Rob F

29 minutes ago, andyram said:

 

I am not sure I understand your point. Are you ACTUALLY CONDONING the actions of these morons???? If so then I seriously pity you. 

I don't think he is condoning it, just suggesting that it is wrong to tar all the fans of a club with the same brush because of the actions of some idiots. The only time I have been on a supporters coach that was bricked was leaving Pride Park on the night Rob Earnshaw scored the winner for Forest...….

15 hours ago, andyram said:

In response to comments about Villa fans. I wonder if they felt their divine  right to be in the Premier League gave them the licence to launch an unprovoked attack on a Derby supporters team coach, breaking the windows and scaring young children after the game. Unacceptable! Football is about rivalry and banter is accepted. The decision by some Leicester fans to daub bridges on the M1 with p*** taking banners was petty, proof of their sad lives but mildly amusing and was taken in the spirit it was intended, as was the Florest fans love for Bobby Zamora five years ago. The reds may as well enjoy the failure of others when they have had nothing near success for a generation. But attacking a supporters coach makes these Villa fans s*** of the Earth.

Would you care to enlighten us about the huge amount of success Derby have enjoyed recently?

On 28/05/2019 at 02:28, 45568 said:

but unfortunately a case too little too late has left the Premiership to "welcome" another club whose fans have a whining sense of "entitlement" because of their "history".

 

Absolutely correct! Whilst the other three West Midlands 'biggies', WBA, Wolves and Blues are pleasant places to be, Villa and its supporters are some the most obnoxious and self-inflated 'fans' there are. hopefully they will crash back straight out of the Premier League next season, and with a bit of luck,'do a Sunderland!!'.

Forest fan in Oz,

Peter C.

Strange how perceptions vary. I have been to all the clubs you mention as an away fan and never had the slightest issue at Villa Park. St Andrews, however, at the end of the game was like a war zone and I genuinely feared for myself and my wife's safety.

15 minutes ago, Barry Ten said:

Some of this is getting a bit too personal for my tastes.

I was never a particular fan of DJ and found some of the praise lavished on him when he started his venture bordered on the sycophantic, however, it does seem that people are revelling a little too much in his misfortune.

I feel for the crowd funders and the loss they may suffer but there is a human element here. I suspect we have an individual here who is under a great deal of stress with great concerns over his and his family’s future. I know his current position is largely self inflicted and some would say he is reaping what he sowed.

Maybe.

I just hope someone is looking out for him and giving him the emotional support he almost certainly needs.

2 hours ago, Markwj said:

He is just protecting his own models and mounds which is fine. 

I am always very fastidious about protecting my mounds. 

Thank you, I will give it a try tonight.

I have a Hornby class 67 (R3268)  and am having some issues with its running. Once started and above a certain speed it runs fine but it is always very hesitant starting up. It often needs a prod to get it moving and at low speeds it will often stall. The wheels and the track are clean so I think the finger of suspicion is pointing at the pickups. If I apply power to the axles individually there doesn't seem to be an issue so I was wondering if someone could advise me how to drop the bogies out so that I properly investigate the pickups.

Thanks

On 25/02/2019 at 23:10, rodent279 said:

As I understand it, the issue isn't either clearance under the bridge or contact wire height, but the change in contact wire height in the distance between the bridge and level crossing.

In other words, as explained further up, it's the gradient of the contact wire (as opposed to the track) that is the issue, and that is what limits the maximum permissable speed to 60 (?) Mph.

How about protecting the adjacent level crossing with large steel beams to limit the height of vehicles that could use it. The contact wire need then not be so high and the gradient in it would not be so steep, thus preventing any need to modify the bridge at all.

On 18/02/2019 at 20:02, Butler Henderson said:

And in a few words the woodentop slags off the very founder of his beloved club who was a Notts member seeking to solve the problem of an opposition for Notts and who sourced their very first kit from a shop run by another Notts member.

I don't think 'touchy lot' adequately qualifies as 'slagging off' but your response does rather prove the point I was trying, albeit clumsily, to make.

I got interested in football in around 1974 when I was 6 and became a Forest fan for no other reason than my sister was a season ticket holder at Meadow Lane and there was no way I was going to do anything the same as her! It had nothing to do with relative success because at that time both clubs were in the second division and Notts finished above Forest for two years in a row. I am in my 31st year as a season ticket holder at the City Ground now and have managed to inflict the disease on my eldest son as well!

