JeremyC

Didn't 'prison' fencing start being put around schools after the Dunblane shootings?

On the subject of breakdown time at the end of a show, I have noticed since Covid some shows saying you only have a limited time to get out of the hall (about an hour and a half in one case). I don't remember this being an issue pre-covid, but I assume it's due to hall costs.

My understanding would be: (however I model BR) 1. If the Milk Syphon attached to the rear of a passenger train is fitted with working continuous brakes it would only need to carry a tail lamp and it would not need side lamps. 2. If the Syphon was unfitted then there would need to be a brake van with guard onboard behind it so there would be a guard to carry out the side lamp requirements. Note: 1 is not a mixed train, but 2 is.

He seems to have been much more prominent and popular in Germany than in the UK https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/tributes-flow-for-germanys-favourite-englishman-roger-whittaker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Bermuda Of interest to me is that following the loss of this ship after a second fire while being rebuilt, Furness Withy built two liners, the 'Monarch of Bermuda' and the 'Queen of Bermuda'. My Grandfather was an engineer on both these ships, eventually serving as Chief Engineer. He died of a heart attack in New York while still serving onboard the latter. Ironically the Monarch was burned out in drydock after WW2 while being refitted from a troopship and was rebuilt as an emigrant ship the 'New Australia'.

One good thing about the short Hornby Dublo Mk1s was it meant you could buy a correct length BG rather than the over long Triang one.

http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/BRBDocuments/CS/Coaching_Stock_N2_web.pdf Diagram BR 820 - Two Tiered Covered Car Transporter Capacity is given as 12 1/2tons - six cars or seven small cars For what its worth the diagram shows car outlines and depicts: Top Deck: 2 small cars and 2 large cars (arranged small, large, large, small) Well: 2 sports cars One assumes this was only illustrative!

A club I'm a member of has one of the Heljan 7mm scale railbuses. It suffered multiple failures of the worm wheel gear due to the teeth stripping (in my opinion the worm 'thread' was badly formed with the result the mesh between it and the worm wheel was very poor). In the end I altered the chassis to take a modified etched gear box and gear set, however the modification did mean milling away parts of the chassis casting. The model now only drives on one axle, but that has proved adequate for the use the model gets.

Somewhere I read a paper (I think it was someone's PhD thesis) on why British Shipowners stayed with coal fired steam longer and were slow to adopt diesel power compared to Continental owners. As well as the reasons mentioned above another major reason suggested was that many shipowners also had large financial interests in the coal industry.

This afternoon on the Forth, the 'Prince of Wales' is out of dry dock at Rosyth.

I have used the 10ba screw and tapped bush method on a couple of locos. For tightening the bush I discovered that if you drill two 0.8mm holes in the bush face 180 degrees apart down the sides of the screw the bush can be tightened using the Romford (Markits) wheel screwdriver.

The reason for the diesel on the back may be due to the fire risk. (The SRPS at Bo'ness was running a diesel at the rear of its steam hauled trains last weekend and I was told that was the reason.)

Apparently there used to be genders in English

My experience of anything battery operated is that whenever you want to use it the batteries are flat. So I decide to run a few trains one evening - Oh forget it; everything needs recharging.

In the late 1940s my sister's late husband lived some of his early years in India because his father, who worked for the North Britsh Locomotive Company, was sent out there to help the Indians set up their own locomotive building works.

I think they're the wires for lifting the loading ramp. https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3312826?navList=gallery&imo=9889100&page=1

Docks where the ships alongside have no ropes ashore (or are not moored correctly).

Possibly an attempt to keep the side boards with the right wagon? A photograph in Don Rowlands 'British Railways Wagons' shows that some (earlier?) Palbricks had the lettering & numbering on the side boards. There is also a photo of such a wagon which the caption says is fitted with the boards from a different wagon. Presumably the move to putting the lettering on the end brackets was to overcome this problem.

They probably had the same problem I used to tell people I had when unexpected breakdowns occured; that of getting hold of a reliable crystal ball🙂

According to the 'BR Handbook for steam locomotive enginemen' some LNER locomotives (the A3 pacifics are specifically mentioned ) used vacuum brakes on the locomotive.

Fortunately, at least from the reports I've seen, there are no fatalities.

Might be a bit old fashioned, but possibly you could look for an inch size socket? 3/32" = 2.381mm

Some interesting information on RN carrier thinking around WW2: https://www.armouredcarriers.com

Thank you again for such detailed information.

Thank you for a comprehensive reply. One question, from your post it would appear the file you posted should contain more information than it does or am I misinterpreting what you said?