PeterStiles

I think I'll stop now. This thread can only end up too political.

Just now, phil_sutters said:

Crusades

Oh yes... Let's all rush off to Jerusalem to fight a war... How's that going for you?

I'll never forgive Cromwell for abolishing Christmas!

Image me that, no time of the year to buy people Train Sets!

21 hours ago, Porfuera said:

couple of hours ago I received four emails saying that my four BG Mk3 pre-orders have arrived

It may be worth proactively contacting Hornby customer support and asking if you've been charged four sets of P&P :)

I might have misheard, I was only half listening, but I'm sure that the article on the BBC this morning suggested that we could DCC control our cats?

I may have misheard.

11 hours ago, Ravenser said:

I think the 66 will be the first model  released for which Hornby didn't have existing CAD in OO.

You've got to imagine that, as you say, having OO CADs helps as a decent starting point for the TT CADs, the corollary is that having TT CADs would mean that they have a decent starting point for the O CADs and so a step up on creating a new/better OO model.

Admittedly were it me I'd not bother with the Class 66 as there are one or two other reasonably-nice OO models already in existence with other suppliers... But you'd think they'd contemplate saving development time by ensuring that any effort spent on One Scale could be passed over to the Other Scale as a "here's one we prepared earlier".

You then think how important Hornby think the Class 66 is - they are willing to create a TT-only-use CAD for it.

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

holes in his hands a repurposed Boer War stretcher bearer?

Careful, Gandhi was one of those stretcher bearers...

31 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

Ducking giraffe wagons, anyone?

Yes please.

37 minutes ago, 30801 said:

A-hole in one!

I rather like the 2969s narrow gauge modeller who said "and the Double Fairly is scratch built, no one's ever going to make an R-T-R one!"

29 minutes ago, wombatofludham said:

preview sound samples

Well, if you have Any hm7000 decoder you could load the profile up to test it, but I don't think there's another way .

It's not necessarily the way you'd think of doing it because most other sound decoders need done more Infrastructure to do that...

Bu66er...

On 13/03/2024 at 12:15, phil-b259 said:

consumers cannot by energy directly from Drax in the first place.

However they do sell direct to SME / I&C customers through what was "Haven" power, but it's s now branded Drax.

On 10/03/2024 at 12:18, Steamport Southport said:

Remember Ivor Biggun?

 

It was the bloke on That's Life who ISTR replaced Richard Stilgoe doing the funny songs. Doc Cox, I don't think he was a real doctor though!

 

"One two three four!"

"Change hands,"

"Five six seven eight!"

"Change hands,"

"All you need's the rhythm and the wrist control,"

"And you can do the......"

Some things just stick in your mind.

Just when we'd all got round to deleting the bookmark...

6 hours ago, Mike Buckner said:

They even left in the same manufacturer ID

I remember 'O' level Computer Studies. One boy copied another boy's Project verbatim including a (c) notice the original author included... This is on that level of stupidity.

I'm going to horrify everyone and slap the word "southern" on the tank-side in "sunshine" and the pick a random number to go on the side of the cab...

23 hours ago, Rich Uncle Skeleton said:

Rails of Sheffield are selling these for £125.

I hate you(*). I'm going to have to lay out my o gauge track now...

(*) well, not really (**)

(**) maybe i should blame Rails (***)

(***) or maybe my lack of impulse control

I blame George Harrison.

6 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

context

Oh well. One (I) is a Subject, one (Me) is an Object, if only we taught the language with a little rigor one would never make a mistake.

I also mourn the lack of "whom" in modern usage...

At least Microsoft Word Style Checker has reintroduced the use of the semi-colon.

Me, I never confuse the two.

1 hour ago, Suffolk Dave said:

Curiously, a Eustace Brackenstall also seems to have been a murder victim in a Sherlock Holmes story... 

Yeah, but you've got to face it, it's a *very* common name..

1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said:

As *we* well know, it's not where it's made, it's the level of QA that matters..

10 hours ago, BachelorBoy said:

the economy would never grow

That's why you Mine, refine and build things, it adds value to the economy.

Any why you have Foreign Countries you can export to and import from...

But in a closed economy you're just Moving Money Around...

At least I've Started to read Adam Smith..

5 hours ago, Chris M said:

it won't be possible to build a serious model railway for the foreseeable future

So how come those people building TT:3 exhibition layouts in the late 1950s managed with even less? They may not have had static-grass and 300 colours of paint available and 3d printers, but they made model railways.

On 21/02/2024 at 17:19, 33C said:

When you start ballasting the track..

Just reading the 1979 Railway Modellers; one Railway Of The Month had unballasted track, and used the Hornby Goods Shed (currently selling as R8002).

I'm pretty sure they thought it was a model railway.