Chris116

2 hours ago, grandadbob said:

 

OK I won't, they were horrible, said he, lying through his teeth! 

Glad to hear you enjoyed them. My local shop didn't have any scones today but I got a Malt Loaf instead, half of which went down very nicely earlier.

29 minutes ago, John M Upton said:

My personal hatred is reserved for Crawley:

The building is dreadful and the footbridge is a danger to life. Half the steps are different heights and make it very difficult to walk over with any confidence.

22 minutes ago, DavidCBroad said:

How about this, doodle it should work. Trains can arrive or leave any platform in either direction

 

I would shorten the thru station 2" to allow a shunting line to the back so station shunts don't foul the running loops

Looks good but means the electric problems are much harder to solve which I think was the reason for the original plan.

6 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

We hadn't been in long when the doorbell rang and our friends next door's daughters were outside bearing a gift which was carefully placed inside  the porch.

 

 

Looking forward to sampling them with a cuppa later.

Wandsworth is not far from Sutton! Could she bring me a plateful of those PLEASE! They look very yummy and now I am going to have to visit my local cornershop to buy some of theirs which will not be anywhere near as good as the ones you have there.

Please do not make things worse by telling us how good they were later.

Jim works from home. It is just that I haven't worked out which 66 is his home or if he has second homes allover the place!

10 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

For a short while, there was a temporary Broad St station (until they built the chord at Hackney (Graham Rd?)). Just a scaffold pole platform as I recall accessed through a corridor of shuttering ply. A sense of dereliction even though it was new.

Yes, the Graham Road Curve brought the North London line services into Liverpool Street for a time. The scaffold platform appears in a number of photographs on

www.disused-stations.org.uk which is always a good reference point for closed stations. 

At the time Broad Street was closed I was working in what was then called the Natwest Tower, now Tower 42. I decided I would go and have a look around before the station closed and arranged to have a long lunch break, trouble was I got the dates wrong and arrived a few days after it had closed instead of the planned three days before closure. I was very cross with myself at that! 

11 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said:

*cough*

 

That joke was by a comedy genius called Dave Allen.....

 

 

It was the way he told them!

1 minute ago, Steamport Southport said:

Paddy goes for a walk and reaches a river where he sees his mate Mick on the opposite bank.

 

Paddy shouts "How do I get to the other side?"

 

Mick Replies "You are on the other side."

 

"Ahh! That's alright then"

The great advantages of having a layout around you rather than being on one side of it is that access is much easier as already said and also that the trains go out of your field of vision and then reappear which give more of a feeling of them going somewhere on a roundy roundy. 

Whatever you decide I hope you get a lot of enjoyment from what you are doing as that is the reason why we all want/have layouts. Good luck, have fun.

My first taste of air travel was from LHR to JFK in December 2000 and my father and I were upgraded to first class which was very nice. Cattle class on the way home brought me down to earth! Over the following nine years I flew to USA four more times and all over Europe for long weekends. My passport came up for renewal in 2010 by which time I hated flying so I solved the problem by failing to renew it and over the past ten years I have refused to get a new passport. I hate all airports even if I am just meeting someone, give me a train any day. 

51 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

In GDB's case the expletives would be antisocial

Not so much antisocial as deleted! 

4 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Well, all things being equal, with two rings you should be twice as fast.

Being twice as fast is not always a good thing! 

1 hour ago, Ray M said:

And going by todays standards, they will all complain that the trains are spoiling there view.

Probably followed by complaining that the station announcements are disturbing them and then after the announcements being limited, the complaints that without announcements they don't know which train to catch! 

59 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

Yes I hope so too Chris, that would be good, do you know Dave that has the Brighton East Layout on here that works there from Cowplain? I'm just down the road from him.

I probably know him by sight but not by name! There are so many people that you see regularly but are never able to talk to and find out their names, also I am dreadful with remembering names. When the line is running normally I try to Guard around half the Real Ale Trains plus some daytime services. I also do some TTI (Travelling Ticket Inspector) duties so normally do between three and six duties a month.

2 hours ago, Andrew P said:

Meant to say; LOOK OUT AMP SHER. were coming to get yu

I hope that means I will get to meet you when you visit the Mid Hants Railway. 

10 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

What is all this stuff about getting fat during the lockdown, I have lost 8 pounds in 6 weeks......doing me the world of good, and my pre diabetic nurse will be very pleased 

My wife is also losing weight, not sure how, with our new diet of exactly what we had before lockdown! Maybe it is the walks she has to do following her hip replacement and not ending up at Starbucks most days. 

2 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Mind is boggling as to what happened to the original nose cone...

Careful, you could damage your mind doing that! 

I love Marmite! Cheese on toast with Marmite in between the bread and cheese mmmmmmmmm

38 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

I'm fairly creative, but more in the line of making things. I'm good at technical drawings, but art as art I am no good at all.

 

Al.

Your layout is art and very inspiring. Thank you for sharing it with us. 

SWMBO asks me every evening to wake her up at 9.30am but come the morning says she wants an extra 30 minutes sleep so when I arrive with her mug of coffee at 10am she complains about me waking her up too early. Then I ask her what she would like for breakfast she asks for me to wait for half an hour and then once we have eaten it becomes my fault that we have not done anything before midday! Hopefully she will allow me to get breakfast soon as I am starving. You have to love female logic, as they call it.