said not enough room. After an awful lot of deleting and juggling of data I eventually got it installed. Minor issue, since loading it the Launchpad screen has disappeared. Work in progress to get it back. Desktop - As noted by the first post in the thread it has been running on my desktop Mac since mid-November, no problems to report.

Re separate food waste, I disagree. It works very well here in Dorset and I thoroughly recommend people do use it. (Writing as a retired Waste Management Manager)

Hence raising the query to see if anyone does recognise where it actually is rather than the generic description given (even if that does turnout to be somewhere in the Peak District).

Are we sure that is in the Peak District? Looks a lot like the line up to Standedge from Huddersfield.

The situation may have changed since I retired from a waste management role but the reason most areas charged for garden waste when I was working (including us at the time) was because it was a discretionary, NOT a statutory, obligation. Choice to collect or not, and whether to charge or not therefore becomes a decision for local politicians to determine. Exactly as described by @woodenheadabove.

If you have a suitable garden area the GreenCone system for food waste works well. We have had one for years, you may possibly need two to alternate if your local council does not take away food waste (Ours here in Dorset does). As a result of the free food collection ours gets used a lot less than it did, mostly these days for runny food waste, the fat from the grill pan etc.

Thanks for the tip @Chamby. I do have some protection in the DCC circuit as it runs through one of the set of big glow-bulb like fuses as recommended by NEC to go with their Powercab system. There is more capacity in the unit for expansion in the future or if the system ever goes into a later, larger, layout. Happy to add more protection though if necessary. The two controllers I use are a Gaugemaster W (Analogue/DC) and an NEC PowerCab throttle (DCC) which are both wander-lead plug in devices. Again to minimise errors they feed the switch panel via a DPDT switch. The fact the feed to the panel is through this DPDT means that even if I was ever stupid enough to accidentally plug both in at once only one could feed power to the layout. My thoughts re fault finding are that if it isn't immediately obvious, and you turn all the sections off unless the fault is up the line and in the control gear it will go away (a fault finding answer in itself). Turning each section on one by one individually will then therefore aid identification of where the fault is. It will only re-trigger when the faulty section is energised.

I am still in the cusp period of switching to DCC with a mix of stock and only a small layout. Wire it as if for DC, then just switch everything to on for DCC, seems to be the most sensible idea. Even if you never run DC by having sections the option of switching the sections off must aid fault finding in DCC. We have all seen totally dead DCC layouts, perhaps not having enough sections that can be switch isolated for identifying where a fault lies is a false economy.

Also they also have to do for London, the actual City of London is fairly small, it is the amalgamated Boroughs plus the City of Westminster that is 1M plus.

And where they have been tried within the UK, for example by the Welsh administration, a segment of society blatantly ignored the rules. When out walking yesterday it was obvious from the ages and gender mix of some intermingled groups they were not from a single household, they might, of course, have all been from one support bubble but had I been a copper I would have been stopping and questioning them. No coppers in sight! I don't blame Dorset Police, there aren't enough PCs available for them to be everywhere.

One hopes if this is true https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55888856 they also get a further quarantine period on arrival back in the UK.

It has been done in the past and any/all sound can get get very annoying very quickly at exhibitions, especially of you are on a neighbouring stand. I have dabbled with sound but home use only for me.

How do you programme it? Does it use a form of 2D CAD?

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Today's walk of 2.5 miles included visiting, or viewing, five former railways which utilised three (possibly four) gauges. We went up onto the top of the Island and out to the former East Weare gun batteries to look out and see what shipping was around. For railway content we crossed over the long closed Merchants Railway going both out and back (but at two different places). From the walk's end point we could see the remnants of three other former lines and on route had also walked past a fifth! These others were the visible remains of the Admiralty Railway including its' old engine shed, the Harbour breakwaters which used a construction railway during the build, and the Easton & Church Hope Rly which then became part of GWR/LSWR and later the British Railways Portland branch. The fifth was the 18” gauge network in the High Angle Gun Battery remains. I recall reading that the breakwater construction line was broad-gauge so that is five railways and four gauges (18”, 4ft 6”, 4ft 8 1/2” and 7ft 1/4”) in one walk. It also encompassed views of four rope worked inclines. The least obvious to see is the former BR line due to post closure development in the dockyard.

Had to go over Town Bridge on Tuesday, they were working on Ferryman's Corner.

Sort of, see my picture of the 1957 timetable above. yes - on your image. If google picks that image above up so it shows in the google image searches and someone reuses it they are in breach of my copyright. No - I don’t now own the copyright of the original book thereby stopping any future reproductions by anyone else. However - if you come to my house to photograph my copy of the book I could say OK but you can only access my library shelves to do so if the resultant pictures are for your own personal use. (What libraries and archives often do). I think this answer is correct but, as @corneliuslundie and @JimC outline above, lots of anomalies and complications. If in doubt don’t.

If it is a new copy image or photocopy they are supplying you with then yes they are technically correct. Many museums also put restrictions on what they allow you to do with what you photograph or copy when you are allowed access to their collections or premises. As you say - a minefield.

I think it will depend on the version, example I have the Tomlinson NER history as an original copy, employees edition with a soft back (out of copyright) and a hard back copy reprint (in date range for copyright). I use the reprint as my working resource but if I ever needed to publish then a copy taken from the original is OK.

The answer to your question has an absolute yes; Crown Copyright is 50 years and IIRC, like other copyright time limits, expires at the year end turnover so up to and including 31 Dec 1970 is now clear but post-1 Jan 1971 isn’t yet. The secondary question is whether the rights holder would (a) ever find out and (b) do anything about it even if they did? That is a completely different issue, nor do I know which residual body would be appropriate to ask for permission in this post-privatisation era, although probably NetworkRail. I was recently asked this question regarding logged signal box data for an article in the SLS Journal, luckily the data was just clear and we ran the article inclusive of it. For your 1985 data I would have to initially say no, unless NetworkRail (or?) were able to say yes OK. Ultimately it is your gamble whether you do it or not, and my personal opinion is no one will chase you up as an individual about it, but on the Society’s behalf I would have to play it 100% safe.

If they are Crown copyright (e.g., BR publications) on paper and issued before midnight on 31 Dec 1970 they are out of copyright. Anything after that, and any subsequent digital reissues, are still in copyright. If you do republish it on line then the new compilation and digital impression of the data (but not the original paper issued data) becomes copyrighted to you unless you declare it public domain or use the Creative Commons options. The quick snap I’ve just taken is therefore in copyright to me but neither the copyright on the original document (1957 NE Region BR Summer timetable) nor the data visible has come under my copyright control. Logically BR took on the previous companies stuff so I guess the Crown’s 50 year copyright also applies. Non-Crown rights material is IIRC 70 years from date of death of the originator; a BR timetable from 1969 would therefore be out of copyright but not say an ABC guide. Hope this helps. EDIT 18 Nov 2022 - sadly the photo reference shown did not lead me to the file in my stored archives. It is therefore lost.

I am sure it can be done as precise theoretical exercise with geometry, the easier way is make the straight through leg as a mock up in card, then fold a much thinner paper template for the angled roof leg. Trim with scissors until it sits right. When you fold that out you then have the template for your final build angles and lengths.

That is what I did too hence now finding the problem, I took the advice about not having too many straight bits and not laying track parallel to the board edges. Outcome is I laid and wired the track and now find the places for automated uncoupling don't fit the 5-3-3 concept of an inglenook!

Where is the setting to turn that on? I often watch model railway videos with the sound off (naff music avoidance) so would be useful to know when there is talk/commentary. Edit - now found.