johnofwessex

43 minutes ago, rodent279 said:

I stand to be corrected, but I don't think they would have been air con.

I used to travel on those trains and they were non air con until the introduction of sprinters

2 hours ago, Boris said:

So, which head am I not allowed to hang out the window?

You are Zaphod Beeblebrox postimg under an assumed name!

What exactly was this NYMR incident, I cant find a report anywhere

There has been some discussion about what to do with drivers who continue to drive while disqualified.

My serious suggestion is a Dutch type solution, ie secure psychiatric units 

Now what impact would 3500 2 cylinder outside valve gear 4-6-0's have had on the UK rail network arriving from about 1910 onwards

3 hours ago, burgundy said:

Does the Prussian P8 of 1908 fit your criteria - or is a 5' 9" driving wheel too small?

Best wishes 

Eric 

Didnt the P8's have the same 'vital statistics' as a lot of subsequent UK 4-6-0's?

On 24/05/2024 at 14:30, Hroth said:

 

Long dead, but still much appreciated.

Apart from the modern residents of Slough...

 

My ex Mother in Law (She and her husband were very nice) was a family therapist in Slough

Not surprisingly she was always busy

828 did railtours back in the early 80's 

I remember it stalling on Honiton Bank with the Exe Parrot 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2qv014nryxo#:~:text=A man who was caught,in Bradford%2C in August 2022.

Why no Driving Ban, he's a menace to other road users let alone anything else

AFAIK in a number of European Nations public transport provision is specified by statute - Germamy & Switzerland dspring to mind while the Republic of Ireland has a Passenger Transport Authority that serves a similar role

4 hours ago, martin_wynne said:

 

This may be true for terminal branch lines.

 

But a through station on a lightly-used secondary route is very different. It might be double-track, or a passing loop on single track. But the real activity arrives when you imagine that it is part of a diversionary route while the main line is blocked for engineering work.

 

Here for example is Rubery on the Halesowen Railway:

 

 http://www.photobydjnorton.com/HalesowenLineEnthusiast.html

 

(The above web site does not have a security certificate, so some browsers may refuse to link it.)

 

Martin.

 

Mid Hants?

I used the Southgate Centre Car Park in Bath on Sunday.

Which escaped lunatic designed that junction..

5 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

On high pressure systems a lot of effort is made to control oxygen level, things like deaerators and chemical dosing.

 

Usually a full shutdown to atmospheric pressure is unusual in marine and power plant boilers. Some heat and pressure is maintained to make it quicker to bring them back on line and and reduce thermal stress. 

 

The bit where you want a huge vacuum is the condenser. Condenser vacuum is critical to performance and efficiency in a ranking cycle steam plant. They have vacuum breaking valves.

I havnt worked on anything over 180 psi and the highest pressure boilers I have seen were 415psi

Heres a question that I have been mulling over for a while.

When you shut down a Marine (Or Stationary) Boiler you close the stop valve which is steam tight.

So as the boiler cools the steam will condense and the water in the boiler will contract.

So, does this create a vacuum on the boiler?

If not, why?

It struck me recently.....

There were very few 'public' Narrow Gauge railways in the UK

All I suggest unique and mostly associated with specific industries

So in terms of being a 'public' railway how did the W&L manage to hang on into the mid 50's?  Its easy to see how WW2 might have extended its life with petrol shortages but it carried on hauling freight until 1956, despite the obvious costs of transhipment onto a line only 8 miles long.

Did it have some sort of a Fairy Godmother in BR Management?

I was on the last HST out of Paddington (2019)

There were some young lads in proper attire with an 'oil' version of the Bardic, with a handle at the back to hold it.

I think that 'H&S' or 'EU Rules' is often used as an excuse for not doing something or lazy thinking.

As the HSE point out they dont mind what people do just that its done safely so please can the Pensioner & Toddler Skydiving group be reactivated

I was out in the garden yesterday afternoon, I dont live that far from traffic lights on the main road and all I can say is that I hope to god many of the drivers passing through were not wearing seat belts and that a tree leaps out in front of them for the sakes of all of us

All of these of course are why the law should treat dangerous drivers in the same way as gun crime.and prioritise the safety of the Publoic and the Police.

There is a Fruit D at Cranmore under overhaul.

Interesting to see that it was fitted with a dynamo & lights as built.

Clearly something you would need on a gangwayed vehicle but why on a non gangwayed one?

Minehead?

In the early 80's I was coming down Black Dog Hill on the A36 late one night when a Citroen Dyane shot past me.

He must have been pedal to the metal all the way from Salisbury

20 hours ago, JOHNMCDRAGON said:

I think I remember a case like that in the late sixties, maybe early seventies of a driver being killed leaning out trying to spy on a 'courting couple'.

https://www.railcar.co.uk/topic/features/cricklewood-driver/

Just before you get to Nostalgia Not Yet

3 hours ago, Reorte said:

That one had passed me by. Another reason to be extremely depressed about the suspicious, untrusting, disrespectful, intrusive excuse of a world we now live in. God I hate it, it's all so dehumanising. No doubt the usual suspects will turn up shortly to berate me for not finding everything we do being monitored a wonderful prospect.

 

Hoping that in a few years conversions of ordinary, bog-standard current or slightly older cars (let's say 15-20 years old) to electric will be practical and affordable. Without the past rust problems that should give a platform that should last indefinitely, without all the modern "features" I'd much rather do without.

So, if you are involved in an accident then you dont want investigators to be able to find out exactly what happened?

Driving is a licenced activity not a right and it carries the potential to cause death or serious injury.  If someone is driving like a we have the right to know so appropriate action can be taken.

9 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

No comment necessary.

Is there something about 4x4 drivers..........