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  1. 11B

    11B

    M.O.T passed with only minor work to remedy the advisory notice! Happy days...

    1. toboldlygo

      toboldlygo

      Motorbike did the same this morning, going in next week to have the headstock bearings adjusted..

  2. 11B

    11B

    For no apparent reason this morning I find myself missing the smell of mk3 stock brakes that I remember as a child!

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    2. AndyB

      AndyB

      Sort of a roasting peanut buttery smell, if I remember? (Other brands of peanut butter are available if I've got this memory wrong. lol)

    3. mike morley

      mike morley

      For years I was convinced that motorcycles and trains were the only methods of transport that didn't make me travel sick. Then one day I was subjected to the smell of MkIII brakes (Slowing for Selby swing-bridge on a journey home from York) and realised I was wrong.

    4. Welly

      Welly

      Burn your car clutch - with any luck it's made out of the same material. I did that on my Polo.

  3. 11B
    It needs a run with DRS 37401....
  4. 11B

    11B

    Yellow paint! Why can't I find a yellow paint that looks like the Furness Rly yellow bricks? Would my buildings still look correct in brick red and black?

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    2. newbryford

      newbryford

      Add white to it.

       

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      There speaks the Master.

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      :-)

  5. 11B

    11B

    I saw my first Colas Rail van last night (M6 Jc 35)! Could this have been anyone we know?

    1. rs4

      rs4

      Did it have a Mormon like air and grace to it ??

    2. 11B

      11B

      Err.... Maybe... It had a lot of spray form the surface water!

    3. big jim

      big jim

      not me guv!

  6. 11B
    Nuclear power apparently! Coat on and running for the door..... again...... Ian
  7. 11B

    11B

    New Barrow to Carlise timming runs for a new breed of HST http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O19766/2015/08/19/advanced

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    2. Jack374

      Jack374

      So I take it it's not a HST (yet)?

    3. big jim

      big jim

      i had the logs timed at 168 mph this week too

    4. 11B

      11B

      Jack - No, not yet. Jim - If you could do that through Carnforth without injuring yourself, I would be happy with the logs for my wood burner!

  8. 11B
    I had my first sighting of a DBSO in use last night. It took me by suprise. It was about 19.25 hrs and it was between Silverdale and Carnforth. Granted I was about a mile from the lineside, but it was motoring! When I got home and checked RTT http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O19766/2015/08/19/advanced it appears that what I had seen was 5C19 ESC Barrow in Furness to Carlisle Kingmoor via Carnforth, apparently this was formed by a Cl158 timed at 201mph! Not sure if I would want a trip on that! Ian
  9. 11B

    11B

    It's August and dark by 9pm! I am sure that way back when..... And I was still at school it was light till about half ten.

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    2. Ruffnut Thorston

      Ruffnut Thorston

      Could this be that a "while ago" the UK had "Double Summer Time", when the clocks went forward 2 hours instead of the 1 we suffer with these days?

       

      We think that th eUK should be 1 hour ahead of GMT all the time, and an extra hour "daylight saving time" in the summer months!

    3. trisonic

      trisonic

      D

  10. 11B

    11B

    What I need out of life is an old landrover! Or do I?

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    2. Londontram

      Londontram

      Had one would have one again in a flash, great fun to drive and just like a big meccano set to work on

    3. brianthesnail96

      brianthesnail96

      Yes- always! If you want one get one soonish 'cos the prices are all going one way!

    4. davefrk

      davefrk

      Have had one for over twenty years, great fun but at the mo I just wish it was back on the road...

  11. 11B

    11B

    Window frames and brick arches.... looks like I may need to get creative with plastic card and sharp knives.....

  12. 11B
    Jim, Are the DVT a bit strange to travel in? I mean, the way I imagine it fells like your sat in a loco, but without the noise of the engine? Kind regards Ian
  13. 11B
    Is the answer to your questen above (post 2461) Shrewsbury? Kind regards Ian
  14. 11B

    11B

    Windows 10 on SHMBO's laptop! Lets see what happens...

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Ah, now my office PC says it's been downloaded and is ready to be installed. We use Win7. Should we go where others have boldly tried to go before?

    3. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      Oh please do so we can find out whether to go there ourselves!

