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The data is from commercial oc-health provider (so no sharing). When 'pre-existing condition' is mentioned, this is nearly always relates to conditions which reduce a persons ability to fight an infection; so the conditions you mention. When issues about conditions which may impact the ability of the vaccine to stop infection (or be only able to limit the impact of the infection) you are looking at a smaller subset of conditions. The main area is where there is a natural reduction in the effectiveness of the immune system (mainly genetics) or where this is due to outside influence e.g. immune suppressants for organ transplants or treating other conditions (including stokes apparently) and diseases such as AIDS. In addition you have conditions which may affect the working of the lungs, nose and throat, particularly the effectiveness of the linings. The general oc-health guidance on managing worker safety has started to movd away from removing the 'unhealthy' (me included) from high risk locations to identifying populations which may not have the same level of protection (and keeping social distancing in some office space for them). While you would not want to sit in front of somebody with obvious symptoms of COVID / cold / flu, there is no evidence that a vaccinated person can catch COVID from an asymptomatic non vaccinated person any differently than from a vaccinated person who is successfully fending of an infection. It is likely to take a couple of months of interaction to get enough data to be sufficiently informed.

The responses so far have show how diverse peoples concerns are. The current best assessment of the data is that unless you have a medical condition which may lower the initial resistance to infection then it doesn't matter if you come into contact with the odd unvaccinated person. If you do have an underlying medical condition which reduces the effectiveness of the vaccine then its much more effective for you to wear a high performance medical face mask than require others to wear the current AfNOR mask. In terms of air-con systems many newer one use heat exchangers and don't recycle air. Old ones do recycle the air but have filters, these are primarily to preserve the systems used to dehumidify the air, but the combination should kill almost every bug. The a/c industry had spent the last 40+ years stopping nasties such as legionaries. The evidence seem's to be that you need to be exposed to somebodies breath for some time (either directly or though a sodden mask) within about a metre in an indoor situation. The use of masks has helped in confined situations but gives a clear advantage to more transmissible variants. So, as long as the filters are cleaned, the rate a/c units recycle air should reduced transmission to close to that in the open air.

I haven't been but from the floor plan I have seen up one isle, down the next. Left one cross way and right the next. I think some may be thinking Ikea snakes and ladders when mentioning 'one way systems'. The idea is to have everybody less than 2m apart facing the same way and not breathing water vapour into each other faces

Thanks, having thought about it a bit more the GW version is better as the TPE 802/2 doesn't have the buffet as in the Azuma.

The problem with deciding on what measures will still need to be used is that everybody's sees risk differently. I won't go anywhere which requires a mask as it makes me feel so ill, but as a safety practitioner I would avoid the same places as they indicate a high risk location and the AfNOR spec mask most people use degrades in performance over time (30 min). However, two measures which I would be happy with, (extra space between layouts / wider walk ways and a one way system) were criticised by others even though would would make exhibitions more pleasant irrespective of COVID. Similarly people evaluate what's in the news based on there own concerns, so Andrew Marr getting Covid is a big issue for some, but given the reported pills he is on (data may not be 100% accurate) the transferability of his experience to others may be limited. If we are going to have more freedom from July then hopefully there will be evidence by September if things are working and gives confidence to go to exhibitions (and train trips).

The track end of Kings Cross is completely recognisable even with the overhead, opening the eastern bore brings it back more to how it was in the early 1970's - also photos taken from the platform ends along the train shed are recognisably the same. There was still a footbridge last time I used KX, the deck may be new but it's at the same point its always been. I am not certain the location of the signalling centre alters how it looks and KX Thameslink is a different station.

While everyone's opinion varies, given that Dapol's Mk3 have been used to represent versions with different underside fairings with little note (and much less than the roof vent issue) it's not something that will cause too many modellers to pause. In terms of more obvious changes the roofs of TPE 800/2 have differences, including the reostatic brake grid. While they may currently be on other services in 2019 pre Covid the main peak Leeds services tended to be pairs of 800/2 leaving 800/1 for diagrams to Hull (possibly?) and Scottish destinations north of Waverley. Most useful when there was a jumper at Newark and we took the scenic route via Spalding. Captain Electra - for the TPE overlays which version GW/LNER requires less work to get it look correct (front etc)?

