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18 hours ago, eastwestdivide said:
Steam-hauled double decker coaches! Who’d have thought it?
It was common until about 2012 at Wolsztyn, after which they started using single deckers.
Ol49-7 departing Wilkowice with a service from Leszno to Zbąszynek, 25/10/2011. Even by Polish standards the loco was in appalling condition - I've never seen so much water pouring out of a boiler before! It only lasted in service another two weeks before being withdrawn.
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8 hours ago, phil-b259 said:
Given wikipedia also states...
The unit was repainted into Network Rail's yellow house colours and internally refurbished at Alstom's Wembley Intercity Depot, to include a new driving desk, technician's workstation, kitchen and toilet facilities, and the necessary ERTMS equipment.
...you do wonder about just how that unit can be said to be more authentic as a representation of a commuter train.
OK so 313201 might not have original seating but it DOES have a full compliment of seating and no messing facilities in it. Granted the dual voltage thing is an issue as the rest of the 313s with 25KV equipment are long gone but even so...
313121 is an odd choice. Yes, it's got quite a lot of the original seats inside still, but I understand the Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board were planning to acquire enough seats from a class 315 to fit out a class 313. The mods inside from what I recall are all easily reversible. The cab desk is very different though.
Although they're called dual voltage units, everything runs from 750V DC supply, either from the third rail shoes or from the output of the transformer. There's a changeover switch on each motor coach to swap between the shoes and the transformer output.
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On 16/02/2023 at 21:27, chris p bacon said:
We used the same barriers but have now decided not to use them anymore. The last load I picked up (on my own) was 1.2T and had to be picked from the stillages and loaded onto an open truck. IIRC The advice now is that only those clubs that use a tail lift can hire them and the last time I was there the average weight of a stillage was .7T. That might not sound much but the car park outside the lock up wasn't flat and a tail lift doesn't sit flat on the ground so it must be fun trying to get a stillage on the lift. I think the storage area has now moved but the weight is still an issue.
For our show (this weekend) those exhibiting have been advised that there will not be barriers and I understand it isn't an issue. We need some 20+ Volunteers to run the show and with volunteer numbers tight, the barriers have been dropped.
Not having the barriers certainly made the Biggleswade show a much more relaxed affair - before, during and after the show. Less faffing around on the Friday, a lot more space to move around on the Saturday, and less to do after the show. It meant I was the first in the pub after the show and didn't have to go with you to Welwyn to unload the barriers again!
One layout brought their own and lent a few to another layout, but they didn't seem to be missed by anyone else.
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10 hours ago, stivesnick said:
Good to hear this and the fact that social media appeared to play a part. With the decline in local newspapers this may be the only way to reach the local population and get people interested in the hobby.
Hopefully they will return next year.
Regards
Nick
We hope so. Our secretary did a survey of some of the people in the queue in the morning to find out where they heard about the show. Vast majority saw it on UK Model Shops, some on local social media and a few word of mouth. Very few mentioned the posters we had printed and stuck up locally. It certainly seems online advertising is the way to go.
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On 18/02/2023 at 23:28, PenrithBeacon said:
They had also run out of food in the refreshment room. Not good.
Yes, we're sorry about that. As @5 Chas said, attendance figures were a lot more than anticipated. They've been slowly dropping over the years and last time a lot of food had to be given or thrown away at the end of the show, not ideal for a small club as you can imagine. Hence the amount of food purchased, namely rolls and fillings, was reduced a bit this year.
Saturday's attendance was the highest I've known in the last 10 or so shows I've been helping at! The car parks were completely full at one point. The daughter of one our members had been posting the advert on various Facebook groups and other social media, and it seems to have had the desired effect in getting the message out.
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3 hours ago, Swissrail said:
I noticed that this is not just Rocket Railways but Rocket Eailways Reclaimed which on a cursory inspection appears to mean even tattier tat than the normal site!
It's taking dumpster diving to a new level!
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£10 for a Peco point motor and a few offcuts of N gauge Flexi track? You can buy a new motor and a full length of track for 11 quid!
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13 hours ago, Middlepeak said:
Some more detail added to the footplate unit, including cab steps and front axle springs. That marks the end of soldered assembly on both boiler and footplate units, so I can now turn to plastic items such as buffers before applying the primer.
