The Pilotman

Is any of this making anyone smile? No, me neither. 🙄

On 03/06/2023 at 19:10, Metr0Land said:

50041 Bulwark+50044 Exeter Head East At Cogload Junction.  22/06/1988 by Brian Dean, on Flickr

Despite the uniform load of PCAs, this looks like the evening Exeter Riverside to Westbury Speedlink service. Surprisingly, it quite often had a pair of 50s at the front with 50149 putting in a number of appearances.

12 minutes ago, 125_driver said:

Good point about the first class. Could it possibly be on a XC working , as it never seemed to matter where First class was on those I wander.....

 
Yes it could. 1M20 0940 Paddington to Birmingham New Street would be my guess. Often a class 50 at the time.

On 07/06/2023 at 14:59, DaveF said:

The west of Switzerland now at Chillon on the line from Geneva through Lausanne and on to Brig and Italy through the Simplon Tunnel.

 

Chillon is just to the south east of Montreux, the first photo is taken from Chateaux Chillon.  The railway runs alongside Lac Leman (Lake Geneva).  They were all taken on 5th August 1978.

 

A fact about Chateau Chillon.  In 1816 Byron wrote a poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" in 1816 about Francois de Bonivard.  Byron visited the chateau and carved his name on a piller of the dungeon.

 

 

Chillon SBB RBe4/4 eastbound Regionalzug 5th Aug 78 J6197

 

 

Chillon SBB Re4/4ii 11237 eastbound schnellzug 5th Aug 78 C4006

 

 

Chillon SBB RBe4/4 1424 eastbound Regionalzug 5th Aug 78 C4008

 

 

Chillon SBB Re4/4ii TEE Lemano 5th Aug 78 J6237

 

 

Chillon SBB Re4/4ii eastbound Dienstzug 5th Aug 78  J6240

 

David

The Château de Chillon (from where @DaveF took the first picture) can be seen in the centre of this picture, taken in March this year from the station at Glion above Montreux. The impressive road viaduct in his third picture can just be seen behind the trees to the left. 
 

Hydroelectric power? Well, I’ll be dammed. 

12 hours ago, BMacdermott said:

Hello everyone

 

Similar to above, according to Flightradar, the 07.15 LHR to Thessaloniki this morning was operated by a Finnair A320 as Speedbird 772.

 

Brian

With Russian airspace closed to European airlines, some of Finnair’s routes are not viable, or even possible, at the moment and so they have an excess of capacity. The use of some Finnair aircraft on (fellow OneWorld alliance airline) BA routes has been ongoing for some time. 

22 hours ago, JeffP said:

C9268. Interesting.

Clapham to Liverpool?

Where had it originated? Brighton?

Would it turn off and go via Earls Court?

1M00 1322 Brighton to Liverpool Lime Street. After Clapham Junction it would have called at Kensington Olympia then Milton Keynes, with a loco change at Mitre Bridge. 

1 hour ago, IMS said:

When do we know when we can place a pre-order, and how do we do it?

Have you checked their website? It says the order book is already open for the N versions, and opening at the end of May for the OO versions. 

I’m not sure there is much light to shed… I’d bet good money that it went something like this:

BA Airbus is cleared to line up on runway 27 Right. MH A350 is cleared to line up after it. The BA Airbus isn’t cleared for take off immediately (if the previous departure was a heavy, or on the same departure route, a delay is to be expected). The A350 enters the runway (correctly) and perhaps doesn’t realise the BA isn’t going to go straightaway so keeps inching forward expecting it to go any second and ends up where it does. Pure speculation, of course, but extremely plausible. 

9 minutes ago, scottystitch said:

Regarding 2), my understanding of that procedure is that it isn’t there for the airman’s benefit, it’s there for ATC’s benefit and the efficient despatch of aircraft at busy times. 
 

Best

 

Scott. 

At airports with high intensity runway operations (like Heathrow) it is expected that an aircraft will be ready to commence its take off run as soon as it is cleared by ATC to do so. It is simply not necessary to get right behind the aircraft on the runway (as shown in the video clip) in order to accomplish this. That video is the first time I’ve seen anyone do that. 

