jonny777

5 minutes ago, great central said:

 

The three volume set is 'the the rise and fall of Nottingham's railways' 

The one referred to above has the 'back line' as a subtitle, but I can't remember the full title.

I'll have a look see if I can find it for you

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks. I think it must be Vol2, but there is no photo on the Booklaw site. 

Vol1 is subtitled 'Lines In the City' and Vol3 is 'Off The Beaten Track'

12 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

 

 

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p.s. if any ERs have any suggestions as to a decent deep fat fryer, I’m all ears.

Sadly not, I'm afraid. I am old school and use a chip pan filled with dripping/lard on the hob. 

10 hours ago, 30851 said:

 

 

Another strange one for the GN in Nottingham is in a picture in Hayden Reed's excellent new book on the GN Back Line. it shows the 4-15PM local to Victoria departing the bay at Basford & Bulwell station. While the A5 and most of the coaches are what you would expect in 1959 the first coach is a ex-GN twelve-wheeled dining car. Hayden says he has no clue why such a coach would be present in the train  but I am going to take a guess that it is being worked from the carriage sidings to Victoria to be added to a train there.

 

Rob

 

Is that Volume 2? 

I have looked at the Booklaw site but there are no descriptions. In the end I may get all three volumes, but wondered which one to purchase first. 

I like these inner city industrial rail linked layouts. They give scope for adding lots of detail which seems to be missing from many larger industrial models. 

I spent ages looking at photos from the railway in the region of Moorgate and Farringdon in the 1950s/60s and it is amazing the wealth of detail which may not be seen at a first glance. I know that is below street level in places and therefore has a myriad of pipework and other bits and pieces which just add to the atmosphere. 

Cloudy here in North Somerset. Spitting with rain but not a lot so far. 

I had a strange dream last night where I had gone to spend Christmas with my parents, but was worried that I would not have time to go and visit my dad and step-mother. My brain seemed to have no problems with my father living in two separate places with two separate women at the same time. I stopped of at my grandmothers where I found her sitting in her normal chair by the fire looking at a Christmas cake she said had been given to her by the BBC. It was a large thing, in the shape of the Big Ben clock tower, and fully iced with clock faces and everything. 

This went on with a big Christmas party, and queuing down the street to buy something in a shop, but I won't bore people with any further nonsense. 

16 hours ago, nigb55009 said:

There are photos and video footage of passenger trains on the Woodhead Route in it`s final few weeks of operation with a rake of five coaches, two blue/grey, two maroon and one green. The same rake seems to have stayed together for while, but again, no real explanation of why SR coach ended on the Woodhead.

Yes, there were some transfers between regions in the mid to late 60s. I remember the occasional green mk1 appearing in rakes of excursion stock heading for Skegness, but I can't remember the year(s). Probably 1966/67 though. 

There is also at least one green coach in a commercial video I have somewhere. This was seen on local trains passing (I think, from memory) Church Fenton station towards the end of steam.  

Dry and sunny in North Somerset, but thunderstorms are likely later - I gather. 

I managed to cut the front grass once it had dried yesterday, and I am hoping to do the back this afternoon before any rain arrives. 

It looks like the worst of the weather is going to the south of us, so I might get away with it. 

On the subject of Attendance Allowance for those in a care home; I have no idea about the precise rules, we just filled in the forms sent them off and they paid whatever they thought Dad was entitled to. 

If he gets it, I don't see why others shouldn't. 

29 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

GCHQ.....now you’ve done it......next thing you’ll be mentioning the Bude section! 

Is that a black helicopter I hear hovering above your house? 

Keep well away from your windows.....

17 hours ago, divibandit said:

Hi everyone,

Great thread.

I seem to have built a collection of green Scottish diesels but I wonder if any photos exist of a Clayton and either Class 21 or preferably 29 working in multiple. 

This is not what you asked for either, but your questioned jogged my memory of one of the few times I have seen diesels working with the nose doors being connected while in use. This is a screen grab of a pair of BRC&W type 2s on the Settle-Carlisle, and comes from Marsden Rail video Vol9 'Leeds'. Sorry about the lack of quality. 

Clouding over now in Somerset. Persistent rain not far away. The washing is dry, and I am going to celebrate with a bottle of Henry Westons Vintage Zider

I phoned Virmin and a very patronising friendly bullsh1tter call centre operative informed me that Apple had insisted they changed the security settings on their routers, and he could talk me through how to fix it. 

I began to think that, if customer service is as important as you profess it to be, why have I not received a message to this effect and instructions on how to do this myself? 

Could it be that Windows customers are still seen as priority, and Apple people as the idiots who buy expensive equipment to look cool? Therefore they are bottom of the pile? 

Anyway, it all works now - and my problems seem to have been sorted. 

Have you always liked the Bachmann slope sided minerals (the British Steel variants), but thought they were unsuitable for a 1970s BR blue layout? 

Here is one with 08008 at Worksop in 1975. 

Were these clips taken with a phone? 

Here is Car No 336 in original livery, but out of use at Wolverton in May 1972. 

And someone has noticed that rails are a different colour to the sleepers. 

Dry and sunny here in North Somerset, but showers are promised later. However, I have put some washing on in the hope the showers will be slow to arrive. I watch them on the rainfall radar in these situations, so can rush outside if necessary and bring everything in. 

I will have to contact Virmin Media about their router, which my iPhone now decrees is too insecure for the phone to even bother connecting to the internet. 

Phones with built-in arrogance. That is something I never thought I would see, but I suppose computers are destined to take over, and mere human laissez-faire attitudes are unthinkable to a machine other than Marvin The Paranoid Android. 

4 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

Quite likely but of course that shows the ignorance of both Wolmar (as he regularly does anyway) and the Letters Editor for one very simple reason - it would be no different at all of the railway was nationalised.  On BR we had - under Govt pressure as well as common sense - trimmed resources down to a level looked at agahst by those running other state owned railways in Europe; putting it another way BR was sweating its assets.

 

 

Well possibly, but the point about a newspaper letters page is that if it was always filled by pedants arguing the fine detail of a subject, the majority of the readers would soon get bored; and few would be brave enough to throw themselves into a lion's den and write replies. Not good for circulation figures.

If, on the other hand, the contributors are being somewhat economical with the actualité, it will encourage those with robust views into an exchange of letters; which is precisely what the letters editor is looking for. 

10 minutes ago, D410Monarch said:

Christian Wolmer is suggesting that to be able to re-introduce the older stock within 48 hours and restore the service isn't the way to do it now , why not ? that sounds like exactly what we could do with right now ,surely better than cancelling everything with no solution in sight ?

No he isn't suggesting that at all. 

You need to learn to read between the lines. 

He is using the analogy to make his point, which is a subtle nudge towards the private vs nationalisation argument. The letters editor will love this kind of thing, because it is his/her job to stimulate a lively discussion. 

8 minutes ago, ardbealach said:

Funny you should mention Wolmar -   This irrelevant piece of nonsense made it into the 'Letters to the Editor' in today's Times.   The problem is that people believe what Wolmar puts into print.  [Alisdair] 

 

Which part of his description of the withdrawal of Blue Train services, and temporary restoration of the steam service, do you consider to be nonsense?