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18 hours ago, Ron Ron Ron said:

I'll go back to watching GB News and reading my Daily Mail.

How to lose your credibility in one sentence😄

On 30/04/2024 at 19:51, ruggedpeak said:

Modular layouts are unlikely to be considered a "single scale model" under the GWR rules as they are multiple separate layouts joined together. The fact they can be joined together in numerous different number of ways due to the use of a standard for inter-connectivity as well as multiple ownership probably precludes them being a single layout.

I thought Making Tracks was 3 separate layouts joined up for one time only in that configuration?

49 minutes ago, Brassey said:

Why would the GWR start to paint its prestigious trains in a colour that was associated with workmen trains?

I found an article in the June 1910 issue. (Traffic Department Notes)

Quote

Labelling of Carriages.—A prominent feature of Great Western passenger train equipment is the large roof destination boards used on regular long­distance express and special trains. These are supplemented generally by the familiar small label boards affixed to the carriages at the starting point of the service. On any large system with numerous cross-country and branch through-coach services the conspicuous labelling of carriages is a recog­nised convenience to travellers and passengers have been educated to look for the red desti­nation boards affixed to Great Western trains. The adoption of brown colour for the Company’s coaching stock, however, has rendered desirable a change in the colour of the small label boards, and in future the lettering will be in gold with black and red shading on white ground.

18 minutes ago, Brassey said:

Not in my 1978 edition of GWW. Page no.?

I've got the 2009 edition which is considerably revised and extended.

If you can see a copy it's on page 79 in the section on coach livery 1908-1912.

The complete quote implies that the paint colour is the same as with the previous chocolate and cream, with just the cream omitted and presumably the lining adjusted to suit.

12 minutes ago, Brassey said:

I will stand corrected if someone can produce an article dated 1908 or 1912 (or better still a colour photo!). 

If you can find a copy of "Great Western Railway Magazine" from 1908!

Great Western Way has a direct quote from it:

Quote

.....it having been declared after careful observation, to paint the stock wholly brown, or to be correct chocolate brown...........

16 hours ago, Edwardian said:

As for 572, as you say, it is not in the list of lake or brown liveried 517s in RCTS, though note that the list does not purport to be exhaustive. Still, unless there is a picture knocking around showing 572 in brown (hard to tell from a B&W picture without a cream inside back sheet), it would not be an obvious choice!

No list like this is ever complete, as new information inevitably comes to light.

Part 6 was published in 1959 but even when parts 12 (1974), parts 13 (1983) and part 14 (1993) were published more information is appended.

Nothing on 572 though!

1 hour ago, Wickham Green too said:

Thus : -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJH77RRsHw#:~:text=This level crossing was the,off when trains are due.

 

 

 

Wow, how slow is that?

On 30/04/2024 at 12:12, kevinlms said:

A drivers licence is NOT technically an ID card, although many people assume that it is.

It can be used as an identity card in the UK.

7 hours ago, MidlandRed said:

If it’s a green tunnel, it’s environmental mitigation

It cuts through a field of oil seed rape and a concreted car storage area.

It misses the only wooded bit on the old airfield site.

I agree with Ron. There appears to be no justification for a tunnel of any sort.

Off again, same message as March 12th.

On 26/04/2024 at 07:44, Johann Marsbar said:

Just spotted this one which seems to have gone live a couple of weeks ago.....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRpbVCZZDQE

 

How much traffic there is through there is anyones guess, but there seems to be a flat crossing between two lines visible on the camera.

The line is the Louisville & Indiana RR (CSX running rights) and the crossing line is CSX Indiana Subdivision

The Camera is on "Bite The Bullet" Gunshop.

(Found all that by looking for Seymour IN. on Google Earth & Open Railway Map.)

2 minutes ago, phil-b259 said:

Handsacre - Crewe section

Of the Handsacre-Manchester bit, the section to Crewe is IMHO the most important section as it bypasses the bottlenecks between there and Crewe and bring the biggest benefit..

