eastglosmog

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.

9 hours ago, Hroth said:

I'm impressed, probably for all the wrong reasons!

BTW, what the hell is a POA box?

 

POA = Price on Application?  Maybe you have to pay a lot extra for the box?

6 hours ago, PieGuyRob said:

Ah but is it a flower class warship?

Not unless Tashkent is some kind of flower in Russian. (Its a Tashkent class Russian destroyer of which there was only 1).

20 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 

There are a few dogs  (and cats) around here who learnt the hard way not to trifle with Tilly! Not that she was (or is) aggressive, but she wasn't going to stand for any nonsense in her own patch or even more with anyone who attacked her buddy Badger.

Would certainly render the line "to mar their hunting's sport" uttered by a witch in Purcells opera Dido and Aeneas meaningless!

Badger once took a bath.  As a kitten, he liked to walk round my bathtub while I was in it, until one day he discovered too late that he had grown too broad for the wall side stretch and fell in with a mighty splash! Jumped out pretty quick  via me and insisted on being toweled dry.

Well, I just hope nobody using the Windrush Line expects to end up in the pleasant West Oxfordshire towns of WItney or Burford or anywhere else up the Windrush valley.

The line was single in broad gauge days and in standard gauge until c 1906 (I think).  Had to be doubled on the landward side, otherwise would have had to move the sea wall out!  With the main road at the top of the cliffs, could not cut the slope back, so had to build the oblique arch to support the slope.

3 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

 

Locally, it only shows the "in town" ones.

 

Works for me, but you  may need to add the county (e.g. /oxfordshire ) after the uk to get it to work for your local area.

48 minutes ago, Nick C said:

What'd really help these days would be a clear, consistent and integrated website of all upcoming closures - rather than each council, and national highways, doing their own thing - and having them talk to each other so you don't get roadworks on a diversionary route from some other roadworks...

Try https://one.network/uk

On 07/02/2024 at 17:51, Tim123 said:

I think someone is stretching reality there.  To the best of my knowledge, the A96 is two or more lanes all the way between Fochabers and Elgin

11 hours ago, TT-Pete said:

Help! A cat is trying to adopt us!

 

This cat has been hanging around our house for the past few days, sits outside the living room and watches us through the windows and waits on the doorstep for someone to come out and pet him/her, headbutts your ankles and tells you all about it, clearly it wants to come in. It looks too well fed to be a stray so I suspect someone in the village is yelling "Puss! Puss!" outside their back door right now. Our girls are not impressed and Myla hides under the coffee table and growls when it's outside, she's already done a stress-wee by the back door as a dirty protest.

 

I'm of the "just chase the b*gg*r away" persuasion, but the wife is kinder-hearted and has already fed it a couple of times (a cardinal error I feel). I have posted on the village noticeboard, but no response as yet.

 

What would you do?

 

 

Catch it if you can and take it round to the vets or your local cat charity to scan for a microchip.  It looks well cared for and probably in the "Six dinner Sid" category, looking for a seventh dinner from you!

15 hours ago, RFS said:

Another one with daft AI-generated description - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145594386881.

 

It's a Bachmann Standard 4MT 75029 but you would never have guessed that from the description - 

 

"It is a replica of the BR 102 and features a tender, wheel configuration of 4-6-0, and a gauge of OO. The locomotive is from the brand B&R and comes in the colour black."

 

Plus a set of all-vertical photos!

To misquote Stroudley, I take it that must be "Improved Engine Black" or green to everyone else!

An example of a GWR occupation/accommodation gate across a farm track and footpath near Bledington on the Kingham-Stow section of the Banbury and Cheltenham, closed in 1964.

You need to go a good way down the 2nd page, but GWR.org has a picture of a 2000 gallon Duke tender on an outrigger at Penzance.

http://www.gwr.org.uk/no-tenders.html

1 hour ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

The mug must be big enough to hold a few Maine C00ns 😉

No Way! Tilly wouldn't even fit into a quart mug and shes not a very big MaineCoon.  You would have needed a gallon one for Badger.

16 hours ago, Tim Dubya said:

Cows milk is for calves and nobody else.

Well it certainly should not be used for making Yoghurt 🙂

Result of a recent visit to Ireland, the Kilkenny Hurling Club mascot:

These rails carried the mine tubs from the Knight Shaft of the Mogul Mines of Ireland at Garryard.  Last used in 1982.

Tilly is lactose intolerant and is banned from having any diary products.  All my other cats have consumed milk without any bother, though.

7 hours ago, ITG said:

As I hinted at in my original post, those kitchen cabinet hinges come in many different configurations.  I suspect the model used by @jcm@gwr is one that actually lifts the hinged surface away from the fixed base. (Not all similar hinges do that). Thus, that lift away keeps the rail ends apart, as they separate as they open.

I think these hinges are used for upward opening doors, as used, for example, on bedroom bridging units, rather than vertically opening kitchen cabinets doors. Or they maybe those used on corner unit doors, which are double hinged. 
i can feel a visit to a small independent kitchen fitter is needed to identify the right version.

Ian

I think the technical name is a Rising Butt Hinge, used to lift doors up over carpet, for example.

5 hours ago, MrWolf said:

 

Unlikely, they made literally millions of machine guns and ammunition magazines for our fighter aircraft, handguns, shell and mine cases and other sundry items whilst toy production was halted for the duration of WWII. They might have only made toys, but their manufacturing was pretty much state of the art back then.

 

Besides, has anyone ever managed to break one of their loco chassis by fair means? 🤣 

 

I don't know much about the Big Big locos, but I suspect either dodgy vintage plastic or foul play is the culprit.

Yes indeed.  I suspect the looseness of the wheels is an indication it is not in boxed condition, whatever they may say!