Tankerman

Definitely the singular.

There's a park home site called Rosevear Park about a mile north east of St Dennis, so Rosevear would fit in nicely with your layout's area. The only other Rosevear I know of is in the Scilly Isles which would need the building of a very long tunnel. Apologies for my suggestion, I tried to resist posting it, but my Cornish sense of humour got the better of me.

Great Wheal Consols?

Sheer genius.

Given the BBC's assumed level of intelligence of the majority of their viewers, based on their current programming, I'm not surprised.

That's good news as she must be one, if not the only, British flag side trawler in existence.

I will very surprised if a steamship is being used to carry the Amazon cargo, or any other dry cargo. The ship in the photograph is a motor ship, as are all but a very small handful of cargo vessels.

Thanks for posting this, I've ordered a copy.

I totally agree with your last paragraph. I suffered under a couple of managers who had been promoted from being engineer surveyors to being team/area managers and who had no idea of man management. After a shuffle around of the upper management the manager of our team was replaced by a manager from outside the company who did not have an engineering background, At the first team meeting after his appointment he introduced himself and then said "I know virtually nothing about your work as engineer surveyors, you do as that is your job. My job is to ensure that you have all that you need to do your job and deal with any other problems you may have such as ill health, family troubles etc. and ensure that another surveyor covers your work. In over thirty years as an engineer surveyor he was the best manager I ever had,

Proof that sometimes the earth does move when having intercourse.

I have been married twice, in both instances I got on with my mother-in-laws better than I did with their daughters. I think the main reason for this was that my wives took after their fathers.

To me that facebook post post has all the hallmarks of a send up. Unless it originated in the USA.

Apologies Johnster, There is a tendency with any subject in which you have a keen interest to assume that others have the same knowledge. I shouldn't have assumed that the Directors were known to be diesel, actually diesel-electric, powered with the paddles driven by separate motors. The motors could also be controlled so that they ran at the same speed when towing a ship or running light (without a tow) I sometimes have to look up railway related terms on here as my knowledge of railway subjects before 1923 and after the 1970's is somewhat sketchy, but I have learnt a lot from the forum. One of the reasons for paddler propulsion was that the hull and superstructure could be lower than a conventional tug. This allowed them to get in under the overhang of the flight deck, particularly the angled type, so that they could push against the ships hull. They were fitted with folding masts for the same reason.

If it was mid afternoon, particularly on a Saturday, it was always like that. IIRC one of the up milk trains used to arrive at platform 3 about 2.30/3.00 o'clock and sit there for at least half an hour. There was certainly around a two hour gap in the passenger service at Penryn about that time.

'Quote' Which were less efficient! See HMS Rattler vs Alecto The RN built seven paddle tugs in the mid 1950's, known as the Director class, which had independently driven paddles and were specifically designed to work with the aircraft carriers. One of the advantages of independently driven paddle propulsion is that the vessel can turn on its own axis and therefore they were highly manoeuvrable. The other huge advantage is that the paddles are roughly amidships, unlike a propellor which is near the stern, this greatly reduces the possibility of the tug capsizing if the tow wire is somewhere on the beam. Modern tugs which use various forms of steerable propellors mounted on the hull, known as tractor tugs, are the modern form of the Directors.

Just get the strongest bleach you can buy and a large fine spray watering can, dilute the bleach 2:1 and wait for a dark wet night.

I started by travelling from Penryn to Truro, the 'big' station to train spot, when I was about 8. By the time I was 12 I knew quite a bit about railways and travelled on my own from Truro to Blackpool, which reversed direction at either Newport or Cardiff, including changing trains at Crewe. However travelling home, the ticket being bought at Blackpool, I changed at Crewe onto a train which took me back to Truro via Bristol.

Regarding the cost of coal compared to oil, I was told by someone that worked at Truro shed that the reason for Cornwall/West Devon being completely changed to diesel traction very early on was that the saving in transporting oil, instead of coal from the mines, to the various loco sheds was a very significant one.

Dampf is German for steam, for example dampfschiff means steamship, however given the items in the shop window the name appears to be part German, dampf and part English, art. Since steam is generally very hot it could be that the sign should be taken to mean Hot Art.

When I was a member of Falmouth Model Railway Club, very many years ago now, we were given a talk by someone from Newton Abbott shed. After his talk he asked if anybody had any questions, someone then asked for his opinion on the best locomotive the GWR had built. His reply was that the best locomotive was the 47XX 2-8-0's as they could be used for anything from an express to an unfitted goods and he wished far more of them had been built. He then said that west of Exeter the Granges were superior to any other locomotive. The size of the boiler, combined with 5ft 8in driving wheels, gave them the starting power and acceleration necessary to deal with the gradients and start/stop nature of running due to the short distance between the stations.

It's St Erth, not St Earth, but then you cen't spect they up country people to know much bout west Kernow can 'ee!

Which is very similar to what electricians do with the switch wire from the lighting switch when wiring a four plate junction box on a lighting circuit.

This brought back memories of the happy four months I spent as the commissioning Electrical officer of a ship being built at Moss Verft in 1975. Each day a number of trucks passed through Moss with the word Fartings or something similar on their sides. As we used to have a drink with some of the yard staff in a bar called the Parketten in the evenings we asked what fart meant. We were told that it is pronounced far-ta and was the Swedish word for speedy or quick. As you can imagine this information, after a few drinks, and to the bewilderment of the Norwegians, sent us into roars of laughter. When we explained the meaning of the word in English they joined in the laughter.

Well at least we know what part of the animal the meat came from.

How about Truro, the other one KM produced? Very unlikely but it might have got to St Blazey on a trip from Truro yard.