2 hours ago, Schooner said:

Think of the slow speed performance on DC with plenty volume for weight, all-wheel pickup and those tiny drivers!

Standard size wheels, same as a 28XX, give or take a tyre thickness.

4 hours ago, DK123GWR said:

if Labour decided to build north of Handsacre, the decision to lift safeguarding could be reversed (how true is this?) and that the process for land sales is neccesarily slow enough that the land will not be sold by the time they enter office.

I thought it needed an act of parliament to cancel the route, to reverse the previous act of parliament that authorised it.

9 hours ago, idd15 said:

Hopley Services Upgrade

It's actually Hopwood Park and it's not physically on the M42 but adjacent to the junction with the A441 Birmingham - Redditch Road. (It's not too far from where I live)

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

It was on the One Show on BBC1 this evening.

 

Yes

That's where I saw it.

9 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

 

That must come as a shock to those who set up those gargantuan modular meets in the US on a year in, year out basis.  Two countries separated by a common physics 😇

I wondered whether Freemo setups count for largest transportable layout?

If not, why not?

I don't know whether this has cropped up before.

Apparently as some of those green BT cabinets being used for analogue telephone lines are taken out of use they are being repurposed to EV roadside chargers. (they all have a mains supply)

Each cabinet can support two charging points.

Obviously some will be in unsuitable places but there are tens of thousands of them all over the UK, which will be redundant once we are all on digital only services.

6 hours ago, Colin_McLeod said:

Try changing your doctor ! 🤔

It's an NHS thing.

We can still phone for appointments, prescriptions etc. but it was so much easier doing it on-line.

Today i tried to book two appointments, you have to select an option when you phone but have to put up with 1 minute 40 secs of spiel before it gets to the selection (you can't do it earlier - I tried!), then you get another 30 secs or so of how busy we are and that there could be a long wait. Then you are connected and are (in my case) no 1 in the queue, wait another 4 or 5 minutes and -  B*gger! The battery in the handset gave out. so I had to start again with a different handset.

In the end I couldn't book either as 1) they had run out of Covid Vaccines and 2) no appointments until the week beginning 3rd June but the dates in the appointment book weren't yet available to book!

I can remember when this practice could book you in within a few days.

The number of doctors hasn't changed, the number of patients registered hasn't changed.

1 hour ago, Dunsignalling said:

There was a TV documentary a week or two ago featuring a holiday park in the Lake District that has to bus most of its staff in daily from de-industrialised towns sixty-odd miles away, outside the National Park.

When we had a guest house in Keswick, we learned that a lot of the shop staff, waiting staff etc came from Workington and such places where industry had died.

The locals weren't interested in the service industry.

3 hours ago, Reorte said:

Seen on the side of a van this morning:

 

"No persons to be inside this vehicle while it is moving."

Must be one of those Tesla self driving thingys🙂

1 hour ago, phil-b259 said:

It should be noted that ALL Airfields (even ones which only consist of grass runways) are considered ‘brownfield sites’ in planning terms and can be sought after by developers / safeguarded by local authorities for future developments (be it industrial / business or housing)

Doesn't HS2 count as "Business Development"?

39 minutes ago, Ravenser said:

I remember the Hornby stand pre-pandemic as being a "pure" display stand not selling anything.

Incorrect again

They have sold odd items at various times.

I bought one of those 0-4-0s for a 5 pound note pre pandemic.

Not quite sure why but it was only £5😄

On 28/04/2024 at 17:35, Michael Hodgson said:

But there's always this ....

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/worlds-longest-bike-looks-like-the-support-structures-of-a-walmart-store-146352.html#agal_0

The longest one now outdoes that one being more than 41m long and seating a couple of a dozen riders

On 28/04/2024 at 17:35, Michael Hodgson said:

I have a vague recollection from about half a century ago of a Coventry museum telling me about some local factory having built a 21-seater bike only it proved too heavy to move.

I've seen one with two rows of riders but I can't remember how many in total.

You can buy a 5 seater off the shelf: