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2 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said:
Flying dinosaur poo? Bird sh!t, then!
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1 hour ago, Hroth said:
Must admit it's "rare" in the sense that I've not seen a Nellie/Connie/Polly/27 painted quite like that before! But to describe it as New is a bit of a deviation from strict veracity...
But I have. Looks very much like my old Triang Nellie did after I painted it 55 odd years ago!
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The remains of a bridge over the East Gloucestershire Railway at Alvescot. The bridge structure and the hump in the road remains, although infilled some 10-15 years ago. The fill settled a bit, though, and voids had to be infilled with foam concrete last May - hence the new patch of tarmac.
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5 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:
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Another part of the problem is poor understanding of or inability to interpret statistics; that does need to be addressed at secondary level and require the resources to recruit, train, and retain maths teachers, so is a harder nut to crack. Also, it's not so much in the interests of politicians!
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Rant mode on..
Darell Huff's "How to lie with statistics" should be compulsory reading for all secondary school pupils. Unfortunately, as relevant today as it was when written some 79 years ago (which would be a disappointment to its author). Far more use than all this Shakespere/Thomas Hardy stuff.
Rant mode off.
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8 minutes ago, melmerby said:
So they are having to do 3 more years than if they stopped at 16..............
Only if they can't do subtraction, otherwise its only 2!
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8 hours ago, PhilJ W said:
Could be worse, subtraction.
Will this be the consequence of Mr Sunak insisting children do Maths until they are 18?
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Sound advice, as the gate is shut and padlocked.
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I am not the best person to ask about such things - the slightest sign of damage to Tilly and I am off to the Vets with her!
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15 hours ago, Grovenor said:
This would only apply if there was open ground behind the buffer, and even then my experience was that the rails were normally fishplated to the approach track. Maybe things were different in South Wales! On occasions where we had to have a track circuit on the approach and hence replaced the fishplates with Permalis to avoid the buffers causing a short it was common to find the Permalis broken after the buffer was nudged.
The far track for the buffers at Fawley (SR) in 1967 had proper fishplates and the nearest set were on a substantial length of track .
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On 24/12/2022 at 17:12, AY Mod said:
Think yourself lucky you weren't living next door to me last week David when the office alarm went off at 3.45 and it's extremely loud. A quick look on the security cameras, get dressed and leg it down there to turn it off; that still took five minutes. The cause? The bell batteries running low; how helpful! Many apologies to neighbours the next day, none of them heard anything - or they're just too polite!
One of the best parts of becoming (semi) retired last September was relinquishing my post at the top of the call out list when the office fire/burglar alarm was activated.
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Limerick Junction in Ireland? All trains had to reverse into that before 1967.
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57 minutes ago, rockershovel said:
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Dickens spoke from the heart, to the heart. It was a time when imprisonment for debt was much feared, for good reason; when religious dissenters were excluded from professional and social opportunities ..................
And the social exclusion of dissenters was arguably the force starting the railways and modern iron making with coke, as both the Pease's and Darby's were Quakers, so spent their money on more useful projects than social climbing.
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Aargh! Just been to visit my mother. Local brass band playing Christmas carols flat and slow. Made "O little town of Bethlehem" sound like a funeral dirge. They all must have cloth ears.
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3 hours ago, Jol Wilkinson said:
Err, LNWR Coal Tank? I don't think so.
Another seller who doesn't know what he has got and is rather wide of the mark with the description of it's condition.
150+ years of public education and people still can't read what is printed on the box?
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5 hours ago, Nick C said:
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Or worse, perhaps - castles next to canals, perhaps with an aqueduct thrown in for good measure? That wouldn't happen in real life...
No aqueduct, but how about Oxford? Two stations, canal, Castle and a river thrown in for good measure!
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The Lyddle End thing does have a prototype in the steam powered Fellows Moreton and Clayton boats used principally on the Grand Union canal, towing an unpowered Butty boat. The forward cabin of the pair contains the steam engine and the rear one was living accommodation . See here for what one actually looks like: https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/55/president
When worked intensively pulling a butty or two, and with the low pay and long hours that barge people endured, they did pay their way in the 1910-1939 period. However, Diesel engines made steam totally uneconomic, taking up far less space that could be used for cargo and doing the job better.
On bad models of canals, I remember many years ago that Mike Sharman (who really should have known better) made a model of a canal lock with a railway tunnel passing through it!
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Frankly, I wouldn't give 10p for it. Its an appallingly inaccurate model. Would ruin any canal scene.
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16 hours ago, Hroth said:
But portable engines have four wheels, even if none are driven. Otherwise, they wouldn't be portable...
B. J. Kemp, of St Neot, Cornwall should be ashamed of himslef!
I think it is small enough to pick up and port to the metal recycling bin where it belongs!
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7 hours ago, John Besley said:
Looks like it's cobbled together out of plumbing offcuts, Singer sewing machines and Mamod wheels...
Now that's a thought .... I've got numerous bits of scrap Mamod and Wilesco bits... I wonder
Just to be pedantic, should we tell him it is a stationary or portable engine, not a locomotive (or even traction) engine. Like it does not have any driven wheels that could propel it anywhere.
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9 hours ago, MrWolf said:
Here's another favourite, the "Pro built".
It doesn't say which particular pro, it must be a rarity though (hence the starting bid.) I can't think who has built it, all the pros around here are more interested in heroin than model railways...
"Please view all photographs. The photograph is the actual item you will be purchasing." So all you will be getting is a photograph of the model, not the model itself?
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1 hour ago, TimberValleyRailway said:
I read somewhere I think it was a modelling magazine that White paint wasn't invented until the 1960s, when ICI invented it. No idea if that's true, but if it is, then it certainly wasn't early 20th century......
That would be non-lead based white paint. There was plenty of white lead based paint before that - most railway companies plastered their carriage and wagon roofs with it - which then turned dark grey in the sulphurous atmosphere.
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Happy Christmas everyone
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I wonder if he has got the tenders mixed up? This one is said to be a runner but has no visible gear wheel on loco or tender!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304736918858
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304736920309
If I was bashing an 0-6-0 into a Fowler 0-6-0, a GWR Collet 0-6-0 is not where I would start from!
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EBay madness
in Ebay Topics
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I see it was updated on 1st April - seems appropriate!