Football in Nottingham is strange as there is really very little antipathy from Forest fans towards County, and for a good while if County got a good result there would be a small cheer when it was announced at the City Ground. The same can certainly not be said in the opposite direction as a good number of County fans seem to despise Forest with a passion and a highlight of their week is when Forest lose a game.

Reds really only see Derby as the local rivals and an intense rivalry it is too. The latest instalment is next Monday evening at the City Ground and both sides need to win the game badly, so it should be an interesting evening!

On 24/01/2019 at 09:31, rab said:

So they'll go round no.1 radius curves easier.

That may be close to the truth! With the coaches being 26m long and most of the extra length being outboard of the bogies, the end throw will be greater than a mk2 or mk3. Maybe that requires the longer gangways to cater for it.

Is the only difference between pack 1 and pack 2 of the Mk 5As the running numbers?

16 hours ago, DaveF said:

Radcliffe on Trent Class 105 Nottingham to Skegness Jan 80 J6766.jpg

Is that a snowball fight going on in the car park?!!

Great photos , as usual. What's going on with the middle windows on the TSO immediately behind the buffet in J7071?

Notts fans are a touchy lot....

Maybe something to do with a non-reciprocated rivalry?

3 hours ago, Butler Henderson said:

Really? - given the recent attendances have been the highest in League Two and sometimes higher than League One, discounting away fans, have to wonder what the attendance would be higher up the leagues,

You are THE Notts fan and I claim my £5!!  

On 12/02/2019 at 16:42, Butler Henderson said:

Sad news re Gordon Banks to dampen further given Notts present position any celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Sir Charlie Palmer day https://prideofnottingham.co.uk/home/media/sir-charlie-palmer-day-when-notts-county-got-the-better-of-nottingham-forest-r2419/ - a wake really seems more appropriate

And I think I've got it bad as a Forest supporter! If that is the highlight of the last 25 years for Notts fans it's no wonder there are so few of them...

There was a goods loop on the up side of the line. It could hold 70 wagons plus loco and brake van .   Photo showing more of it below. From ER Sectional Appendix Oct 72.

 

 

Bottesford West Junction Class 114 Nottingham to Grantham April 78 J5996.jpg

 

Edited to correct a detail.

David

Thank you!

Another visit to Bottesford and Bottesford West Junction for this afternoon's photos.

 

 

Bottesford West Junction Class 114 Nottingham to Skegness March 77 J5651.jpg

Bottesford West Junction Class 114 Nottingham to Skegness March 77 J5651

 

 

David

I am sure I am being dense here, but I can’t get my head around J5651. The train is heading for Skeggy so Grantham is behind the photographer. I thought Bottesford West was the junction for the GN line to Newark but this faced Nottingham, not Grantham, so what is the line in the picture?

Rob

Is a f****** FIRE different from an ordinary fire?

 

Expect nothing less from a dirty Red Dog lol. And Rob, in case you are not aware, that is a JOKE!

Don't worry, taken in the spirit that was meant!

Solid performance by Forest at the sheepdip last night. A makeshift back four handled Derby pretty well and we probably had the best chances to win the game. Also, the dirty Rams could easily have been down to nine men.

Given history, I can’t allow myself to be too optimistic about the rest of the season but at the moment the red side of the Queen of the Midlands can at least be allowed a small smile over the Christmas period!

We do know how long it was because I took the video! It was around 1 minute.

Correction. I have just gone back to the videos and looked at the time stamps. It was 67 seconds from the moment the couplings made contact to the combined train pulling away. So really not much longer than a standard station stop where no joining was required. Longer for the train that was already in the platform, of course.

Over here the driver would have been relieved of duty because that would be classed as a collision, we also dont know how long there was between the trains connecting and the train departing because the video is cut, if it was as quickly as you state then why the need to cut the footage?

We do know how long it was because I took the video! It was around 1 minute.

But why does it have to so much more complicated than in Switzerland, not a backward country by any stretch of the imagination. In this video from 0:44 onwards:

A train is sitting in the platform, with passengers aboard and the doors released. The joining portion arrives and couples, without stopping, and its doors are released seconds later. The combined train then leaves quickly. What do we have to do that they do not do and what benefits does it bring?

Rob

I always remember that Steve Jones, of ‘Electric Nose’ fame, asserted that the nose of the Bachmann peak was significantly too short. Has there ever been a definitive assesment of the dimensional accuracy of the tooling?

Rob