kevinlms

Probably for some silly reason, such as the model designers phone number! These two red locos had numbers on them representing the Hornby sales & repair phone numbers. http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_details.asp?itemid=54 http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_year_details.asp?itemyearid=229 Not sure which way round, but I remember reading that was the reason for the numbers. Not really practical on direct dialling with area codes!

Not sure if this is the right place, but an interesting graph on fast food chains. Some surprises too, for me at least. https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1160235/?fbclid=IwAR3rfOscBZiVVoWBRygCj-DHQH8lyiyNOJw_VUTa8vuXo-aKFoN7Ef4r-As

Fair enough.

Almost certainly women, or perhaps even child labour!

It wasn't my thread, but I agree with you 100%. If any multimeter shows anything like what the voltage SHOULD read (surely anyone with the slightest bit of electronic knowledge, ought to be able to work out a ball park figure - but perhaps not, as common sense, isn't that common!), then it is a pretty good tool to use. It could be 10% out, up or down, but it's totally irrelevant as long as it's consistent. For the intended purpose, a guide is good enough. This thread has to be one of the most 'realms of fantasy' threads on RMWeb and let's not go to the hinted at insults - whoops just did!

I have an old H&M catalogue which shows that they were once available, but it doesn't give the size! Usually banana type plugs, the normal size of which are 4mm diameter.

Hence the immortal line 'Who sold you this then'?

Except that was never going to happen. While stronger drawbars and by their nature requiring bigger trains with automatic brakes (Air?), to make it worthwhile and safety of heavier trains, being on multiple changes of gradient at once. The wagons were almost all 12 Ton mineral at the time of LMS Garratt construction and were almost exclusively PO wagons with a multitude of owners. The problem being that those owners, would never pay for bigger & better wagons, just so the LMS could run bigger trains, faster! Getting their wagons to Cricklewood was the railways problem, not theirs. The Midland Railway had been trying to improve the standard of these wagons, since the 1870s at least, so nothing was about to change!

Probably just as well the driving wheels weren't smaller, the axle boxes were bad enough at it was, running the wheels faster for the same speed, would mean the RPM would be higher.

Tri-ang models generally sold in vast numbers by today's standards, because they were aimed at the toy market and because there was nothing better in most cases.

You can type 'Transcontinental' in the search here and find the range. http://www.hornbyguide.com/default.asp Top right search box. But perhaps you actually want the Lima coaches? http://mmiwakoh.de/Eigene Webs/lima-modellbahn/CIWL en.htm

I'm using Google Chrome and is the latest 64 bit version. I fired up FireFox and it works. I avoid Edge like the plague!

Why can't I see the plan? If I click where the plan should be, it flashes on the screen momentarily, then disappears.

Meanwhile, someone else has the rest of the turntable and has no idea, how to control it!

Increasing the capacity of line would be considered, if the existing line(s) were subject to extensive delays in running trains, now and into the future. Places like Euston Station was extended several times, to keep up with increased demand . I have no idea of what sums they did in calculating the projected cost of improving the line, against the cost of doing nothing. It certainly wasn't a decision by the LNWR Board to make it a 'nicer' station (far from it, it became a rabbit warren!), No, the decisions were made entirely to enable more services to use it and therefore more passengers. Of course the modern approach is to do 'feasibility studies', which can sometimes drag on for years. An example is increasing capacity at London airports.

Standard locos, with clown noses? Plenty of worse examples than Castles & Kings, within this topic.

Wasn't the locomotive situation on the L&YR pretty dire, until Barton Wright took over in 1875? It desperately need new locomotives and new workshops to build them in.

Plenty of 100s & 1000s available in Australia. https://hopperfoods.com.au/products/100s-and-1000s/

What, London?

You'll smack yourself when you figure it out!

A quote about an Aussie politician. Tim Smith, like Cory Bernardi, is a former professional rower, and a reminder that this is what you get when you elect people whose greatest skill is travelling backward as fast as possible.

Trying to figure out how he eats with that!

Fact was in 1948/51, British Railways had a handful of mainline diesels to experiment with. It took until 1955 to come up with a modernisation plan, with more types of diesel to trial. Before this plan had even started properly (many of the design were yet to enter traffic), but panic mode kicked in based on increasing losses of the network. So large orders were placed, largely based on salesmen advice as to when they could supply and how much, rather than buying proven locomotives. The worst possible way to implement a completely new fleet. But it did mean BR ended steam earlier than planned, but with a lot of pain of poor quality and unneeded variety. Edit to add Perhaps BR management, should have taken on the Meccano management. They were just as bad as each other, as per the previous posts!

What if the voltage is reduced for some reason - a partial short for instance? A go/no go may not help here.

Anyone else noticed that the article doesn't tells us where she died, but does when!