I think it depends on your interests are, even though I lived in Bristol I would not know what those tunnel mouths were. A list of things I would know by sight. Tamar Bridge Dawlish Warren Bristol TM (worked there for a year). Waterloo Clapham Jct Battle down flyover Weymouth Harbour Railway St P Int Welland Viaduct Birmingham NS (could be mistaken for Euston though) Crewe Barmouth Bridge Bleanau Ffestiniog Conway Bridge Menai Bridge Man P Ribblehead Viaduct Dentdale + Viaducts Lune gorge Kings Cross Norwich Thorpe (worked there for a year). York Newcastle + bridges Royal border bridge Waverley Station. Forth Bridge (I've hung off it enough) Tay Bridge (ditto). None of these have changed much and have a recognisable and impressive backgrounds (which is also why bridges predominate). There are many other locations where you can get a good shot of a loco/train where its not instantly recognisable as a location. There are many fine photos of steam hauled locos being banked up Shap but I would not know exactly where, or if it was Beattock.

I have never seen a LNER or TPE 5 car on its own on the juice but on 2x5 cars it has been front pan on front unit and rear pan on rear unit other wise the max speed was limited to 110mph. May have changed but ECML MK3 overheads are much less rigid than earlier systems - even the slightly earlier MK3s on the Norwich line has less give, never mind the 1960's Clacton line equipment.

In Yorkshire we have 'tret' as an alternative to treat e.g. I was well tret. The only thing that grates is the use of 'while' as a replacement for 'until' - wait while five instead of wait until five. Made even worse by the original wording for temp signals and level crossing 'while red light shows stop here' . We do have some really good insulting idioms but we are not allowed to use them in case they upset the ultimate snowflake who is mayor of Greater Manchester.

Are you sure that's the meaning of woke, from the people who have interacted with who have self identified themselves as woke it could as well be 'people who put perception of knowing and expressing current identity politics over practical knowledge of reducing exclusion for all protected characteristics.' However, as I am Dyslexic I find people making up, or changing the meaning of word difficult. Therefore inventing and expressing 'inclusive' language can marginalise those who are supposed to be protected.

For the TPE you mention the need to cut out the lights on the power/motor cars. I have had a look a couple of times but I must say the only ones I can see are on the driving trailers. Am I missing something, are the lights on the GWR version you used as a base?

1. You implied that as you were professionally qualified you were competent to comment, I provided an example that disconnected being a professional from understanding of basic maths never mind market forces. I did not imply that this applied to you; however, you inferred it which is your issue not mine. 2. You seem to miss the point that having models on shelves doesn't generate any profits. You also equate matching market prices to 'selling off cheap'; this is two different things - matching prices is a method of rebalancing the market with more of it going to you. Whereas 'selling off cheap' would imply to me that this would be at, or below cost. 3. I can only go on your post - that you did not want to search to find if there were cheaper prices. Given that searching the internet is a trivial and quick activity and as you has plenty of time to post a six paragraph post on this forum the inference that you were price insensitive is valid based on your post. 4. People are different, most people I know would have cancelled and contact their bank/credit card company at the first sign of problems. 5. I am dyslexic, but even I find filling my name, address and credit card details on commercial e-commerce sites trivial. While some shops have ersatz sales system which actually don't link stock and sales the are fairly easy to spot, although I expect that this will be less obvious to others. 6. This does not make sense to me; once you have got towards then end a section of your layout you are working on, on the assumption you have the next section planned already, why can't you order the parts for the next section for delivery before you finish the bit you are doing? That's what I do. 7. The post from fezza mentioned high prices and poor service. The only thing I normally hear about shops which sell at RRP is the pricing policy; the shops which were service and availability over price e.g. the late Wakefield Model Railway Centre, are a dying breed. You miss the point that many retailers do routinely discount from RRP and there is a market median, being substantially above that is going to limit sales to the many who are price sensitive. In some cases market median is a few percent under RRP, in others its 10%. I don't 'blame' shops that sell everything at RRP irrespective of the market, I just don't buy from them. I can appreciate fezza's disappointment of having anticipated a good retail experience and be disappointed, either through price policy or poor service.