Two issues here;

1) was the Malaysian A350 allowed to do that? Yes (it would have been a conditional clearance)

2) was it good airmanship to get quite so close behind another aircraft? In my opinion, no. You’re not gaining anything; just ingesting the exhaust of the aircraft in front. 

I think it would be helpful if @dexterph5 specified where in Scotland and when in the 1960s, otherwise this could become a very long and potentially time-wasting thread.

11 hours ago, Dagworth said:

It's interesting to note that the On Dogs thread, though started before this one, has only a tenth of the replies. Can we conclude that RMweb is ruled by cats?

 

Andi

Humankind is ruled by cats, surely?

1 hour ago, brightspark said:

Something from abroad?  I know not quite within topic but the juice is carried on a raised rail.

 

Hamburg today.

Baumwall station.

I’ll bet I can guess what you were doing there…. 😉

This made me smile; discovering the facility to block the tedious posts of the serial offenders of thread drift, posters of rubbish pictures and people who frequent and comment on the humour threads despite not actually appearing to have a sense of humour themselves. It’s made looking at RMWeb a much more satisfying experience. 

Absolutely delighted with the N Gauge PBAs; I’ve been waiting a long time for these to appear. The weathered white ones look particularly good and the price is a pleasant surprise too. 

I’m not sure there’s any fundamental difference between reading an email that says a model has been delayed, or reading it on a manufacturer’s website. Except, perhaps, the latter is easier for the manufacturer to disseminate the information. Anyway, we clearly have different ideas about what is reasonable so I’m going to leave it there. 

4 hours ago, Roy Langridge said:

Whilst delays are out of Revolutions hands, I do wish they could be posted here as well rather than having to check the website all the time, especially when we are in “delivery window “. 

They’ve got a website where they post the most up to date information they have. That saves them having to post on here, and on all the other platforms they use, which would take up more of their valuable time. I would much rather they use their time to bring models to the market that we want to buy, than tell us every time there’s been a power cut in one of the factories, or there’s a delay in getting a shipping container. As for “having to check the website all the time”. Really? You don’t have to check it all the time, or even at all. You can just wait for the model to arrive. People have lost a sense of patience and proportion. 🙄

Having taken well over a thousand flights (so far), I think I am reasonably qualified to add to this post. Here is a selection of my highlights from over thirty-five years of flying (in no particular order)…

Best experience: Anchorage to St.Paul Island on a Reeve Aleutian Airways Lockheed Electra (catering provided by Subway!)
Worst experience: middle seat (in a 2-5-2 configuration) in a NorthWest Airlines DC10, Gatwick to Minneapolis/St.Paul

Best airline: Lufthansa 

Worst airline: Gulf Air
Most attractive cabin crew: Icelandair 🤭
Best meal (short-haul): a chicken salad on a British Airways flight from Inverness to Heathrow in 1995

Worst meal (short-haul): a packet of carrots (NorthWest Airlines, Minneapolis/St.Paul to Seattle)

Best meal (long haul): wagyu beef, British Airways, Tokyo Narita to Heathrow (well, it was First Class…)

Most surprising catering: jam doughnuts on Augsburg Airways, London City to Münster/Osnabrück 
Luggage going somewhere else: Auckland to Honolulu flight with Air New Zealand but my luggage went to Tokyo (got it back the following day) 

Scariest moment: climbing out of Charlotte, North Carolina in a USAir Boeing 757 with thunderstorms all around. A bit like some of the rides at Alton Towers…

Next most scariest moment: landing in a Twin Otter in Lukla, Nepal, long before I’d seen it on the Discovery Channel’s programme about the world’s most dangerous airports.

Definitely interested in some of these. Can I ask C=Rail if the N Gauge FSA/FTA wagons are imminent? If so, I’ll hang on for a bit and place a combined container/wagon order. 

Absolutely one of a kind. There will never be anyone remotely like Barry Humphries. 

1 hour ago, ruggedpeak said:

Perfectly likely as I radiated out of Reading in my teenage spotting days 🙂

So did I!

4 hours ago, ruggedpeak said:

Old pics, locations generally unknown, dates some time in the 80's!

First two are Slough. 

Whacky signs, Whacky signs, wherefore art thou Whacky Signs?