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I bet you're glad the Great Northern didn't paint their goods wagons in fully lined locomotive livery. It would be rather splendid though.
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On 17/12/2022 at 20:21, Compound2632 said:
No frills here:
[Embedded link to catalogue image of Midland Railway Study Centre item 32590.]
Of course, however sincerely the best wishes for the new year were meant, it did not turn out at all well being the last year of peaceful and civilised life for much of Europe. An exception to that being in the Balkans where hostilities had already begun.
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I too was sorry to read here of Chris Foren’s death. I never knowingly met him but I felt that I knew him slightly from his various contributions to ER and once during lock-down when he encouraged us all to listen to a talk he had prepared on diesel railcars. I suspect he might have been a champion harrumpher who could hold his own with the very best and that a parallel world exists where things are done properly, people do not suffer the ravages of time and harrumphing is not needed. Perhaps that is where he is now.
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6 hours ago, Caley Jim said:
If you ever have to write a letter to your daughters, you'll have to use a DL envelope to get all their qualifications on! One of the benefits of email!
One of my former employees has a daughter who got a PhD in Psychology and then went on to gain a doctorate. I asked if that meant I had now to address her as Dr Dr.
Jim
That sounds like a joke is just about to be inflicted on polite society.
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12 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:
Sadly 55 tons of Chieftain going one way doesn't overcome the recoil off the 120 mm main armament. Nothing really scientific evidence to prove it except a Chief can fire on the move from any angle without any perceptible change in speed or direction.
I've often wondered about the recoil on this Norwegian piece.
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52 minutes ago, PupCam said:
.... "Endianess" (made-up word?)
In a sense made up. It's from Gulliver's Travels and refers to Lilliputians eating boiled eggs little end first or big end first.
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5 hours ago, iL Dottore said:
Following on to my post above - when I was building the Georgian Terraced Houses (scratchbuilt) for my layout (there’s a number of posts on it, with photos) in researching them, I did an awful lot of reading and found out some very interesting things. One of which was that in London in the Georgian era, housing stock was often built on leased ground (most often a 99 year lease) and often using second quality bricks which were then hidden by the plaster facade finished to look like expensive stone cladding. They werent expected to last* (it's amazing how much has). The same can be said of much Victorian and Edwardian housing stock.
My parents' house was Edwardian leasehold and when the 99 years were up he was offered first refusal to buy the freehold. That was an easy choice to make as we could imagine that some unscrupulous soul would have have come in and jacked up the lease or started trading it to speculators. When the time came it also made it that much easier to sell. It was a very well built, elegant house and I think my parents chose it partly because they had both seen so much shoddy Gerry building in the inter-war years. It would cost a king's ransome to keep warm in 2022 though.
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5 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:
Sounds like west on something to south on I-81 to west on I-40 to south on I-75. How did you avoid Knoxville? 😺 Anyway your journey reminded me of:
Here's another take
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5 hours ago, iL Dottore said:
Back in the real world, Heidi also has these to play with:
and quite a few other toys besides.
INTERESTING HISTORICAL FACTOID
The Swiss have never been completely neutral. Even after the the defeat of the Old Swiss Confederacy at the Battle of Marignano and the subsequent declaration of neutrality in 1515, Switzerland was still providing plenty of mercenaries to European powers, though no longer pursuing an expansionistic foreign policy herself. The armed neutrality of today’s Switzerland was imposed on the country by the Treaty of Paris as a buffer zone between France, Italy, Germany and Austria - as the allies in the coalition that defeated Napoleon weren’t exactly all “lovey-dovey” with one another.
The Swiss were renowned as mercenaries well into the reign of George III and even served in the British Army (they had their own regiment: De Watteville's Regiment). Before the widespread adoption of gunpowder weapons, Swiss mercenary units were famed for their Pike warfare - which was particularly brutal. The Vatican’s Swiss Guard is the sole remaining (and legally permitted) Swiss mercenary unit.
Given the (justified) reputation the Swiss have for efficiency and organisation, perhaps it’s just as well that Switzerland’s foreign income is now based around banking, chemicals and pharmaceuticals rather than mercenary services.
pas d'argent pas de suisse
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The famous Alan Whicker interview from 1965 is still out there on YouTube, I didn't hear anything about the reason for the naming of Cat's Eyes but the story of driving home from the pub on a foggy night is told.