1. Thanks for confirming it, professional status is not always a good guide - a distant cousin is a consultant medic and can't do basic arithmetic never mind maths. 2. It is not clear if you are referring to companies like Revolution which generally make the number of models based on demand, or other companies such as those owned by Kader who have limited capacity for UK models. In any event we are taking shops not manufactures. I checked a few 'full RRP' shops for online availability - as expected they have run out of Farish Mk2f TSO, as have nearly everyone, but they had plenty of BSO, FO, RFB left while many discounters have sold out. So if demand exceeds than supply everything sells; if not the least competitive retailers normally have stock longest. 3. In your previous post you said that you could get things cheaper but were not prepared to search. Given that searching on the internet is a trivial excessive it is acceptable to infer that you are price insensitive. 4. I have no ideas which retailer this is but I only order from retailers with an obvious live stock management system, why did you not cancel the order at the first sign of problems? 5. There are plenty of retailers with same day dispatch which discount new stock at, or near, the limit the manufactures set for the first 90 days etc. 6. Unless you have been building your layout for a matter of days then I would not believe ordering different products from different retailers with live stock systems would have had any impact on progress. 7. Going back to my point, unless you know the elasticity of demand you have no idea if Gaugemaster could increase income or profit by selling stuff in store at lower prices than RRP. Basic economic practice would indicate that it is likely. Given that Gaugemaster manufacture's their own products and is a major distributor then they may consider the shop of secondary importance, when I have been most of the staff were doing a lot of stuff, almost none of it related to the retail shop. So going back to the original point about the person travelling to Ford and expecting a really good shopping experience only to be disappointed is something a retailer needs to be aware off, even if they don't intend to do anything. In this case fezza's main response was the pricing, with poor service second. If the experience was - this is a great model shop with good service, but prices could be a little better - then it's an OK retail experience which has some positives. Back in 2019 I was visiting a site investigation near Arundel, not more than 10 min drive from Ford Station, I was not incentivised to go to the shop even though I had a list of things to get and the whole quarter's budget still unspent. Conversely quite a bit of my next quarters' spend will be on Gaugemaster specials (NR Class 73 + HST), or from products they distribute Kato Azuma.

You seem to be missing the point that public recognition is by default what make a loco 'famous'. While it was eclipsed by A4s in the LNER publicity material in the mid 30's FS (both train and loco) were used as promotional material. The Americans (if you mean in 1927 and 1939) got what was new and shiny which meant streamlined (6220/6229) or bling. In both cases FS was not new enough or did not have enough brass bling. As for 100mph, CoT may, or may not have passed 100mph depending on somebodies variable reaction times. FS was reliably measured. As a LNER locos its over rated and people should be force to love and acclaim 69621 as the pinnacle of utility (dual braked, steam hated and fast of the mark); all hail Gods Electric Railway. Sorry? its not working!

As I implied if you don't understand the basics of a market economy they you don't get why people have issues mentioned in this thread. You may want to google 'Price elasticity of demand'. For discretionary spend, and for a market where the majority of potential clients have price as one of the major buying factors (so not you) lowering prices will increase demand if potential customers are aware of this. The change in sales is not linear so a 5% drop in price may realistically increase sales by 10% but it would be faulty logic to extrapolate this to say a 10% reduction will result in 20% increase in sales as it depends how elastic the market is. I don't frequent the two nearest model shops as they are full RRP. The third farthest (easy parking in a fairly cheap industrial area with good size displays) gets about 60% of my model spend, it provides an acceptable discount on Farish and model equipment while still having sufficient range in stock. If they discounted some of the slower sellers, e.g. the O6 and O7 a bit more then I would buy more from them and less on-line. However, they are happy that they have priced products to be attractive to customers to have enough turnover to keep the income and profits up. There are occasional customers who try to get discounts but from chats with other customers the pricing is considered generaly to be 'fair'. That is at a point where the shop would get diminishing rates of return for having across the board reductions.

