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3 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said:

I guess Hell will freeze over before it reaches 99p!?

If you peruse Dante's Inferno, Cantos 32 to 34, you will see that Hell has already frozen over.

1 hour ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Some of us round here don't recognise West Anglia either.  At least they've stopped putting that nonsense on our trains.  I mean to say, a WAGN train was something that used to get attacked by Geronimo.

 

And we still recognise Huntingdon as the capital of Huntingdonshire. 

My Geography teacher would have agreed - East Anglia comprised the Northfolk and the Southfolk and no-one else. 

3 hours ago, johnofwessex said:

 

 

Wasn't there a row when 60110 was used to haul a special for the WI?

 

Naming a modern train Lady Godiva with matching vinyl's anyone?

 

I'd be doing a Monsieur Alphonse (Undertaker from Allo Allo,)clutching my heart and keeling over

Was naming a loco Lady Godiva any worse than the Southern naming one after that famous Arthurian adulterer Sir Lancelot? 🙂

Mind you my class at primary school was named Lancelot but they never expounded on that part of his character................

2 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Here's a question for all of you who have cats - do any of your cats eat vegetables?

 

We've discovered that one of ours loves eating cooked courgette (cooled off, of course). He loves eating and we now use this to bulk up his food, as it has next to no calories, thus helping us keep his weight under control. The other one, however, can't stand the stuff...

 

 

Tilly hates vegetables.  She won't even eat them if mixed with fish.  I am careful not to waste my money on cat food adulterated with veg.

45 minutes ago, melmerby said:

What about the pound above, how do you drain that and keep it drained?

Every gate I've seen leaks, some quite badly, normally it doesn't matter as the filling/emptying rates are much higher than the leaks

 

Maybe to recover the Dali & the bridge remains they should drain Chesapeake Bay?😄

Sorry, wandering off topic again, but no need to drain the pound above.  The upper gate with paddles shut will keep enough water back to keep the water level up.  While the upper gate leaks, the leaks will not exceed the inflow rate to the pound above (well, not normally), and more importantly will be less than the outflow rate from the lock below if the latter has all paddles (and gates, if necessary) open.  Some water may come round the bypass weirs, but again can be dealt with by keeping the gates of the lower lock open.

41 minutes ago, melmerby said:

Even then it wouldn't be totally dry as there is always leakage through the closed gate.

Maybe it has been dammed to make a dry area for recovery

Not necessarily dammed.  The bottom gate is open, so could be any lock (above the bottom one) of a flight, with the intermediate pound drained through the next lock down.

8 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

I wonder how they solved that one?

I expect a crane would have been used there, just refilling the lock would result in filling the boat too!

 

At least its a broad lock with room to work.  A narrow lock would be trickier....

 

At the risk of being accused of more thread drift - at least it would remain upright and you could get a rope round the bows to lift it.

7 hours ago, Jeff Smith said:

Having watched the video I can see that this is a likely explanation from someone with relevant knowledge.  However I don't understand the sideways thrust explanation.  Surely, assuming the propeller is fully submerged, the side thrust in the upper arc would be counteracted by thrust the opposite way in the lower arc.....in other words each blade as it rotates would push first one way then the other....

From my days navigating narrow boats, the side thrusts are not equal.   From what I can remember, the lower arc does not counteract the upper arc exactly because of the greater water pressure on the lower arc giving greater thrust.

Hail, thunder and wind! Tilly is not happy.

For something that needs attention and lacks buffers, £159.56 is a bit steep:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195844949950

I've just bought a new one that runs perfectly and has all its buffers for £154.18!

55 minutes ago, Miss Prism said:

mass: 1.5 x 10^8 kg  (I'm guessing)
speed: 2.5 m/s  (I'm guessing)

kinetic energy = 0.5mv^2 Joules

 

That's a lot of energy...
 

I think you have underestimated!  It was doing about 8 knots, so over 4m/s.

36 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

 

Close up of bridge pier showing the treatment at the water level.  I doubt that it would be practicable to install fenders (as such barriers are called) that were independent of the bridge piers, so as to stop the impact load being transferred directly to the pier, in 50’ of water that were capable of absorbing the immense kinetic energy of a ship like that striking them.

 

Darius

Depends how much money you are prepared to throw at it.  The Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay (depth 47ft) has pier base platforms 55ft wide by 99feet long.  They were built for the new bridge, which replaced the old one which had been brought down by the MV Summit Venture in 1980, killing 35 people.

Worcester Foregate St has the A38 (Sansome Walk) going under it

Sadly not the first and unlikely to be the last case of a bridge being demolished by a passing ship.  Need hefty barriers around the pillar bases to protect them.

1 hour ago, kevsmiththai said:

 

Just think what the reaction would have been if it was a Flask train that derailed there?

 

Kev

It would be being peddled as an excellent demonstration of how safe the nuclear flasks are?

18 minutes ago, JohnR said:

 

Indeed. On similar instructions, I've sometimes seen a reference to the company where the colliery is located (eg GWR, MR, etc), which would suggest this was on the Caley somewhere in Scotland (so probably not Fife, then?)

 

Could easily be Clackmannan or Stirlingshire, both of which supplied house coal

9 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

As always, it's worth considering the type of coal ..... the Co-Op would have wanted good household coal ( rather than stem coal, coking coal, anthracite ) - was that available in Fife ?

The Fife Coalfield was high volatile steam and house coal, rank 800/900, so plenty of house coal for local supply. (My uncle used to mine the stuff.)

Time Team once did a reconstruction of early 19th Century surveying methods in

'Under the Gravestones' (Castor, Cambridgeshire) | Series 18 Episode 6 | Time Team

which is on Youtube at

Shows how they did it, starting at about 24:05.

They also had a reconstruction of Roman survey methods, but can't find that at the moment.

Tilly is 14 today, so after giving her he birthday treat of Salmon and Mackerel I recited the ode to a 14 year old cat to her (with the relevant gender change from the original):

A 14-year old convalescent cat

I want her to have another living summer
to lie in the sun and enjoy the douceur de vivre -
because the sun, like golden rum in a rummer,
is what makes an idle cat un tout petit peu ivre -

I want her to lie stretched out, contented,
revelling in the heat, her fur all dry and warm,
an Old Age Pensioner, retired, resented
by no one, and happinesses in a beelike swarm

to settle on her, postponed for another season
that last fated hateful journey to the vet
from which there is no return (and age the reason),
which must soon come - as I cannot forget.

Gavin Ewart (b: 1916)

No sign of any sun at the moment, but she is doing the sleeping and purring bit.

A disadvantage of having MaineCoons is that you have to have big cat flaps for them, and the rats fit! I am extremely glad Tilly has retired from the ratting business.

What a relief.  Marble has a magnificent set of whiskers!

But at least going westwards the track has ballast all the way to Newlands East, unlike the track over the Severn Bridge, which is on longitudinal sleepers with great big holes down which their wheels fell!

I believe that was someone trying to escape the Police.  Clearly doesn't know the area, otherwise would have turned the other way at the level crossing.

Class 172 on the 12:47 West Midlands service leaving for Stratford on Avon leaving Worcester Shrub Hill platform 1 on Wednesday 28th February.