Michael Hodgson

1 minute ago, Wickham Green too said:

Carefully designed so that nobody gets run over  -  by the gate ! ( can you imagine the RAIB report ? )

but it's OK to bonk them on the head!

It should be obvious by now from this thread that common sense is not very common.

A Lincolnshire signalman told us that he'd seen a pedestrian turn up and having to wait for the train to pass, hung the dog lead over the lamp on top of the barrier.  So when the train had gone by, the signalman duly pressed Barriers Up - and the dog got hoisted !

I believe there used to be a sliding gate at Wolverton Works where the Royal Train was kept, because the road was at such a very sharp skew to the line.

1 hour ago, eastglosmog said:

Went into the Vets this morning to buy some more flea and wormer stuff.  Got told I would have to bring Tilly in for a check up before they could sell me any - apparently some change in regulations back in January.

An "improvement" in regulation that makes it less likely that animals will get such protecton.

Or a jobs for the boys rule.

7 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

It is an established principle of British government that a minister is not required to have specific expertise in the area for which they have responsibility; that's what their civil servants are there to provide.

Ignorance of the subject is a qualification for the job.

If they were competent in their field they would appear to be better qualified that the prime minister who appointed them, and therefore a threat to him.

4 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Both my parents and MiL had DNRs and I think that when the time comes, i.e., I know I am on the way out, I may well do the same. Which triggers the thought, how much further down that road is assisted suicide?

Sorry to raise yet another cheery little topic.

I'm off to the shed now to cheer myself up.

 

Dave 

In East Anglia they just stick NfN above their beds.

1 hour ago, Wickham Green too said:

Thus : -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJH77RRsHw#:~:text=This level crossing was the,off when trains are due.

 

Weren't there a few earlier barriers that rolled across on wheels ? - also up in the North East.

 

Yes there were.  They pivoted on a post like old fashioned gates, but looked like a picket fence and were motorised with a wheel that followed an arc in the same way.  I think they were confined to the North Eastern Region as was.

I've got a couple of kit-built Palvans, but I'm tempted as these outclass my efforts.

I won't be going for the Whisky one on bile green though.

3 hours ago, Pre Grouping fan said:

 

I don't know what paint manufacturer/code the MHR use for their BR Bauxite but it is very dark in my opinion. Almost looks like maroon in some lighting.

I thought they commented on the shade themselves in the announcemment.

1 hour ago, TinTracks said:

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/live-crash-redcar-level-crossing-29091392

 This just happened this morning. Not entirely sure that it's correct for this thread. The ''word'' is that the barriers, which slide across the road, were open to road traffic. Nobody hurt .

 Rich.

Motorist would still be at fault if the wig wags were working correctly. 

If they weren't it's presumably either a wrong-side failure or a SPAD.

This one must warranr investigation - it will be interesting to see the RAIB report which I assume will be produced in due course.

1 hour ago, AGR Model Store said:

So standard BR Rail Blue will be fine ?

Unless you want a green one!

52 minutes ago, Halvarras said:

After the usual RRP discount this should be available at around £7 above the price Hattons had  anticipated, which IMHO is reasonable for something this complex.

 

£76-45 at Rails.  I've already pre-ordered.

I assume the bogie wheelbase is too short to substitute a SPUD to power it.

2 hours ago, TomCrewe said:

Help Identifying Lamp Posts

 

They're those things you use for support after the landlord calls "Time Gentlemen please" ! 😁

They look to me like hand-built using brass tube and grain-of-wheat bulbs.  If they're too bright and smelling of heat, turn down the voltage.

If they were LEDs on 12v without a resistor they would have gone bang by now.

2 hours ago, br2975 said:

 

So, much as 'Joe Public' says 'shoot him' - this country as a whole (or should it be 'hole') is not geared up to dealing with police involved shootings, however justifiable the shooting may be.

 

That's because Joe Public still doesn't accept the decision by "democratically elected" politicians to do away with hanging.

