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    Modelling mojo and state of mind

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

    Posted

    The good news is that I am clean! The six weeks and three month blood tests are all clear. And a change in policy says that this is all I need.

     

    Happy days

     

    Ian

     

    Well, just when things are on the up..... it has been a bad few weeks due to an incident at work for me, but this could be something that affects the rest of my life!

    I work in an A&E department and between Christmas and New year I was on the receiving end of a "needle stick injury" from a drug addict that had hidden their dirty used needles in the sock. They arrived with us unconscious and breathing. At this point no one knew that they inject drugs, and one of the first things we do is a heart tracing (an ECG) and attempt to gain vascular access (a cannular). All was going well until I rolled up their trouser leg and found two used needles stuck in my fingers. Queue my turrets! It then turns out that this scum has a blood born virus and I have been exposed to it. Now I have to have blood tests to see if I have caught anything for this dirty little scumbag. The blood tests are at six weeks, 3 months, 6 months and maybe 12 months. I am told that the risks are low, but there is still a risk! The following day I get a telephone appointment with occupational health to get the obligatory "safe sex lecture" from the nurse young enough to be my daughter! To compound this the HSE want answers....

    Just to make things even better....this was an extra shift to help fund some of the new Peco Bullhead track....

    Model railways are currently helping me keep my sanity along with my good lady wife.

    Arr!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Ian

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    Catch points or no catch points?

    in UK Prototype Questions

    Posted

    Hi all

     

    Your views please?

     

    Having decided to replace my track with bull head rail I have a question and would be grateful of your thoughts/views?

     

    I have a siding that runs next to the main running line on the entrance to my station that is a branch line terminus, like there was at Lakeside (Windermere) only access would be out onto the main running line in the direction of the station. But back in the days of steam would there have been some sort of catch point or trap point to protect the running line?

     

    Thanks

     

    Ian

    Peco Bullhead Points: in the flesh

    in Peco

    Posted

    Judging from observations, the transition from bullhead to flatbottom rail seemed to be earlier than from wooden to concrete sleepers. If concrete sleeper bullhead track exists at all then it is very uncommon. I have certainly never seen any.

    So uncommon that I would not consider it commercially viable & I expect Peco would view things the same way.

     

    Quite common really, started by the GWR I believe

    Modelling mojo and state of mind

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

    Posted · Edited by 11B

    Well, just when things are on the up..... it has been a bad few weeks due to an incident at work for me, but this could be something that affects the rest of my life!

    I work in an A&E department and between Christmas and New year I was on the receiving end of a "needle stick injury" from a drug addict that had hidden their dirty used needles in the sock. They arrived with us unconscious and breathing. At this point no one knew that they inject drugs, and one of the first things we do is a heart tracing (an ECG) and attempt to gain vascular access (a cannular). All was going well until I rolled up their trouser leg and found two used needles stuck in my fingers. Queue my turrets! It then turns out that this scum has a blood born virus and I have been exposed to it. Now I have to have blood tests to see if I have caught anything for this dirty little scumbag. The blood tests are at six weeks, 3 months, 6 months and maybe 12 months. I am told that the risks are low, but there is still a risk! The following day I get a telephone appointment with occupational health to get the obligatory "safe sex lecture" from the nurse young enough to be my daughter! To compound this the HSE want answers....

    Just to make things even better....this was an extra shift to help fund some of the new Peco Bullhead track....

    Model railways are currently helping me keep my sanity along with my good lady wife.

    Arr!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Ian

    Loco Hauled services to return to Cumbrian Coast

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    There seems to be a recurrent theme on some of the local Facebook groups regarding the Cumbrian Railways.

     

    One of the big things people are saying is they seem to think that the issue is the Northern drives. When the service was driven by DRS drivers there seems to have been fewer cancelations, granted there where some delays, but the thought/word on Facebook seems to suggest that DRS drivers where able to identify minor faults, sort them and get the service running again. Whereas some of the people posting give the impression that the Northern drivers are not permitted or do not have the skill or knowledge to do this. Intern, when a fault appears they require their drivers to fail the train. NB some of the people that post these comments on Facebook tell us that they are either DRS or Northern train crew, and looking at some of the phots they post members of the public should not be able to access the places they have been.

     

    The other main point that causes issues up here is services getting cancelled because of a lack of train crew. Again, you would like to believe that Northern know which staff can crew these trains i.e correct route and traction knowledge, and train some more is required.

     

    Just shearing a this with you all. These are not my own personal thoughts, but from members of a closed Facebook group.

     

    Ian

    Foxthwaite

    in Layout topics

    Posted

    What a cracking start to a layout, I certainly agree that the Bullhead rail is going to look far more prototypical. I was just wondering on how you constructed your boards as it would be great to get an over view of the current setup. Many thanks.

     

    Rory

     

    Hi Rory

     

    Thanks. The boards are 4x1 inch timbers with 8mm ply on the top. They are currently stacked on the corner of the box room. When.........set up it will be 6m x 60cm, each board 100 x 60 cm and join together in a straight line.

     

    Kind regards

     

    Ian

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    Foxthwaite

    in Layout topics

    Posted

    Well.........

     

    After much soul searching following them folks at PECO bring out the bullhead rail I think that it could be time to change the track work before I go any further. In the end I think that this will look a lot better.

     

    On the up side I can do it one board at a time and await the boys at PECO to produce the required pointwork

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    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by 11B

    The first set for today are from Steamtown, as it was then, at Carnforth in the 1970s.

     

     

    attachicon.gifCarnforth Barclay Toby ex British Gypsum Feb 73 C1182.jpg

    Carnforth Barclay Toby ex British Gypsum Feb 73 C1182

     

     

    David

     

    Hi David,

     

    I think you may find this loco is David from Millom Iron works (new to them) and is now at Haverthwaite https://www.lakesiderailway.co.uk/2333-david-barclay/

     

    I am loving your thread, keep up the goodwork

     

    Kind regards

     

    Ian

    Peco Bullhead Points: in the flesh

    in Peco

    Posted

    I really do like the look of the bullhead rails, and am now serious thinking about changing my track to this. The only thing that I find slightly concerning is the lack of information regarding what points they plan on making and in what sort of time scale. I had a quick look at Peco's own web page but couldn't really find much.

     

    Does anybody have any clues regarding what they are going to produce and when?

     

    Many thanks

     

    Ian

    Loco Hauled services to return to Cumbrian Coast

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by 11B

    So according to Facebook Northern attended a meeting last night in Ulverston. They admit that their service reliability is poor on the coast and to help the first loco hauled service off Carlise in a morning is going to be limited stop.....

     

    There is something in the local paper http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/Not-good-enough-Northerns-frank-admissions-over-series-of-rail-failures-9bcc16a5-34e8-4689-b64d-38e6998e313c-ds but it fails to mention this bit of the tail. Likewise, Facebook users did not go on to suggest that this may apply to all the loco hauled sevices on the coast!

     

    NB. I did not attend the meeting, nor can I find anything in print to back this up. But by the standards, I know the chap who wrote it and trust what he says.

     

    Ian

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