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2 hours ago, Pacific231G said:

Hi Phil

To answer your pedantry with more pedantry .

• <snip>
• Tieing the heroine to the RR tracks was apparently a common trope in Victorian stage melodramas. It first appeared on film in "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life " which was a Mack Sennet silent short from 1913
• <snip>

To combine pedantry with literary snobbery to an outrageous degree. I did wonder whether some of the scenes were inspired by film or TV productions of the books rather than the books themselves. The Death in the Cluds scene featured a DC-3 which was what appeared in the 1992 TV adaptation with David Suchet. The DC-3 is a gorgeous aircraft of course but not what ever ran on the London (Croydon)-Paris route in the 1930s. The DC-3 didn't even exist until 1935 and were then eagerly snapped up by American airlines (in fact by American Airlines first) though KLM did have them for long distance routes.

 

 

This is a glorious piece of pedantry, and I congratulate you on it - especially the aviation part. Aviation enthusiasts are easily as finicky about details as railway ones

On your 'tieing to the RR tracks point' - ISTR there is an early film in which the tiee is male, and this may come before

There are some terrific whiskers in that film 

Richard

55 minutes ago, Porkscratching said:

Nice to see others sensibly using decent old kit ..without bleating on about how we're all going to die..! 

We are, you know...

4 hours ago, WIMorrison said:

I have always gone by the mantra of stopping digging the hole before the ladder get too short for me to escape - works well.

Could you throw me down a rope?

Isn't is because they sort of subtract current from one wire from current in another. The difference should be zero, if it isn't the residual from the sum triggers the switch

8 minutes ago, Phil Parker said:

This programme is Miniatur Wunderland, not Pendon.

Nicely put.

Being at the social outcast end of model railways (009 NG modeller), I'm now toying with ideas around this:

https://www.tramwayinfo.com/Tramframe.htm?https://www.tramwayinfo.com/trampostcards/Postc136.htm

Richard

3 hours ago, DavidCBroad said:

 Such a shame the old time fitters never did seem to get the hang valve setting until Cook of the GWR turned up on the ER and made the Gresleys run like, well like GWR locos.

Which no doubt Churchward learnt on his visit to Crewe works (his signature is in the visitors book)

Or some other similar shite

Richard

55 minutes ago, PhilH said:

 

As do Bulleid pacifics, 120/114/126 deg.

Master and pupil

Richard

1 hour ago, Ross34 said:

I watched the first ten minutes... not for me I'm afraid..sorry.

And that's fair enough, you gave it a try. Can't argue with that

Richard

1 hour ago, noiseboy72 said:

Having just looked at Kathy's photos from Heat 1, the best team did win! What doesn't come across so well on the show is just how much more complete Corby's layout was compared to either of the others - with lots of detail that didn't make it into the final cut. Have a look - https://www.kathymillatt.co.uk/blog/2019/09/13/great-model-railway-challenge-2019-heat-1/#jp-carousel-16053 and see if it alters your opinion at all.

Thank you for the link

Richard

Gresley pacifics have an irregular crank spacing, something like 120/115/125 degrees*

I wouldn't change the loco you have, chances are it will run badly if you do. At 120 degrees you'll exaggerate the free play in the chassis and connecting rods, making it more likely one wheel will get itself out of sync locking up the chassis

Richard

*There's a good reason for this

34 minutes ago, Stoat's Nest said:

Was the H1 style of safety valve shown in both pictures patented and if so, did it have a specific name?

I doubt you could get a patent for two Ramsbottom safety valves side by side. Ramsbottom patented the original in 1855

Richard

On 12/09/2019 at 00:03, john new said:

For pylon newbies what is the significance of the two forms of insulator style in the pictures immediately above? Is it that the inline form (nearest), rather than the pendant type on the more distant example, are used where joints in the line occur?

Not really my subject, however it looks like the 'inline' ones anchor a conductor, the pendant type just hold it up. The anchors occur at sharp changes of direction, and I guess there is a limit to the length of a conductor

Now we need an expert to give a better answer

Richard

On 11/09/2019 at 16:17, John-Miles said:

These were used for dog poo which was an essential material in the making of leather.

