Jenny Emily
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Just watched Great St Trinians train robbery. Steam trains and twenty year old ladies in school uniform - what's not to like?
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Having finished my last Ratio signal kit last night, I now understand what modellers mean when they say "start the kit, and the RTR version will come". These signals looks extremely impressive. As a child I had a Hornby Dublo layout and loved the electric signals. They've been sadly missed in my opinion from the hobby since Meccano's demise, and these Dapol versions finally look like more than worthy successors. Given what you get for the price, I'd say that they are pretty reasonable. I only ever managed to mechanise maybe a quarter of the Ratio kits I built, so to be able to get reliable and robust out of the box ones is great. I'm almost tempted to start the process of slowly uprooting Ratio signals and replacing them with Dapol ones as money permits. However for now the more complex gantries and junction signals will most likely stay. I do look forward to seeing what more complex signals appear in the range.
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Today I shall mostly be signing copies of my books at Waterstone's in Bury.
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You know you cannot be too hard up when you see a pound coin in a skanky public loo and think "I think I'll leave that for some-one else."
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Officially too cold in the shed to model - my paint cleaning tub of water has frozen like a brick. I suspect that the ballasting done yesterday is not dry, but frozen solid.
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Bolton Trinity Raoad/Grove street just gained a Hornby L1 in Doncaster green, just because I like it and Modelzone had one left at much reduced price. FTW
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As so many have said, BR blue was the period I grew up in. I'm not old enough to remember steam other than at preserved railways, and a few fleeting glimpses of the very last industrial steam. My childhood involved seeing trains passing Lostock junction from my nursery school (the sandpit offered excellent training watching opportunities!), being taken to see vans being shunted at Metal Box in Westhoughton (my Father was a manager there), watching trains go by from the gate of the foot crossing at the end of Snuff Mill lane in Cottingham (the lane ran behind my Grandmother's house) and seeing class 03 shunters trundling along the long gone bit of line that connected Onllwyn around to Banwen. Childhood memories are very powerful, and I believe that that's why when I came back to railway modelling after University, it was the obvious choice to try and recreate some of the things that I remembered.
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Excellent model. Can I ask where you got the DAF truck from, as I've been struggling to find lorries suitable for a similar period (other than the Bedford TK, the only others I can find are either 50s/60s or 90s+ models). 'Grove street yard' usually runs as BR blue (late 70s/early 80s) though it is designed to be easily run in other periods and often features industrial liveried locos rather than BR blue. (Link in sig file) My new layout, Bolton Trinity Road, is being built to fit in the late 70s/early 80s bracket too. However that doesn't mean that in the privacy of my own layout shed I don't run occasional well out of period loose-coupled freight trains behind some of my steam loco collection. My partner recently filmed some good shots of trains passing through the station area of the still incomplete model: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywq_2fi1y7Q
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Today I shall be at the Trafford Centre Waterstones signing copies of my books.
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Many years ago I built Airfix/Tamiya warship, tank and aeroplane kits. I found then that the joy was in the painting and detailing. A few of those kits that survived at my parents' house ended up as the scrap piles in 'Grove street yard'. I also did Warhammer back before they became silly priced. I have no survivors from my Warhammer stuff because I sold them on whilst at University. My partner has just got into Warhammer 40k and I'm finding that my collection of Humbrol enamels is gravitating away from the shed towards her office.
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It seems that on Monday I have the task of taking a load of boiler tubes to the Churnet Valley Railway. I wonder which loco they are for?
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Bad things to find in your cornflakes: your own filling. Ouchy.
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My Father tells me that certainly in the late 60s/early 70s that number belonged to a famous Radio 1 DJ. My parents' neighbours years ago were moved out by a removal lorry that carried the number M10 VED. My friend from Cambridge spotted (and photographed to prove it) a motorbike with the number B16 NOB Somewhere out there is J3 NNY, J33 NNY and J333 NNY because I searched the DVLA database for them some years ago. No way would I be able to afford them. I remember there being a fuss when the K prefix numbers appeared about the possibility of K1 NKY being issued and I recall the DVLA refused to issue it. I see a lot of personalised numbers on my travels; they're getting a bit passe these days as so many have them it seems. A lot of them seem to have little significance unless you know why the owner picked them.