Not much progress on the chassis. It rolls very smoothly and I've now sorted out how to do the crankpin nuts on the front axle, where clearances are minimal. However, the cylinders will have to be redesigned to get the crosshead clearances right, so this may be another application for 3D printing.
Sadly the loco won't now be finished for our next show outing at Biggleswade on the 18th, but it may have a quick run up and down when no-one's looking!
G
Very nice! Looking forward to seeing it in a couple of weeks. I was pleasantly surprised to see your layout on the list the other day.
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6 hours ago, drduncan said:
I model in EM and N (or rather my 8 year old son has the N gauge in a failed effort to get a clear difference between his and Daddy’s trains).
I have no wish to fan flames as it seems things are already getting a bit fraught, but I have a degree of sympathy with the view that it is harder - for a given skill level - to work in n gauge.
And I’m not referring to individual skill levels! To my mind the key issue is component supply and the impact this has on model making in any scale/gauge combos rather than - to be deliberately provocative - ‘unboxing.’
[As a digression, this is not to attempt to create a fight between finescale and others, because we all enjoy this hobby in different ways, but to get us to think about model making and what makes this easy or harder. That this clearly is as possible in N as it is in 2mm, is demonstrated by the wonderful Totnes layout to name but one. It is also just as possible in OO as much as EM or P4 whether the builder considers themselves in the ‘ finescale’ camp or not. (My personal belief is that finescale is a mindset and approach rather than a scale/gauge combination; anything that makes pursuing such an approach is be be applauded. Anything that makes such an approach harder I would disparage.) Digression over.]
Anyway…One commentator mentioned the ‘Langley effect’ and the need for (very) expensive donor chassis to support building locos. This is indeed off putting. My, albeit limited experience, of trying loco building in N at the behest of my son who wants his layout powered by smaller version of the kits he watches me build (or finds rooting through my stash), is that the supply of key n gauge components (rather than 2mm Fs) is much more problematic than in 4mm. In particular I have yet to find a source of n gauge loco wheels (and I’m sure a similar comment could be made regarding after market N etched chassis kits). This prevents the appearance of the Great Bear or a Scott Atlantic on his layout, much to his dismay (and my relief as I can delay doing the CAD for 3D printing the loco superstructures for a bit longer…)
DrDuncan
Farish do some wheels now as spares, but they generally seem to have pre-fitted bearings which may make chassis construction difficult. You can source some Fleischmann ones from as well, but again, how difficult it'll be constructing a chassis is another matter. Worsley Works do a few kits that include chassis, and N Brass locos too, but they appear to require 2mm SA components to complete.
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On 17/01/2023 at 14:27, Northroader said:
IL MONDO DEI TRENI
Just idly browsing this morning, and I found a useful website to further assist anyone interested in Italian Railways. Loads of blog type articles on different aspects, plus the index will take you to loco lists, descriptions of individual lines from the historical development angle, and so on. I’m on Apple, so trying to get the translate to work at present.
I think I've probably mentioned this site before, but another useful one that includes modelling info as well is https://scalaenne.wordpress.com/
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Another one you might find useful, dimensioned survey drawings from 1970. The FS Fondazione website has a lot of station drawings uploaded. I've found one for the station I want to model in 2mm scale and printed out it on a sheet of A4 it scales out perfectly.
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On 16/11/2022 at 22:06, big jim said:
not a fan of TPWS4, that could do with some tweeks too, slightly longer response time before the brake applys (currently 2.7 seconds to cancel it iirc) and also needs some sort of visual indication of when the minute is up to release the buttons following a reset
At least on class 717s, which have ETCS fitted, if AWS/TPWS/Over speed is activated a "button" lights up on the DMI. After a minute another button appears, greyed out, with BR on it - brake release. Press it for a couple of seconds and it goes white, then press AWS/TPWS/OSS "button" and the brakes release. So much easier than trying to guess if a minute has passed!
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On 11/01/2023 at 17:24, IWCR said:
Be aware with Germany that Covid masks are still required on all public transport.
I have looked at several rail holidays in Germany but been put off by this.
