MR Chuffer

Rank beginner here and read through your issues. I needed a cassette capable of holding up to 133cm worth of OO gauge train, so I read somewhere else on here about these Linear Rails Supported Sliding Guide (available in different lengths from a range of suppliers). The hard bit was the carpentry, getting the framework and the butting up edges square but once done, these rails are rock solid and glide smoothly supporting 8 tracks. Power to each track on a sliding table was a bit of a challenge and I use it in conjunction with the Peco Loco Lifts, all low tech but very effective. Hmmm, Ossett, my favourite brewery....

But goods need to be moved around, that's how all my model railway kit gets delivered, DPD, Hermes, et al. Very efficient as it saves motoring miles but from where I live, rural East Lancashire - but retired now, work would be a 30 minute plus drive and public transport is cr*p, cos all the money is spent supporting public transport in the South East... Not sure you have a grasp on reality and real world issues. Best stick to Woodhead..

Ah, forget it, went into the "code" part and there's the import function, great!

Sorry to trouble you, but I'm intrigued by what you said. I believe I'm using the latest version of Scatch because I only loaded it today and can't locate a version number after a cursory search, and right clicking anywhere , including the list, brings up my browser context menu with no import option (latest Chrome on W64). Any pointers...? TIA

I just have, impressively simple and effective. Now if only I can import the spreadsheet listing of my ~80 freight wagons in....

I can assure you, nothing's "bugging" me, not much does. When we get to this number of responses to a non-railway topic, no one cares what you say nor what I say. Do you get it? Perhaps not....

I have been told that I do not qualify because I am not front line medical or care staff, so why should I worry? I have my public transport mask exemption pass and have moved out of lockdown, are people still staring at you in supermarkets for wearing a mask?

Why? I know what pressures they're under and they're not about to subvert government policy, and I live with one.... Oh, and I drink, or did, with several of them in the local pub.

At the time, end of January, I didn't know that was what I had. My doctor daughter moved in with me having split from her boyfriend just before lockdown having been a GP in Liverpool, another epicentre after that stoopid Champions League football match, what were they thinking of? Within a week, she definitely went down with it, as a test later proved. And we shared food, wine, beer, cuddles during a good film, over 9 weeks. So I'm either immune or I've had it, and if the government isn't prepared to tell me, I'll follow my instincts, like DC. Would happily donate plasma or whatever but the government is so screwed on the facts and the handling of the affair, it's not likely to happen. With all the government hypocrisy and double dealing, do I really need to drive to Barnard Castle for an eye test, I'm done with lockdown, masks and pseudo science.

You're probably right, rural East Lancashire and zero patients in ICU here for many days, not like the London epicentre.

I can assure you, mere mortals have no recourse to the anti body tests round here, unless you are front line medical or care staff, or my daughter has been lying to me all these years about being a doctor.

Are you confusing anti-body tests with anti-gen tests? Yes, I can have an anti-gen test delivered in the post, to see if I have the virus, not that I've had it = anti-body. My daughter is a doctor, no antibody tests round here, I suspect because the government doesn't want to encourage post-Covid freedoms.

I have downloaded my exemption certificate from my local bus company's website and will try it out tmrrw when I go to collect my prescription using my bus pass. It's an option I have been provided with so will take it. Buses are pretty empty round here anyway so unlikely to be within 3 metres of anyone. I had CV19 late January, way before lockdown, but can't get an antibody test as the government doesn't want us to split into before and afters, but my daughter had a positive one through work - she's medical - and she lives with me.

And your point being? They have far bigger fish to fry, we tried to report a group of travellers way beyond a family group transgressing social distancing in their camp early in the lockdown cycle, their response? So what.. Just print yourself a self certifying card, you'll be ok.

My local Aldi has them stacked by the checkout and, as ever, at a reasonable price for those that want/need them...

There are face mask exemption cards available on my local bus company's (and others) website to download and print - self-certification? Crazy really, this has been really well thought out - not...!

Not sure ICI exists anymore, the chemicals company that was once a giant of British industry, agreed to be taken over by its Dutch rival Akzo Nobel in 2007, may be harder than you think to track down a knowledgeable, helpful PR function

It seems I have lost my first response to this post, which in essence said: The government lies - 100,000 tests? Nope, in the post doesn't count. 14 days quarantine when arriving into the UK? When many people travel from the airport by public transport - farce. Track and trace? I have a friend in the programme, total fiasco. Late to testing, late to lockdown, we need leadership, not flannel: massive death numbers, compare to Germany. Total lockdown? Nope, not for some, ask DC. I've had Covid, why should I be imprisoned? Because the government can't manage it. Spiegelhalter or Hancock, you believe what you want, I'll believe what I want, it's the modem world.

@NearholmerHold on, who wants to enter into a full fledged debating session? I don't. Why am I looking to persuade anyone? Someone seemed to infer that littering was a post Covid phenomenon, this is clearly incorrect, we've had littering and bad behaviour from long before Covid. This is not about railway modelling, not even remotely, so your point is? FB awaits your views... I don't.

I live in a Radio 4 bubble and during lockdown with my doctor daughter, Tim Harford's More or Less programme was our go to listen on Wednesday mornings, which she interpreted for me. All episodes are available on iPlayer, but if you can be bothered to go back through them, what's happening to your railway modelling, which is why I am here? I can't be bothered... And I think, given the statistics for our area, schools should reopen. The cost of not educating our children will be far greater than the fear of this damned virus.

No, you're right. New to this forum, but it often surprises and depresses me how many of these non-railway topics gain traction. It is not FB, it is not Twitter, the clue is in the name, Railway Modeller Web, and I come here for model railways, not the FB/Twitter dross.

Not sure I get your drift @AY Mod has this happened before? My reference is Sir Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University, and others. Lies, damned lies and statistics. I believe one set of statistics, others may believe an alternative set. And oops, I've broken my commitment, perhaps I'm a politician...?

I don't want to get involved in long winded debates, and shall withdraw after this, but we are being fed bull dung for facts and information. The number of ICU cases in my area is currently 4 ( several hundred thousand population), the number of Covid hospital cases, approx 50, and some people didn't even know they'd got it, everyone involved in a traffic accident and admitted is swapped. Manchester nightingale is mothballed, no patients. My daughter is a medic....! If you are young, there is an infinitessingly small chance of catching or passing on the virus, much less than the common cold. Do not confuse coronavirus with downright bad behaviour, and downright bad parenting, and that was evident before the coronavirus struck. Perhaps they think if our leaders and betters can do what they want on the basis that it "felt right" for them, they can do too. I rest my case and will retire...

This has little to do with the corona virus epidemic, there was a tendency for people to behave like this before it. And I live " About 10 miles from the Centre of The Kingdom" too, like @newbryford, who will know what Longridge Fell is like every year after schools break up in the summer and the school leavers "congregate".

Of course, I've seen many photos of them but engine classes escape me after about 1910. And the 2Fs, they perhaps didn't have cut down cabs, didn't check my references books, doh, but they adapted standard 6 wheeler carriages to accommodate the narrow tunnel width and put bars on the windows to stop people leaning out. At the time of the passenger services ceasing, 1928, there was the occasional Johnson 0-6-0T 1F, especially shunting West Bridge, but then the 2Fs predominated until the Standards.