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There's box madness, then there's  this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276043382117

On 11/09/2023 at 08:39, Kernow MRC said:

Reminder to join us at our Camborne in-store event on Friday 22nd September. The OP has been updated with the manufacturers confirmed as attending or providing displays.

As you picked a Friday and not a Wednesday, I might consider a visit by train!

5 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Yeah - we all know Diesel Hydraulics an' overhead knitting don't mix.

Obviously running under Rule 1 conditions

4 hours ago, Darius43 said:

Dyslexia Rules KO

As I live in Worthing I almost bought them…

 

Cheers

 

Darius

The way this country is going "Woking" could be applied to any area!!!

I think I may have shared before that in my brief period in jig and tool design,

the office manager had a phrase he would use when we'd been struggling for hours,

sometimes days to come up with a workable design for something, "it's so simple it hurts".

It turns out that the points weren't the problem (pun intended).

On the loco that was derailing, the body retaining screw wasn't fully tightened,

which meant the head was protruding down, and catching in the point blade

on the side not touching a stock rail. I've screwed it in tight and filed it down flush,

(with still enough slot to remove the screw if necessary) and it runs over the points fine.

Thank you all for your input; I've learned a few things from your comments

17 hours ago, DCB said:

Its part bad design, running through the straight road in the facing direction and the curved road in the trailing direction gives smoother running, It causes issues with set track which need rail lengths  adjusted with a saw or Demel or file but its well worth doing .

The point is also distorted, probably scrap as the straight road has a big kink at the moving blade's pivot end

Thanks for your comments @DCB

If the kink you refer to is the one nearest the yellow arrow,

unless I'm missing something, that's not the side the flanges run on,

so I'm not sure it would be a problem.  

Please correct me if I've misunderstood you on this.

I did try swapping with another turnout but it made no difference.

2 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said:

I guess the train left the tunnel!?

Priming badly as it left 

1 hour ago, kevinlms said:

More correctly, wind shear? The direction could be up, down or sideways.

 

http://www.bom.gov.au/aviation/data/education/wind-shear.pdf

Except that in this case it was liquid rather than air, and the direction was vertically downwards

43 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

 

Would that be the "Inverted volcano effect"?

After the second dose it was more like a cloud burst!

10 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said:

Could do with a little Senokot!?

I would recommend the stuff I had prior to a colonoscopy last weekend.

Second dose in particular proved very effective. :)

2 hours ago, Ray H said:

Are all the derailments at the same place on the point. Can you locate/identify that position.

Thanks for your response. 

It looks like the derailment occurs as the leading wheels meet the moving part of the points.

Usual apology to begin, if this is not in the correct section.

I have a roundy-roundy layout:

I'm getting problems with some, not all) locos derailing at the points top lh

when running in the direction shown X (facing point).

This is the turnout 

And a close up:

This is one of the locos which derails:

With the points set the other way, into the loop there are no derailments.

I thought it might be because the points are next to a curve section,

but there are no problems with the points top right.

The points are Kato no 6 (781mm rad) and the curves are 282mm rad.

I've tried a different set of points and get the same result,

which suggests it might be a vertical misalignment problem,

(uneven baseboard) but before I start dismantling track 

I thought I would seek advice from the RMWeb collective wisdom)

On 31/08/2023 at 21:51, phil-b259 said:

It may even be possible to provide short lengths of OLE at the likes of Marylebone and Moor Street to charge the batteries via a Photograph (thus future proofing the fleet) and provide power while the trains are parked there during turnarounds.

Spellcheck appears to have found a simple answer to vehicle battery charging.

Plym Valley Railway launching an appeal to purchase a loco

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plym-valley-railway-launches-appeal-8714742

(Shame about the usual press references to "train" and "choo choo").

Breakiing news on the Beeb:

BBC News - Nottinghamshire Police officer hit by train while helping man dies
 

2 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

Not necessarily stupidity but it seems to have happened at a crossing:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-66616022

The man being helped seems to have been electrocuted, so did he make contact with the overhead wires? Very little information.

Jonathan

Just seen this on the Beeb site but, under the circumstances,

didn't think it appropriate to post under "Stupidity"

2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Only if they drowned!

A semi serious comment based on my observations that social media seems to be awash with disasters/mistakes/accidents etc and very little positivity.

 

Mike.

Tis the silly season :)

On 10/08/2023 at 19:39, Helstonnorthroad said:

The last load of CDAs from Rocks!

 

 

 

 

The second pic is I guess extra special as it also shows the HST which won't be seen for much longer 

On 19/08/2023 at 06:42, goldfish said:

A tad optimistic I think. £125 for a cardboard box and a circle of 2' radius, raised third rail, steel and wood track.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186040139692?

Not that rare and you can pick a complete set up for that price.

Does the fact that it's MODAL justify the price? 

11 hours ago, Legend said:

I think we have strayed somewhat from the Jacobite . 

It's that well known RMWeb Thread Drift Syndrome.

It's what happens when things don't have

an official body to oversee them :)

No criticism on Andy and Phil, they do their best

but it's an uphill struggle against us lot

Perhaps we need the Rmweb Thread Drift Investigation Body

3 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

If you zoom in, you can just about see it!

 

T scale???

Interesting backscene

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314764737791?h

22 hours ago, spikey said:

Same with the RAF in 1965 when I joined.  It was explained to us when filling in the paperwork for our dogtags that there were no Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists or anything else-ists in HM's air force.  All officers were either C of E or RC.

Being pedantic I know but the RAF seem to have got confused between religion and denomination.

Jews, Hindu etc are religions, RC & C of E are denominations within the Christian religion.

Pedant hat off!

5 hours ago, Weeny Works said:

£24.50 + shipping for this ZUA that's been stamped on!

From the seller's description:

END ROOF STRUT BROKEN - INTERNAL WALL LOOSE

SOME BUFFERS AND OTHER PARTS MISSING

but still headed GOOD CONDITION.

14 hours ago, darkstar said:

Hadn't noticed that; Copy & Paste strikes again!