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Or D5579?

303s orange cover says more M&GN to me....

Thank goodness for that! I've just found references to B16s on shed at 31B, and I model East Anglia wjich brings them within reach.

And numbered as a class 20....in black....

C6894 - is nthat a Hornby uncoupling ramp in use?

11 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

 

or this ...

 

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"Getting ready for the summer season of open-top tours".

I've just looked it up on DVLA.

Itis shown as SORN, on a 3 wheel 1989 BMW with a 300cc engine.....

You may have bought the magazine, but it has to be transported. That transportation is contracted out to the courier (in simple terms they put a stamp on the bag and post it). You have no involvement on that. The responsibility lies with the courier, and the the publisher/sender has to contact the courier.

The line continues beyond the station into Morden depot.

Maybe so, but I love it, getting away from the GW image! And I saw it few times on LT when I was working on there too.

Blackpool did indeed work railway coal wagons from the mainline at Fleetwood (behind behind the tram depot), along the reserved track as far as Thornton Gate sidings (Cleveleys). There was a Blackpool loco, now preserved at Crich; when returning to Fleetwood it pushed the (unfitted) empty wagons, with a flagman on the front wagon - there was no brakevan. Must have been quite a site with the many ungated road crossings.

Here is one you haven't mentioned - BR greein at Carnforth, can't remember the date but c1975?

4 hours ago, RAF96 said:

A battery will give unlimited amps within its capacity if dead shorted, so even a little battery can hurt if you are in contact with the metal creating the short.

I saw a spanner drop onto a car battery once. It was smoking hot before someone had the sense to smack it free with a hammer.

You have never been shocked until you have felt HF current try to use you as a path to earth - not to be recommended. There is a good reason why painters and electricians work with one hand in their pocket, the former doesn't touch wet paint and the latter doesn't provide an earth point.

And an electrician should never cross his hands.

And of course Heljan originally were going to produce 4 diesel railbuses, but the Wickham never appeared. I wonder if it ever will (and the Bristol/ECW one would be nice too).,

I used to work for Pye/Philips in Cambridge. Now if you've ever watched the Proffesionals on TV back in the 80's, they "used" Pye PF8 handportable radios (they were actually empty cases), which apparently worked everywhere they went (not possible with a live one, they had limited range).

Now the point is they were powered by a (to Pye) new-fangled re-chargeable battery. Think of an AA re-chargeable, they were that sort of size, but actually not quite - they sold more because no-one else made them. They were an all metal case too, no insulation; the +ve terminal on the end was like a present day CR2032 button battery, just a small insulated gap to the outer case -ve, the gap was about 1mm.

Put a fully charged one in your pocket with your car keys, they shorted it out and burnt a hole in your pocket. They were only 1.2v, but if you shorted them out with an AVO 8 multimeter on the 10A range and the needle hit the stop. They gave 10A and more!

One of my fellow workers shorted one with his wedding ring, that welded to the battery and caused a quite severe burn under the ring before he broke the battery away!

Treat elecktrickery with respect - always.

On 01/05/2024 at 12:38, Stefan88 said:

Happens in other countries too, usually when there is a shortage of stock. In Austria for example they mix double deck stock with old single deck stock to allow some element of the train to have platform level entry as there isn't enough double deck stock (which has platform level entries) to meet demand, these formations are locally known as a camel.

In this case though it looks like the matching double deck centre coaches are out of use for what ever reason, unless they have been repurposed for other uses? Still looks very unusual though given that it is an EMU formation.

Probably not fitted with CDL and their ORR has intervened 😄

8 hours ago, newbryford said:

 

A case for bringing back water troughs on the heritage line........?

 

There,I've amended it for you.

We used to take our 2 cats to the vet for flea treatments, the prescribed ones certainly worked. Later on Raffertey, who was 9kg, was offered an alternative because of his weight - that certainly worked. George however was kept on the old type, which we then sourced online (without prescription by then). We pay about 1/2 the price that local pharmacies sell it now.

Raffertey has sadly crossed the rainbow bridge. To the end he had to have expensive tablets to help him go to the loo, eyedrops available on prescription only, and normal (ie human) eyedrops, which are available over the counted. However, again we bought the latter online at vast savings.

We have since gained a rescue kitten, he is now approaching 10 months, growing into a lovely cat. He too has the same flea treatment as George.

Don't take it out to reverse it and risk demagnetisation (likely).

There are 2 ways to correct a loco running wrong way.

1] change the polarity of the magnet (I'd do that with my remagnetiser).

2] reverse the wiring to the motor brushes. If you have already swapped them and there is no difference, sorry, but double check that! Swap them again - label the 1st wire you remove just to make sure you are doing it right.

If you swop the wires to the brushes it MUST change the direction.

I believe, possibly on the 1st batch only, the middle side door originally had no vent. 

Ah, 70007, I had that from CBG to LST when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I can remember standing on p1 at CBG, whilst it simmered away in the carriage sidings, next to the freight avoiding linesbefore it moved over to pick us up. And then we turned left at Shelford, to go via Saffron Walden and Audley End!

I have a photo of it somewhere that I took in c1966, in Crewe Works. I say of "it" I should have said " the remains of it", as it was the 1st Brit scrapped, and the cab was dumped outside with other bits of metal.

How the mighty have fallen.

Sandy being one of my trainspotting homes from my Cambridge days (and I've never moved far away ), I am surprised at that dmu at Sandy on a Norwich-Birmingham! I never knew they wnt that way. I always thought they were a 'new' service in the mid-60s.  I lived close to what is now Cambridge North (it was formerly Chesterton Junction, our most regular spotting haunt.) I remember well the excitement of what we thought were new services appearing, usually 101/104 dmus, Though there may be some relationship to former M&GN services ceasing in 1959?

I've ridden in a mK1 non-corridor BR coach from March-Ely, around 1966. I can't remember what the other coaches were, nor how many. At the time I was quite chuffed to see it and jumped at the chance to ride in it. Most local services were dmu anyway. I'm pretty sure it was a full 3rd coach.

5 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

So ... FWIW, today's Jacobite report :

 

MkI doors locked out of use; MkIIs CDL fitted.

 

No seating allowed in the MkIs, but you can walk through. They really are towing empty coaches about.

 

Everybody in MkIIs; obviously fully booked.

Florence and her stewards patrolling, dissuading folks standing in vestibules taking photos through D/L windows. 

 

Those toilets in use on MkIs are retention tank fitted (they were last year - paid for by Net Rail). Didn't check whole train, but MkII toilets I saw were either locked out of use or 'do not use in station'(!?)

 

More to follow...

So, no stiitting in a Mk1, but toilets locked in a Mk2, then you have to sit  in the Mk1......