Taz

Thanks, yep. I’ve got that DVD so will be referring to it when I get a pen.

Hoping I could get a handle on how to use transfers in the meantime (probably won’t be getting a lining pen until Scalefour at the earliest).

B.

Hi,

I am trying to line some coaches (crimson & cream at the moment, but BR maroon coaches are to follow).

Any advice on how to get them straight? I’ve been playing around with them but still can’t get them fully straight and all the fiddling is causing tears and damage.

I think long term I will have to get a lining pen and practice with that.

Thanks in advance.

Cool. The 0553 from Plymouth is one of my regular runs up to the smoke so hopefully won’t be long before I get to try one out.

SO, what Australians call a 'Beach Chicken' is known in Dorset as a 'Winged Rat', ( likewise a Grey Squirrel is a 'Bushy-Tailed Rat').

https://youtu.be/p-3e0EkvIEM

 

CTMK has also taken the washing off the line and beaten me at Scrabble again.

Yep, that is the 9v one.

The first generation of Lego electric train was 12v and used a pair of ‘third rails’ down the centre of the track. The controller for this is what Talltim has shown.

Then they changed to 2 rail at 9v with metal tracks.

More recently this has been discontinued and current trains are battery powered and controlled by infrared.

Has anyone used the Lego controller for ordinary model railways? I think it is 8V DC.

They are 9v and I use one to power my set track ‘running in’ circle.

I went to Eurodisney from Ashford two weeks ago. Refurbed 373 on the way out. Original 373 on the way back. The refurb train seemed to be in good nick but the train for the return journey was very tired with lots of broken trim etc.

I’ve enjoyed the series but I was a bit confused with the latest episode stating that the coach was one of only two from Queen Victoria’s trains.

I had been led to believe that Rail Holiday at St Germans had a coach from her Diamond Jubilee train (still to be restored).

Indeed, when I stayed there in March I was shown around it and it will be very impressive when finished.

Many thanks.

I thought that might be the case but it’s always worth checking.

Interior photos of standard 1st class compartments seem to be thin on the ground.

Hi,

Could anyone tell me if Bulleid coaches with 1st class compartments (specifically I’m building D2552 FK & D2320 CK) had curtains?

If so, what colour would they have been in early BR days?

Many thanks.

Count me in

At Heathrow:

Professor Higgins at the University of Sydney was giving a lecture on

'Involuntary Muscle Contraction' to the first year medical students.

This was not an exciting subject and the professor decided to lighten up the mood.

He pointed to a young woman in the front row and asked,

'Do you know what your arseh0le is doing while you're having an 0rgasm?'

She replied, 'Probably golfing with his mates.’

It took 45 minutes to restore order in the classroom.

I have had enough!!!! We'll never help anyone again......EVER!! I'm too kindhearted, or I'm too stupid....

Yesterday it was so cold out that we took a man into our home out of the kindness of our heart. I felt so sorry for him. Poor thing was trembling out in the cold, but this morning he had just vanished. Not a word...not even a goodbye or a thank you for sheltering him!!

The last straw?!?! When I realized he had peed all over the living room floor!!! That's the thank you I get for being good to people?!?!?!

Now I'm going to warn my friends to watch out for this man! He is heavy set, wearing nothing but a scarf, he has a nose that looks like a carrot, two black eyes, and his arms are so skinny they look like sticks!!! Don't bring him into your house!! What a huge mess he made on the floor.

The only drawing I have seen is in Russell's Great Western Wagons Plan book. It's a copy of a BR drawing dated March 1948. It seems to be the same drawing as this one:

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=14842

 

.......

Nearly ten years ago and I'm still no further forward on my plans for that fish train.....

Herr Baron,

You are without doubt the nuttiest genius I have ever met

£25 for one you can get or £15 for one you will never see

Both myself and Nick would like to attend so see you there

You were looking at her eyes........

I have to ask, do you notice the corner of the room in this shot? I couldn't be bothered to photoshop the whole thing just to get rid of that, but it jumps out and hits me and spoils the reality effect I'm looking for. Am I being oversensitive as usual though?

I didn't really notice it until you pointed it out but now I see it looks like a crease in a scanned photo. So still a realistic 50s shot but from a different perspective.

In the example above there is very little ambiguity from indicating right to go 'straight across'. So it could be good practice to do so as it is communicating useful information to other road users.

This is generally going to be the case at roundabouts where there is a single entry and exit lane at the junctions.

However for roundabouts with multi lane entries where the left hand lane is for the left hand or straight ahead exits only you would only risk sowing confusion in other road users minds if you indicated right whilst being in the left lane. Are you going straight ahead or are you in the wrong lane and about to try and cut in on those using the right?

When I did my advanced driving I was taught to use my indicators to help provide other road users information and a clearer picture of my intentions. If using an indication would actually make it less clear what I was about to do then I should not be making an indication.

In the first scenario as shown above indicating right gives a clearer picture of my intentions and would therefore be good practice. In my multi lane example indicating right in the left hand lane is ambiguous and therefore is not best practice.

Is 1450 worth getting? I have one on order and have been told it is ready but my card has' failed' (old card from years ago) and I have two weeks to take it or then lose it.

I have been reading that the 14XX isn't that brilliant.

Phil

I agree with the good captain. Stunning bodywork and mine is an excellent runner (after recommended oiling and running in). For under a ton I think it is a relative bargain.

Can I have some stock id please.

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Copyright Hugh Ballantyne.

Not 100% on the first but it may be a Hawksworth non corridor brake 3rd to diagram D132.

The second is a Collett corridor brake composite to diagram E152/3.

Don't think anyone makes a kit of the first but Comet do the second (W44)