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Live streaming?...
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The Bigger-than-the-Little-Western-but-not-as-big-as-the-Great-Western Western Railway?
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8 hours ago, Edwardian said:
Islands represent the perfect excuse for a 'closed system'.
I wholeheartedly agree. My own paper experiment is for a version of the Isle of Wight off the the south-eastern Cornwall coast, like a cross between the IoW and St Michael's Mount. About 3/4 the length/breadth of IoW so 55% area/population, which for my 1925 setting means about 50,000 residents. A small train ferry, effectively a decorated cassette, allows interchange of wagons with the GWR/rest of Britain via Plymouth. Passenger services are in the hands of Adams Radial Tanks, goods have Radial/44xx hybrids (stick a 44xx chassis under a Radial and adjust the splashers & sandboxes to suit), and shunting and a tramway are serviced by J70s. A departmental second-hand LSWR 380-class ("steamroller") is the only tender engine on the system, there to provide the track-laying and breakdown trains with both propulsion and an on-site steam source. It's amazed me how many different areas have to be consider to make the whole thing vaguely logical and coherent, some obvious, others emergent: geography; geology; meteorology; demographics; linguistics; flora and fauna; agriculture; economics; politics; academia (there's an island university); ecclesiastics; architecture; civil/mechanical/marine/electrical/other engineering... et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, as Yul Brynner said. My current thoughts are about town gas reticulation, ie how far away would a town gasworks supply reach? How many said works required for the island? Size of works vs size of town? Hence how many wagon loads of coal per week/year?
And I've managed to return the favour re: the release of 24 British rabbits down here in 1859, which bred so well that a mere 10 years later a haul of 2 million/year trapped/shot had no noticeable impact on their numbers: my island features the Northern Hemisphere's only wild fairy penguin colony. You'll be pleased to note that, while thriving, numbers have yet to reach plague proportions.
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2 minutes ago, Edwardian said:
Of course, then I worry that I am missing something obvious!
I'm also wondering if I've missed something!
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It's not the far end of the BM carriage shed that confuses me, it's the kick-back siding sticking out the front of it, alongside the carriage shed access line and parallel to the main line. Rope/horse/pinch bar shunting? Just querying its purpose, beyond view-blocking said main line
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Just wondering what the WNR's policy is regarding engines entering carriage sheds? I know they're usually banned from goods sheds.
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Looking good, Schooner!
I can't understand SCARM's aversion to rail-built buffers like Hornby's R083 or Peco's SL-40 (all they offer are the sleeper-built boxes ST-270/SL-41 or hydraulic buffers R394/SL-42). I've taken to using Piko's 55280 (in the PIKO-HO-A palette) to close off the tracks, although the trains ignore them!
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Good to have you back, James! And 5.5mm to the foot scale is 1:55.4 - just sayin'...
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19 hours ago, Barry O said:
Nice loco that!
Agreed. As a Victorian, I'm a bit jealous that NSW has that while none of our S-class survived. Also hope that they can get our baby Garrett G42 back in steam - too good to sit around decorating a siding.
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51 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:
Don't mention tram squares!
I think we're down to 3, and they're all planned to be gone. All in the $$$ eastern suburbs - we plebs in the outer 'burbs wouldn't tolerate them!
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19 hours ago, brushman47544 said:
Level Crossing Removal Project
Of course. I was getting "Long Range Express Passenger", thinking it was the XPT replacement... but the letters were out of order! The one at Keon Park is just near me - there's a massive crane on site, and they've just started placing the up-line trackbed bridge sections in place.
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4 hours ago, St Enodoc said:
LXRP
LXRP?
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13 hours ago, St Enodoc said:
My daughter XPT'd from Melbourne to Sydney back in June (just like her father back in 1994) - wasn't overly impressed with the fairly antiquated train. I looked through the linked project document - tells you how wonderful everything will be, how much money they're throwing at it, but utterly fails to mention when it will happen...
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As an ADD sufferer, this post of yours alone is enough to make my head hurt... I wish you the best of luck with this significant undertaking!
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9 hours ago, Caley Jim said:
Dem bones, Dem bones, dem dry bones.
Jim (ah've picked ma windae)
Dem knee bones ain't connected to no other bones no more!
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Congratulations on receiving your parole. Does this mean that some... scenery might appear?
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1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:
It's about 1700 in Mid-Cornwall now
Isn't that pre-Grouping?
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On 25/06/2023 at 22:22, Edwardian said:
Specifically for the box tank I am considering dark green with single black line with incurves to form tank-side lining panels, which I think will be suitably subtle.
What do folk think?
The photo in the book Great North-Western Way shows no lining, but remember Rule 1.
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On 19/06/2023 at 17:45, Oldddudders said:
plus London Underground, Overground
At least the Wombling is free...
(Hat, coat, door...)
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7 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
Isn't James' (our!) Castle Achingverse set in 1905?...- Scott
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1 hour ago, Buhar said:17 hours ago, Caley Jim said:
In Ayrshire they were slaters, though.
In Australia too.
1 hour ago, ChrisN said:Magpies, nasty vicious animals
If you want vicious birds, come to Australia! In addition to the sharks, snakes and spiders, our magpies (butcherbirds, not corvids) are highly intelligent, can each recognise many individual humans, and have a wonderful habit of swooping attacks with a deadly beak during nesting season. A couple of years ago someone died when they fell off their bike and hit their head on hard ground while under magpie attack.
On 26/05/2023 at 15:13, St Enodoc said:Yes, it sounds like what happens when you don't wear any jocks under your daks.
Careful John - you are starting to sound like a genuine Bruce! 😂
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Castle Aching
in Pre-Grouping - Modelling & Prototype
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Caroline + Sir Berkeley + Marcia = rescaling the WNR to 12" to the foot?
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckdqkyrp5vdo
Restored historic steam locomotive to be auctioned