Pandora

I think it was late 1999, rumour to the effect of class 33's were operating passenger trains over either the North London, or, West London lines (memory fade).

Is the rumour true?

Any images to support the rumour?

From your image, a 4-band colour code,  Brown Black Gold Silver which is 10 x 0.1 ohms   ie 1 Ohm with 10% tolerance.

HOWEVER, double check band 3,   is it gold or a discoloured / burnt  yellow? If a discoloured yellow, then 100000 which is 100Kohms  same tolerance

https://www.wellpcb.com/resistor-color-codes.html

Just now, McC said:

 

And yet the Accurascale class 55 is still £160 with free post, and the Class 37 only £169.99 !

Yes,  Accurascale are undercutting the big players,  I have a decent rake of their Hopper and Mineral wagons, purchased in boxed sets of three, I think they were £23 / wagon,  contrast Accurascale with the Bachmann Presflo  wagon, £49.95 RRP each, probably £42 after typical shop discount

In addition to reduced discretionary spending caused by the squeeze of rising energy and fuel prices, the manufacturers are raising prices too, in big increments! A retailer told me recently,  Peco have warned retailers to expect significant increases for Peco products, retailers are telling me of consumer  resistance to  purchases of new stock, i have resisted the W1, the Heljan 25 and the new Bachmann 20 and 24 diesel  locos,  not because of lack of funds, I am unconvinced of the "pleasure vs price"  balance of the model, I have several Bachman 20s from when they were £39 each, do I gain anything for the latest £155 class 20  over my £39 example, ...... yes but not much!

Is the new livery in a traditional  coach paint, or is it a vinyl wrap?

5 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

It is an ex Metro Cammell Mk1 Second Class Pullman Parlour. The ER used a few as Open First after the second class on the Pullman trains was abolished and replaced with Mk2 air con stock. 

 

 

Here  is a Flickr link for more images of the carriages:

1 hour ago, andyman7 said:

I thought it looked like an early Mk2 FO - they were the first Mk2s built and had four toplights rather than three as well as centre doors so at this angle can be confused with a Mk1 as the rounded roof/coach ends aren't obvious. But there is an obvious underframe there too so maybe not...

 

A strange bird indeed,  look at the gap for the door entry nearest to the camera, , it seems the door is hinged to open inwards to the vestibule, and observe the similar doorway at the opposite end of the carriage,  is the doorway inset or joggled to the main bodyside of the carriage?

On 17/06/2022 at 23:45, Fat Controller said:

I'm not 100% certain, but I think it's a phosphorus tank. Risborough & District MRC

I think fuel-oil for Dover came in via the Hawkesbury Road terminal. 

Portsmouth drew fuel oil from BP Hamble.

Fishguard received tanks from BP Llandarcy (in unfit tanks until the end of the 1960.

 

A comment accompanying the image from Flickr " The Continental tank on the left was used for imports of molten phosphorus from the Netherlands to Albright & Wilson at Langley Green in the West Midlands. The traffic was one of the last to use the Dover train-ferry (the tanks were not permitted through the Channel Tunnel), which sailed for the last time in December 1995"  From my school chemistry lessons, Phosphorus is stored in oil, would the tanker wagons be filled with oil?

On 13/06/2022 at 14:14, Bucoops said:

Just saw this - very nice.

 

Oxblood though? Surely maroon sounds better :D

From the pdf file of October 2021 detailing the IC225 repaint scheme, the stripe for the locomotive  should be RAL3000 Flame Red

At Rotherhithe, there is the Brunel Museum:

https://thebrunelmuseum.com/

The Museum is adjacent  Rotherhithe Station, the Museum occupy an Engine House and the Vertical Shaft used to construct the Tunnel, and as the pedestrian access prior to conversion to a railway tunnel

On 05/05/2022 at 11:19, cheesysmith said:

The pilot scheme was botched simply put due to panic buying due to the poor financial position BR was in, with the hope that the new diesels would provide a quick win and turn things round, without looking at the underlying reasons why BR was loosing money.

 

When BR was formed it was run by old men who understood how the old ways worked. Thus the old ways were perpetuated as they knew they worked and it didn`t need new training or investment. A example is, RA Riddles who was in charge of the modernisation plan, had a ride on one of the brand new AC electrics with a old driver. This train would have been speeding along at a speed and acceleration no steam train could match, improving the railway in many ways. But all they talked about was the old steam trains. Or the fact that when BR was formed, there was a large order for standard wagon types, and one order was for a large number of two axle short wheelbase twin bolster wagons. Luckily this was cancelled quickly, as these offered no advantage over a bogied bolster, and a few disadvantages including slower speeds.

