johnofwessex
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The model shop next to work has some at an attractive price.
R4656A et al
How appropriate are they for the S&D in the BR era
I assume that even if they are not quite right for the period/location, they are not dis similar to stock used, in particular on the branch
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...to which list one might add - did they have any metal sleepers or the 'pot' type?
Ah! Good thinking
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Looking at photo's, as far as I can see in the BR era, the S&D had all conceivable track combinations, flat bottom & bull head on concrete or wood sleepers, but was there any continuously welded rail?
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Why dont Police Helicopters have a door gunner?
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Happened to me, I rear ended someone in what turned out to be a ‘crash for cash’ scam, I found him on line after a 5 minute basic google search the same evening on an owners forum, in a posting a couple of days before our crash he had been warned by the police about his driving after cutting someone up on a roundabout (it wasn’t his fault of course!) forcing the other driver to brake sharply to avoid a collision
I also found videos of him doing 130mph in a 60 limit and 90 in a 30 which just purely by chance happened to be past my old house in Buckley! All of which were used as character evidence against him
He also tried to sue me for a bad neck not knowing I had pics of him 2 days after the crash doing a cartwheel and climbing a steep hillside and waving from the top
I Even got so deep into his life I discovered he didn’t have a doctor despite him claiming his doctor had seen him regards his neck
Moral of the story, don’t put a 9 month pregnant woman and 5 year old in hospital and think its funny then state you will be getting a new car off them and brag about it on the internet
He got a 3 year ban, 120 hour community service, £1200 fine, rehabilitation order, lost his job, his house and girlfriend (who I found out was s####ing someone else anyway!)
It is, in my view a great pity that you can only be disqualified from driving for specific offences rather than either not being a 'fir and proper' person to hold a licence or using an vehicle to commit an offence - it might make life just a bit harder for fly tippers, drug dealers etc
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Decent Radio Controlled boat on the market?
Ie not £500+
I am referring to this one
I would have thought that there would be a market for some others, and I cant imagine that some of us on this forum would not fancy an hour or so by the pond.
I'm not sure what a suitable prototype might be, for modern vessels however a Cruise Company might be persuaded to back a model, or perhaps a Maersk container ship?
For a historic model, an Isles class trawler in Admiralty of Civilian guise isnt without its attractions.
While my preference would be for Manxman or Balmoral, might Hornby consider Maid of Kent or Southsea?
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Have you seen the Lidl Advent Calendar?
Tools instead of chocolate!
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Has this been released yet?
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Many years ago we had some builders in doing work and one of the jobs they had been working on was a motorway service station and, while there he was chatting to a policeman and the policeman saw a man getting into a car and drive off. The policeman said that the car driver was banned from driving and that same policeman had caught him driving when banned the day before so most likely the banned driver was caught by the same policeman two days in a row. So yes many drivers do give the V sign to driving ban.
Why not treat a Driving Ban as an injunction with power of arrest?
Hauled off to the cells until a judge is available who can then send you straight to prison.............
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I spoke to the proprietor of Attwood Aggregates who has identified the ballast(s) used on the line, I am afraid that I cant remember the sources though.
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Was there any reason why Crabs were not widely used on the Somerset & Dorset?
They certainly turned up at Bath on a regular basis. Given that Bath Green Park had quite a reputation for 'borrowing' loco's I assume that there must have been a reason as most types seemed to have appeared on the line at some stage if not banned for weight/clearance reasons
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What is annoying is that software exists that allows the phone companies to automatically block auto dialler calls before they get to their customer.
For a so called regulated industry telecoms is a nightmare
Failing that see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Dudayev
Dudayev was killed on 21 April 1996, by two laser-guided missiles when he was using a satellite phone, after his location was detected by a Russian reconnaissance aircraft, which intercepted his phone call.[15] At the time Dudaev was reportedly talking to a liberal deputy of the Duma in Moscow, supposedly Konstantin Borovoy.[16]Additional aircraft were dispatched (a Su-24MR and a Su-25) to locate Dudayev and fire a guided missile.
Perhaps a service BT might like to offer!
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What sort of LNER coach is it, and can you get it RTR?
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I know the locos an Ivatt but its the coach that caught my eye
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The picture comes from here
http://www.newman-family-tree.net/s&d/index.html
Towards the bottom of the web page is a train at West Pennard - here but is the leading vehicle ex LNER as it is running on Metro Cammell bogies
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Here it is - there appear to be 2 of the same scene
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Thank you for that
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I have been reading Ivo Peters Somerset & Dorset in the 60's vol 3
There are pictures of Standard 3 tanks on Highbridge to Templecombe services on 'The Main Line' but I have not seen pictures of them on the branch.
Did they ever work on the branch or were loco's changed at Highbridge?
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Crabs were not unknown I believe
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31's were used when the Cardiff-Portsmouth services reverted to loco haulage, they were also used on loco hauled services on the Weymouth line.
The last loco hauled services on the Weymouth line were 37's they were also used on the Portsmouth services when the 158's had to be taken out of service with door problems shortly after introduction
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Its been a while since I went that way but for a long time someone was cultivating = officially or otherwise land between the boundary wall & the top of the cutting between Redland & Clifton Down Stations
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Spooky, I looked on Friday and all copies were showing unavailable................
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Mention of that book has caused me to go deep into my book mine, where it has lain undisturbed since I read it when it was first published (2009 it says inside).
It contains a chapter about transport, and as I surmised (or perhaps remembered without realising) it went in sacks, in closed vans. The little two-siding goods yard at Midford was, apparently, built specifically for this traffic, so if you can find pictures of that yard on-line, and I know there are many, then any vans present will most likely be for this traffic. I'm no wagon expert, but I think I can make out typical GWR and LMS vans, plus later BR standard ones.
Thank you, thats handy.
Interestingly as far as I can make out from the photo's but possibly unsurprisingly Midford didnt seem to handle any coal
Drone disruption at LGW
in Wheeltappers
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Can we have a similar system for nuisance phone calls??