Chris116

I have studied the estimates my power company has given me and knowing that prices have risen the thing I fail to understand is why they always expect me to use about 15% more gas and electricity! My usage over the past ten years has remained constant so where do they get this non existent rise in usage? When I asked them that question I was informed that their system was very advanced and the technology rarely was wrong. When I pointed out that my usage had remained very similar for the last years they just repeated their rubbish about how good their technology was. Every year for the past ten years they have wanted to raise my direct debit in line with price and usage increases and every time I only raise it by the price increase percentage. Surprise, surprise my calculations are always more accurate and I always have a credit balance at the end of the winter when they come up with their next work of fiction. To anyone getting a demand for larger payment I would suggest you ignore their calculations and do them yourself you will not be sorry.

1 hour ago, The Lurker said:

That Silverlink livery looked awful at the time. I haven't developed rose-tinted spectacles for it either!

I agree. They were in that livery when I worked at West Brompton and they looked even worse inside. That picture shows a much cleaner train than they normally were.

14 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

 

And another shot of Little Miss Unnamed.  I've come over all broody...

Miss Chief could be a good name for that bundle of mischief!

1 hour ago, didcot said:

Cookie left and clockwise, Marble right anticlockwise. 

 

Ginger cat heaven.

1 hour ago, Market65 said:

Good afternoon, David. That’s a splendid set of photo’s of the Bowes Railway, on the 27th May, 1991. In C15830, at Springwell, with Barclay, WST, that’s a superb rear three quarter portrait shot of the locomotive. It can also be seen that the screw coupling looks not to have been fully tightened up. I hope all was okay, and no undue snatching would take place.

 

I would agree with you but the buffer springs are fully compressed by the look of it which means the coupling is tightened correctly.

1 hour ago, KNP said:

Work has been progressing on Buccaneer, still waiting for some odds and ends to arrive so been tidying up the rigging, paintwork and been working on the lifeboat.

Which I have modelled alongside, for a change!!  
 

 

 

 

I am probably going blind but are there any ropes stopping Buccaneer from floating away on the tide?

On 24/04/2023 at 16:39, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Therapy will be available, sun, sea, sand and,,,,,,,,beer!

 

Mike.

Skip the first three and make mine a cider!

13 minutes ago, KNP said:

I will keep trying for that elusive good picture!!!!

This thread proves that the "elusive good picture" is not at all elusive at Little Muddle!

3 minutes ago, KNP said:

Noticed these going up around the town today.

I think we ought to pop in tomorrow and see what its all about?

 

I look forward to seeing all your photos of the panniers as sadly I will not be able to attend.

The best shifts I have ever had are since I retired, 24 hour shifts of doing exactly what I want except that normally turns into what SWMBO wants!

Looks like the loco tender has more coal than the coaling stage!

40 minutes ago, NIK said:

Snooker Championship:

 

'For those watching in black and white the green protester is behind the red'

Somebody was watching Pot Black in their mis-spent youth!

1 hour ago, Ian Hargrave said:

 
It is,by reputation,the UK’s “second city “. Thus it is about time that it put Manchester et al. In their place. It’s getting there . It will take time and the ghost of Joseph Chamberlain to shake it up a bit. 

My father came from Birmingham and my mother from Manchester. She was convinced that Manchester was the second city of the UK and they "discussed" it regularly until as a kid I pointed out that at least there was no argument that I was born in the FIRST city. I don't think either was very keen on being told that!

Be careful if you think that preservation carriage lighting is a good guide to what was the norm pre 1965.

I have regularly worked the Mid Hants Railway Real Ale Train over the last 20 years and due to problems with the batteries not recharging enough LED bulbs were fitted. They don't drain the batteries as quickly which means there is light at the end of the evening and they provide a brighter light throughout the evening. So a win win situation for railway and passengers but not actually how things were in days gone by.

The other thing is that on a bright summer evening if you walk down the platform you can't tell if the lights are on or off which is the main reason why I don't bother with lights in my model coaches.

2 hours ago, KNP said:

They could paint the town

Red.....?

Send the Midland back to Derby and keep the GWR green thank you.

So as well as having a route card the length of three people's arms and a list of traction you can drive nearly as long you are also qualified to leggit around the Midlands!

2 hours ago, KNP said:

They are off....

 

The signalman put the signal back very quickly by the looks of it!

I bet people who run marathons for fun haven't heard of sex and alcohol.

My friend is on a light diet. They eat by daylight, moonlight and sometime refrigerator light.

I asked my boss if I could come in late tomorrow morning. He said 'dream on'. I thought that was really nice of him.

Two friends meet

Alison: How is the diet going?

Freda: Not very well, I had egg for breakfast today.

Alison: Scrambled, boiled or fried?

Freda:

Cadbury!

4 hours ago, NIK said:

Hi,

 

An air industry quip is 'how do you make a small fortune in the air business? - start with a large fortune and buy an airline'.

 

Regards

 

Nik

Freddie Laker would agree with that.

2 hours ago, Mikkel said:

The railway in the landscape. Absolutely brilliant.

 

And Big Jim got lost walking home from the pub one night and had an encounter with that telegraph pole 🙂

 

@big jim doesn't get lost. He signs for all the routes he takes!

9 hours ago, kevinlms said:

Not forgetting the scratching of the table - from all the track pins that have extended through the track and thin baseboard!

My father carefully pinned the track on my LoneStar 000 Electric layout to a board which was kept behind the settee and put on the dining room table for operating sessions. This all worked well until one Saturday I woke up early and set the railway up by myself. My parents were impressed by how quietly I done it but when my father removed the layout for breakfast there were a number of large scratches on the table! The table was a high quality one that had been given to my parents as a wedding present and they were very upset although they said they did not blame me.