john new

That mass stabbing in a car park is how our surgery here on the island does it, slightly more exotic though than a car park. This year it was on the heliport landing area! No training flights at weekends.

Spoken to him several times regarding his books, will be sadly missed. RIP Vic.

The link fails, could you recheck it please Neil. Thanks in advance.

This edition is now mailing; for members PDF copies are available on request. This reminder made due to the postal delays in some areas (Link to a list of affected areas)

Perhaps the extra civil engineering cost requirement in order to run it, if built, was a reason for not progressing the idea further. Overall cost outweighed any advantages. The LNER had learnt that lesson with the P1, no point being able to haul a massive coal train if operationally it was then too long to slot in around and between the other services.

Having fairly recently reviewed one of the modern reprints of a Treacy book for the SLS Journal go for a second hand one as recommended. Print quality of the photos in it was a disappointingly mediocre 3 from 5 stars at best.

And relative prosperity of areas changes over time to add to the mix. We moved from York to Dorset for work (Lower to a higher property area), subsequently much of the marine and science industries around here have collapsed due to the Navy shutting the base and loss of the CI/French ferry services whilst York has boomed for many reasons. To move back to where I regard as home we would again be facing the lower to higher prices factor but this time in reverse of that in the 1980s.

Another tax that could be imposed is a very much higher rate of income tax on property letting, plus double or treble CTax rates on second homes. Not sure what it is like in other areas but round here the monthly fees to rent a property seem much higher than it would cost for a mortgage if the same property could be bought. As my mother is 97 at some point in the next few years my sister and I will inherit, if we choose to rent out Mum's house for income I can't see that having a high rate of tax imposed on that income would be unfair. There is no incentive to sell at the present time as the rental sector appears buoyant in many areas, although no doubt there are places where it feels like you can't even give a house away as that area has lost all the employment.

At the risk of mentioning the BREXIT word now we are out one of the benefits stressed by the leave campaign was that the UK, if out, would not have to follow EU tax rules which included VAT and imposed minimum rates etc. (Not sure if there was max rate). Whichever way you voted now we are out therefore VAT could be changed to reflect what pre-EU Purchase Tax was like - very high on luxury goods. There wasn't tax on kits, hence the Tri-ang CKD range - anyone else remember them? Even if sticking with VAT for efficiency and speed as all the collection mechanisms are in place the flat rate of 20% could/should go way up high for luxuries, whether that would again include hobby goods like model trains who knows. If it hasn't already gone then the giving it back at the airport for tourist bought stuff should perhaps also go. The previous raids on pension pots was IIRC reckoned in hindsight to have been a disaster, so that should be avoided. The only one that is fair, to me, is high tax bands on luxuries, that too will have impact for some retail sectors but no one needs a fantastically expensive watch (as cheaper one's still tell the time) or the like - if the rich can afford one they can also afford to pay a massive tax levy on them too. How you regulate tax avoidance with offshore banking even still allowed in British zones (CI and IoM for starters) has either baffled previous Chancellors or it could be done but the will to do so isn't there.

Weymouth circa 1st Nov 2019 as a stand holder. Was up north for an SLS Board meeting in Derby on the Saturday (glorious sunshine) and also had tickets for Doncaster, was to take the family on Sunday but the gales and rain on that day made that drive unwise so we cancelled. LFORM, then York would have been next up but we all know what happened to them.

Agree. Flu is a mild virus to many, my father caught it in 1972, was hospitalised and it so weakened him he died in hospital. I have vulnerabilities too (as per the govt' list) and don't know if I would be the same if I caught it, but have no wish to take the chance! Everyone should be taking care so as to protect others, even if they feel safe themselves.

Our page on the loco and the Stephenson naming is here - https://www.stephensonloco.org.uk/SLS_loco_assoc_class87s.htm Just noticed the information on the plates location needs an update for recent changes outside the Society’s control.

Whilst I have never worked in Aus’ I did have input into waste management in the UK. It is a mix of collection and disposal and with recycling there has to be somewhere prepared to take what you collect and process it plus a market for the processed product. That fundamental fact does not change irrespective of how the system is financed. What does change has two factors - if the cost of getting X from site A where it is collected to site B for processing is too great whether it is a private, mixed or fully state funded system it won’t happen and secondly when the volume collected of X is too high for the processing capability/market for the processed output. When I was working the market for cardboard in particular fluctuated wildly, and we have seen news reports of plastic being exported for processing and then returned by the shipload because needs have changed. You mention food trays and profit, if recycling of this is doable but very expensive someone has to pay for the deficit via taxation or else decide not to collect and it goes to landfill or waste to energy as dictated by how your non-recyclable waste gets processed locally.

As an ex-L Authority manager this financial cutting back was bad when I retired (2008) and has got worse. Contrary to popular opinion LAs are pretty good at financial management, serious waste where it occurs is most often from stupid political decisions. Bankruptcy - there are several processes of a similar kind that ultimately lead to an external body coming in to manage the authority, broadly similar to the process of appointing of an Administrator. Didn’t happen to anywhere where I worked but I am pretty sure that process was implemented at least once in the past although I can’t remember where. Possibly Liverpool in the 1980s but the trigger there was as much an attack on the national government for political reasons as the financial crisis that was genuine.

Some systems allow you to set up custom settings - if yours does set one up as Scalescenes, the before printing just select that one.

