Adam88

On the L&Y cab doors leading onto the running boards were fitted to the fronts of the cabs of the Atlantics and some of the 0-8-0s too.

See for example these images from "Smugmug"'s web site:  Atlantic and 0-8-0 - neither photo showing the locos at their best - LMS non-cleaning policy in evidence.

Whether they were meant to be used while the locomotive was moving or not is another matter.  They didn't seem to catch on and I think Eric Mason made some adverse comments about their being drafty and rattly.

On 11/04/2024 at 19:53, Metr0Land said:

 

I note that the blue train crossing the bridge has Hornby-style corridor connections, probably tension lock couplings too.

18 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

Has anyone seen the awful, awful Pendragon Pictures version of it? It was being produced about the same time as the Tom Cruise version and I had high hopes, but it was just awful.

 

I thought they published BackTrack.

3 hours ago, airnimal said:

Thanks for all the endorsements, it is appreciated. 

 

I have now attempted to put the load lettering on with mixed success.  I got one side on perfectly in line but on the second side I got it wrong.  I tried to correct it but unfortunately I had to remove it. This left a badly marked bottom plank which I have had to repaint with several coats of thin paint. I will leave it now until tomorrow before trying again. Then it will need another coat of varnish to match the rest of the wagon. 

 

Another problem is I made a mistake on the chains on the end underneath the tarpaulin bar. The chain should be attached on one side of the bracket and then on to the tarpaulin bar's bracket it's self. It's obvious now I think about it but at the time I didn't notice it. 

 

We may have news on the house front. A couple have been around for the third viewing and seem very happy with most aspects, and they have sold there house and are ready to go. They are aware we are not going to let this house go cheaply so we don't think they will come back with a silly offer. 

I hope you made it very clear that all the wagons will be going with you and won't be included in the fixtures and fittings when you sell up.

Ladders can be unforgiving, or rather the terra on which they stand.  One company I worked for had much technical input and support from a man who was a world-renowned professor at a leading university.  Sadly he fell from a ladder at home and died so our company had to delve very deeply into his field of expertise to continue the work.  For many years we paid significant royalties to his widow but it would have been far better for everyone if he'd not come off the ladder.

8 hours ago, adb968008 said:

Another non railway related, but local pub the “Windsor Castle” had a car park sign saying “winsor castle”.

 

My little one many years ago thought the Queen used to frequent there.

Perhaps the signwriter had been using Winsor & Newton paint? 

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

The story I heard was that someone in the Air Ministry also had the idea of a jet engine and wouldn't pass details of Whittles developments further up the chain. As a result he had to register his work with the patent office to preserve his intellectual rights but where all comers  could view it. Almost as soon as he had registered it someone from the German embassy was there taking notes. That is why the Germans got there first with a jet aircraft.

Were you thinking of this man?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Arnold_Griffith

16 minutes ago, ChrisN said:

 

 

Apparently. so I was told, that originally Bread and Cheese hill got its name from when there were lots of Dutch living in the area.  The locals, got fed up with this, and dragged them up to the top of the hill, where they asked them to say, "Bread and cheese".  If they said, "Brot." they were thrown down the hill, as the Dutch did not pronounce 'bread' the same as the locals..  

That cannot be true at all, they would all be suffering from altitude sickness before they could say anything.

Perhaps they were used for WSC's cats, pigs and dogs?

11 hours ago, APOLLO said:

Ahh, Commentary, like the legendary Eddie Waring, whose famous lines were

 

“Up ‘n’ under”,

“Ee’s gone for the early bath”,

”It’s a full coat colder on the East Coast”

“You’re looking at one ton of rugby – meat, brawn, muscle, brain – the lot of it”

”It’s a knockout”

”Stop your kidding Australia”

“Eeee, he’s a pocket battleship.”

“This lad’s a butcher – but I’ve never had any of his meat.”

 

And his classic

 

"As the shadows grow longer" spoken during a floodlit night match !!!

 

Brit15

Not forgetting his famous: "... and straight into Low Moor sidings"

45 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

NRL  last night -  New Zealand Warriors VS Melbourne Storm, 25 seconds left on the clock, Melbourne trailing by 2 when this happened.

 

 

Is that good or bad?

On 08/02/2024 at 18:32, Annie said:

Morning Broad Gauge Cheer Up Picture:  Millbay Railway Station 1880s. From the collection of Malcolm McCarthy.

 

Well that confused me.  A quick first glance and I thought it was the usual complicated dual gauge trackwork but it isn't.  There's no narrow gauge at all and I think it merely shows the ungodly spawn of a single slip and a  regular turnout.  I have to admit that I've always found this sort of thing fascinating.

