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Hi Folks, One must be aware that upon occasion sports such as football descend into the realms of religion for the thick. The skill of the players is paramount along with the honour to be had in accepting defeat at the behest of a team which played better on the day are what really matters. Monied television rights, shiny trophies, and overpaid salaries are nothing but Fools Gold: Gibbo.

Hi Jack, Definitely Carnforth, the houses with the steeply sloping roofs are on Grosvenor Court and the hills in the background extreme left are those above Kirkby Lonsdale. Gibbo.

Hi Dave, What are you using for masking tape currently? I use Tamiya masking tape with generally good results. Gibbo.

Hi Dave, Turn buckle is the term for which you search, sometimes known as screw shackles as with screw couplings. The screw link coupling was invented by Henry Booth of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. Gibbo.

Hi ph, Not really, the driver had that under control immediately, the length of the slip is due to having a full steam chest and the steam has to be used up before either the regulator is reopened or the gear wound back in depending upon driving style. I would guess y the sound of it that the regulator was closed and then reopened rather pulling up the gear. I've been on big engines travelling in excess of 90mph and the wheels have let go and seen the speedo needle go right around the clock to read just under zero, nothing came of it. Gibbo.

To busy helping Frank Santrian shovel coal to bother with all that, Les Jackson was driver. If anyone looks closely at the drivers cab side sheet from that day you will note a small white rectangle, it was the company name patch ripped from my Riley & Son's overalls stuck to the cab sheet with grease. Gibbo.

Hi Mr Wombat, I agree, its a shame for them especially the ones that don't build their own models such as I do. Here is some of the absolute rubbish I produce from bits of old Trix body shells and incorrect pantographs ! Gibbo.

I found out by being on the footplate of the first big lizzie over Shap, on the up line, since the end of steam, beat that folks !

Hi Mike, Here is the Aberdeen Flyer with a Lizzie on the front: Gibbo.

Hi There, The more usual county for one of those at such latitudes would be Westmorland not Yorkshire. I don't know, what is the world coming to ? Interestingly the photograph taken from approximately Junction 38 of the M6. Gibbo.

Hi Folks, Hindsight is a wonderful thing, it certainly highlighted the inordinate rush that caused so much junk to be procured. Claytons, anything from NBL, even the class 25's were not that brilliant juxtaposed* with the 26 and 27 The better types were certainly four stroke EECo. with exception of the class 40 and the class 33 from BRCW. It is entirely moot as to how lion would have faired although with the success of the class 33 I would suggest that large numbers would have been good engines. Despite numbers built the class 47 got off to quite a ropey start and should BR have chosen DP2 in its original form instead of the overly complicated class 50 that arrived five years later then again things could have been quite different. Do remember that the original plans for electrification were considerably cut back from what was proposed. It is interesting to think that there could have been at least a couple hundred class 85's or similar rather than all of those class 47's if the ECML had been juiced up sooner. *A word for The Johnster's appreciation. Gibbo.

Hi There, That reminds me of when 45407 was derailed on the trap points at Bury Bolton Street about twenty years ago. As it was a mainline registered locomotive it had to have an ultrasonic axle test, and so the man from Derby turned up with his oscilloscope to do the examination but couldn't because he had brought with him the trace diagram for the axle of a class 45 diesel. Gibbo.

Hi Stephen, In simple terms the pivoting around the centre axle increases the incidence of hunting, therefore a long wheelbase two axle bogie will have a greater stability at speed. Gibbo.

Hi James, Plans yes, incentive no ! Gibbo.

Hi Darius, I found that by filing a longitudinal groove in the top of the bogie pivot helped by preventing the frame from pivoting as you describe. Gibbo.

Hi Steve I don't know about couplings as I made up solid bars and screw links for couplings however the buffer end were made up from plasticard. I'm not sure that the ones I did were 100% accurate but they are near enough for me. Gibbo.

At least one or the brakes would not have worked !!!

Hi Stephen, The increase in boiler pressure is more to do with the volume of energy contained within the head of steam created by the increase in temperature due to the higher pressure. Tractive effort is a slippery subject once the locomotive is underway and is dependant not just upon boiler pressure but vagaries of cut off and speed with the added consideration of regulator opening. H=E+PV. As for the Lanky Dreadnoughts the cylinder arrangement was used for the big lizzies in 1937 so they can't have been that bad in concept. Gibbo.

Hi There, Not entirely true as dimensional inconsistencies may include Bowing, Crooking, Cupping, Twisting, or all a combination of all three. Granted the moisture will enter and exit via the end grain rather more readily than by any other means this does not mean that wood will simply expand and contract across the grain considerably more than over the length of the grain. Gibbo.

Hi Folks, With regard recent posts, it really ought to be quite obvious to anyone that has any idea of what is going on: Gibbo.

Hi There, My experience of being "listened to by management" was that they miraculously, and eventually, came up with the same bright ideas that I had explained to them three months earlier. Once I started confirming my ideas via email the three month period strangely turned into a nine to twelve month period. As if within the extra six to nine month period I had somehow forgotten all about what my idea was in the first place, idiots !!! Gibbo.

Hi James, Looking good there, I shall have to see if my nearly started ones will match your results if I ever pull my finger out. Gibbo.

Hi Dave, I'm not sure although I've only have trouble with the ones that are moulded from grey plastic as that seemed pretty resistant to all of the glues and solvents I could find to apply. The ones moulded from black plastic seem to go together well enough after a liberal coating of EMA Plastic Weld. I would first apply to both surfaces to be bonded hold together tightly while applying more around the joint, a slight wiggle with plenty of pressure seems to get the plastic to form a secure joint. Gibbo.

Hi Folks, I actually manged to make a pair of class 142's into something slightly less useful !!! It has since been glazed, but not yet numbered. Gibbo.

Hi Clive, The above may well be the very reason JS Bach wore a wig ! Gibbo.