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Just a point, but I don't see anything in the earlier linked Telegraph article about sending the army to Dawlish: it mentions that Royal Marines are in the Somerset Levels helping out there, but nothing about Dawlish or bailey bridges or whatever else we seem to think was in there!
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I wouldn't use a selenoid (like the Peco point motor) with one, as the tiebar would probably break from the stresses.
A slow action point motor, wire in tube or even a servo is a much better bet.
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note to BBC - Plymouth is that large place somewhere near Cornwall
How's the tube strike effecting it?
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Didn't he need somewhere level-ish for the atmospheric?
Yeah...as Chris said, not one of IKB's better ideas
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1) For plain track, do I just need to get some of the solvent or do i need the other tools too?
2) What's the best way to tackle baseboard joins?
3) In the absence of peco-style fishplates, whats the best way of electrically joining the track? And the best way to stop it kinking on curves?
1. No solvent required. You can buy and use the "plain line assembly" jig as an aide, but even that isn't necasary: I've assembled 8 meters or so of plain line track without one.
2. What Kris said. You can also get copper clad board from SMP Scaleway if you're not a 2mm Society member.
3. Just add dropper to each length of track and wire them to a bus under the board. Curves shouldn't be an issue unless you're laying very tight curves with joins in them, and if so either i) don't! or ii) solder the rail to a copper clad board at the ends of each length.
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Is it my imagination or were similarly "optimistic" figures being talked about in the early days of the Hatfield landslip?
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The Route Asset Management (Western) director Mr Gallop at Network Rail won't obviously give any timescale but has implied that this will take weeks to repair. That is of course is there is any let up in the storms.
Also assuming it doesn't get any worse during the day; given that the washout has increased in size to now undermine the houses in a matter of a few hours, I wouldn't bet on that. I also feel very sorry for those home owners; you'd probably have felt quite secure looking at a sea wall, railway line and a road between you and the sea.
I wouldn't be surprised to once again hear people raise the issue of a more in-land route, but I also wouldn't expect them to get very far.
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I don't know, I had very little problem building my own N gauge pointwork and then using that with fiNetrax. I see no reason why that would be any harder than using Easitrack components for everything instead of building your own when a piece of trackwork isn't available from the existing fiNetrax range.
Shame the 1:6 crossing is taking so long though. I believe Wayne said he has had some trouble getting some of the components cast accurately but has been working on it.
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People are worried about 42 billion here in UK, but the Chinese are spending much more than that each year. 63 billion is this years reduced budget! This year around 3,700 miles of new railway will open.
The trick is to understand how China is finding the money to pay for it all. For various values of "finding", "money" and "pay".
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Yup, that's the Lead Shot tower, just. Bristol Power Box is still there now, but check back in a year or two and it'll be gone, too!
Surely if that's the Clerical Medical buildings then the brick warehouses between it & the box must be Gardner Haskins?
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That could be right since the tender has 6 wheels
Terry.
If anything the madness is the starting price. That actually looks like a rather well put together & painted kit, unlike the usual dunnage we see in this thread.
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Not sure if that would stand up in court, tbh
It doesn't stand up in court and it doesn't even kneel down for the eBay & PayPal ToS.
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Some big changes since then - the footbridge has gone so you can't get comparative viewpoints, the Staff Association building and shop on the corner have gone, the Civil Engineers's block next to the B&E building has gone; and that's just the biggies.
The Red Star parcels building has gone.
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Not much change here...
To be fair, it's only the print room that's gone, although that was the bit that most people thought of when you said "Post & Press building". Shame, really, I always thought that nice curved wall looked quite nice.
Of course the view in your second picture is completely different now, although it scares me how familiar that view is to me. I watched the changes to Bond Street happen day by day: I worked in Greyfairs, and then Kings House next door, for seven years. I used to wander down the footbridge on my lunch and watch what was happening.
34 and reminiscing about the old days!
Back on topic, I haven't heard anything so I assume the works for Temple Meads are still on track to begin in Spring 2014?
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Are these the coaches you are looking for?
I...whu...heh...err...I...hrmmm.
I have headache. I think I need a lie down.
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Boris Island isn't an official scheme - it's a speculative punt which may or (more likely) may not happen.
It's not even a new scheme; similar ideas about building an island in the Thames Estuary have been floated since the 50's. There was even a motorway proposed that would be routed south of Southend!
Simples: I don't use a London airport. Bournemouth and Southampton are favourites with Bristol as a "last resort" option (why they chose Lulsgate over Filton remains a mystery to me).
Oh God, don't get me started. Why have an airport with a runway that can take even an A380, with excellent motorway and railway links to every point on the compass, when you can have one on a foggy hill in the middle of nowhere with a long drive along the single rubbish road to anywhere of any interest?
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Ohh, an official wishlist thread? Well how could I not?
DMUs
Class 117
Class 123
(I'd have said "Class 40" if Bachmann weren't already planing to shrink-ray theirs)
Rolling stock
Highfit/Highbar in N (which Bachmann don't seem to want to shrink-ray)
SALMON or Borail
Some decent plate (E.g. SPV) wagons
Warwell and Warflat
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Possibly the retail price of the Hornby track mat. Of course we'll ignore the question of why someone would buy one "stand alone" when they're bundled with almost every single Hornby train set...
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As someone who lives in Bristol, I can't take those "Loser" figures seriously. Bristol City Council are a bigger danger to the economy of Bristol than HS2 ever could be: they're quite capable of wasting a few tens of millions without any help from anyone else.
Even if I did accept them at face value, I'd hope that any potential "lose" from HS2 would be balanced out by the GWML electrification and rolling stock upgrades, and the overall gain to the British economy from HS2 & the extra freight paths on the WCML.
I do wish we could have a slightly more French attitude towards things and just get on and start building already.
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I mean whaaaat!!??? It's the unique C-Bo
It's a 25kV electric...hydraulic? Er. I need a lie down.
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then used it to test a bit of paint on...not a great success, this has just been left
I wouldn't have admitted to that, myself!
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Is it just my imagination when looking at photos of the Finetrax points, or is the gap as big as in the Peco Code 55 points, and might wheels drop in the gap in the same way?
fiNetrax uses a 0.8mm flange width (if I remember correctly), which is actually narrower than Peco, and about the smallest you can use with modern RtR rolling stock without having to re-wheel everything.
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Is this like those unopened KitMaster kits that people collect, perhaps? £1 for the kit, £39 for the "collectable" box it's in?
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Washout at Dawlish
in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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If true, that brings us the possibility of seeing an HST passing over the GWML on the back of low loader driving along St. Philips Causeway!