Foulounoux

Passed today on the way to the chaos of a New Year Eve shop in L Eclerc and the railway bridge is complete rail laid and ballasted

Passed today on the way to the chaos of a New Year Eve shop in L Eclerc and the railway bridge is complete rail laid and ballasted

As a Hertford lad  train spotting in the 70's would have love to have done the tour 

l must make the effort to take a ride in one of the units enjoying the sunny south coast

DREAL have posted a video dated 23rd September but it clearly dates from much earlier in the year 

http://webissimo.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/mp4/video_rn_141_roumazieres_exideuil_cle03fbd3.mp4

Having been through the works over the last fortnight I don't see any progress

In fact nothing seems to be being done

And doing the lanes nearer Chabanais there is no sign of any progress since clearance of trees last year

One would draw the conclusion that the road project has been put on hold (highly unpopular) which then would mean no railway reinstatement for some time

The other RN141 dualling project just West of Angouleme is still in progress.

The 2eme Salon National de Modelisime Ferroviare is on today and tomorrow at Bugeat (40 mins SE of Limoges)

www.hce19.fr

For more details

We went today and it is predominantly N gauge

Also made the error of arriving at 1230 so most of the layouts were unattended with either nothing running or token trains circulating

The best layout by far for us was an On30 USA forest layout with some link to little house on the prairie actress who played one of the Olsen

Security was very evident bag search and metal detector

Sorry photos on camera so will have to wait till we return to get uploaded

Colin

Drove over today and both the old road and railway have been severed. 

The pillars are being built for the road bridge that will take the old 141 over the new 141 bypass.

i assume the pont rail will be after as building the rail bridge first would hinder the road bridge construction 

not it sure of timescale as closer to Chabanais the road site seems to be no further forward than it was in December 

Colin

http://www.nouvelle-aquitaine.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/presentationoperations_rn_141_nov17.pdf

Around slide 30 refers to the point rail. Seems the new bridge will be slid in 

colin 

Thanks Jamie for confirming that

yes the plans for the 2x2 dualling show parallel road and rail bridges

Its a very deep cutting much deeper than I thought necessary especially as the road will come from higher ground to the south.   Maybe mitigation for the local residents.   

Colin 

We will be there next week as long as the surgeon can get my wife's stent in her bile duct out without problems on Friday (long saga and to be honest I'm just grateful she is alive and recovering)

as we are close I'll try and get some photos 

I did see an aerial view and it seemed to show the temporary road rn141  deviation had been removed 

jeff. I don't think anyone thought sncf deliberately wanted to close the line just that the cost may have been prohibitive 

regards

colin

4 hours ago, Richard E said:

 

I see there is the usual uninformed comment there "Scrap HS2 and upgrade the existing tracks".

With his moniker of Johnny Walker it appears he has imbibed too much of his namesake 

Good to see the response from Boris being measured

might the review go back to the speed question 

The RN141 work is at Roumazieres needs a rail over road bridge

we were supposed to be over in July but had to cancel due to wife being critically ill so I haven't been to see how far they have got with it 

but I would that was funded as part of the project 

i cant think where else there needs to be a bridge. The one at Chassenuil is already there and I thought part of the existing dual carriageway 

colin

7 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

Plastics will change over time, especially through atmospheric factors, such as early grey plastic drainpipes turning to dust through UV exposure. 

Different plastics in close proximity will also suffer from polymer migration. the result of this is usually one going brittle and the other soft and gooey. We had a number of serious problems with this where synthetic rubber and PVC cables has been run in the same trunking.  I've even seen cable sheathing go soft when in close proximity to some types of emulsion paint.

