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  1. SZ
    Light railway track plans were as basic as it gets, you are most likely to get a light railway feel by subtracting from any track plan you might find.
  2. SZ
    If passengers can't open doors it's a problem. If passengers can open doors it's a problem. Can someone not decide which is the biggest problem.
  3. SZ
    Can the doors not be locked out of use with a key like in ye olden days?
  4. SZ
    I was thinking more Holborn Viaduct. If you change the throat of a Minories it is no longer a Minories. Crutched Friars for instance is just a standard trailing then facing crossover pair that could be seen anywhere.
  5. SZ
    Services are treated differently to goods as they are intangible. I think services provided in Italy to a UK company by an Italian company are subject to the reverse charge procedure. That means the Italian company does not charge VAT (Italian or UK) but instead the UK company enters an amount equal to the UK VAT on each side of its UK VAT return. So the UK company pays it and reclaims it at the same time. Google the bit in bold.
  6. SZ
    There has actually been a real horse grazing next to the cut out in the former triangle north of Tipton.
  7. SZ
    It's not that the machines are even up to the task. How would you get a refund on a ticket loaded on a smartcard if you find the service is not running. I had enough problems with this when there is a ticket office (do you have a receipt? no) so what happens when there isn't?
  8. SZ
    How about incorporating this idea, the reversing loop. Train enters the loop and clears the points Loco detaches then continues around the loop and re-attaches, either to the set it just detached from or one in the sidings If to a set in the sidings first clear the loop by propelling the empty set around into the sidings then pull forward around the loop and then out to the layout
  9. SZ
    If no passenger movements are expected from branch to main line then a ground signal would be enough. The trap point is the branch itself.
  10. SZ
    Thanks, that must have been what I saw back then. I probably arrived seasick on a 304.
  11. SZ
    That's odd. Wikipedia tells me Bescot Stadium was built in 1990 but I'm sure I remember a stadium of some sort there in 1981/82 when I paid a visit.
  12. SZ
    So there was one black train driver in 1962, not sure what point you are making. Are you agreeing with @TheQ?
  13. SZ
    Isn't that the basic rule, route is set before signal cleared.
  14. SZ
    Idiots. I was on a train that stopped in the dark in the middle of nowhere due to frozen points a few years ago, empty except for some students loudly talking about 'yooni'. They actually discussed whether they should use the little hammer to break the window. These people walk amongst us.
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  16. SZ
    Another might be the siding at Berkswell, currently plain lined out of use but with the far end now inside the HS2 site fencing.
  17. SZ
    Trackside nudist colonies
  18. SZ
    I am aware enough of the details to know that it's of no use to the average modeller.
  19. SZ
    And there we have it, nothing much of use to the average modeller.
  20. SZ
    You're not actually modelling bell codes though, you're using bell codes, something massively over-specified for your purposes.
  21. SZ
    This thread is itself great example of why signalling is often overlooked. The tendency is to over-complicate any discussion to a real world degree when what the average modeller requires is actually a simplification of this, some principles not exception after exception. I remember how my first excursions into signalling soon descended into discussions of bell codes, entirely useless to the modeller.
  22. SZ
    Signalling a layout requires a lot of assumptions as to what lies off scene, so is somewhat more abstract than track layout.
  23. SZ
    Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
  24. SZ
    Smartcard, but try getting a refund if your train doesn't even run. Believe it or not you need to have a receipt to get a refund.
  25. SZ
    When you compress the length you also need to lose some of the complexity.
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