KeithMacdonald

WARNING!!! This video contains graphic abuse of HO-gauge models

Agreed. Plus a design decision whether to model it as a joint GWR & Southern location, or just Southern / BR(S)

From the same people that bought you The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Tammy Wynette, Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMs). Doctorin' the Tardis. Fimed at various locations in Deepest East Wiltshire like Avebury, the Cherhill White Horse and the Lansdowne Monument, and the deserted RAF base at Yatesbury. This time driving a Ford Galaxie American "police car" instead of Tammy Wynette's Ice Cream Van.

A surprisingly good cover version (no gorilla in this one)

Way back when I started this topic, I mentioned a couple of out-of-the-way places. Spean Bridge and Corrour. By a strange coincidence, thanks to a life outside of RMWeb (shocking I know) and an interest in old droving roads, we have a Cunning Plan to visit one of the ancient Scottish droving routes. It might be with a Retriever or two. The plan (so far) is to get the train to a start at Rannoch Station https://www.google.com/maps/@56.6850667,-4.5764547,306m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e2?hl=en&entry=ttu Then a 18K jog : https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/251122800 To Corrour Station. https://www.google.com/maps/@56.7605903,-4.6905871,3a,75y,107.2h,88.09t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipM2JAa2_rfjt2_NE3U7cmaGbsGPi7ZDs3Py_n2S!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipM2JAa2_rfjt2_NE3U7cmaGbsGPi7ZDs3Py_n2S%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-4.098425-ya114.225136-ro-0.010665402-fo100!7i5760!8i2880!5m1!1e2?hl=en&entry=ttu Followed by an overnight rest stop. Day two, Corrour Station to Spean Bridge Station : https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/251047789 25K via Kinlochtreig and Corriecholie. to the Old Station Restaurant at Spean Bridge (for more extensive rehydration) http://www.oldstationrestaurant.co.uk/ and https://www.google.com/maps/@56.8902483,-4.9219384,3a,75y,155.81h,89.74t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0g8P-O-QjrOSoO5ibWfiZg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D0g8P-O-QjrOSoO5ibWfiZg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D233.84184%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e2?hl=en&entry=ttu All subject to sanity clause and midge seasonality.

It's only just occured to me - that should (Shirley) have been known as Grant Schapp's erectile dysfunction?

Or one for stores into Ludgershall?

£14.95 from various online e.g. https://www.hampshiremodels.co.uk/products/parkside-pc65-oo-gauge-br-12t-pallet-van-palvan-kit and https://railsofsheffield.com/products/parkside-pc65-br-12-ton-pallet-van-palvan etc

Or this one at Eastleigh

Perhaps like this one?

Would the new Bachmann 12t Palvan be suitable? https://news.Bachmann.co.uk/2024/03/Bachmann-reveal-oo-scale-palvans-at-the-palace/

Our neighbours are complaining about the potholes in the road. it seems some aren't deep enough?

Diary note: At 23:59 on 31st March, send an email to Peco, asking when they are launching their new range of Peco Streamline Mixed-Gauge track.

Just found on Flickr in "Local Studies at Swindon Central Library."

Aha! Now we know... ... from the era when the GWR Railway Museum was still in the middle of town, on Faringdon Road, not where it is now.

Wos'appnin? Looks like a brand-new 94xx pannier tank, all bright and shiny. But why parked on Faringdon Road on a Pickfords low-loader? Pulled over for speeding? Bald tyres on the trailer? Your guess is as good as mine.

I had to look twice before I realised what's happening. No, he's not having a pee on the wall, it's an Ordnance Survey field surveyor, marking a reference point on a GWR Stock Shed for the updating of the definitive maps. Lots more OS "A Man with a Stick" pics here, most aren't railway-related, but may appeal to people interested in maps and map-making.

Ah yes, they look like Hornby cranes.

Just found in Swindon Central Library album on Flickr.

The Great Bear, suspended between two cranes, somewhere at Swindon Works. But why?

What were they smoking?

I know this is not the current Kernow GWR steam rail motor, but perhaps a future variation? Found in Swindon Central Library album on Flickr. Found some notes on it here: https://didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/zrailmotor93/history/pictures/sub_gubbins.html

Or used to make charcoal?

I concur. Basic sea-skills training does use the new-fangled GPS and electronic charts, but it also insists on olde-worlde manual skills and knowing how to do manual navigation with eyeballs, compass and paper charts. Which is a good thing for the rare (but real) ocassions when the electronics goes titsup. It matters if you are navigating by GPS and using a marked location as a way-point. There are already urban myths (sorry, make that sailors' tales) of boats having head-on collisions at some frequently-used GPS way-points. While the crews of both boats were relying on the electronics and dozing instead of keeping a proper lookout.