Bucoops

Ok, but apart from that, what has the GERS ever done for us? 🤡

1 hour ago, Pint of Adnams said:

If there was ever a loco that deserves to steam again...

11 hours ago, MidlandRed said:

These sorts of argument could be placed against other manufacturers - eg Accurascale v Bachmann class 37 - one immediately available, no payment up front, the other positively encouraging payment up front (indeed didn’t make it at all clear pre payment wasn’t the only method until fairly recently) and not available for some time, one a more major and long standing player than the other. 
 

I don’t recall these arguments being rehearsed in Accurascale and other announcements? 
 

I think anyone pre-paying a small company for something like this understands the potential risks to their cash, and makes their decisions on that basis. Each company has their own reputations and track records and that might assist in such decisions. 

The only Accurascale loco I have had to pay up front for was the Locomotion 37 - so not through them anyway - and I see that even Locomotion now offer a £30 deposit for pre-orders. I started buying when the Deltics were announced and that was quite some time ago and not had any issue.

13 hours ago, newbryford said:

 

 

From a previous AS post

No manufacturer warranty for second hand purchases is quite common

 

 

Totally understandable and you have to draw the line somewhere.

It's easy to understand why they didn't to an Eastern version - they saw the quality that varnished teak had, and realised that they couldn't do that as then nobody would want to travel on the other regions 😉

By grouping, the GE was using crimson as well mind.

9 hours ago, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266458182656

 

Not quite sure what loco this is…

 

Well it had better not say from a pet free home!

55 minutes ago, Pint of Adnams said:

 

Gresley tried to get the Superintendents and Passenger Managers to move away from that, for the reasons you mention, as far back as pre-WW1 GN days, and when he wanted to try steel bodies. The Superintendents and Passenger Managers remained firmly of the opinion that passengers preferred compartments and individual doors, even though the NER for example had built some very neat end-door opens, and would not be swayed until well into the 1930s and long after the LMS and GWR.

It's frustrating for me all these years later - how many extra door hinges, handles and commode handles I have to do as a result 😁

No doubt they deliberately didn't mention that prior to the end door design, each compartment had it's own door on one side, and there were several doors on the corridor side - e.g. D21, D23 and D115 TKs had 4 doors for 8 compartments. Presumably returning to that style was ruled out due to cost and structural integrity reasons.

I umm'd and ahh'd about voting for Ivor but realised that yes I would buy it.

I've always assumed the paint peeling off the door is warning enough.

4 minutes ago, goldfish said:

One of those side projects that took on a life of its own.

Kind of like tomato plants in the 4ft then?

Not wanting to dig my hole any deeper but there are a few LNER works photos (I don't own copyright so won't post them) that appear to show them as frosted rather than white translucent - that could of course have been changed before they entered service.

10 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

That's the hard up LNER for you. Small classes of specialised locomotives generally came in fives - two up, two down, one spare. This is especially noticeable with GNR(I) 4-4-0 classes.  

4 locos for 1 train though. When the Coronation came along that had one each way (plus the West Riding, and a spare set) but the Silver Jubilee was one set. They used the spare Coronation/West Riding set when the Silver Jubilee was out of action.

9 hours ago, Porkscratching said:

Made a bit of a social / communal thing out of it too by the looks... 

 

Looks like they had curries back then too. 

There's a crop of a quite well known photo on this page, said to be from 1937 which shows one of the Silver A4s on regular stock:

https://www.steve-banks.org/prototype-and-traffic/133-teak-coaches

Thank you, Tony. I wonder what the purpose of making them white was then?

20 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

 

My pleasure, 'coops, we strive to please!

We aim to please, and frequently miss.

Hi Tony,

I *think* only toilet oval windows were white? Corridor ones being left clear.

1 minute ago, PaulCheffus said:

Hi

 

That's not tracked in the way that Royal Mail 24 / 48 or special delivery are. All it means is that you have proof of delivery nothing more.

 

Cheers

 

Paul

Ok, but you have to put the number in on the "track your item" page on their website so from the consumer point of view, it's tracked.

1 hour ago, MJI said:

A well known A3 is visiting Worcester tomorrow.

 

Not that bothered as I have seen more exciting ECML motive power.

 

Most recently RHF, previous was Bittern.

 

Is it strange that I am slightly ambivelent to A3s, but like A4s and 55s?

I would take a lot more notice of FS if they made it look like an LNER loco again instead of the current guise. I know it's a controversial opinion either way with so many people who "knew" the A3s in that format, and that it wouldn't be accurate to be 4472 as an A3, and it is more efficinent as-is but I simply don't like how it looks at all.

Equally, give me an A4 with valances.

I do like a Deltic though. Not in purple mind.

The Missis found a couple of grey hairs on my head last week, I am officially a grumpy old man. Hmm.

Traditionally I have used a damp sponge - maybe 30 yearsish. But my new iron came with a brass wool pot with a rosin layer at the bottom. So far, so good but it's only been a couple of years so to early to tell.

1 hour ago, PaulCheffus said:

Hi

 

That wasn't a tracked service as such and is what you get with just a proof of posting.

 

Cheers

 

Paul

The franked label said Signed For.

26 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

Depends on whether the *rsehole it came from was narrow gauge or broad gauge...

 

When the service HSTs were first introduced on the WR back in '77 (I have no idea what happened on the ECML)_, their toilets flushed out on to the track in the traditional way by means of Newton's First Law, and in fact there was some comment that track pollution should be less as the 'product' is spread more thinly at 125mph.  The outlet pipes were, however, bent towards the centre of the coach so that it could avoid the inner axle of the bogie they were sitting (S I T T I N G, no H) over. 

 

The HST was a wonder of engineering and a triumph in every respect, the train that saved BR, but the wonderful engineers had overlooked that, in some circumstances and particularly in tunnels the back pressure up the forward facing outlet pipe might result in, um, getting one's own back so to speak, and the trains had not been in service for long when this unfortunately happened to a rather sweet elderly lady who didn't in any way deserve it, poor thing, on a down South Wales train in Alderton tunnel.  Oh, how we laughed...

 

So the pipes were all removed over the next few days and replaced with straight-downers.  That at least prevented the back-pressure problem, but meant that the discharge was on to the axle.  A deposit of the product mixed with wet toilet tissue would accrue on the axle, and dry rock hard in the 125mph winds, and it was some poor 's job to go under when the set was being cleaned with a hammer and a chisel to chip it off.  Lovely job! 

I should not have read that whilst having a drink. New keyboard please.

50 minutes ago, Dylan Sanderson said:

Evening everyone,

 

Just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction to an online/mail order supplier of P4 loco wheels? Only one I can seem to find is Gibson and I've had a bad experience with them in the past, so want to avoid them.

 

Many thanks,

 

Dylan

Hi Dylan,

The only other manufacturer I am aware of is Ultrascale - https://www.ultrascale.uk/eshop/products/CAT006

They are also friction fit, if that is your issue with Gibson. They have quite long lead times.

2 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

 

So long as it stays level and doesn't suddenly lurch further downwards...

 

BTW which particular level should we be concerned about?

Just asking..,

 

 

Level number 2 I guess?