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Richard Hammond's not ageing so well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55948782

1 hour ago, Natalie said:

Whilst undoubtedly good news and still early days, is there an intention to continue to invite specialist societies as occured with the Warley event?

 

For full disclosure I am both the Exhibition Stand Organiser for the Signalling Record Society and a member of Warley MRC.

We'll need to start the foundations with the big building blocks of layouts and trade then move towards societies and demonstrators in due course.

22 minutes ago, stewartingram said:

Otherwise their is a more frequent regular bus or two on the lhs, uselful if you are an official Grumpy Old Git with a free bus pass. I think (but check) 55 is one of them, and possibly stand A3 or A4 - I've always thought those numbers are significant, but do check.

Looking at the bus maps it seems to be the 66 which you'd need to get from Frenchagate and get off on the last stop on Town Moor Ave before the bus turns NE into Sandringham Rd.

It's then 400m to the racecourse entrance.

29 minutes ago, Phil Parker said:

It's all happening!

Fake news; I can see people in short sleeves - can't be Doncaster in February.

12 minutes ago, eastwestdivide said:

I’ll just follow the rucksacks!

The safest bet; sorry, we don't know until the last minute.

All fine yesterday; all fine today.

https://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/

A little reminder to save a date when you walk in tomorrow.

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"My mate says it's cancelled due to snow".

No it flip'n isn't; there's no snow in Doncaster now and folk are starting to set up.

4 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

The white hard standing to the right is mostly Hospital park and Ride and can be fenced off.

To the best of my knowledge I've never seen any grumbles about the amount of car park provision over the years.

21 hours ago, Steven B said:

They need a bit more red on the Baguley-Drewry plate!

Ripe for an etched replacement...

The image was of one of the livery samples. The issue of the red paint density on the plate had already been identified and the factory notified for the production run.

1 minute ago, Mallard60022 said:

The Car Park opposite is going to be fun and it's still raining in Retford and is due to all day.

75%+ of the car park is hardstanding so it shouldn't be an issue for the majority.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5213624,-1.1072327,3a,90y,86.36h,68.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sToxW2GYbSq6vajywPD4GYA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

13 minutes ago, Carver Bridge TMD said:

i have no idea why the uploader is choosing to flip the image over, its the right way up on my phone

It's not choosing to do that; you're using your Apple device the wrong way round. Take pictures with the button to the right.

22 minutes ago, ColinB said:

they are millions in debt but ripping off their customer isn't going to get them far.

This is the sort of immature and naive comment I expect to see on Facebook. How is a business ripping anyone off if they are in debt and not making large profits?

Pack in the inflammatory statements please.

Advance tickets can still be booked today - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-festival-of-british-railway-modelling-2024-tickets-722011404547?aff=rmweb

Don't forget to pick up a free issue of BRM.

1 minute ago, Nig H said:

Hi, how long does the shuttle take, and what is the frequency.

 

 Thanks,

 

Nig H

About 10 minutes and about every 30 minutes.

7 minutes ago, AMJ said:

I wonder if the coaches will be announced as moving to maker X.

It's already been covered that the Genesis range of coaches will move to Rails of Sheffield.

16 hours ago, McC said:

Good news though, the Shopify issue is resolved and all Uk orders will be imported tomorrow morning. 

Happy to report that my (next) little green AB seems to have teleported through the wormhole successfully now; either that or it's created a parallel universe as it's still in the Widnes pre-orders. Just to ensure that there was no likelihood of being charged at that end due to any system issue I cancelled the order on the Hattons side (confirmation email received too) now I'm happy it's appeared on Accurascale's system.

18 minutes ago, G-BOAF said:

Well you picked the prices of the models before Bachmann was taken over.

They weren't taken over but the apocalypse to which you refer was around 11/12 years ago now when the Chinese government mandated businesses to increase their labour rates (akin to minimum wage in the RoW) which involved a reassessment within Kader of the labour apportioned to each division and products as, evidentially, Bachmann Europe as a subsidiary weren't being charged for all of the elements involved in the cost make-up leading to what was perceived as significant increases. As an example, some products from before that time such as the autoballasters then became unviable to accurately price given the retail distribution model.

The two functions shouldn't be connected but will have arisen as a consequence of the update. However, my notifications have still worked.

I have run a cache clearance on the server to see if that cures the issue for you. It may be worth logging out and back in again if it persists.

18 minutes ago, Pmorgancym said:

Surely then quartering the traffic to the site and making it less appealing to advertisers?

Four quarters is the same as one whole; I like to think I'm aware of aware of our traffic levels and trends. Normally I can predict* our peaks and troughs through the course of the year based on events, the weather and which way the wind is blowing.

*Apart from pandemic surges and Armageddon week last month.

1 minute ago, newbryford said:

4x as many moans all coming at once

All saying the same thing. 😁