Time was when villains didn't go tooled up to jobs because shooting the rozzers still carried the death penalty even after it had been repealed for bumping off the village subpostmistress you were robbing. 

I remember one of my schoolteachers who was a JP telling us that it still applied to arson in HM Naval Dockyards!  He also told us that hoped that if he ever needed to invoke the Riot Act he hoped the mob would give him long enough if he ever need to read it before they lynched him!

“Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King!”

3 minutes ago, Graham_Muz said:

 

Not so, the EFE Rail YOB is a new project from the ground up and nothing to do with the Hattons abandoned project.

I can't help wondering whether the abandoned Hattons work-in-progress got taken over by somebody who's now been beaten to market. 

I don't believe there's enough demand to support competition on this!

1 hour ago, Dagworth said:

 

Very happy with that, next can we have another run of freightliner flats please?

 

Andi

I'm not complaining given that there's a lot more new stuff in this announcement than I had expected.  All the same, isn't it about time somebody produced the short-lived "caboose" guards container that was built because ASLEF didn't want them on the footplate?

1 hour ago, ThaneofFife said:

Mind you the mk1s  get the new bogies with pick ups .

Presume the interior mouldings have suitable cut outs across the numerous bulkheads to allow a circuit board to be installed.......

Even without lighting, having pickups makes it easier to add a resistor so that the vehicle will operate DCC current-based detectors. 

Much simpler than mucking about with resistive paint on axles etc.

29 minutes ago, Halvarras said:

For me the EFE Plasser crane is of interest, as I had been seriously considering the proposed Hattons model before it was canned. Assuming the usual RRP discount this should be available at around £76, which would not be that far above Hattons' anticipated £69.

 

Yes, I'm delighted to see that.  I was disappointed that Hattons cancelled, but it felt unfair to criticise them given they had made a very sound business decision in that they believed it was not going to sell in sufficient numbers, based I think on expressions of interest.  So Bachmann/EFE have evidently arrived at a different conclusion, and they deserve to be right about that.  Either way they've got at at least one sale - to me.

1 hour ago, Graham_Muz said:

 

The EFE Rail  model is a completely new project  from the ground up and has no connection with the previously abandoned Hattons plan to produce these cranes. 

and a different choice of liveries.

Weren't they simply painted rail blue ?

And weathered with lineside muck - whatever was on the track before the days of controlled emission toilets.  No wonder they had the blues.

2 hours ago, 'CHARD said:

 

 You'll note they haven't reviewed the Beatles vans, for example!

Are they faithful to the prototype ?  I think we should be told.😋

Thanks for potsing those pics - it's been a while since I've been to York.

18 hours ago, Harlequin said:

 

The thing about "Railroad" is that it represents the core of what Hornby are/should be selling: basic affordable models for beginners. Hornby is Railroad and so it's very confusing for everyone to find Railroad as a separate brand within the Hornby offering.

 

To be fair, they've tried doing that in the past with badges like "silver seal".  We just treated it as what it was - marketing bullsh1t,

They might do better omitting the Hornby name altogether from their better products, and keeping that for the toys.  They've got other brand names they could use if they wanted, such as Oxford, Basset Lowke, RIvarossi.

..or even Hornby Dublo, though they seem to be using that as a sort of retro branding.

18 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

Another interesting point about 'recent years' Hattons is that they were clearly buying Hornby items out of the unsold stock mountain and no doubt at a substantial discount of.

if there's no longer a Hattons to buy large quantities of all that stuff Hornby can't sell ... the result will be very big stock figures on Hornby's balance sheet.

19 hours ago, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?sid=atmodels18&_pgn=1&isRefine=true&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l49496
 

Been looking at GraFar OO stuff, and I think I found out why it’s so hard to get a hold of… This guy seemingly has most of the supply*! Saw a good 16 listings for 8100s…

 

 

Looks like he's b*gg*red them all.