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Has anyone had chance to see weathered versus unweathered in the flesh yet? I'm torn between a weathered or clean one but have no experience of a Heljan weathering job.
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I hate "hit the ground running". It'll still hurt from most falls, regardless as to whether you flail your legs on impact or not. It makes me want to throw the user out of a moving car and see how well they really do hit the ground running.
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Movement of Gun powder vans?
Jenny Emily replied to darren01's topic in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips
Is the Dapol model the old Hornby Dublo one, or a newer moulding? I have a box of several of these wagons somewhere and I always remember them being one of the best of the later HD models. -
I bought one of these in Olive green a couple of days ago. I put it on the track next to one of my Bachmann models and to the untrained eye that does not know the prototypes inside and out, they look pretty similar. There are a couple of differences (I like the suggestion of a surface texture to the weights at either end). I also like the better underframe detail, which was something that the Shark had too. But other than that I wouldn't say that there is a huge amount in it. As a model it is very good. One big minus though is the steam roller tread on those wheels. The Bachmann wheels look much finer, but the Hornby ones have a tread that makes the face look deeply recessed. Once noticed, it is a detraction that I will probably cure by replacing the wheels. However, on a model at such a price compared to the competition, it seems a bad point that I have to pay to change the wheels too. However, it fails on price. I think Hornby are on a hiding to nothing trying to go head to head with Bachmann when they cannot match prices too. When the Bachmann ones can be had for around the £8 mark, I don't see enough improvement to justify even the discounted £12 I paid for a Hornby example. The model shows (as did the Shark before it) that Hornby can produce some exceptionally good models. However I am left wondering if we will see heavy discounting of this model in time to shift unsold stock (already the box shifters seem to be discounting it a lot).
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Just running in a surprise class 411 EMU. It's a bit far from home on a model of Bolton Trinity Street...
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It begs the question how exactly these fraudsters find out in the first place your details to be able to contact you and know you have a Vodaphone contract that is coming up for renewal?
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If it is the PS2 port that has died, you can get PS2 to USB converters which should allow you to plug the keyboard into a USB slot. Alternatively, USB keyboards can be found relatively cheaply online, as long as you can confirm the fault lies with the PS2 port alone!
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I was passing through, being in between delivering boiler tubes which is probably a story in and of itself*. I wanted to get some of their special commissioned Bachmann wagons. These days I tend to call in at model shops only if passing rather than making a special trip. *Bound for John Smiths brewery in Tadcaster, picked up at a testing and certification facility in Pudsey. Though I have taken tubes to the Tanfield and Weardale railways before now.
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What gets me is that you never hear of people saying "I moved from one area to another, and my insurance premiums dropped". It seems to be a one way escalator. Given the increasing number of numberplate recognition cameras supposedly connected to the DVLA and Police databases, I can never work out how uninsured, untaxed and unMOTed vehicles can remain out on the road for long. Just down the road from here the Police often have a sting going and flag such vehicles into a compound for a bit of a 'chat' with a friendly Policeman and his confiscation tow truck. A far bigger factor could be the rise of hit and run incidents, where you return to your vehicle and find it has been pranged whilst you were away, but the culprit has driven on. I've had incidents on the road too where some-one has collided then put their foot down to do a runner.
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It looks rather similar to the standby generator unit that was fitted in a shed at Excel Logistics' old Nisa cold store in Burslem in event of a power cut so that they could keep the freezers running.
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It used to be as low as 20mph once upon a time, and IIRC wagon and drag combinations were limited to 30 on single carriageway roads as recently as the 1980s. Once upon a time wagon brakes were somewhat vague. When air brakes first turned up, a lot of the new lorries at the time had warnings on the rear to inform other motorists (probably other truckers following close behind) that the vehicle might stop a little quicker than older models. In a very old copy of commercial motor I remember seeing a photo of an eight wheel tanker that had the sign on the back of the tank reading: "Caution: air brakes. Watch my behind and not hers" A lot of the highway code needs updating, though it's a moot point whether most drivers would read it to know. Is the page containing hand signals still in there? I think most drivers would fail to recognise the hand signals for turning left, turning right and slowing down if they came up upon another vehicle driver using them.
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