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Most cities seem to operate using the following "rules" Red = Be aware that there may be other vehicles in your way Green = OK Amber = Ignore

The poles should be fitted with stays to prevent them bending or bellying, or even falling over, under the stress of the (open, bare copper ) wires. It is quite an involved subject but put simply every time the pole route deviates from straight, or ends, it would require staying. Sometimes more than one stay on the same pole, and at set intervals along a straight route, possibly at road/canal crossings although canals are subject to conditions placed on crossings by their owners and are not always the same. There are also a variety of methods of staying poles where access is limited. It is interesting that in some of the photos the poles are virtually resting on the train, that would never be allowed to occur hence the need to stay the pole.

Wasn't it the published figure of £110 millionfor carbon credits that he government "loaned" to Greybull/British Steel days before it went into administration? Due because the EU cancelled the UK rights to carbon credits as we are leaving the EU although we haven't left and are still paying in?

Interestingly I was waiting outside the main gates of the steel works a few weeks ago alongside an artic loaded with steel, idly looking at the load i spotted the label on the steel which read "Made in Kuwait". My understanding from talking to people who work there is that they think the plant is most likely to continue, at least in the short term ,3 months at least, until a new buyer is selected as there is significant interest in purchasing it.

Steel making hasn't finished here just yet, still alive and producing merely awaiting another ownership change. Trainloads of the raw materials pass daily along with the "green" fuel for Drax.

Have you thought it might be a repositioning flight, empty, or a return to service, empty rather than actually taking passengers?

It's a post Beeching layout, obviously.

Perhaps the age profile rising is a good thing insofar as it is a result of increased longevity with more people living to a greater age with greater mobility and decent health than ever before and the fact that there have been no major wars to wipe out the boomers? This also means more people in total are around or above pension age than previously, with time and often cash to return or continue hobbies that have taken a back seat during their working lives.

When you go off the roads into the dykes the car often rolls into the dyke landing upside down, the banks of the dyke prevents the doors being opened and the water fills the car and this often ends up with a drowning unless there is outside assistance able to gain entry. Often the vehicles crashed on remote roads are not discovered for hours. I commuted for 30 years on the A15 and A46 roads from the Humber bank to Lincoln and there was not a week when there wasn't an accident, frequently several, often with HGV's in the fields some times a long way from he carriageway. Cars overtaking where they shouldn't and the HGV's having to take avoiding action to miss the car on their side of the road meaning the HGV goes onto the soft verge and then rolls onto its side. My understanding is that the A46 and A15 are the most dangerous roads in Lincolnshire, with the A46 having a TV programme about the accidents on it. The best times to drive these roads are school holidays, petrol shortages and following the 2008 recession when traffic levels were significantly reduced. Very glad I don't have to use them every day now.

Just arrived home from this show, some good layouts and although busy room enough to get round. The main crushes seem to be around the trade stands rather than round the layouts which seems to be the way of these large shows nowadays, but there is obviously a demand and people were saying it was even busier on Saturday.

Coach Building in 2mm FS, John Aldrick. MRJ Issue 249, 2016. I think this is the article that you need, a very useful and informative article well worth searching out.

There were posters on the wall for ACLs among those for taxi services right next to the public phone the last time I had the misfortune to visit A&E.

I am not an expert but I believe that SKY aerial fitters and Openreach overhead wire installers do this, I think they also have a stand off bracket at the top of the ladders which would make the ladders not depend on seating on the guttering. The ladder is secured at the base and then the eyebolt inserted and the ladder tied off before the higher work commences which allows the operative to work more safely. I think that the ladder is also supposed to extend well above the gutter level to make transition to the roof easier. You also have to seek permission from the customer to drill their wall for the eyebolt. This is not a definitive description of the process and could be outdated as it is a while since I had anything to do with overhead work and we didn't do any of these things at the time. The process has moved on significantly, and continues to evolve, according to the people I know who are still involved, but I'm sure that you get the basic idea. The simplest safe way to work at higher levels is to use an elevating platform. Anything which makes a potentially dangerous working environment safer is to be applauded.

That is why the ladder should be secured to the wall by inserting an eye bolt into the wall close to the top of the ladder and tying to it to prevent movement.

A few years ago a couple of my guys were undertaking some work in a manhole, one man was at the top acting as safety man and the other one was actually doing the work with one of the red and white tents covering the manhole entrance. The door of the tent was opened and this guy stuck his head in and asked what they were doing, obviously the top man asked what it was to do with him, the reply was,"Don't you know who am?" At that the top man shouts down, "Hey, I've got a guy up here doesn't know his name!" The guy in the manhole responded, "He must be another one from the care home across the road" Needless to say it was one of the normally unknown senior managers who was touring round building up his mileage looking for someone to annoy and he wasn't best pleased.

My subscriber copy of 116 arrived and I must say another very interesting and informative magazine, the standard continues to be amazingly high.

Just by accident I was looking at some old magazines that I have and opened the first Railway Modeller that I bought, August 1965. The inside front cover advert was for a Triang Hornby Giraffe car where the giraffe's head sticks out of the roof of the wagon and pops back in when it hits the tell-tale post as the train moves along, I wonder how many converts there were to railway modelling as a result of getting one of those? I agree that it isn't prime time but perhaps the place to host a suitable programme would be the satellite channels which have other similar hobby programmes and have previously had some railway modelling content. Didn't Bob Symes Schutzmann also present a more serious series of model railway programmes a few years ago on channel 4 some of which are still available on Youtube?

You have to realise that it is a tv programme and without "drama" it is just routine and boring, hence the need to introduce dramatic events by whatever means. Just watching the creation of something where it all goes well would soon have viewers turning off, look at the recent programme about the NYMR who knew how dramatic it was behind the scenes?

I found a copy in my local newsagent but it had a cardboard cottage kit inside the plastic bag, I didn't see a DVD so no purchase was made. Happy Birthday Tony.

What I find is that very few of the major magazines today have articles that are memorable, I don't really want to know how to fit DCC into a different locomotive every month but clearly some people do. I have some copies dating back to the 60's which have interesting, inspirational and informative articles but I have to agree that the modellers back than didn't have masses of RTR to use so converting/building and generally improvising was the only way to get what you wanted and the magazines reflected that to a large extent. I notice that the best selling magazines are also available in supermarkets so perhaps the wider availability will attract new modellers who will find them as interesting as I once did? Times and circumstances change.

There is also a weekly version most weeks as they advance their ideas often with practical advice and demonstrations in what's neat this week, I have found it very interesting.

Round here several of the local roads have been featured in the motor cycle magazines as great roads to ride with the result that on nice days packs of motorcycles turn out and ride these roads. Bear in mind that this is a rural area with the obvious farm traffic and chaos normally ensues as you try drive along with 2 or 3 motor cycles charging past between bends and the rest snapping at the back of your car until they can overtake and join their friends who are rapidly disappearing down the road. However the worst one I encountered was on a straight road when a motorcyclist overtook me, I was travelling at 55 -60 MPH when he came by at a significantly higher speed and cut back in missing the front of my car by only couple of inches, shocking.

Surely the lack of volume sales would mitigate against it as the set up cost would have to be offset against each sale and be much higher with smaller and slower sales coupled with the relative fragility of the track? Good luck with your investment if you plan to make one.

No, keep listening out for the Post lady but another day passes, pity as I saw it at Guildex last Saturday.

When the steelworks in Scunthorpe were in full swing the nearest pub, The Furnace Arms, had a special licence and was open at 6.00am for workers leaving the night shift to allow them to replenish their lost fluids. All now long gone.