Sorry, I had no ideas there was more than one. It is a foreign country and I have lost my passport so am not permitted past Jct 22. If you want to be more specific its a shop in Widnes which used to be be based in Liverpool (I assume there is a difference) - I thought that moderators did not like people mentioning individual retailer other than the one relevant to the post.

Sorry, how many LNER pacific locos are in mainline operation? For a 'professional' railwayman you seem to lack the understanding of promoting railways to the public as something other than to go from A to B, either to use discretionary services or corporate image (as the LNER did). However much people dislike FS, the loco is cost effective at promoting NRM and railways in general. This is why it is still running, coal permitting. For those that insist that 'their' alternative loco is more famous, the public don't seem to agree with you. In light of your last sentence I take 'professional' in this case to be a Charted practitioner or equivalent, in your case a p/w design engineer at graduate level perhaps? Or do you mean employed by a company maintaining track?

From other posts I take it GOG can lose a lot of money from exhibitions without any help from COVID. As someone who is still shielding I am slightly cautious but if its not going to be 'safe' in September (depending on your interpretation of safe) then its going to have to be safe enough to start living. Given the O gauge demographics I have no argument if many members are of the other opinion. The critical thing to to work with partners who are flexible on cost for cancellation, not something which some organisations are known for.

Its operated for NRM by a contractor. NRM is responsible for the contractor and therefore is has joint liability in its operation and maintenance - either through the contract specification or supervision of the contract. However, venting so much bile on what sounds like dodgy coal is a bit much The only really waste of money on the last overhaul was the tin of Brunswick green.

If you can't understand why people moan about above inflation increases over the last few years when most people have had pay increases less than inflation then there is no point going into detail. As for Gauagemaster's, and others, pricing not harming them, how do you know that lets say a 5% reduction in prices won't increase sales by 10%. You will always get a number of customers 'loyal' who are not price sensitive. As with many insurance companies some shops have an adequate business model with them. It is quite OK to question whether a low production/high cost model of lets say Kader would produce a larger profit than a high volume/lower cost model such as Kato. As Kato's distributor Gaugemaster will know the figures.

I pay for Doctors through tax, Dentists at NHS rates and I shop around for the other three. In a market economy you either have to be competitive on price or on another factor e.g. availability, service etc. The few times I have been to the Guagemaster store, it looks great but leaves you disappointed. Even stock from lines it's not the importer for isn't competitive. Other than for some spares the second hand section was the only reason I went to the shop. This is contrast to Dapol (well, as it was several years ago) and to a certain extent Peco where their own products are full price, except for NQP at Dapol, but products from other manufactures have been at similar prices to my local model shop. This is not to say price is everything (I won't buy anything with motor from certain shops in Widnes or Sheffield due to poor service to me or friends) but full price for everything does make you think twice.

The analogy with Mallard is perhaps the wrong one for ECML. In 1989 and 1990 I regularly travelled on a train from KX, first stop Grantham, and it normally did it in one hour dead or less. While Azumas definably gets out the blocks faster, station to station times are normally slower. Similarly the four morning peak GNER Leeds to London trains (06:40 to 07:40) took a maximum of 02:09 with two under 2 hours. Three of these are much slower on LNER and the fastest train pre COVID train is 5min slower. The fastest ECML KX to Waverley run is 3:29 26th September 1991

Perhaps they should have cut the corner at Norton Bridge

Yellow (and even yellow/green) has a higher luminance factor than orange and in most situations is more conspicuous, or visible from a greater distance. You will get situations where orange will have a better contrast with the background but most of the time its yellow. The benefit of orange is that it has a higher contrasts with signals . Yellow also is impacted to a lower degree than orange from veiling luminance (glare). Finally Yellow/ Green (and to a lessor extent yellow) when florescent is much better in low light conditions when reduced diffuse illumination limits contrast but when retroreflective elements are not effective.