Hoping this new thread for the contents of forthcoming SLS Journals is OK here. The latest edition (January/February) went to the printer roughly a week ago, distribution expected soon. Contents (Page - title) 2 - MALAYAN PACIFICS – PART 1 23 - Society Ties 24 - Infrastructure then and now 35 - George Parker Bidder Memorial 35 - SPC updates [Stephenson Photograph Collection] 36 - What, where, when No. 210 37 - Letters to the Editor 40 - Book Reviews IBC - SLS Who is who? Also included the members Newsletter (12 pages). NB As the thread is long out of date, image not reloaded post the crash, Updated Nov 2022.

Sorry, but I disagree, access to platforms when not boarding a train or there as an employee is surely by definition a non-essential reason for being out of the house. Socially distanced and harming no one, agreed, it is just that we are told not to do non-essential activity outside the home. The true grey areas surround the time allowed for stops you may make on a genuine exercise activity:- My daily walks can cross the alignment of two closed lines, assuming they were both still open then loitering for a bit on either the over-bridge or where what would have been the fence adjacent the station (walk1) or one of the two former level crossings (walk 2) or the bridges over either of the rope worked inclines (walk 3) would be within guidance. Currently, if I take the same walks to view or photograph the anchored up cruise ships or vessels in the port (I do this from time to time) or were to pause on the main road section of my walks to spot the fleet numbers of the passing First buses (I don't number spot the buses by the way but know people do) when does it cease to be exercise? These are currently part of the exercise trip but how long can a pause be before it ceases to be seen as justifiable within an exercise trip? On my walk today I sat for ten minutes on a bench looking at the view - was that technically allowed and if ten minutes is OK, then what about twenty or much longer if that is alongside and watching a main-line railway even if you have walked or cycled to it? Another truly borderline one - loitering in Sainsbury's car park by the still open/active SW mainline line before I go in to shop? Essential visit (shopping) the prime purpose of the trip - non-essential ? minutes looking at the trains. I see going over to the nearest station (Weymouth) by car just to train spot whether on or off the actual railway limits is a definite non-essential therefore don't do it trip. Alternatively I could cycle the five miles each way - that is surely an exercise trip even if I spent time in between standing on Alexander Bridge watching the trains.

And idiotic placement of the barriers not at the previous T.

The first layout my late father built for us was on Weyroc; proprietary name for a very heavy version of densely squeezed down chipboard. Far better in quality than the modern less dense and crumbly stuff most DIY shops offer these days.

Hopefully not making a non-essential fact finding visit! Sorry couldn’t resist.

Ingredient made rather than ready made meals. What people are forgetting is that the modern economy forces many couples/families to have both partners out at work and the idea of the full time housewife or househusband with oodles of time to cook just would not be financially possible. The gig economy, 24hour working in shops etc, also means 9-5 working is far less common leading to partners not having shifts that make home time coincide. This is not in support of the outdated misogynistic idea that a woman’s place is in the home chained to a cooking stove - just pointing out that making something from ingredients takes longer than buying a ready meal. I am of a generation when Mums were often at home, my daughters are not. Possibly time shortage is also paralleled in our own hobby and why r-t-r and r-t-p is more prevalent than building kits.

Re the last point - or different colour fly lead cables to colour patched sockets. Both good reminder tips. On mine although the current layout uses one XLR cable (orange) and one DIN lead (white) the power box can take up to six XLRs plus the DIN output. All six have a different colour fly leads available. (Three transformers, 2 x 15V outputs each and also individually switched inside the box so not on if that output pair is not needed as an aid to keeping heat down, plus a 12V ex-PC fan for cooling).

I was reading it as a single plug/socket with 8 pins wired, to fix one you have therefore to disconnect the whole plug thereby temporarily taking out all eight rather than a single pair. Probably immaterial on a home layout, problematic at an exhibition. If I misread/misinterpreted that then apologies.

Why go for one x 8? With that any one failure puts out the lot. Why not try 4 x 1/4" stereo plugs and sockets (one pair therefore per lead) with at least one spare fly lead; the fly lead is the bit most likely to be damaged by movement in plugging/unplugging. The other advantage, nice big chunky fittings to work with, I agree with you on using DIN fittings and other miniatures. I only used a DIN as it came with the DC controller. I have also used an XLR socket and cable (3 pin) with two pins in use for my current layout's floor level power box to layout feed. No problems so far but use has not been that heavy. The one's I bought had the leads prewired I only had to solder up the chassis sockets. Given they are designed for stage work they are designed for adding and detaching and the sockets come with a latch which DINS do not.

Look closely at the problem, is it the track or the loco's bogie? Testing principles are a step by step process to steadily eliminate causes until the actual problem is located/fixed. Is it, as I found, the check rail isn't checking or the pony truck on the loco? Is that the only rogue loco and do your other 2 Halls do the same thing? If the former a simple bit of card blue-tacked in place to extend the check rail will identify the fault (why I replaced the rail). If the latter some thoughts, if it is your only failing loco is the back to back correct, if the mounting arm has a joggle is it installed the right way up/right way round?* I have some derailing wagons, found to be that they have wrongly gapped wheels. Probably not a track fault but I have yet to reset the wheels to establish that. Assuming the wheel set is correct you will need to possibly add some weight or alternatively fit some extra springy bits to the leading bogie to steady/guide it. * observation, does the bogie also derail if going through running tender first or only if leading in?