Jim

This link is quite interesting... https://www.kingscross.co.uk/media/Historical-Maps-of-Area.pdf Jim

ARS....play the game... If you run 1 1/2 minutes late you get greens... Run on time and you'll never see so many red lights. How frustrating, creeping up a platform onto a red, then just as you come to a stand, it goes straight to green. I do wonder if the signallers miss regulating trains..and stepping in when it goes tits up? Jim

Cheers, that makes sense. Jim

Would there have been weighbrigdes when emptying open wagons with a grab? Jim

Ah ha..! Indeed so, a Tri-modal unit us needed..!

There has been talk of running 395s down to Hastings. That would mean a huge junction rebuild at Ashford. What about the mode of electrification? 395s have both.. Or even a new batch of bi-modal 395 type units? It'll be interesting to see what decisions are made....if any..!

I wonder how they're going to "plug the gap" between Ashford and Hastings?

Very interesting, those last few posts. How those small diameter sewers were ever dug and brick lined.

This is Allington ARC near Maidstone. I "discovered" this in 1976.. I think it opened to traffic in 1973. I first saw Cromptons and EDs with vacuum hoppers similar to the standard 21tonners. I've later found out that they were most probably vacuum disc braked hoppers with a gravel flow from Lydd. Every layout since, I've had a quarry siding like this. I saw my very first 47 on the southern with PGA hoppers there, a few years later. It's still going strong today with at least a daily early morning train with a 59 on. What I can't and have never found, is a OO scale discharge she'd like Allington.

That's brilliant! It's an awkward part of the layout. I can only use one road there. Unless I use the stops end as the oil discharge, with the concrete and equipment, the 16 tonners could be shunted on top of the tanks for uploading? Mayevim being a bit greedy and need to decide one or the other..!

That's great stuff! One of my thoughts was, two separate flows. The single-road yard would handle one weekly coal train made up of 15-20 16t Minfits. I'm imagining the smallish yard no longer stocks coal but is unloaded by grab directly into lorries. The lorries then take the coal away to either a single user or a concentration for domestic coal to be processed and bagged up. This train would be there a couple of days to unload. Then a once weekly heating oil train made up of 6 TTA tanks. These would be discharged, on the same road as the coal, into storage tanks in the yard. That's the reason they stopped stocking coal there. I'm a little with this due to the fact the unloading of the coal by grab would take place around the oil discharge equipment. I don't really know how much of an obstinate that would be. Perhaps I'm overthinking this....!!!!

Thanks guys, I'm going to have to get my "rule 1" thinking cap on..!

Thanks Fat Controller, I'll do some image searching.

Hi, I'm just wondering if there was any prototype for modelling a fictitious location. I'm thinking a domestic coal merchant still dealing with coal but have started taking heating oil tanks and have storage facilities on site for road tankers. Based around the mid seventies. Cheers, Jim

Hi,The max speed is 140mph......still the fastest domestic service...! There are two pan configurations on a 12 car formation. The normal configuration is front pan up on lead unit and rear pan on rear unit. Then there's an "emergency" configuration...rear pan up on lead unit and front pan up on rear unit. They cannot run with front/front or rear/rear pans (illegal configuration). The explanation is said to be wire bounce however there is a major issue with a neutral section at Detling. Jim

Cheers 45 125, Jim

Hi, I was wondering about steam heat/eth supply through BR GUVs and the 4-wheel versions also the southern vans? I just took it for granted they had through steam pipes or wired for electric train supply for the rest of the train if in formation with a passenger train. Many thanks Jim

Ah..! Thanks for that. Jim

Hi, I’ve looked in line but can’t find anything about the lighting equipment on the early Mk2s The Bachmann model of, I think, the earliest model doesn’t seem to have any dynamo detail present. I was wondering if early Mk2s did have a dynamo belt? Thanks, Jim

Thank you..!Jim

Hi, Just a quick question. On wagon data panels, say a 16t minfit, the tare weight is shown as 8.1t. So would that mean that fully loaded the wagon would weigh 16t? or does that mean that it can be loaded with 16t making the gross weight 24.1t? Many thanks, Jim

HAPs splitting at Swanley..Stn announcement... "Falkham up the front, Wrotham up the rear" Excellent! Jim

Thanks guys

Hi, I'm sorry this may seem a daft question but, would've there been a preferable way to marshal an RU and RFO? Would it be preferable to have the RFO next to the "kitchen" end of the RU so it would be central for serving, or am I just being a little OCD and it didn't really matter? Many thanks Jim

Ok, thanks for that.. I was hoping but I'll get a Crompton instead.. Cheers..