Pete
It appears some states will be removing mask requirements in the next few weeks, but they'll still be required on long distance travel until at least 7th April. Not sure how they class long distance, some of the "local" RE services travel for a couple of hours.
I definitely agree with the suggestions of giving the Harz a miss this time. Do it as a separate trip in the winter, even if it's just for a couple of days. I've had a few weekends out there over the years; fly out Friday night, back Sunday night, so you have nearly two full days there. Hannover airport is only 90 minutes away.
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Anyone want a fully illuminated Deltic in a box frame?
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10 hours ago, Bernard Lamb said:
They are far too busy delivering stuff to us local people.😀
The local service has been excellent this Christmas.
It would seem that any letter or parcel that arrives at the depot will be send out first thing the next morning if it is on the local van round. They often park near my house and deliver letters to houses in the area and then drive house to house to deliver parcels.
The service this year has been as good as it has ever been.
I have heard stories about working conditions in the depot and these lead me to think that things are not likely to improve in the new year.
Bernard
It actually arrived yesterday morning! Three deliveries in one day - parcels about 10am, letters (including Christmas cards posted 8th December) about 1pm, then another parcel delivery about 2pm. I'm just glad it's all finally arrived.
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On 16/12/2022 at 02:39, 5944 said:
I've got two eBay orders that have been dispatched. One was posted from Italy nearly three weeks ago and has been sitting at Langley HWDC for two weeks. The other simply says "accepted at post office", no other information for the last week. We've not seen any post for about a week either.
Bad form to quote your own post, but anyway. The second parcel was delivered last Friday, so only took a week to be delivered. Not bad for a 20 mile journey.
The first one still hasn't appeared! On 16th it arrived at Home Counties North MC in Hemel Hempstead and hasn't left. Order posted in Italy on 28th November, been in the UK since beginning of December, but I don't expect to see it this year. It's only a magazine so shouldn't be held up by customs, but also means it's not being rushed through. Oh well.
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On 11/12/2022 at 13:46, hayfield said:
It may be easier and in days gone buy it was cheaper. But then initially with Paxolin the glassfibre the materials used were from offcuts from the electronics industry
Its totally different now as there is far less waste and new sheet has to be bought, using flexitrack is cheaper, and easier to use
That's the conclusion we came to with our club layout, before it needed to be redesigned. With the amount of track needed in the fiddle yard there wasn't a lot of difference in price between Peco and copper clad, but the former allowed the fiddle yard to be assembled a lot quicker and more accurately.
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I've got two eBay orders that have been dispatched. One was posted from Italy nearly three weeks ago and has been sitting at Langley HWDC for two weeks. The other simply says "accepted at post office", no other information for the last week. We've not seen any post for about a week either.
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If you haven't got a spare DMU chassis to hand, an old Lima class 47 is an adequate substitute!
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https://railsofsheffield.com/collections/advent-calendar
Box of 25 yards of Peco code 100 for £89.95, today only.
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8 hours ago, 92912 said:
But did 73050 and Jack's Green move to Brotherhood's by rail?, they both definitely returned in light steam steam. This picture by the late Mike Bratley may be 1928 taking 73050 to Peterborough
Good shout.
http://73050.co.uk/page40.html
Certainly looks like it might've moved by rail both ways then.
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1 hour ago, adb968008 said:
73050 went to the sugar factory to act as an emergency heating boiler once.
Did it go by rail ?
The sugar factory was still rail connected at that point. However...
https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/73050-2/
73050 continued to be steamed at various open days at the sugar factory and also steam days at Wansford until 1975, when an overhaul was required. During 1977 the locomotive was moved to the city-based factory of Peter Brotherhood Limited, where a major overhaul was undertaken as an apprenticeship project over the following three years, returning to the NVR on 16 July 1980.
So that rules that one out then.
80002 moved by rail from Cowlairs to KWVR in 1969 and hasn't left, so that's one that's never been on a low loader.
75027 I believe was transferred by rail from Carnforth to Horsted Keynes in 1968, though I can't find anything online to say how or when.
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Blacker Lane D.P.
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What about trying something in O gauge?
https://severnmodels.com/epages/eshop1179816.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/eshop1179816/Products/O21&Locale=en_GB
Would probably have to be a cut and shut job, but might be an ok starting point.