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  1. Thanks, Gary. Look OK at a cursory glance, but I'll give tem a good look over this weekend. WNR and Isle of Wight trains in the offing then.
  2. Now arrived at Aching Constable carriage works.... Of course, having viewed the photograph I was horrified to see the ghostly reflected image of a malignant entity from Beyond towering menancingly over my carriage prints. It was chilling to think it was in there, with me, invisible to the naked eye! Then I realised it was bird sh1t on the window pane. Panic over.
  3. I'll think about it. No guarantee, mind. But, seriously, that is a lovely shot, very 'natural' looking splay of track.
  4. Great project, and I look forward to developments. Still, resulted in a double-take. I thought I was looking at a giant 3D print of a locomotive boiler until I saw the stitching and realised it was a sofa.
  5. Bowlers hats ... When I served, I attended the annual Cavalry Memorial day in Hyde Park. We were expected to wear officers' out of uniform 'uniform' for such ocasions, a dark suit, regimental tie, rolled umbrella and bowler hat. It did not go down well when, seeing brother officers converging on the Park from various directions, Yours Truly exclaimed "bloody Hell, it's an Avengers convention!!"
  6. Yes, the MC&WCo-built LSWR carriages. The Third Brake and the Third are taken from the MC&WCo-built LSWR 1872-3 block sets. The LSWR-built ones were slightly different. The First-Second Composite is another MC&WCo-built LSWR carriage, of 1871-4. I believe 4 of these went to the IWCR at the turn of the century. The Luggage Brake is a freelance vehicle in the same style.
  7. Thanks to Brother Bluelightening at Oak Hill Works, some 1870s WNR carriage stock has been printed and is soon to wing its way to Edwardian Towers. Some additional chassis have also been produced with a view to using them with etches
  8. Adorable. My only cat joke is: Erwin Schrödinger is pulled over on the road by the traffic police. The policeman asks Schrödinger to unlock the car boot. The policeman opens the boot and looks inside. Then he says, "Sir, did you know there's a dead cat in your boot?" "Well there is now", replies Schrödinger.
  9. Apologies if this has been posted already, but the Utube Algae-Rhythm just chucked this one at me:
  10. Do you know when? According to the 1897 OS survey (if accurate) it appears to be single, but double by the time of the 1911 revision.
  11. This is another example of why, while I am just so bored by Hornby and Bachmann announcements these days, my interest is kept alive by the likes of Accurascale and, pre-eminently, by Rapido. Another three cheers. Aside from the odd L&M release (and laterly that range has included a lot of dross) I can say honestly say that nothing Hornby has announced since the Peckett W4 has made me feel enthusiasm. Bachmann's only interesting releases in recent years are things that commissioners have, eventually, been able to beat out of them. In general, though, it's just same old same old, or in the case of Hornby, yet another LNER pacific. I am jaundiced; toy makers who later learnt to make some very good models (others less so), but who seem to lack imagination, passion or originality these days. Hornby in particular has been a lazy copycat and milker of ancient dross, while the most interesting thing about Bachmann's most recent announcement was the company's questionable use of the Youtube copyright strike system to silence a critic. Thanks to Sam's Trains for bringing to my attention this travesty meted out on a fellow Youtuber. Accurascale and Rapido, by contrast, strike me as passionate and enthusiastic model makers. That is unfair, no doubt, to many passionate and knowledgeable folk working for Bachmann and Hornby, but all I have to go on is the overall impression these behemoths create. That impression is, I would say, lacklustre. Let's hope that, instead of spoilers, the competition bucks up the sleepy old giants of the industry to be more creative (though not in the 'Basset Lowke' sense, Heaven forefend). In the meantime, Rapido in particular has developed a knack of coming up with interesting, exciting, yet also useful releases. What a great sequel to the MW L Class and the Port of Par locos in these terms. We never know what Rapido is going to do next. It's always worth hearing though. Thank you, Rapido, once again for warming my old, cold, bitter heart with the simple childlike joy your products engender. As something introduced in 1913, the fireless only just squeaks within my period of interest, but I am strongly tempted. l wonder how the earliest of these compared with the later-built ones? How early can you go with the announced versions?