 

Or vac brakes/steam heating/slam doors etc. All these can be described as they work with what we have now/maintaining the status quo, not looking at where we want to proceed to. One luckily outcome of the modernisation plan was the DMU, which saved so many lines from the axe that came later. Riddles even had a plan on the drawing board for a small class 2 steam loco for use on secondary services. 

The writings of Dr Bonavia are worth close study, Bonavia spent considerable time at 222 Marylebone Road, BR formed under the British Transport Commission, the BTC was somewhat lacking as a leader of  post 1948 BR, Bonavia wrote of their inabilty of the BTC to formulate a Traction Policy for BR,  the first real traction policy for BR was formulated as the BTC entered a period of demise, the 1955 plan could have been formulated many years earlier if the BTC had been far sighted.

The stiffleg derrick crane:

https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/questions-and-answers/stiff-leg-derrick-used-ships-supported-ball-socket-joint-d-two-cables-ba-bc-cables-attache-q8349749

There were also cranes known as Scotchderrick or  "Spider Cranes" which may be  to be a variation of the stiffleg deriick crane.

A fixed crane , the example below has a central pillar and two outrigger legs, the crane could rotate the cab and jib on a turntable, the main pillar behind the man, the crane had a considerable reach,  the example was broken up recently despite of being earmarked as a heritage item  for at least 30 years.

https://www.spacehive.com/rotherhithe-red-crane#/gallery

1 hour ago, JeffP said:

As a young lad I was a member of SADRES: Scunthorpe and district railway enthusiasts society.

Weekly meetings in an old semi-abandoned property, where we had talks, watched 8mm and 16mm railway films, and paid, at two bob a week, for trips to Crewe area, Liverpool area etc.

Now the trip I was so excited to see announced was Carlisle. At Kingmoor were loads of Britannias and also a Scot and a Clan, neither of which I'd ever seen. My dad didn't approve of trainspotting, so never took me anywhere and I was deemed too young at 13 to go alone or with friends.

So I duly paid my money.

But my dad wasn't keen on me going to this club, especially as it involved a three mile bike ride, returning in the dark on a school night. So I didn't always get to go.

One week my mates went as they always did, and came round to see me later with the eight shillings I'd paid out of the sixteen needed: apparently the club managers had decided that the Carlisle trip would be a free trip for those attending regularly and I didn't qualify.

I still occasionally see pics of Kingmoor with 46115 and 72006, and can still feel the disappointment more than fifty years later.

I never did get to see a Scot, or a Clan...or a Semi, a Princess, a Patriot, a County, a Grange....

The Philip Larkin poem about parents:

http://joyfulparents.co.uk/philip-larkin/

On 01/02/2014 at 13:23, jonny777 said:

If anyone could give me info on this photo, I would be delighted.

 

Such as - where is it? And the working?

 

The slide mount gives the loco as 33201 and the date 21st Aug 1985. Did the Cliffe-Uddingston cement trains last that long?

 

 

 

 

I do not know the answer,  but the train is running under what appears to be ECML 25kV OH in advanced state of erection , does the presence of the OHL help with the dating?

I think it would be the late 1980s, seen  at  Bimingham New Street Station, the station  08 in polished gloss black, it may have been lettered LMS,  memory fading!

Anyone able to identify the locomotive?

Don't forget Ashford Works is still operational,  repairing Balfour Beatty  mainline stock,  some of the Workshops are standing though internally gutted more than  30 years, it is possible they are listed and cannot be demolished, the wagon shops long gone for a retail centre,  but the main Works still in use, , near the gatehouse  was a cafe, said to be the former blacksmiths shop, but closed several years ago, the cafe displayed several framed photographic prints of SR locos, probably by the works photographer

On 31/05/2022 at 07:28, Compound2632 said:

 

I would imagine it was rather more than a cause of worry to the firemen. Is it recorded whether Gresley had a deputation wait upon him?

Not sure I understand your question, by deputation in waiting,  do you mean a group of people loyal and supportive of Gresley?  Doncaster  Plant Works were loyal to Gresley and Peppercorn too, My Grandfather worked as a boilersmith at the Plant, retiring around 1960 with 40 years of service, as a young boy I recall hearing him tell, in colourful words, of the universal distrust and dislike of the autocratic Edward Thompson, and the welcome  appointment  of genial Arthur Peppercorn when Thompson retired.