    4. 11B

      11B

      Well... It seems ok, but it has wiped all my saved web site, user names and passwords!

  15. 11B
    I see the first DBSO is in use today! There is a video of it at Millom on Facebook. I will try and look at youtube later for a link. Ian
  16. 11B
    To add a fee more, Bo'ness and Kinneil, Barrow Hill, Midland Railway Centre, Ribble Steam Railway, Strathspey Railway, Embsay and Bolton Abbey Ian
  17. 11B
    According to Facebook, the DBSO's look set to be entering service next week. On of them has been out with 37401 (in BR large logo blue!) pictured near Workington. Lets see what happens next week! Ian
  18. 11B

    11B

    Wow. There is a desk under all that c#@p! I could use it for building models on again instead of the dinning table!

  19. 11B

    11B

    The boiler is playing up! SHMBO said that we need a price to get it replaced..... Now I think either an 0-6-0 or 0-4-0 in the garden, turned into a stationary steam engine and piped to the house.... She thinks a gas boiler in the utillity room! Where is her sence of fun?

    1. WD0-6-0

      WD0-6-0

      Meet in the middle, keep an 0-4-0 in the utility room

    2. 11B

      11B

      Having got the price.... Any one selling an 0-4-0!

  20. 11B

    Foxthwaite

    11B replied to 11B's topic in Layout topics

    Well.... Today I dusted off the layout.... and went for a brew Looking at the railway room it needs a bit of a tidy up! So I decided to did out the embossed card and fire up the computer..... Below is an image that was kindly sent to me for my own personal use some years by the late Peter Robinson, from his own collection. It is the Furness Railway water tower that was at Lakeside station. As I have no measurements to work with, I am reduced to counting bricks in an effort to make something that looks the part, likewise I may have to be a bit creative with what the other sides will look like, and the window frames! It is worth a note that an older photo shows it with a slate roof. My dad and uncle tell me they can't remember this when they used to get sent to lakeside box for a hair cut of the veg order!!! I have spent all afternoon counting bricks and cutting the card! I have tried this before using Slaters Flemish bond embossed card but found the bricks did not line up correctly, so this time I have gone with South Eastern Finecast embossed card..... so far, so good. Something that I have noticed whilst the colour of the bricks on the Lakeside branch were the same, the order/pattern that was used seems to vary (google Haverthwaite station and google Lakeside station), so this give me a bit of play with the colours, but it will be the yellow, red and black. Now need to attempt to get into town tomorrow lunch or on Thursday for more supplies! Ian
  21. 11B
    I see on a photographic web site that I look at, the ex Virgin liveried BSO was replaced by a DRS one at some point last week http://daviddockray.smugmug.com/Trains/Recent/17894198_wqsMNP#!i=4180676932&k=ps2NNWw&lb=1&s=A I also see from an update on the rail magazine web pages that one DRS DBSO is due out of the works in November, destined for the Cumbrian coast, but according to the story it will appear in Northern livery! http://www.railmagazine.com/news/fleet/2015/07/06/drs-dbso-set-for-november-return So does this mean we are to have loco hauled serves for some time? Ian
  22. 11B

    11B

    Whilst it may look like I've been doing nothing on the modeling front, I have been thinking about it for some time now!

    1. Londontram

      Londontram

      Thinking and planing take up an amazing amount of energy I've found

  23. 11B

    11B

    O my god. I think I've landed at "middel aged"! We have bought a caravan, and taking it away next week!

    1. newbryford

      newbryford

      Caravan? That's not middle-aged, that's a rolling roadblock.....

    2. Mickey

      Mickey

      If its a "atatic" its ok....if its covered on Chrome its ok.....if neither of the above apply - you are middle aged! :P

    3. admiles

      admiles

      Bet it's a lovely shade of beige to......signed A.Biker

  24. 11B
    Hi All, Can anyone shed any light on tomorrows workings please? I was thinking of a quick trip from Carnforth to Preston and back..... looking at http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced/PRE/2015/05/28/0935 I see the loco hauled service (2C32 Carlisle - Preston service) arrive at Preston but the 10.04 (2C47) departure to Barrow does not seem to on, yet it is there for Friday!!!! Any thoughts please? Thanks Ian
  25. 11B
    Can you say which direction the 60 is going from Hellifield? Ian
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