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  1. melmerby
    Some do not include Huntingdonshire & Cambridgeshire in East Anglia. 70013 was unlikely to be seen hauling a train through Huntingdon as it was intially a Norwich loco and until transferred to Carlisle 12 years later spent it's time on the GE system land would have spent it's early years in and out of Liverpool St.
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    Has this topic piqued people's curiosity?😃 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-68820057
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    Sorry to pour cold water on your great idea but without an index it will rapidly become unusable How will you find articles/info that would interest you in gthe future? I suggest you set it up in the same manner as the Mazak Rot thread with the index regularly updated.
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    How dare a ladybird be called a nasty bug, they're lovely things.🙂
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    He's just registered himself as an American resident for business purposes.
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    I can. I had a ration book.☹️ Coal (on ration) was just black dust. Many things were in short supply, even when not rationed. etc. etc.
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    Don't blame Beeching, he was only doing what road builder Marples payed him to do (as Minister of Transport)
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    I would hardly think so, especially as there is a statue of him outside the House of Commons. He's part of the UK's transition to Parliamentary Democracy.
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    I can't see why this would be any different to any other latching relay. If for some reason it doesn't operate properly and doesn't change state, the dual coil and single coil reversible would have the same problem. You can't reset it if it hasn't set in the first instance.
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    Blimey. If just half of what's been said about this guy is correct, he should be on the Government's "free bed and board" scheme.😁
  11. melmerby
    I don't use stay alives anyway. Never found the need.
  12. melmerby
    Here's a mechanically latched relay using a cam: Look mat about 40 seconds in and the operating cam can be seen
  13. melmerby
    Here's some manufacturers data on 2 coil devices (made for the railway industry): datasheet-kcd-u200-v1-4.pdf
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    Common Latching Relays change state by using two coils, one to operate, one to release. IIRC some have a mechanical latch which is operated by one coil, first pulse operates, second pulse releases, rather like those push - push switches that switch on and off
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    I would never buy Lais due to their "History"
  16. melmerby
    As I posted above, Lokommader 2 (£24 for 21 pin) are extremely good and have more options than I could ever use. They also have extremely good motor control and include Railcom. The Plux ones are even cheaper. such as Plux 16 They are also made in the EU Defintitely worth trying. The couple of 21 pins I bought worked great.
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    There was but it was scuppered by the fact that the UK didn't have the foreign currency to buy the foreign oil. In 1946/7 The GWR converted some of several classes of loco. (Castles, Halls, 28XX & one 43XX). All were converted back by April 1950. BR converted Pannier Tank 3711 to oil in April 1958. Ex GWR 4965 "Rood Ashton Hall" is being converted to oil during it's overhaul.
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    That's on the high side, a Seep is about 2.6 ohms, I've seen others that are similar, sometimes less.
  19. melmerby
    Not exactly an overwhelming need to do that. This would be my choice at the budget end: https://www.dcctrainautomation.co.uk/train-o-matic-lokommander-2-mini-mtc21-m21.html They are very well specified and work extremely competently.
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    Looks like someone has wrenched the wire fencing from the gatepost
  21. melmerby
    Don't need to leave it outside. Even indoors in a box it tarnishes badly over time. A good way of weathering, just clean the running surface and away you go. (just takes a while)
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    I have reported E.On to TPS as I am TPS registered and also opted out of phone contact on my E.On account settings. Lets see what happens.
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    So you are disagreeing with what I personally have seen? Quite how do you manage to do that?😁
  24. melmerby
    One of the US sites was reporting that the Dali is holed below the water line, the front section is flooded and the bow is sitting on the river bed. Couldn't find corroboration elsewhere.
  25. melmerby
    One thing I have found with blocking persistent spammers is that if you are a customer (in my case EON) they are classed as legitimate marketing calls and TPS isn't interested. So you block the number with your phone provider and they just use a different legit number to spam you!
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