2E Sub Shed

It was no 14 - google maps streetview from 2022 shows it as a custom made shoe shop.

31 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

New Old Stock, perhaps.  But the power cable looks anachronistic...

 

Very old stock - plug has no sleeves on live and neutral pins. BS:1363 was modified in 1984 to  require sleeved live and neutral pins. 

From https://www.pat-testing-training.net/articles/non-sleeved-plugs.php

"Non-sleeved plugs must be replaced on equipment that is hired out, second-hand equipment offered for sale, or appliances that are included in rental accommodation. This equipment is covered by the Plug & Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1994. These regulations apply to all electrical equipment supplied during the course of a business".

15 hours ago, 009 micro modeller said:

Also if badly placed they can be forced towards the layout if it is crowded or somebody falls on the barrier, which isn’t great (I’m particularly thinking of the larger metal kind - I

Seen the metal sort as in the picture  "creep" towards the layout during the day at an exhibition.

Mentioned in another thread,

I have seen a mobility scooter drive into a layout at an exhibition. Very significant movement of layout, enough to derail stock.

Not sure how you stop that unless you use .

Once gave a double glazing salesman both my landlord's representative and my landlord's contact details.

I am sure both the Home Secretary and HM Queen Elizabeth welcomed the brochures, never did fit double glazing  to my quarters though. 

In the space or 2 days I had 5 cold calls on home phone from "my local energy consultant".   4 different voices regurgitating the script, So ingrained is the recitation of the script they do not respond to any attempt to stop them once they are in flow.

On 08/04/2024 at 10:42, Hal Nail said:

my first car was a 25 year old humber sceptre. Walnut dash and overdrve but kept cutting out. The AA man said to me, whilst peering under the bonnet, one advantage is it only has 5 moving parts :)

So was mine, in 1982 and it was old then, left at a garage after suffering a major lack of oil in engine.

38 minutes ago, Bucoops said:

I worked for a couple of weeks at a place that specialised in sourcing electric valves - one of my roles in the brief time I was there was to unbox cheap Chinese made valves, use wire wool to remove the branding, and pass them to someone who used a little machine that re-branded them as Mullard. Impressed, I was not. In hindsight I should have gone to trading standards, but I was in my late teens and just wanted out. I don't think they are still trading thankfully. 

If you were around in the 1980's, a large part of the electronic valve market was being supplied with valves sourced from Russia.  

Used them in kit designed to operate after the Russians had dropped Nuclear Bombs. 

34 minutes ago, Dagworth said:

Our industry is full of crap Chinese knock-offs. So much so that some of our desks have a category under Manufacturers which is simply China. Chances are that no two batches of Chinese fixtures will be the same either!

Once read that you had to watch the production line and see the stuff sealed into the container to have any chance of what you ordered having the same parts being used inside as the sample you viewed being delivered.

Currently on display outside our village shop

Just now, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Switch??

Isolator??

Hahahaha!!

 

Mike.

Old enough to remember those Government Information Films on TV urging us to unplug everything at night before retiring to bed. 

1 minute ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

, and we can put our plugs in either way up, rather defeats the square pin one way only mantra!

 

Mike.

Need more than a single pole switch in the equipment to isolate it then.

18 hours ago, john new said:

The cynic in me reading that about train support crew has each pax getting issued with a J cloth or sponge and then they get booked on as essential coach cleaning staff. A finger in the air to ORR.

 

Are you a reader of Nathan Lowell's "Traders Tales" ?  Same ploy in one of his books. 

A few years ago I went to a presentation on counterfeit electrical switch gear and fittings. 

Horror tales of missing components in RCB's and low spec materials.  

Some reference here has been made to"ghost shifts". From that presentation we learned that as the counterfeit offence in China only occurs when the item is a "retail" product, then a temporary work site was set up, the workers, components and packaging brought to site, and the whole batch assembled and stuffed into a shipping container which went straight to the port.

Also tales of a large location, multi-football sized where in 6'x6' booths you could find vendors offering products, and orders would be accompanied by a query as to "what logo do you want on the product ?"