It was interesting to turn on auto captions (press 'C'), by and large it couldn't cope with Shaw's Yorkshire accent and idioms, Whicker's RP caused fewer problems but still caused problems. There's a shade of Python's four Yorkshiremen when he reminisces about going to London on a golden sovereign and getting accommodation for a shilling. It's also interesting to see Percy's healthy diet and life style.
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On 07/11/2022 at 20:30, Tony Wright said:
A Jamieson 'hand-cut' Stanier Mogul. Apart from a bit of a clean and oiling, this was fine (even though it can't have run for well over a decade).
It doesn't look very clean to me...
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3 hours ago, Tony_S said:
The stuff that makes bangs is ordnance as in Ordnance Survey. The maps were originally for accurate artillery fire should someone naughty like the French invade. Though I suppose some religious ordinances could be a bit noisy.
Speaking of ordnance and Ordnance Survey in particular did anyone else see this?
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49 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:
I could eat a scabby donkey at this juncture. Still sat in A&E
Once when working in the US my host provided burritos for breakfast. I explained this greasy delicacy to my father who asked whether it was donkey He was a well read man but I had to look it up.
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17 hours ago, jamie92208 said:
Good moaning at a suitably early hour from The Charente. I have nomidea what the day will bring as apparently I enter a new decade today and there are some rumours around of activities but the details are well above my salary grade and security clearance. I do know that the hens need to be mucked out. I know my place.
Jamie
Many congratulations Jamie. It is said that the days of our years are three score and ten, so it's all profit from now onwards.
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Brumas?
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2 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:
Then I had the guy come and measure for a new roller shutter garage door he is coming back to fit it on Tuesday afternoon. I have gone for insulated slats to try to keep it warmer in there for running unmentionable models at some point.
I am edging forward at a glacial pace towards having a layout.
Anything glacial will definitely need to be well insulated...
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29 minutes ago, Schooner said:
In other news, Laughs, Love and Loss in North Norfolk:
NFN
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On 05/10/2022 at 08:39, airnimal said:
Paul, we will have to see if the new prospective new members do join the S7 group. I do hope so as a few more in the North West can only good for the group.
After the Wigan show I have decided not to continue with the SER wagon but turn my attention to a wagon closer to my own interests that used the same size and type of wheel. I will try my hand at a special cattle wagon providing I can make the slats in the side look convincing. I have had a couple of goes holding the Olfa cutter at a 45% angle after marking the cuts at 1mm intervals. Once the cuts were made followed by a quick rub down it does show promise. So the headstocks have been cut out and drilled for the white metal buffers with an extra set for a possible tranship van later.
I use an Olfa mat cutter to cut bevelled picture frame mounts. The blade is double-sided so it cuts into the corners both ways. It's also useful for chamfering cork sheet for track laying.
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Whether or not you need to use Venn diagrams depends on which circles you move in.
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8 hours ago, iL Dottore said:
Sorry to ruin a good joke, but unless you have Monochromacy/Achromatopsia you will see some colours:
First, normal vision
Monochromatic colour blindness - which occurs (according to a quick Wiki search) about 1 in 30,000 people - so very, very rare...
a more common form of colour blindness
Additionally, in a class all of its own is Stroudleyism.
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1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:For dog lovers.
They don't show the bit where the dog snaffles the ice cream.
I was out one evening recently and i met a chap with a large, friendly-looking, stout, leg-at-each-corner type of dog whose breed I did not recognise. I asked him what it was and he said: "Labrador-Refrigerator cross".
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58 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:
Well the hire carvi have is a Renault Kadjar it seems a nice car but not ad solid as Vikingar the Volvo my Swedish tank.
There are plenty of electronic devices I just hope the wiring/electrical standards have improved. The 51 plate Laguna estate I had was dire for electrical issues.
I only have it for a couple of days whilst 3 Poles work their magic.
I must admit I walked (more floated) out of the body shop due to paint fumes
Of course 'solid as a Swedish tank' is only a relative expression otherwise it might not have bent so easily!
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Our first car was made by Austin of England.
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Early Risers.
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Remembering this post and, as I was in the area over Christmas, I was told that the dairy has been up for sale for a while. Apparently there haven't been any takers so production is stopping/has stopped and that the remaining stock will probably all be gone by the end of spring.