Bucoops

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year chaps - you've not managed to tempt me in with anything just get but plenty of time

91 *cough*

Yes I know - not doing it was good business decision

1 hour ago, Roy L S said:

Are we to assume all announcements will be OO?

I'm hoping for Ooh!

20 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

So no stable for the shunting horse

 

 

One day you will get your wish

20 hours ago, Headstock said:

 

Good evening Tony, 

Ho, Ho, Ho. Well, I'm not feeling very unwell, I hope I'm not isolating for a flipping cold!

 

Andrew, have you done any tests? Nearly all my immediate family (Myself, my wife and daughter, my parents, my mother in law, both sister in laws and one of their husbands) all had new coughs, sore throats, sneezes - pretty much textbook cold symptoms but also this new variant symptoms too. Covid was tearing round my daughter's school in the last week or two of term.

Yet every lateral flow and even a couple of PCRs when children in her class tested positive have showed consistently negative. I saw something about an estimate of 50% of "colds" at present are this new variant. Maybe the tests don't work, but with them all negative we have carried on regardless.

Merry Christmas all, especially Tony and Mo.

Thank you for another year of keeping us entertained and in check. So many hours spent reading instead of doing what was supposed to be done - and all well worth it!

I hope everyone has a safe, enjoyable Christmas.

Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year

Time off? Rude, get drawing things

2 hours ago, westernviscount said:

Thanks Headstock,

 

I will take it that a bailey's is in order either way. 

Mmm, Baileys...

Sorry, what was the question?

This one has the Shell logo on  (Does Anglo-Dutch count as a UK fuel brand?) - 

And a BP logo on an ex-BR Cl14 - http://www.scot-rail.co.uk/photo/scaled/23151/

Do they all have to be for liquid fuels? Coal is a fuel and there were an awful lot of NCB marked locos

16 minutes ago, Aire Head said:

The RAIB report has been published today for the collision between a Class 20 and a stationary train in Grosmont station back in September.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safety-digest-082021-collision-at-grosmont/collision-between-a-locomotive-and-a-passenger-train-at-grosmont-21-september-2021

 

It's an interesting read but the last paragraph is quite surprising to say the least.

 

That definitely raised an eyebrow. Hopefully (and I have no doubt) they will learn from this and be a better railway as a result. I do enjoy a nice trip on the NYMR, it comes across as a very professional railway.

On 18/12/2021 at 18:25, Kier Hardy said:

I hope this is of interest to some of you..... it certainly was to me. I might just have to get myself a model of Ladas and convert it to EM gauge, even if it is out of my usual era of interest.

 

Seasons greetings to one and all. Best wishes, Kier

 

Thank you @Adam88 for quoting Kier Hardy's post - somehow I had missed it.

What a lovely find - clearly a man proud of a job done well. I enjoyed reading all the articles and letters.

I saw it as well, but fortunately spotted the holes in the etches so looked closer. I didn't spot the seller though!

Interesting place for an electricity substation - over the tracks!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/York/@53.9651233,-1.0899168,55m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4878c340e19865f1:0x4774ab898a54e4d1!8m2!3d53.9599651!4d-1.0872979

A few hundred yards further down the line from the short single bit.

5 minutes ago, Obsidian Quarry said:

It's wonderful to see progress being made with the real loco.

I really do hope this project still goes ahead one day. While I'm not big on "modern" locos I will always happily open my wallet for the badger.

Same here. I have no need for it, but neither to I have a need for a 37 or a 55 and I have one of each on order

This is how I do them (other more correct ways probably available but it works for me!).

As Mick above says, use a pin hammer (aka a small headed hammer). Put the rivet with it's head down on a suitable surface, lay the metal parts over that are to be riveted together, then get a piece of paper, I use post it notes, and press it over the end of the rivet so the end pokes through. Two purposes for this - firstly so you can rip it off later so there is a small amount of play, and secondly, the paper holds the assembly in place while you tap it with the hammer.

An example of a pin hammer - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amtech-A1100-Lightweight-Dropforged-Hammer/dp/B004QDU35Y/ref=asc_df_B004QDU35Y/

16 minutes ago, Accurascale Fran said:

 

God, don't say that. People will start saying "They know what they're doing." next!

 

Cheers!

 

Fran 

Oh don't worry, no danger of that - TWO GWR models but nothing LNER? What's wrong with you?

44 minutes ago, Accurascale Fran said:

Hi Shed,

 

We're offering a shade under 50 different headcodes for the customer to install (48 in fact), which includes a pair of "0Z00" for light engine moves. Plus Porterbrook 9016 will come installed with often seen "dot dot 16" and "1Z16" headcodes at either end, while the preserved pair of D9002 and D9009 will come with "1Z55" and "0Z55".

 

We can’t offer every single one, but it’s a good cross section and if you want to customise further you can always get the scissors/scalpel out too.

 

Hope that helps!

 

Fran

 

 

It's *almost* like you've put some thought into it,

More than one way to use a locomotive to power things. https://gizmodo.com/that-time-a-canadian-town-derailed-a-diesel-train-and-d-1846307148

I bet the 47 wasn't driven down the road to get there Titfield style

This made me feel old - it's getting dangerously close to people joining where I work that were born AFTER I started there  

2 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said:

Spot the Bucoops! 

I've got a brand new combine harvester and you can sod right off

5 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

 

Threshing machines were prone to catching fire - it looks as though this one did! Dry, overheated bearings surrounded by chaff are a recipe for spontaneous combustion.

 

Only a couple of years ago, I encountered a modern tractor on fire from the same cause. Fortunately, I carry an extinguisher in my car, and no significant damage resulted.

 

CJI.

When I (briefly) worked on a farm, the general rule of thumb was if it's a tractor, try and drive it to somewhere less flammable than a field full of crops and bail. If it was the combine then you get your skinny butt back to the yard as fast as humanly possible whilst screaming over the radio "Incoming, get the hoses ready!". Both happened while I was there, the combine was worth significantly more than a tractor hence the daring dash back lol

Literally everything crossed for you. What a saga

57 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said:

Bloody silly place to put a railway in the first place!

Why else do you think it's called the Get Wet Regularly?

2 hours ago, TinTracks said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284564683768?hash=item4241607bf8%3Ag%3ABHcAAOSwSNphtLoa&LH_Auction=1

 

Just in case anyone  is looking for stock to run on that circle of track underneath the Christmas Tree,

here's a couple of carriages with what looks like winter weathering (and they're vintage too!)

 

Regards, Rich

Ah the ole Tippex factory internal user coaches. Obviosuly been parked under some trees for a number of years too going by the roof colour.

8 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

"PETE WATERMAN HAND Signed Autograph 10 X 8 Photo Record Producer & Songwriter - £12.99 | PicClick UK" https://picclick.co.uk/PETE-WATERMAN-Hand-Signed-Autograph-10-X-8-124231809938.html

 

Well, that IS interesting....

 

 

Does Mr Waterman only sign things when drunk? Might explain "Mel and Kim" and "Sonia" amongst others

1 hour ago, Bucoops said:

Can we have 8O08 please?

Not sure why people are laughing - it was the 8 times daily Express Milk. A very important train hence the Deltic haulage. If it didn't run, you could hear the end customers screaming from miles away.