kevinlms

GEM? But that would presumably be the 1960s.

Must be from LMR trial days!

Not at all, because the 18.83 came down to 18.4mm.

On a previous layout which was to EM gauge, I used gauge narrowing to my advantage. I was using the Ratio track and for the sharpest curve, I used some of their 18.83 track base, which I had accidentally purchased! The final track gauge when laid was about 18.4mm and worked perfectly!

But that's basic engineering, to install and then tighten bolts! Cars don't generally have bits fall off them as driven down the road, even quite old ones.

Why, they only had to LOOK like planes from a distance, doesn't mean that they had to work like one! An aircraft is properly engineered to fly.

Wooden plane, wooden engine, wooden fly!

Perhaps not, but I do believe that he officially opened the Dart Valley Railway!

The head office address might have been on the packaging, but doesn't meant that the screws were made there - even if SOME screws are made there. These days, it's probably some factory in China or perhaps Taiwan! But I agree the distance travelled was probably VASTLY more than the most direct route. Nothing has changed since the old RCH days, things often went in roundabout routes then, to send stuff over the same company, not necessarily the shortest route.

No, plenty of places around the world, where not all of those conditions are available. Sometimes 1 or 2 and never 3, unless a long drive. includes suburban streets, open roads and dual carriageways/motorways

I failed my first test (stalling on handbrake starts and rolling back IIRC), but my excuse was that I heard that my grandfather had died that morning!

Did you forget that you just posted this in another thread?

Often you read on the internet that husbands, drive at high speed to hospitals, because they are in panic mode - which is one of the worst things they could possibly do.

You've assumed that everyone is likely to drive like a hoon and this black box, is the only thing going to stop them! It's not criminalising them, it's treating everyone as dangerous.

And that poor practice ought to have been negated, long before they sat for a learners permit - after they get behind a wheel is FAR too late!

Yes, so concentrate on the ones who break the laws, not those that MIGHT. A friend of mine sent her son on an advanced driving course. She said he was a good driver, when he remembered to drive properly. Which rather negated the point!

Sorry, I don't believe in that. Breath analysers are something that can be fitted to vehicles owned by those convicted of drink driving offences. Some suggest that ALL vehicles should be so fitted - you know for safety reasons, just in case. It's just an unnecessary expense for those who DO NOT and never have driven while drunk. About the time I got my licence there was a guy at my work place, who got completely blind drunk and wrapped his large V8 around a cast iron tram pole, killing all his passengers. Apparently, he pleaded with people who came to assist, to not call the police - *****. So no, I never have.

Maybe, but it costs you for those media outlets to make a profit from these matters. Don't think that only the fans pay for it, which is different to model railways, where there is virtually no public interest in them, except to make us mostly only 'boys still interested in trains'!

But the assumption is in such a case that ALL young males will do the same - something clearly not true. Some are downright dangerous, but not all. You could clearly say in that example the curfew combined with the black box, led to the outcome. Some young people don't have spare cash for a taxi. Driving safely home was a FAR better option, even if it meant a late arrival. That would be my choice. Not that we have curfews in Oz.

It's worse than you think! If you add up all the media outlets, with each one having social commentators, photographers, legal teams, researchers and other freeloaders checking up on it all, more money is probably spent than what the Royals themselves cost! Let's not even count what the American H&M cost in courts (yeah I know H isn't American, but he chooses to live there!).

The problem with that idea, is that they go unchallenged for years, from the very day they pass their test, then years later you want bad habits picked up and rectified, before they can continue driving? Simply not going to happen, the only way is to pick up bad habits BEFORE the licence is given to them. Virtually impossible given that a driving test takes less than an hour.

Strangely, here when roads get totally rebuilt or even duplicated, the speed limit gets REDUCED from what it was before!

Disagreeing with this principle, NOT what you have seen. How the **** would I know what you have seen? AFAIK all the spoofed spam calls I have seen use unissued numbers I've seen plenty of evidence of spoofed numbers, belonging to real people/businesses. I've been at my now late mothers' place, when she got a series of about 6 calls, all from people stating that they received a missed call from her number, all within half an hour. Just as quickly it stopped, never to be repeated, presumably because they changed the number to some other poor victims. And yes, I've worked in the phone industry for decades. I don't understand why so many people on RMweb take personal offence, when a statement is aimed generally.

An update - it appears that manual windows contributed to saving one of the bridge workers life. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-17/survival-tale-emerges-weeks-after-baltimore-bridge-collapse/103733798

The other thing to remember, is that if a particular road has it's speed limit reduced, it's likely that the standard of maintenance will be lower. Of course if people travel at the old speed limit, then it's their own fault, if tyres, wheels or suspension gets damaged, according to the relevant road authority.