big jim

Bit of a bump for this topic but I’ve just found this little beauty hidden away in a closed booking office/waiting room, using your original gallery I can see it’s from 1968 going by the identical illustration and phrase 

unfortunately someone has had a go at removing it or it’s just plain old but the bottom part is practically missing but there appears to be a track plan, im wondering is it possibly Holyhead as you can see 2 lines with onward arrows which in my head correspond with the platforms (2+3) under the canopy that had car ramps right before the old ferry terminal

ive done a google search and can’t find any pics of this illustration as a poster 

3 hours ago, DaveF said:

only about 48,000 are railway

ONLY! 

29 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

That driver's hi-vis looks extremely clean - is he a new starter transferred from another company? ;-)

yeah, from a passenger company, he’s actually a driver on the Ffestiniog and Welsh highland railways too 

2 hours ago, bradfordbuffer said:

Did manage a distcharge with out stopping and without setting back!

I’ve only managed to do that a couple of times in ratcliffe! 
 

I wasn’t going to order a class 60 as I’m happy with my Hornby ones but having since received the class 56 and seeing the likes of the cab interior I think I may well succumb to a GB one! 

16 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

At times, the two machines on the Chiltern tunnels were getting 30 metres per day,each, double their design speed

anything can double its design speed, quite how long for is another question! 
 

18 minutes ago, mikejames said:

a bit back you said you did the oxenholm carlisle with a power pack isolated for comparison purposes

but you didnt say how much difference it made.

did it have much affect?

regards

 

Don’t really want to put too much info out there as it’s probably industry sensitive! 

Hellfire mileage on my hire car

my own car is in the EMT meridian numbering range! 

29 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

True, have yet to see one in OO yet though !

imagine how boring it would be watching a train unload in real time for an hour! 
 

6 minutes ago, Roy Langridge said:

As slow as that? I thought MGR discharge was at 4mph. Every day a learning day.

0.5 is the norm but if the coal is damp or poor quality it’s slower, also you have to stop a few times for the hopper to empty (in ratcliffe)

soul destroying but interesting at the same time 

7 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

Don’t much see the point of the crawling . Real life trains don’t crawl much unless they are coupling up

unless your modelling a power station coal discharge plant (0.3 to 0.5mph)  

Nice, would have been so much easier for me! 
 

as it happens I need an extra warwell anyway so I’ve ordered one of your Ltd Ed ones and a set of sides 

If not watched the vid but my trainees mate is part owner and he said it was off there for the weekend 

im working both days so went make it unfortunately 

On 20/04/2024 at 11:07, Accurascale Fran said:

we were asked to bring something else that is big too

wonder if it’s this?

1 hour ago, Colin_McLeod said:

lt's the rivet counters whohave spoilt it for everyone else!"

Well at least he didn’t blame the extra grille counters, the pink wheel counters, the wonky rod counters…….

Spotted this in oxley this morning 

It’s moved down the yard now to where the green 47 has been sat for the last month or so 

1 hour ago, StuAllen said:

I do know what you mean about the headlights though, my previous car had auto dipping and could be sluggish, probably one or twice a week I needed to manually take over as it didn’t react. Can’t say I’ve noticed with my current car, its reactions are very quick.

the issue I have with them is on the motorway, if a lorry is coming in the opposite direction, in particular in an area with solid concrete central barriers you the sensor doesn’t seem to pick up on their headlights so it puts the full beam on, of course they are higher up so are getting dazzled and inevitably they put their full beam on, which on some trucks can be like perma noon! 
 

3 minutes ago, SM42 said:

By far the worst I've experienced is lane assist

the one thing I always turn off straight away when I get a hire car! 

5 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said:

Are you related to Cycling Mikey by any chance ????

One of my few muted people on Twitter along with vine (and I’m a cyclist!) 

20 minutes ago, mikejames said:

are you more or less promised greens all the way?

pretty much, ring the box and tell them what your doing so they know to signal you right into the station at Carlisle

we check open train maps at oxenholme to see what’s ahead on the signalling diagrams to get a clear run, last night there was a class 4 (75mph) freight in front of us that we waited until it had passed though Penrith before we set off 

6 hours ago, Ray M said:

Can i ask, 

How much time difference will they allow 

when these trains are fully loaded.

not a clue! 
 

These runs are really ‘pushing it’ braking and acceleration wise, I think the in service runs will be slower than the time I have to do it in (I hope!)