Its not the polymers that migrate but the additives 

if the solubility parameters of the polymer and additive are aligned then the additive will preferentially migrate from one polymer to another 

this can cause the donor polymer to lose the additive and become brittle whilst the recipient is softened 

back  to styrene materials and photo oxidation will cause chain scission so in effect the long chain polymer breaks down into shorter chains . This then reduces the physical strength of the material and eventually they become weakened 

Colin

Environmental Stress Cracking is a known issue with certain polymers 

UV degradation is also known 

Plasticised materials eg PVC faux leather will suffer from the loss of volatile additives 

All sorts of factors can apply there was a lot of work on why blue milk/beer crates didn't survives as long as red...turned out the pigments allowed crack propagation 

I'll need to go back and try and find my 40yr old text books to get the details for styrene polymers ....I think plastruct is styrene based 

Colin 

Thanks Paul

Its a bit freelance as an easy to set up layout

The original plan I recall only having one platform and all the lines pretty close to each other 

And to upset the pedants even more I will probably end up with Bernina stock also on the layout

in an ideal world I'd do Morges with an impression of the BAM line . Any line that has Biere and Apples in its title has to be good. Morges is where our HQ was based until we moved it to Budapest 

oh oh and of course a BR late 70's Eastern region layout 

So this one is something achievable in a relatively short time 

One question to be answered is DC  or DCC both the loco and railcar I have are DC but ideally I would like to be DCC 

After having to give up on my impression of Ipswich when we moved house 7years ago I needed to find something more manageable

Having had a Bemo starter set there was an obvious option and the web was searched for ideas

On gleisplan.ch a few years ago was a 8*3 layout comprising a terminus with a line looping down to hidden siding

The 8*3 was too big for the space I had and I played with the terminus plan to see if I could accommodate in a smaller space

Two 4*1 Tim Horn scenic boards provide the basis

The concept is that the viewer is stood on the platform serving the loop so avoiding the need for station buildings

On 13 July 2019 at 10:36, rynd2it said:

I'm about to move to France, Chabanais 16150, and being an active modeller I'm looking for any clubs etc within a reasonable distance. Limoges and Angouleme are about equidistant at 1 hour driving and that would be fine.

 

Any help or pointers would be much appreciated

 

Thanks

 

David

We are Chabanais  (Foulounoux to be precise on the Chirac road) also (albeit holidays only.

suggest you talk to the team at Confolens  l'association Chemin de fer Charente Limousine who are restoring the line but also have English members . They may be able to provide details of anything more local 

Regards 

colin

Sorry I read it twice but completely missed that probably because was on phone and scrolled too fast

A politer response would have been sufficient to alert me to my omission 

Interesting

I presume there is some form of check to prevent misuse. IE you have to show an invitation letter

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-48965585

stupid question...whereabouts in Poole is this we do visit Poole from time to time

(I ve been coming to Poole virtually all my life 55 yrs Poole park probably played a part in my love of trains parents would take us round the pottery.  The original shed )

On 25 June 2019 at 23:14, Trev52A said:

@ eastwestdivide

 

Going back nearly twenty years before your HST shot at Newcastle, here's the view on 4th November 1967 showing the right-hand platforms (mainly suburban trains for the coast) still in use, although the Tyneside electrics had finished in June that year and the service was now being handled by dmus.

The train is a Leeds to Edinburgh special headed by 60019 Bittern, by this time privately owned although still very much in BR condition.

 

 

Trevor

The arrangement of the suburban platforms and track has always appealed tome as an alternative to Minories 

How dare anyone criticise the beautiful beast that is a 313

I even once wrote a poem about them

.    It was 1976 they were new though ;-)

Just a couple of observations from yesterday as  First time visitors 

Having come into the main area where the restaurant is we had to ask someone in the lunch queue to find out where the exhibition was as its in a second hall. Couple of signs would have been beneficial 

On entering the hall we were hit by overwhelming heat.  Now that may have been because having been out shopping in Fareham we were cool from the wind but it seemed to be very hot 

Found the layout of the exhibition very good with all the main layouts in the middle and traders around the edge. I know many exhibitions follow this approach but combined with arriving at a quiet period everyone at lunch made negotiating the exhibition very easy 

regards

colin

To add to the traversed options this popped up on you tube ok larger scale but about half way through a sort of hybrid traverser

Eurotunnel yesterday signed  a contract with Bombardier to refurbish the nine passenger rakes 

Photograhic impression on the Railway Gazette site .. I haven't been able to find the original Eurotunnel link. 

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