On 28/01/2024 at 22:27, PhilJ W said:

10 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Some years ago, the USA came up with a machine that filed off the hard skin from soles of users feet.

 

I believe it was briefly marketed as the Ped-o-file, before they realised their horrific error.

 

Not one of the advertising worlds finest moments.

I once worked with a Danish gentleman whose strongly accented pronunciation of 'PDF file' also led to a few raised eyebrows. 

2 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Good morning from the Distant (Signal) West. A golden shiny thing rose from behind the carn and seems to have made all the small people very chattery on their way to school

 

Dr SWMBO was up at 4am due to being unable to sleep any longer.  She has kindly left me a pile of dishes and pans in the kitchen but tonight’s meal is already prepared. 
 

She also just asked me something as she read through her various pages of interest on the web. 
 

“What does it mean to abe?”  
 

“Abe?”

 

I peered over her shoulder. Her command of the language (though not its grammar) is as good as mine so I wondered what she had found. 
 

“Abe. A - B - E.  Like here where it says Jennifer was abed before anyone else in the house”.  What does “abe” mean. 
 

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“It means she was in bed first……” 🤦‍♀️

“Were you mizzled by that?”

- “Mizzled”

-“as in misled” 

 

Welcome to Brain-dead Day

I don't know about Abe in this context but I was once taught the meaning of ABF, ABFF and even ABFFF by an old aviator.  Too many Fs would inevitably be followed by Brian-dead Next Day.  Never again!

2 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

 

Fix the problem by having an annual Summernats festival.  Held in the Nations Capital Of Canberra every year at this time, its 4 days of  precision car shenanigans, which allows our elite motoring cognoscenti  to  all gather in one place to discuss the finer points of their favourite automotive  marques.  

 

(Australian language warning)

 

 

 

Petrolheads are the same the world over.

Will Microsoft 365 work on Feb 29th?

DUI report: He choo-choo-chose the wrong way

DUI Express

Here's one from Virginia

Happy Christmas to all Night Mailers too.

Regarding book collections I spent some time recently cataloguing my collection using an on-line database called LibraryThing.  From my railway and railroad collection I see that I have nearly 400 of the wretched things, nearly a quarter of my books so far, and that's before I start on the reserve collection.  Life isn't helped by the fact that there are two very good s/h bookshops within ten minutes' walk of my house (neither of them are charity shops) and that my sister lives but a short drive from the notorious Welsh book town of Hay-on-Wye.  I find LibraryThing very helpful in many ways, it does a lot of what I want except actually reading the books for me.  Here's a small subset.

3 hours ago, Annie said:

... disappear into thin air ...

That sounds just like money.

1 hour ago, jjb1970 said:

I don't want to worry anyone, but there appears to have been a catastrophic climate change event over the last 24 hours which has triggered global Colding and darkening and which tells me the world is about to end. 

 

This is real, yesterday the weather was the same as it always is, a plenty warm 32C with healthy 100% humidity, wholesome skin cancer causing sunshine alternating with torrential downpours. Normal weather. Tonight it is freezing cold, and it was dark at 4 o'clock, unheard of conditions! I posit that during the flight to London the earth's exis of rotation shifted catastrophically, triggering global darkening and Colding. There's no other rational explanation, you can't argue with science!

 

The evidence is clear, the world is about to end and at this rate it's only a matter of time before something really bad happens,  such as Hornby using the wrong shade of black on their new black 5 model. I only hope that the SLW class 25 is delivered before the world ends.

Going the other way I was shocked to see that Orion had been turned over.  I don't know how that happened either.

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Thank goodness I had an electrician's screwdriver!

Come on!  Surely all you need is a Swiss Army knife?

2 hours ago, CameronL said:

Did you know that, under British law, Santa could be arrested for -

Driving while under the influence of alcohol

Speeding

Driving an unregistered vehicle

No road tax

No insurance

Violations of military and commercial airspace

Displaying a red light on the front of a vehicle

Breaking and entering

 

And probably a whole lot more.

However, fortunately for Santa, it's written into British Law that these things don't apply to him.

 

Look it up: it's called The Santa Clause.

Just to remind everyone, let me quote:

An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician are on a train Sentinel railcar in Scotland.  The astronomer looks out of the window, sees a black sheep standing in a field, and remarks, "The sheep in Scotland are black!" "No, no, no!" says the physicist. "At least one sheep in Scotland is black!"  The mathematician rolls his eyes at his companions' muddled thinking and says, "In Scotland, there is at least one sheep, at least one side of which appears to be black from here some of the time."

I would imagine that there was a high level directive banning them from running during the hours of daylight in order to spare the sensitivities of anyone who might accidentally see one.  The consequence being, of course, that to this very day little is known about their movements.