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And there was me looking forward to a live show

Utter rubbish

I have a Heljan Co-Bo which needs this treatment too. Is there an alternative to spraying, I wonder, perhaps using block transfer sheets?

I have never been a 'danger to others or myself' in any circumstances. There are people who join motorways at 70 or more, everybody has seen them, and it is they who are the danger, because they give themselves insufficient time and space to brake if circumstances are against a safe joining. I was nearly rammed by a BMW driver a few weeks ago at the M25/M4 junction because he joined at a speed that was far too fast for the situation that presented itself. My approach is to be at around fifty towards the end of the slip road, look in the mirror, indicate, and either accelerate or brake depending on circumstances.

All this nonsense about 0-60! You only need sufficient acceleration to get you to 50 or so by end of a motorway slip road so you can merge into the traffic or brake as appropriate.

An omission!

Usually BR or LMS but occasionally GW or SR. In other words anything you want!

Obviously I don't know, but I recently bid £70 for one on eBay and lost! I never imagined that the bidding would go so high. Perhaps there is still an unsatisfied market for these models .

I went today and was most impressed. Not a lot of people though. Bridgewater was the standout in an island of three extraordinarily good layouts, Scorbiton , Johnston Road and Bridgewater. Those three were worth the journey but it was at the back of my mind that the site of Bridgewater is now a Sainsbury's car park! A very good show.

I have uninstalled the NHS app. I installed it because of its Covid-19 passport functionality but that seems to have gone by the board now. The pinging seems to completely OTT and irrelevant when 80% or so have been vaccinated and I have had three.

Seems I was wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenanter_tank

Looks to have been very much influenced by the Russian T-34 (?). All sloping sides. I'll have to some research but I'd be surprised if these were designed by the LMS, more likely to be Royal Ordnance.

I think the presenter's personality might put young people off engineering as a career. Sir William Stanier was seconded to a government department. I doubt if he had even the remotest connection with that tank.

The subtitle is 'A Definitive Survey 1859 to 1966' so there's at least a good argument for loco allocation listings. Technically the SDJR continued as a legal entity until nationisation although the joint committee didn't own any locos and rolling stock after 1930. Actually, I would agree that the scope of the book is too broad and it would have been better if the cut-off point was 1930. I think the author set himself a task he couldn't possibly have fulfilled, at least in one volume and perhaps not at all. There are lots of books available for LSWR, SR, MR, LMS, GWR and BR locomotives so it would have been better to include a bibliography for those types. To be fair there is some crossover concerning MR/LMS locos before 1930, but that could be resolved easily.

Interesting! I wonder if it was supplied as Lend-Lease. There was an agreement between the US and British that at least single examples of aircraft (and their drawings) would be supplied by both parties to each other. Did this apply to this locomotive I wonder. The date of 1945 is anomalous if this is true. Lend-Lease stopped when the war ended. But, the British Army might have had a requirement, post war, to have a copy of this loco to train engineers on their use and maintenance as the type was in extensive use on the Continent in the late forties. Hence the 1945 date.

Did it 'stay' or was it brought back from the Continent in the forties?

AFAIK the last recorded sighting of the USATC 2-8-0 was two , coupled together, light engine south through Elstree in July 1944. See Railway Observer for 1944, but unfortunately I no longer have access to confirm, sorry.

I'm getting the impression from this that there is little or no on-site parking. Are there any parking restrictions in nearby streets?

Perhaps, but there are too few charging points in the UK, even on a main arterial road like the A303. And there are numerous other A roads that could be cited too. There is a need for a lot of investment in infrastructure for EVs otherwise EV drivers may well find themselves in much the same position as I, and loads of other ICE drivers, find themselves in.

http://news.sky.com/story/chip-shortage-sees-new-car-sales-slump-by-a-third-in-key-month-of-september-12426221

https://britishrailwaybooks.co.uk/magazine/morill/1996mayv3n9.php

'Heritage' cars with ICE and gearboxes will be with is, in diminishing numbers, for ever.

It wasn't intended to be derogatory, just robust. Perhaps best left there. I consider myself to be cautious about Covid, but after two, now three, jabs it's time to get on with my life. I'm not prepared to live the years remaining to me anxiously awaiting the consequences. I welcome the advent of shows, time get on with life!

I think this is very much over the top. Crackers! I've just had my booster and most others in the vulnerable/over 50 group will have it too. No need to panic, no need at all.

Is this the building?