dave750t

6 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

 

Behave yourself.  Most of the BBC researchers will be back at school following the Easter break😉

A bit unfair. It's not as though the story is about a particular piece of track that the picture is purporting to show. It's just a nice-ish stock photo.

20 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

Never knowingly seen one.

 

Probably fine as long as they don't have those windmill things plonked on it for no reason. Now that would be a cliche.

 

 

Jason

So you're not familiar with the layouts of the great Dutch railway modeller, Driving van Trailer?

Only half facetious - try leaving the track power on all the time. More seriously, would some sort of electric fence work?

30 minutes ago, sncf231e said:

Less detail is no problem as long as there is more color

Regards

Fred

basic error. That tender was only used with the later, unstreamlined rebuilds.

It looks as though Dapol decoders have been added to the latest test releases of JMRI.

See https://www.jmri.org/releasenotes/jmri5.1.2.shtml

1 hour ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

 

I wish these people would realise that history is there and should be learned from, not edited to appease the sensitivities of the reader.

 

I wish some people would consider that "these people" might be sick to the back teeth of being presented with learning opportunities by, among others, p*ssed up middle aged men in fancy dress - "we love this village. Came for the scenery, stayed for the casual racism". There's plenty of opportunity to delve deeper into the history if you so desire without getting a demonstration outside the pub on a blank holiday afternoon. I have a good idea of what bear baiting looks like without seeing a live performance.

3 hours ago, 4069 said:

Has he any connection with railways? If not, why is this here?

 He appeared on Andrea Bocelli's track Funiculi Funicula on his 1997 album Romanza. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Miles_(musician)

27 minutes ago, Davey said:

YOU CANT CHANGE HISTORY!!!!

I don't think anybody is trying to do that. I find it strange that some people seem to get so upset when shameful events from the past are investigated. Surely the point is to learn from them and not make the same mistakes again. That isn't unpatriotic or disrespectful. Quite the opposite really.

1 hour ago, Phil Parker said:

 

 the Daily Mail doesn't know, or disapprove of those. Understanding history is essential if we aren't to repeat it.

The Daily 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts' Mail. I wouldn't house-train a puppy on it.

21 minutes ago, Hobby said:

It goes back hundreds of years before that I think you'll find! Perhaps being "holier than thou" only goes back to then... I wonder how many of those having a gloat have done the same or worse, most I suspect. 

The thing is, those gloaters haven't been ordering millions of people not to do what they are doing.

16 minutes ago, billbedford said:

 

Armagh is in Ulster, which is still in the UK, for now. 

Not all of Ulster is in the UK

9 minutes ago, russ p said:

a tshirt with a picture of the doner on!

Like this? 

Apparently it's a way to generate fake reviews. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54055669

4 hours ago, admiles said:

 

On the other hand I do have to remove (on a daily basis) large amounts of dog s**t from the path to my front door

A German shepherd craps in my front garden every morning. Today he brought his dog.

14 minutes ago, adb968008 said:

 

If they are risking their lives, its because they are threatening someone elses.

So they should leave the illegal loggers alone? Not resist criminal gangs acting with state connivance. In a lot of places in the world even just writing a letter to a newspaper can mean risking a bullet.

19 minutes ago, adb968008 said:

I dont see many tree huggers and greta’s out there.

There are more than you think. Many are risking their lives and liberty to prevent environmental destruction.

4 hours ago, fiftyfour fiftyfour said:

Or just accept that it's an outrageous waste of public money

Any money saved would be unlikely to be spent more wisely elsewhere. It keeps quite a few people in employment, it probably prevents some more polluting flights occurring, it's very useful to a number of people and gives a lot of pleasure to more people. I think this country is rich enough to afford it. Given half an hour, I'm sure most people could think of bigger and more outrageous wastes of public money

29 minutes ago, M.I.B said:

I do get angry when Fahrenheit is used in the UK.

 

I thought that the correct usage was Fahrenheit for hot days and centigrade for cold ones.

2 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

his alter-ego Simon Williams 

I believe he can do an uncanny impersonation of Justin Elliot. It's a pity he looks nothing like him :-)

8 hours ago, jcm@gwr said:

 

And not forgetting that it's less environmentally damaging to dig up

the coal locally, not transport it half-way round the world!

From https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/09/county-council-to-reconsider-cumbria-coal-mine-application ( my emphasis )

The proposed £165m mine would produce 2.7m tonnes a year of coking coal, for use in industrial applications such as steel-making, as opposed to thermal coal for burning in power stations. Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, told MPs last month that this meant the mine should be allowed to go ahead, as it fell outside government pledges to phase out coal for electricity.

But green experts pointed out that steel-makers would be forced to reduce their emissions too under the UK’s net zero targets, by using new technology, such as hydrogen. About 85% of the coking coal from the mine was planned for export, and there is no shortage of such coal globally.

It's the loco's birthday.

Might be a bit of a tough sell to visitors though. It's bad enough being fobbed off with a clapped out rattling DMU when the steam service isn't running.

26 minutes ago, Ian Morgan said:

you should also try the DigiTrains App for Android phones, which also connects to the JMRI WiThrottle Server.

 

 

 

Digitrains actually contacts via the JMRI webserver rather than Withrottle. Similar but different. See https://www.jmri.org/help/en/package/jmri/jmrit/withrottle/UserInterface.shtml

On 20/01/2021 at 21:42, Neils WRX said:

Flashing Lights

 

One question I do have is how I connect this to my DCC system? In the clip above its connected to a 12v supply but ideally I’d like to power it from the DCC bus. I guess I need an accessory decoder? Any suggestions?

 

Stay safe everyone,

 

Neil

I have done something similar to control platform lighting. I used the output from one of these decoders https://www.dccconcepts.com/product/cobalt-ip-dcc-decoder-fx-stall-motor-drive-2-way-output/ to operate a twin coil latching relay via a couple of diodes. I think you could drive a single coil relay directly. Connect your dc supply to the relay contacts or switch the dcc supply via a bridge rectifier to give a DC output.

I wonder if anyone can help provide some more information about this HO wagon.

I bought it because I have a family connection with the town of Dissen, where Homann are based but I've no idea of the era of this item of anything else about it.  I assume it's some sort of refrigerated wagon. Any idea what the little tower thing at one end is?

The Märklin catalogue number is 4891.