Wheatley

Lettering - I have seen (although I have no idea where now ) a home made stamp used for this, made from suitably sized Slaters lettering glued to a backing piece and used with white ink/paint much like potato printing. Not tried it yet although there is now a sizeable pile of Tunnocks Wafer wrappers in the 'to do' pile. 

Just remember to glue the letters on upside down. 

10 minutes ago, Jeff Smith said:

Surely an easy way to tell is what is recommended for clean up?

https://ulmysds.com/Admin/ViewDocument.aspx?ID=00a0e090-8cda-4879-910a-9859f8374a4d&primaryReportId=0

6.3. Methods and material for containment and cleaning up

• Wear necessary protective equipment.
• Extinguish all ignition sources.
• Avoid sparks, flames, heat and smoking.
• Ventilate.
• Let evaporate.
• Keep out of confined spaces because of explosion risk.
• If leakage cannot be stopped, evacuate area.

Picking Halfords Gloss Black at random, the contents (at least the hazardous contents) are: 

• 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzine
• 1-Methoxy-2-Propanol
• 2-Butoxyethanol
• 2-Methoxy-1-Methylethyl Acetate
• Acetone
• Butane
• Isobutane
• Mesitylene
• Propane
• Solvent Naptha(petroleum)
• Xylene

Links to the Safety Data Sheets are on the product descriptions on the Halfords website. I assume the various '-anes' are the propellant, hopefully someone who knows more about paint than I do can fathom out what the rest makes them. 

Just to confuse things further, the supplier I use describes them as 'cellulose', 'acrylic enamel' or 'synthetic acrylic'. I think that correlates to 'cellulose', 'enamel' and 'acrylic' in hobby terms but I stand to be corrected. 

https://www.riolettcustomaerosols.co.uk/

49 minutes ago, 009 micro modeller said:

The other issue I would have with fly on the wall documentaries is that even the really good ones (I liked the old ITV/Sky series ‘The Tube’ about the London Underground) seem to rely on some element of things appearing to go wrong or being a bit chaotic.

Going wildly off topic here but this omnipresent false jeopardy in modern documentaries does my head in. "Will it fit / blow up / fall off the lorry ?" No probably not, just get on and show us the next bit. "Train Truckers" is one of the worst for this, ironically the one episode you'll probably never see is the one where the trip with an LUL battery loco really did go spectacularly wrong. 

Contrast with "Sailor" from 1976. A couple of lines of introductory commentary then usually  an hour of observation and the occasional comment from the subject to the camera. 

We were there (Pickering) Easter Sunday. There was only one deisel hauled service, the last one of the day. (I confess I didn't check the first train as it was before we got there). 

48 minutes ago, rogerzilla said:

It's free to sit and watch the goths in Whitby, should you be there on one of the right weekends!

"Daddy, why is that lady on a lead ?"

Ye olde RAF Kinloss Halfords list - 

For those colours no longer available from Halfords any auto paint factor should be able to make you up a 400 or 500ml rattle can from the brand and colour name. 

Shorter tickets are available (from £13.50 according to the website), but are not bookable online nor are the prices displayed on the website. They aren't doing themselves any favours. 

"Shall we go for a ride on the train ?"

"Cool ... (looks up fares and prices).... How Much ??"

"Don't be tight"

"No, really, how much ? It doesn't say. Unless we go and actually ask them in person" 

"Sod that. Sea Life is £16 each."

"Booked". 

British Aluminium Co. had one at Burntisland - W/N 1376 of 1915, now preserved at Brechin (according to the photo caption I'm reading). 

More interestingly from my point of view, the G&SWR inherited one from the Ayr Harbour Commissioners which they painted in full lined green livery and eventually passed on to the LMS. Sadly it never made it into BR hands, but it will if I ever find a second hand Hornby one for less than silly money.  Ian@Stenochs has done it in O gauge - 

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

I think it all depends upon how they entered railway property. If by the hole in the fence, the railway is responsible. If from a platform or a level crossing etc things are not so clear. 

There should be a statutory trespass notice at both, in such a position that you have to walk past it to reach the track. If that is in place then from a strict liability point of view the railway has a defence. 

The fact that it doesn't always work is the reason why platform ends and level crossings are festooned with anti-trespass guards and, increasingly, no platform ramps. If you want to get on the track you will, but you can't (shouldn't be able to) say that you just casually wandered past walking your dog and didn't know any better. 

The one time Regional Railways NE Technical Services office had a 'Wheeton' Station nameboard on the wall, hung behind the desk of the person who misspelled it on the order form to Doric Signs. At the same time Chapletown station near Sheffield was spelled three different ways on the actual station (Chapeltown, Chapel-Town and Chapel Town), although in fairness that was their BR(E) predecessor's fault. 

