Judge Dread

Try "Cobalt" motors if you can get one. I have 11 on my layout and require 4 more. Everywhere seems to be out of stock but I can wait. 

www.dccconcepts.com is the place to try (usual denial)

As a retired electrician myself, my old boss would have said, "It's all work kid, either us or the fire brigade, it depends on who greats there first!". 

There is a "Sutton-upon-Hull" just up the road from here. Does that count for anything?

Will there be an "N" gauge version, and also DCC??

10 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Rain, thunder and lightning, Sunshine..what else can happen between now and dark???

 

Baz

The electric may go off, be prepared with a candle and a match!

On 22/07/2019 at 17:51, Grovenor said:

Its very easy to make up a DIY version that will do the job, use DPDT slide switches for the frog switching and make up a linkage with rodding.

Connect to the switch by drilling through the black knob.

Rgds

May I add my "2 pence" by pointing out that any drilling through a  switch should be as high up as possible, as inside there is a linkage with a spring around it.

On 13/01/2019 at 08:18, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

 They worked onto the LNER in Yorkshire on iron ore trains, so you are fully justified if that helps.

That would be the two of them I saw on York shed in about the late 50's. The locos (47972 & 47994) were seen on different times but in the same place.

My Silver Fox body on a Hornby 71 is due back from the paint shop at any moment, I hope!

A couple of years ago now, I took my wife, who has a "Blue badge", in my Citron Berlingo van to our local Morrison's to A, do our weekly shop and B, fill my van up with cheaply priced diesel.

As I stopped in the disabled bays, a person next to us proclaimed, "That's not disabled" for all to hear. My reply, at the same volume, was "It's my wife who has the badge, not the van, that's for transport"!

3 hours ago, newbryford said:

 

I once worked with a guy called Fred West...……………...

How strange, so did I. If yours wasn't in Hull, there's more  than one! 

I have had my moments with 3 link couplings on other peoples layouts and got myself into a real tangle to put it mildly. I resolved never to use them on any layout of mine.

Not so long ago I was given a full size shunting example that, on examination, reveled the reason for my problems.

  The heal is there to stop the couplings sliding down and every model example I have used certainly didn't have such a thing.

I hope this maybe helpful.

1 hour ago, Barry O said:

Return trip back home achieved. The M25 and M1 were very wet and lots of drivers  had no car lights on...

One accident passed on M1. According to her indoor a BMW facing the wrong way with a reshaped back end in the outside lane.

Further along we passed the lorry involved parked on the hard shoulder.

 

HH would a ma deuce or a 40mm gun but suitable if fitted to my car as an anti "lane hogger" device?

Her indoors notes that said lane hoggers were mainly women drivers.

 

Off to unpack.

 

Baz 

I think I can get my hands on an "Aden" gun pack, any good to you?

On 03/06/2019 at 09:48, iands said:

All things considered, logistically, it is probably the easiest solution to get the correct orientations sorted at the factory once all the construction/fit-out works have been completed, rather than rely on a body shell loaded on to road transport at the docks being the correct way round. I guess previous experience has taught them that lesson.

 

A friend of mine and a low profile member of this community was an apprentice serving his time at Eastleigh works quite a few years ago. He was sent to the coach building department and his first task was to aid whist one of a pair of a complete driving trailers of a  class 4-EPB was removed from the shop, towed across to the main works area and turned around on their turntable. My friend's comment ( no names, no pack drill!) was "Why don't you built them facing either way?" The reply was "We have always built them facing the same way and in doing so, they always come out the same!"

2 hours ago, Geep7 said:

Rushenden Metals, along with Chessington South have both played on my mind since I first saw them. I think I was lucky enough to see Chessington South at an exhibition (Tolworth Showtrain I think, rather appropriately if i've recalled correctly.) They are one of the reasons I really wanted to build an SR based layout with 3rd rail electric units.

 

One layout that really inspired me, is one that I was involved with, although not the construction. Twickenham MRC's N gauge layout Ravens Park was the first layout I ever operated at an exhibition back in my very early teens. I think my first exhibition behind the layout was one of the Imrex shows.

 

Other inspiring layouts for me include the previously mentioned Engine Wood (who'd have thought creating a fictional history for your model could be so much fun), Chee Tor, Kyle of Tongue and any of Peter North's early Rock Island line layouts. 

Chessington at Tolworth made us smile also. The number of members of the public telling us that our station looked just like the one across the road and then went outside to make sure that was true.

I moved on to Brockley Green SE4 and Meopham East Junction, and now I've made a start on "Meopham New Town" but keep that to yourself.

Rushenden (Metals) Ltd. was most certainly EM. A first attempt by a sub section of the Hull M.R.S. 00 group which we asked to be renamed as the 4mm section.   

We took it to 25 shows between 1990 and 1995, finally selling to a chap in the West Riding.

Have you tried using a file?

3 hours ago, Barry O said:

Ey up! Chuckinitdarn!

Cough no better but off to watch the rain fall at a cricket match.

Baz

Ey up thar sen, chunkinitdarn here as well. Sill it slakes the dust and washes the horse muck out of the tram lines!

John.

5 hours ago, Robert said:

Morning All,

 

It's a somewhat cloudy morning today, and rather chilly but apparently nothing unusual for the time of year.  They were saying on the radio this morning that the past few years have been so warm that we aren't used to such a cold snap in May.

 

 

Or they haven't got a way to restart it!  There are apocryphal stories of a Western left to idle in a set of London sidings for weeks because they didn't have a means available to restart it.

 

Have a good day everyone...

In 1963 the Hull to Withernsea branch line took delivery of DMU's. That was also that year of the very cold winter and the first  train from Withernsea could not be started, because it had been out there all night as a local living crew's duty. HQ issued an order to leave the train running all night but the locals soon complained about the noise in the early hours.

Just to close this story, I used to catch this service at the Marfleet station, in east Hull and one morning I could help but see the track and every thing else, was some what covered in snow. So much so that the train slide passed, wheels locked, to stop 50 yards or so down the track. The guard wanted us to walk down the track and as an employee, I didn't mind but there were two young ladies also waiting that morning. The train had to reverse for them!

Drive on the left or on the right? I have been lucky there, driving on the right instead of the left was only a problem when I came home, in that case Hull. Driving in mph or kph was more of a problem as my first trip abroad was from Hull to the south of France in a Morris Minor. My 1961 model only had a speedo in mph. I used the method of taking the number on a roadside notice and if it was 50 kph, I halved  that number and added a little, 30! I drove at about 28 mph to be on the safe side. The speedo below has spent a good many years hanging on my workshop wall as it is more than life expired.

As to Malta when we asked our driver taking us from the airport to our hotel which side of the road was used there, he told us most drivers favoured driving in the shade. 

Driving abroad has never really never bothered me, it's the return to the UK and having to remember to drive on the left again.

Here's a picture taken from the passenger seat of our Morris Minor in the south of France. My wife was driving for the first time and complaining the brakes were really bad but I explained the car had done just over 1000 miles and pulling a trailer as well.