It was call Pure, I think

Richard

4 minutes ago, Hull Paragon said:

In my opinions as a railway modeller it is almost unwatchable.

In my opinion as a railway modeller, I enjoy it!

I find it hard to talk about what modelling means to me - it was something likely to get you picked on growing up so I don't talk about it. Here is a programme that, although desperately superficial due to being crammed into a competition format, is still actually about railway modelling. And it is entertaining even if the standard of modelling is often necessarily basic, so non modellers watch it. 

If nothing else, it is a starting point for a conversation abut how what I do is different from what is on the telly. I must say those short shots of Clarendon do help illustrate the contrast

And I'd still be proud to have made that beach and cliffs 

Richard

6 minutes ago, sharris said:

 

On the other hand, irony's boiling point is 2862 Celciusy.

I've melted iron but never boiled it. I've vaporized zinc though* - I wouldn't recommend that either, gives you a terrible headache

Richard

*welding up a galvanized quench tank for blacksmithing

8 minutes ago, MarkSG said:

 

I'm hopeful that next week's theme - "favourite books" - should make for layouts that are more amenable to continuous viewing.

I think it depends how you approach the theme. The entries this week went for a linear narrative (this happened which caused that, then something else) which doesn't lend itself to continuous viewing. Corby seemed to get closer with the lava mining for the lamp factory

Richard

20 minutes ago, kevinlms said:

No it's a variable transformer, not the same thing. My catalogue shows the Powermaster & Safety Minor Unit as being variable transformer controllers.

 

It is - I didn't dig back far enough through the thread to find the correct title

7 minutes ago, dhjgreen said:

Irony?  "Boiled mercury as a child"

It's quite true. I remember doing this as a young teenager in a friends cellar. The boiling point is around 350C so not too hard to achieve

I would strongly recommend people don't do this

Richard

5 minutes ago, WIMorrison said:

 

It isn’t just my posts that were deleted - the first of which has 18 people agreeing with it (I suggested that it was propitious to consider replacing it with a newer, safer and more effective controller) but many other posts that were all suggesting similar.

 

This may also be deleted by him, such is life

TBH, I don't know how many posts have gone, the whole start of this thread now reads very strangely

Somewhere I have an Autotransformer H&M controller - I wonder where it is?

Richard (who boiled mercury as a child)

20 minutes ago, WIMorrison said:

 

But the OP doesn't like that and has had many of the posts that he doesn't like removed by the mods ...

Which is likely to become a self-defeating behaviour. Why respond to someone who has what you say deleted?

Richard

4 minutes ago, noiseboy72 said:

It was good to see more scenic construction and I'm sure that will continue. I loved the smoke effects on the Railway children's layout, but they were not particularly repeatable, with dry ice being quite am expensive way of creating the effect.

I have been pondering this (a bit)

Do the effects have to be repeatable? The sink hole wasn't particularly

More to the point, would a more spectacular volcano that destroyed the surrounding countryside be a higher scoring model? Uncomfortable for a modeller, it would be a superb piece of theatre - much like a film explosion

Richard

2 minutes ago, MarkSG said:

 

I'd be interested to know who built the model railway themed ident that book-ended each ad break, too.

1 minute ago, Phil Parker said:

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As I said in the synopsis, these were filmed at the L&WMRS.

Here: http://www.lwmrs.co.uk/clublayouts/clarendon.html

Richard

22 hours ago, melmerby said:

There will be another one as well

"Tornado" in Dalton St.

See new topic

 

7 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

But the good news is that the manager of the Ian Allan shop is opening a new shop nearby soon.

Indeed

Well, nearby on a UK scale anyway

Richard

On 24/07/2019 at 22:09, Clarks said:

Every Street, Nelson, BB97LS.

 

Isn't that by Dire Straits?

I shall make a note to not eat an H&M Clipper

That was a close call...

Richard

29 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

Ilfracombe is Off Topic! But if we're heading in that direction, I'll go straight to Marylebone. 

Mornington Crescent!