I'm reminded of the response in an open letter to the enthusiast press  by the owners of the last flying Sea Vixen G-CVIX to the howls of protest when it emerged in Red Bull colours. To paraphrase:

"It costs £60,000 to fill up the tank, the Red Bull sponsorship has underwritten our operating costs for the next three years. If those howling in protest would care to send us a check with at least 6 zeros on it in three years time we'll paint it whatever colour they want."

Rule 1 applies, it's literally their train (set). 

You don't apply the final livery until its finished its post-rebuild trials and you can be reasonably sure you won't have to take it all to bits again. See FS in various black liveries. 

"The ORR has a policy (called Regulation 5)..."

Describing Regulations made by the Secretary of State under powers conferred by an Act of Parliament as an "ORR policy" is certainly an interesting take on reality. 

Although I share adb's concerns that Smith will just gas axe the lot if his tantrums don't work, I don't see that as a reason to keep letting him have more sweeties after he's been told no. Quite the opposite in fact. 

It certainly won't be a concern to ORR, they have no remit to take any operator's threat to take their ball home into account. 

The bloke leaning on the wall at 2.02 is the control measure to keep people back, and she stays back. 

The road on the inland side is a public highway. The beach/saltmarsh  may have public access rights or may not, and the landowner (if it isn't the Crown) may or may not be bothered about people trespassing on it. It almost certainly won't belong to Network Rail although the actual embankment will.  

The Railway Regulation Act 1842 S.14 (alluded to by Jeremy) provides a power for a railway company to enter land adjacent to the railway to undertake repairs following an accident or slippage, or to take action to prevent such an occurrence. If that had been necessary then any work site set up on the adjoining land would fall under the usual H&S legislation and would have to be made secure as appropriate. .  

York - Leeman Rd. The different platform wall constructions used to be obvious before they rebuilt pfm 4. 

I suspect the economics of building one large engine paid for out of the capital budget, as opposed to multiple smaller (and more flexible) ones with the extra crews paid out of the revenue budget had as much to do with it as the actual practicalities. 

See 'rebuilding' Claughtons into Patriots etc. 

And I'm curious as to "Why 4MTs ?" as well. 

1 hour ago, 62613 said:

That's been the UK employment strategy for at least the last 30 years; and if employers can't find UK citizens who will do the advertised work for the pay provided, they are poached from abroad.

The difference being that the 1993 Railways Act created a unique internal labour market which only ASLEF members were in a position to exploit. 

5 hours ago, DY444 said:

I thought ASLEF's policy was to oppose RDW.  Another example of their principles being expendable when cash is dangled. 

ASLEF's policy is to act in the interests of its members. If they can negotiate an attractive RDW deal (not just time and a quarter or whatever it was I got as a signalman) which is in its members interests then why not.   

York around 1980, when it was still in the Assembly and De Grey Rooms. I was about 12 and Alan Downes terrified my mum by explaining at length how to abuse a domestic oven by drying sand and soil (as in, straight out of the garden) in it. 

I remember someone showing me a beautiful P4 Princess Arthur of Connaught too, and being grateful that for once my dad didn't join in with "You could do that". He was phenomenally supportive of everything I tried, even when I was completely clueless and out of my depth, but I think even he recognised that this was essentially 1/76 jewellery making. 

59 minutes ago, ColinK said:

A lot of people don’t earn £600 a week.

Neither did drivers before privatisation (and yes I did adjust it for inflation using the BoE calculator). The franchising model has decided the rate of pay for drivers, based largely on it being cheaper for the more profitable TOCs to poach trained drivers from the subsidised ones rather than carry the costs of training their own, and cheaper to pay over-enhanced rates of overtime than carry additional headcount to actually have enough drivers on the books to run the service.  You can't blame ASLEF for that. 

44668 - Overhauled at Stratford because they no longer trusted St Rollox to paint the numbers the right way up. 

Whatever the reason it's none of our business. 

I can't think of a way of doing it without just posting the cash and trusting the PO and the seller. I did that once with a supplier and it worked out fine (I didn't have a credit card, PayPal hadn't been invented and he only took payments in Canadian dollars)  but it was for about 20 quid which I was prepared to risk. 

8 hours ago, 31A said:

 

On the other hand!!

 

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/24203628.york-mystery-lner-train-found-antwerp-belgium/

 

 

I'm impressed by how quickly the comments section went completely to hell even by York Press commenters' usual standards. 

8 hours ago, SouthernBlue80s said:

Can anyone identify the van body lying within the station please

 

 

I think it's one of these, or something very similar: 

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/bcontainer/h660800a9

Parkside and Bachmann do the planked version. Incidently, if you search "Lowestoft" on Paul's site there are some general views and some of odd corners of the yard (although usually with a wagon in the way). 

34's method works a treat, all my transitions on/off scenic sections are done this way. 

The special transition pieces are not only pricey they're also fragile. Each half rail is only held by 2 (?) sleepers and there is no longitudinal strength in the piece.