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It's due to the fact you now have to be a registered, logged in user of Twitter to be able to read tweets. Feeds will no longer show on websites. There isn't a workaround sadly. The sooner the chairman takes a one way trip in one of his rockets the better.
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10 hours ago, beast66606 said:
There's a far worse one that that
Also Falcon.
Common sight at Altrincham
Receding faint voice in Margate, "Ooh, trainpack".
Hornby, well Rivarossi, do make an Italian 740 class 2-8-0. Quite why one would be in Greater Manchester is another matter though!
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19 hours ago, NHY 581 said:
Well, I've been drawn in by a couple of rather nice Italian 0.6.0Ts. Both are liveried appropriately to Era ( Epoch ?) 3 which I understand is 1945-1970. However, they are of course from an earlier age.
The first is a Rivarossi model of a FS Gr 835 0.6.0T of which 370 were produced of the prototype between 1906–1922.
The second is a Lima model of a FS Gr 851 0.6.0T of which 207 of the prototype were produced between 1898-1911.
No idea what to do with them but they are so very nice.........
Rob
With the original oil lamps, they're appropriate up until the mid 30s at the latest. Later on they were fitted with electric lights of roughly the same size, but without the triangle on the front. In the 60s smaller, brass electric lights became the norm. They'll be ok with the two-tone brown (castano and Isabella) coaches and wagons labelled FS Italia.
851s were designed for local passenger work, so one of them with a couple of coaches and a van is appropriate. Later they became more used for shunting and station pilot work, but a few were still used for local passenger services until 1969. The last few were withdrawn in the early 70s.
The 835s were purely shunting locos, used in yards and as station pilots. The last one (835.166) was still in use, as a depot pet at Falconara, until January 1984! Being solely shunting locos, Rivarossi's decision, both on the late 90s version and this modern one released a few years ago, not to include or even give provision for a front coupling is very bizarre!
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https://www.duegieditricestore.it/libri-ferroviari/2450-anni-50-e-60-locomotive-in-primo-piano.html
This is a good book and is still available from the publishers, but postage can be excessive. Tecnomodel in Livorno appear to be able to post it for €12 though, so not too bad.
These two are superb, but have been sold out for a while so pretty difficult to track down sadly.
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3 hours ago, 009 micro modeller said:
Saw this story earlier: https://amp.theguardian.com/travel/2023/apr/15/brexit-orient-express-murder-london-folkestone-leg-route-border-delays
It seems a shame, although I can understand how the longer (and less predictable) border crossing times could create issues for their timetabling. However, what I can’t work out is whether this means the British Pullman would no longer run at all, or if it just means it won’t be offered as an integral part of the Orient Express. I was under the impression that there was quite a lot of custom from people who just ride on the British section as a special (and still expensive) day out and don’t continue to France for the rest of the journey across Europe.
It's just the use of the Belmond British Pullman to get passengers to Folkestone that's affected. The usual programme of lunchtime, evening and full day trips is still booming. Orient Express passengers will simply have to get Eurostar to Paris from now on and join there, rather than at Calais.
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For those who live locally, Old Warden airfield now has an online arrivals board!
https://oldwardenaerodrome.co.uk/arrivals-board
The arrival slots are for half an hour, so the aircraft can turn up in that period. Quite handy if I've got a day off, I can have a quick look in the morning to see if anything unusual is due in. A couple of weeks ago a pair of Bücker Jungmanns were due, and the wife just so happened to want a lift to the beauty salon nearby. I had a couple of hours wandering round and saw this pair come in to land.
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Seen on Facebook the other day...
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On 19/07/2023 at 13:13, Talltim said:
Manchester to Sheffield on a snowy winter's night on a 3+2 bus bench 142 with no heating
Obviously any unit with no heating would have been unpleasant, but other units would have had better seats, fewer draughts and a smoother ride.
I equate the preserved experience to travelling on the Midland Rail Centre's 19th century train, interesting, but not nice (and with worse craftsmanship)
The heating comes directly from the engine. Cold weather - engine doesn't get particularly warm, so saloon doesn't get warm. Warm weather - engine gets nice and toasty so has to dump its excess heat into the already hot saloon!
I really do not understand why Jeremy Hosking has spent any money on these, other than for nostalgic purposes of seeing them in old liveries. His tours are all marketed as being about quality and you high end, and priced accordingly, so having these heaps as feeder services isn't really an option. Railtours in their own right? Ok, I remain to be convinced.
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Online, Facebook is probably the best source, but there's so many groups that it's difficult to keep track. Flickr is another place in to look.
http://www.photorail.it/forum/index.php?action=gallery
https://www.ilportaledeitreni.it/
Three more good links.
For printed media, you can't go wrong with Duegi Editrice.
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1 hour ago, Legend said:
I’ve written on the thread to do with new land cruise stock . We don’t know all the details but I think we are lacking a sense of perspective here . How many people have fallen from an open door on the Jacobite ? I think the answer is none . Yet this operation is shut down for one week at the height of the tourist season . Unbelievable !
Of course Health and Safety is paramount and we don’t want anyone injured using these trains , but as I said let’s get a sense of perspective . It’s probably more dangerous crossing the road . If I was a hotelier , restauranteur , shop owner in Mallaig , Glenfinnan or Fort William I’d be really annoyed , coming on top of Cost of Living crisis, recovery from Covid etc ……this is the last thing they need .
