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6 hours ago, great northern said:

More of the shiny V2, bound to go down well. Swinging under the bridge....

a wider angle than I usually use, and showing more of the bridge.

I like that extended view of Crescent Bridge. Thanks.

11 hours ago, Deeps said:

Agreed, but I honestly fear that the time will come when physical contact of any sort will be banned, or that the game at the top level will effectively become ‘touch rugby’.

I don't see it that way. Tackling at or below chest (sternum) height is being trialled at different levels, in various jurisdictions globally. I fully expect it to become embodied explicitly in the Laws sooner rather than later (at the risk of being seen as a grumpy old fart I would say that that's how things were anyway until 10-15 years ago).

1 minute ago, The Fatadder said:

Somewhat biased maybe, but yet another game ruined by the ridiculous law around (accidental) head impact and red cards.

 

they desperately need a better way of dealing with this 

The simplest way is for players not to tackle so high.

1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hi Dave

 

Those who know me know I like to do the modelling bit but have a tendency to only get that far. Hence the joke about me painting my locos. Sorry if the wrong message was given, it wasn't your post, it is me they are taking fun of.

 

Never mind I have the gear but no idea.

Paint box

 

Spray booth and air brushes

Compressor and rattle cans

 

 

Low mileage, one careful owner...

2 hours ago, gwrrob said:

there were eight , yes 8 Bulleids to be seen in Dorset today.

How boring...

Andy, I think that, whether it really is or not, the "mucky" version looks just right.

So, for yet another year, there will be just one Australian team in next weekend's Super Rugby Pacific semi-finals.

So, for yet another year, there will be just one Australian team in next weekend's Super Rugby Pacific semi-finals.

18 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Hellup! Is that Covid thing still around?  

 

Of course it is.  Thankfully not much more than a minor nuisance now for most folk.  At least you knew and it seems to have passed quickly on.  I'm still waiting my turn.  I might be one of the 10%; there seems to be some evidence that around that number have never had it and have always had enough natural resilience.  Will we ever know for sure?   

 

In other news the first book is out (see "Books" forum) and the next two are under way.  Utterly irrelevant to this topic but just saying 🤣

Thanks Rick. Second time for me, in both cases similar to a bad bout of flu. I wouldn't have known the difference without a test.

Saw the book announcement - hope it goes well. Not entirely irrelevant, although two-character headcodes were a bit late for the MCL period.

For my fictitious SR trains I've assumed the same disc code for Exeter - Pentowan as for Exeter - Padstow.

4 minutes ago, jwealleans said:

 

What is all this about Class 60s?   I've seen a few people mentioning them but I have no idea why.

10 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Indeed, his communication was already up to Australian standards before he went there.  Merch (IIRC RFA in his case?) trained of course - I'm saying nowt.

Neil, I don't remember him mentioning the RFA. Others from his BR Bristol/Brighton/Saltley days might know more...

46 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Aaargh, covid is a buqqer indeed, had it for the first time in October and it was the worst illness I have had for 40 years.

 

Mentioned 'MC' to some old South Shields MRC pals on line and had a good laugh talking about him, RIP Mark.  he was a character!

He certainly was. We used to imagine him being presented to the late Queen (Lord knows why...). On being asked "How are you, Mr C.....?" his reply would undoubtedly have been "F***ed up and far from home, Your Majesty!".

His nickname on BR was Lurch, of course.

What a man.

1 hour ago, APOLLO said:

 

 

 

I know a number of companies like that.

1 hour ago, KNP said:

Thanks to you the windmill itch has returned!!!!

Oh dear...

I did go out to the railway room today but only to take some tools and other stuff back to where it belonged.

Otherwise, work was limited to the wheel centres and coupling rods on 2182.

I cut six small circles of sticky label using a leather punch, stuck them over the Romford wheel nuts and painted them black. I also painted the coupling rods. Everything is still working, so I'm actually going to put 2182 aside for a while now, to get a quick (I hope) win with the five ex-Peter Lawson coaches. I'll use four of these to reform set 516 completely and the fifth to complete set 707. Two existing coaches will be displaced from set 516 and will in turn go into sets 743 and 815, replacing two temporary coaches.

This operation will complete four sets, with only three of the ten vehicle ends on the Peter Lawson coaches needing to have DG couplings fitted.

All that will leave just 19 coaches still to be built (plus a further ten NPCCS vehicles).

2 hours ago, 5BarVT said:

Not much of a consolation, but better that you got it on the return flight, not the outward.  Hoping recovery is swift.

Paul.

Thanks Paul. I don't think I got it on the flight. I think I picked it up locally once I was back, possibly even at the airport itself. Recovery continues. I might even go out today - only as far as the railway room, of course...

3 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

It was already on a slow, inexorable downhill trajectory ... but has fallen off a cliff since Covid. The story I heard was that lots of the train maintenance staff left during Covid and they're just woefully short of staff to maintain and fix the trains. Hence cancellations due to shortage of trains.

 

There's probably (a lot) more to it than that but that's what I heard. 

It was pretty carp in December 2016 when I was last there. Delays, missed connections, lack of information, last-minute platform changes, etc. etc.

10 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

Although the GWR version would be the most authentic the old sentimental sod I am will probably go for the 'Omaha' version. Seen and heard in preservation in South Devon and the owners late father was at the beach on D Day and so very apt, today of all days. 

Get both. You know it makes sense...

7 hours ago, Tony Teague said:

 

We did explore making the windmill turn from side to side randomly through use of a servo in the base controlled by an Arduino, but I felt there was plenty else that needed doing and so 'enough was enough', and it is fixed.

Yes, that cottage does offer a certain familiarity with something else that I have seen - perhaps Hornby made more than one? In any event that strikes me as a good reason for wanting to make some changes, although quite what can be easily changed has yet to become clear in my mind!

Incidentally, in the video the windmill is running off a 9v battery and so I think it could probably benefit from a slightly lower voltage; it will be Arduino controlled in order to randomise when it starts and stops, so we might also vary the voltage fed to it.

Tony

You could set up the Arduino so that Windy Miller could walk in and out of the mill between the rotating sweeps.

1 minute ago, Annie said:

Hope you're feeling better soon and it doesn't cling on, -- COVID is a total no fun zone.

Thanks Annie, it certainly isn't. I am feeling better already but not well enough to do much yet. The weather doesn't help, of course. We'll see what the weekend brings (apart from more rain).

Just now, gingerangles said:

 

What's half a mm eh!? 😂

Depends whether you're buying or selling...