  12. Finding real answers is hard though. Easier to kick back and think of those strong men running the Roman Empire!
  13. We might add to that summary concerns that the generality of more liberally inclined youth are (a) too concentrated in towns for the effect of their votes to reflect their numbers and (b) they are anyway relatively less likely to vote than the Old Haters amongst us. We've had a couple of by-elections here, both lost by Conservatives to Labour, but in both seats the right-wing Reform Party came third, both displacing the centrist Lib Dems and in one seat causing combined Reform and MAGA*-Tory vote to exceed the winning Labour vote. Labour will win the next general election. This will halt the worst excesses of the present government. It will not, I predict, effect real or effective change to solve the many deep-rooted problems we have. Labour is both too embedded in a broken and corrupt system and too fearful of its returning 'socially conservative'** core voters to be more than Tory-Lite, with an ironically less diverse cabinet than the current Loonies. * Here 'Make Albion Great Again' ** For which read 'xenophobic reactionary anti-wokist', if not even worse.
  14. That is a sufficient explanation of both the crew and the wagons, I accept, and the above would make a nice Grouping era train! It is the job of the modeller, I suppose, to find something more useful and persuasive to do with such collectors# issues to give a more early railway feeling!
  15. Hornby now have a colour image of their forthcoming OO gauge Locomotion. Apparantly that represents the extant condition, though whether adifferent true 1820s appearance would beknowable or much different, so far as is known, is another matter. No 1820s chaldrons in the offing? Not so far, and, certainly there are already voices proclaiming that, if it's not 100% accurate for the 1820s one may as well run anything with it, so Accurascale chaldrons will do. I find that unsatisfactory. I note Hornby continue to believe that drivers and firemen of the 1820s-1830s wear top hats! Possibly on opening day...! Even then, though, Hornby seems to have dressed the crew like the gentleman spectator at the front of this illustration, with tall round hat and swallow-tail coat. Actually, even en fête, the crew wear short coats and different hats; the chap on the tender with the typical John Bull titfer.
  16. On a practical level, I have my work cut out trying to secure my future at that of my kids in terms of a reasonable chance at economic survival. Though, I have considered a YouTube channel, on the basis that screaming into the void might prove cathartic!
  17. Well, perhaps you could just try stoning them? Welcome to my parlour, said the spider to the fly
  18. Ask them if they've been asleep for the last 14 years, if not, ask them how can they face getting up in the morning or look at themselves in the mirror, let alone have the temerity to knock on your door and beg for your vote?
  19. I have railed in the past about laws restricting the right to peaceful protest .... Today we learn of a proposal to add to the Criminal Justice Bill currently before Parliament to empower police in England and Wales to arrest protesters who cover their face in a bid to avoid prosecution. What bothers me about this is that we know the police review footage of protest so that they can identify people for later arrest. Given that one can potentially commit an offence by merely inconveniencing people, that is a concern, but I also worry that this is a way simply to track people who go on protests, whether or not they are suspected of committing an offence. Further, people who scale national monuments could face a three-month prison sentence and a £1,000 fine. This is not vandalising monuments, you understand, merely climbing onto something is now an imprisonable offence. Bad news for Isobel...
  20. When Dean Swift imagined war between Big Endians and Little Endians over which end of an egg to crack, he meant it as a metaphor for the absurdity of religious wars. War literally over what one ate for breakfast would have no doubt struck him as too absurd. That bit's funny This bit less so. And in Gemany, of all places, there are reports of rightiwingers meeting to discuss theremovalfrom Germany of anyone not considered German enough. I seem to have heard that before. Mind you. on the bright side, it was mainly reported becauseof the significant protests against it. So there's hope....
  21. I am a left-wing collectivist extremist bent on giving ever more power to the State and to unaccountable bodies ... according to Liz Truss. Evidently this is because I care about the environment and want an inclusive society that embraces, inter alia, ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. Here was I thinking I was a boring old centerist trying his best to respect other people, be a decent person and wave my kids off to a happy life in a free country with the rule of law , a functioning democracy and a sense of fairness. Silly me. Actually, that just makes me some frothing, raving Marxist. Decent right-thinking people, on the other hand, don't believe in these things. Assuming that these "secret bigots conservatives" believe in the opposite of the things that "left-wing" extremists" believe in, they must want to disadvantage ethnic minorities and LGBTG+ folk, and to keep power with the unaccountable super-rich sovereign individuals and captains of industry and their corrupt cronies and client press. Obviously that would be better. Thank goodness someone has the courage to stand up and say these things. Take it away, Liz.... Unf-king-believable.
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