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Nay - that's just a wind up !!!!!!!!!!

 

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replacing the run-down?

Please has anyone good experience of these signals?

I'm impressed both with the model and the speed of assembly and decoration.

It would seem we are not the only country with signalmen not knowing where their trains are:-

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According to Yeadon, 65023, 65016 (photo) and 65020 were unlined black in 1948.  65015 was the first J2 to be lined in Sptemeber 1949 with no lettering or emblem on tender (as above).  65019 (photo), 65016, 65018 and 65020 were fully lined with small emblem in 1950.  65022 (photo) was ex-works in plain black without lining in June 1951 and was followed by 65017, 65023 and 65015. 

There is some variation between locos regarding retention of piston tail rod platforms and location of handrails and vacuum pipe.

Life is too important to take it seriously.

With huge congestion and very low speeds on the GC and Met Joint into London.

Help, please, as I am confused re: the congestion issue.  Are trains not running from Marylebone to Birmingham and, in the future, to Oxford and Milton Keynes?  If capacity can be found for these new (to the GC) destinations why not the old ones?

The lady of the house ,Ms Honeycomb ,meets the postman,Peter Hazell to give him his Christmas tip as he finishes his round on Christmas Eve 1947.Empty cattle vans rattle past above, heading to Hackney Sidings. Peter is hoping for some transfers for his van in the new year.

 

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Photo courtesy of A.York/BRM.

Ms Honeycomb - in 1947?

Is it OK to mention the 2 dozen plus goldfinches that were in our oak tree when I went out to fill the feeders?

Charming!

Sparrowhawk with prey (starling?) on the lawn outside our kitchen window this morning.

We like seeing sparrowhawks flying but hate it when they kill "our" birds.

In 2005 whilst operating off Iraq we had a detachment of Marines onboard for ship protection, however they'd only been provided with a couple of hundred rounds of ammunition per man and hardly any 7.62 (cost!). That which had been provided was barely sufficient for any ship protection work in anger and no ammunition was allocated for training. As you say, in the UK forces EVERYTHING has to be accounted for and even one round going either missing or being used for non-sanctioned activites causes a major drama when it comes to bullet counting time.

The solution was that our WO2 went visiting some US Army personnel whilst we were in Umm Qasr and somewhat embarrassingly had to beg boxes of ammunition from them so we could have a SHOOTEX, which they were more than happy to provide in return for beer.

This was far from a unique situation at the time, both with regard to ammunition and even down to basic things like rations and toiletries.

A precedent exists at least as far back as 1945 when whisly was traded for US drop tanks fitted "in, theatre" to Seafires operating with the British pacific fleet.

The money is in the land.

 

Sure there is profit in building but after you've paid for the land then achieved planning, paid your section 106 payment or Community infrastructure levy to the local authority before being allowed to start and then built the place there aren't the huge sums that people think there is. In this area which borders Bucks, working farmland achieves between £8,500-10,000 per acre. If it's designated for building then it rises to in excess of a £1,000,000 per acre. A typical site for sale near me is 2.4 acres and has permission for 24 houses, along with the houses come the service roads and infrastructure, the cost is £2.4 million which means every property has cost £115,000 before a spade goes in the ground.

Hi Dave.   Your post explains something I have seen both in Bedfordshire and Devon  This involves development planning applications submitted by remote companies, who employ specialist subcontractors to prepare the various accompanying documents and, if necessary, specialist counsel to argue their case.  If successful, the land - with its outline planning permission - is then sold on to another developer who will do the actual building.

i had wondered about the economics of this process but the figures you quote for lannd values suggest there is indeed a profitable market for companies specialising solely in obtaining planning permission.

Does anyone know if one was ever painted in a yellow livery?  Something like a Colman's PO wagon livery could look quite stunning.

Super model of a controversial - to say the least - prototype!  You resisted the temptation to paint it GE blue?

Saw the sample at Warley and fell in love.....

Didn't expect to be able to order one last Monday as I thought they would all have been spoken for but managed to order with Kernow.  Not bought from them before but loco delivered today, so pleased.

Change of subject:  Hamblings used to market a broadly similar looking loco they called the Gnat.  Does anyone know if this was based upon a specific prototype?

Either that or stop acting like we're some kind of military power when we're nothing of the sort.

There are those who say we don't spend enough on defence and those who say we spend too much and are living in the past.  But to say we are not "some kind" of military power is just not true.

I have re-read the link above and am left wondering just why the Harpoon missiles are being withdrawn before a replacement is ready. Not being an expert on missile technology I am left wondering if they have a use by or best before date? 

I have no detailed knowledge of Harpoon but yes, most weapons have a finite service life, defined in their original specification. 

In my time the most common lifed items would be batteries and items from the explosives chain.  Occasionally, "fleet leaders" could be withdrawn for strip-down and examination/testing, which could result in remaining items being given an extended life, or "lifed" items could be replaced if the requirement justified the cost.

A sign of the times?

5551 is seen on a midweek Santa Special from Loddiswell.

 

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A close up that shews Glenn's weathering.

 

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Why from Loddiswell?  Do the elves live in Sorley tunnel?

There is a Panto in Toronto each Christmas.

About 10 percent of the audience know the traditional calls, and the rest of the crowd think we are nuts, at the beginning at least.

 

Or perhaps they think we have been drinking, even for the matinee.

Oh yes he isn't.

 

Tom

Oh no they don't!

 

Silly me I thought this was the one being referred to.

 

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John

 

Somewhere in the loft, though I know the pantograph is broken.

Hang on, I did buy some spares for Electra........

Oh dear!  Ordered both LNER version and the biscuit loco "by mistake" on Monday, expecting neither to be delivered until next month.........

Credit to Bachmann for a sensible and informative reply.

St Enodoc, I am. Being of Welsh speaking parents and going to and playing for a rugby school I certainly supported the cherry and whites, indeed for the first 7 years of my life I lived in a cul de sac which backed onto Kingsholm. But I've always played football as well. Saturdays tended to be Rugby in the morning for school and football in the afternoon playing in one of the local leagues. The 1st division team I supported pre Munich and still do is man. Utd. The first big game I saw was Man U v WBA at the hawthorns in the days of Harry Gregg and Albert Quixall et al. At college I also played both football and rugby for the college.

One of my oldest friends proudly recounts the story of his saving a penalty from Albert Quixall - in Fog Lane Park!

As one who knows nothing much about anything on the eastern side of the country, is a K3 a third of a dog?  Given all the problems that have to be sorted I am beginning to believe it could be a K9.

 

I am sure someone can come up with a similar sentiment against the LMS?

Are you trying to make us Crabby?