School holiday, an expensive trip  at the  height of a summer weekend  from Sheffield  to Bristol area, travelling by overnight trains in both directions,  visited Woodhams  Barry, at 5:30 am, then returned to Bristol Temple Meads for a day (we hoped) of Westerns, Warships and Hymeks, 14+ hours at Temple Meads and not a single example, even the shed was bereft of hydraulics,  the Station yield was of only  Peaks which we could have seen in Sheffield, days later in Railway Magazine we learned of the reason,   the news of the mass storage of diesel-hydraulics at Bristol St Phillips,  we had discussed but rejected a visit to St Phillips on the day of the trip, all those hydraulics missed, even worse, on the way home,  vomiting from food poisoning , my sandwiches had gone off from the summer heat.  

On 31/05/2022 at 11:53, billy_anorak59 said:

Probably this one?:

https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/690301fs.html

 

Sadly, no mention of the diesel haulage...

It is the correct tour,  the notes include the steam pipe failure and the failure occuring by Firsby, the notes document the assistance but not the  identity of  the diesel locomotive

On 19/05/2022 at 22:26, tythatguy1312 said:

realistically speaking, that was due to the coal itself. Welsh coal, which the GWR extensively used, was almost competitive with fuel oil for locomotives, and actively proved superior for the day-to-day operation of Great Western Trains. However, crucially, the A1's were designed with Newcastle Coal in mind, which was lower quality and needed a larger ashpan and firebox to be used effectively. Hence, the Castles could get away with a smaller firebox for the same performance as the A1's.
It's also of note that the Castle has 4 cylinders, whilst the A1 has 3. This meant the Castle was more powerful, yet the A1's were easier going on maintenance for its work, even with Gresley's conjugated valve gear.

The Gresley Pacifics were heavy on coal in their original form,  uncomfortably close to an empty tender at the end of a duty, it is recorded as  a cause of worry to Mr Gresley,  Bert Spencer, was a key player in the corrective redesign work of the A1, Gresley and Spencer maintained   a strong life-long professional relationship, poor Spencer had a rough time by Edward Thompson  following the death  of Gresley  

I was a passenger on a 4472 Flying Scotsman tour, Doncaster to London KX and return, the year was 1969, on the return 4472 blew a steam pipe joint, arrival at Doncaster was several hours late around 0100,  a diesel rescued the train for the final 40 to 50 miles,  arriving at Doncaster I was unable to head up front to see the diesel and note the number, Father was waiting to run me home in the car,  he was tired having waited several hours so I forewent going forward to see the diesel,  does anyone know the number of the rescue loco?  4472 was fresh from overhaul, possibly Hunslet of Leeds, it may have been March 1969. May someone end the perpetual misery of not knowing the number of the rescue diesel.

£12million, but I cannot find anything for the interest rate and term of the loan, the interest rate being a clue to the perceived risk of Hornby,  and  what is the loan secured against,  inventory? The Hornby property portfolio?

On 25/02/2020 at 09:19, 03060 said:

The driver of 37 191 looks as if it might be Callum MacRaild from The Train Now Departing programme featuring the Mallaig line. Still one of my all time favourite programmes.

 

Regards,

Ian.

The link to the West Highlands Line episode programme on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeYYUGqi5V4

Sadly Callum passed away at the age of 66 years:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12250841.callum-macraild/

1 hour ago, The Johnster said:

 

I'll consider myself nonsensically nearly right, then...

 

Bil knew that his switchgear on the 81s was locked out of use, and that his efforts had been in vain, but by the time he told me the story he'd moved on to overseeing the installation of switchgear in new power stations, including Hunterston (nuclear), Dungeness (nuclear), Drax, and Didcot.  He claimed at the time that nuclear power would be so cheap to produce that it would not be economically viable to print the bills, which may or may not be an indication of his gullibility and readiness to believe what he'd been told.

 

We remain in-waiting for the cars we were promised, powered by  a nuclear generator engine under the bonnet  requiring  only a grain of uranium fuel, and the grain of nuclear fuel lasts  for twenty  years of motoring!

16 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

 

and 4Fs.

 

I thought it was more the height of the tender than the loco that was the main issue. 

Firemen tended to go up there to put the bag in etc,

I think you have the reason, the risk of the fireman going up into the coal space of the tender, and with the filler mounted on the top deck of the tender, how would the fireman fill the tender with water?  As part of the electrification project, were water columns removed where overhead was installed?