It's not really to do with the dangers, it's to do with the fact they got inspected a few weeks ago and ORR brought up a list of improvements that were required. WCRC said they would comply. A month later, another inspection, improvements not complied with.
Their other railtours aren't affected, either ones run by themselves or by third parties (Railway Touring Company). They have sufficient stewards to operate the door locks. The Jacobite runs with minimal on board staff - guard, a few catering crew, and that's about it. Certainly not enough to lock and unlock the doors at every station.
I feel sympathy for the passengers and the traders in Fort William and Mallaig - the latter will be dead without 600 people turning up every day. But absolute none for WCRC. They've once again brought this on themselves by blatant disregard of the rules. They've had years to for CDL to the stock and haven't. It's not like they couldn't afford it, they've scrapped a lot of locos and stock in the last few months, plus bought most of Riviera's Mk1s. It's just sheer bloody-mindedness.
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On 19/07/2023 at 10:10, papagolfjuliet said:
Reviving this thread because we may be about to find out whether my memory was correct: 68030 has now moved from Llangollen to Grosmont for overhaul.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/61796596150/permalink/10163289063601151/
Gifted by the Standard 4 Group (along with 80136) to the NYMR. The boiler is currently being overhauled in Manchester.
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20 hours ago, John M Upton said:
Trust me, I speak from experience (i.e. being suddenly plunged into a ghostly silent darkness) that the batteries on the 313's were absolutely knackered, the best one lasted maybe a minute before the charge gave up.
Never had that problem with the ones that were properly maintained at Hornsey, must've been a Brighton issue ;-)
Do you know what type were fitted? Hornsey changed all theirs out to fully sealed, maintenance-free batteries many years ago, very similar to car batteries. The original ones used to give no end of problems and you'd be checking the water levels on every other exam.
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51 minutes ago, peak experience said:
How many class 58s are there remaining in the UK?
Four (58012, 58016, 58023 and 58048), and two (16 and 23) are nominally runners except for apparently having knackered wheel bearings that require very expensive replacement. It seems there was a plan for some of the French bogies to be imported, but the message didn't get through to the scrappy.
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16 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:
At first sight a bog-standard Gresley vehicle .......... but it's of North Eastern Railway origin ( with later bogies ) and had British not-so-Standard gangways rather than Pullman type : http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/results.asp
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On 21/06/2023 at 22:06, adb968008 said:
I dont feel hopeful about seeing anything in the “main” collection ever running again, not with the workshop gone etc.
is 60103 currently the only National collection steam loco operational ?
I know 30777/70013 are under overhaul, 850 looks a bit worse for wear, 44027 I dont even know where that is, and 30120 is under overhaul, I assume 925 may be ?
Any others subject to overhaul ?
Replica Rocket at Shildon is operational too. I think that's it though, other than 60103. 30120, 850 and 30925 are all stored pending overhaul. Currently under overhaul, in addition to 30777 and 70013 are 63601 (GCR), Taff Vale no. 28 (Gwili), 44027 (Vale of Berkeley), and Hunslet 3183 (Flour Mill). Progress on the latter three appears to glacial.
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Bristol Beaufighter at Duxford yesterday, in a rather empty hangar with the doors open so a different view to usual. Still awaiting the right type of engines before it flies, otherwise it's basically complete.
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"I've got a great Leslie Nielsen pun"
"Really, what is it?"
"It's a type of joke based on word play. But that's not important right now"
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19 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:
Yep. But it was Jodrell Bank. The one before the newer telescope.
List of locos used in one of the magazines a few years ago. But altogether there was about a dozen or so bogies used.
Jason
It was only the wheels themselves that were used under the telescope. Even the axles were disposed of I believe. There's a photo here
showing what the "bogies" looked like - definitely not Castle ones!
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On 15/06/2023 at 08:57, John M Upton said:
All well and good but without traction power to a 313, you can't do anything with it, not even open the doors. And that still won't change the fact that the vast majority of cash paying visitors to heritage railways are only there to see classic steam and (at a push) early diesel locos. "Modern" EMU's are of little or no interest to anyone except a small minority of cranks.
A bunch of over enthusiastic teens making YouTube videos about themselves whilst saving up their dinner money is not going to cover the thirty grand a year needed just to store the thing, it's a pipe dream, better to save their money and let it go.
Doors operate on 110V so can be run off the batteries, assuming you've got enough air to operate them. Good way of killing the batteries though!
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Whoops! Oh, and someone caught it on video too.
https://maltadaily.mt/watch-england-teams-plane-takes-wrong-turn-gets-towed-upon-arrival-in-malta/
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Proposed new competitor for Eurostar
in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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Eurotunnel has the advantage of a lot of space to park up a lot of vehicles, plus they're all going to one destination so it's easy to just fill up one train after another. Eurostar doesn't have that luxury at St Pancras, and passport control can only cope with 1500 passengers per hour rather than 2200 per hour before Brexit. Hence why they're down to two trains an hour rather than three, and missing out intermediate stations and reduced number of destinations. Another operator isn't going to be able to use St Pancras, so unless they pay a lot of money for Border Force at Stratford or Ebbsfleet then I can't see it happening.