One trade mark quoted was "IVI K", not really similar to "MK" unless you have poor spacing 🙂

In another industry, a stage lighting fixture (spotlight) was available in a knock off version where instead of a left and right casting for the body shell, two left hand castings had been bodged together.  

2 hours ago, Stevebr said:

 There also seems a major uptake in interest on the service trains which are nearing capacity.  I suspect there is a negative impact on businesses in Mallaig though. 

Some years ago we traveled on West Highland, the option to use the "Jacobite" was available, however we used the service train, same views, through larger cleaner windows (on that day), and get photos of a steam engine as well.  (do the drivers still clean the service train windows at Fort William ?).

6 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

The taxman has never been that bothered about screwing the last halfpenny out of you - they've always been pragmatic and taken the line that any money they collect from individuals has to be worth the time and effort they have to put into collecting it, so as a general rule they're not interested in small beer.

Once read of a case where a tax appeal hearing (i.e. Special Commissioners) took place in someone's living room due to the persons illness.

IR35 case 2004

1 hour ago, C126 said:

Has anyone based a layout on the M.o.D. 'Government Stores' network?  Although diminished in recent years, I think it would be good for Speedlink-style shunting, short trains, and trip working.  Especially if you like the old VGA vans.  Just a thought.

Almost looks like a model from a Welsh Sheep source.

Photo source : William Stevens on Flicker

North British: 0-4-0DH, NBL27429 1955 ARMY 408 at Army Yardley Chase OESD Depot. Photo dated 10th July 1980.

This was linked to the BR Network at Bridge Street Northampton and MOD operated the former Northampton - Bedford line from there as far as Piddington  for this traffic. This was last year of operation.

Lots of material on internet about the site.

Sometime in early 1960's to Royal Horticultural Hall(s) under parental supervision, next show visit a little delayed, 2005 at Abingdon. 

19 hours ago, RJS1977 said:

More recently someone was advertising trailers designed to look like railway carriages that could have a layout built in them, again with the intention that they could either be parked up as railway rooms at home or towed to one of the larger exhibitions.  

Slightly smaller scale

Seen at Thornbury Nov 23 show

"Train Trailer"    See photo at bottom of page

If you are looking for inspiration,iff you can find a copy of "Modelling American Short Lines and Industry" Edited by Chris Ellis, (former editor of Model Trains International),  ISBN 978-0-904811-24-7, that gives a description of several American Short Line's operations, and also describes a model based on one of them. Another one published by Chris is "Modelling American Yards and operations"  ISBN 978-0-904811-34-4, both published by Kristall Productions but probably  out of print now.

From these descriptions propelling moves over distance were not uncommon.

2 hours ago, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

Most I ever spent on a Triang 0-4-0 was £20 on a boxed Nellie in 2020!

 

Least I spent was a tenner on the 25550 0-4-0 (the red Nellie, painted to match the Lord Westwood 4-6-0) last year!

 

Some of the prices I’ve seen are ridiculous, I swear I saw the red 0-4-0 “Polly” going for fifty, and the yellow “Connie” for well over a hundred… The latter being sold by Gostude too if I recall correctly!

Picked up one for £10 at the last toyfair I attended, body repainted  dipped in black gloss paint. Only needed for chassis.

Seller usually has a box of 0-4-0 /0-6-0's all under £20.

47 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Reduced by £250!

 

(Still not tempted...)

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126336073305?

HM missed removing the price labels from some item's, bit off if it was a gift.

16 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Does any body know if you can get acacia trees in Cardiff. Asking for a friend.

Not in public

8 hours ago, Chris M said:

I.  Some layout exhibitors have tried to charge a lot on their expenses, for instance wanting 45p per mile for their car. If that happens they will not be invited again. Quite a few exhibition managers state a mileage rate which makes fuel costs clearer but I would often want less than that to cover my actual fuel costs.

 

The above arrangements seem to be quite equitable to me.

 

What do you base a mileage claim on ?, the Inland Revenue Business rate is 45p per mile for the first  10.000 miles.(and then 25p per mile over 10.000),  It is not just fuel but all the other costs that this payment is meant to cover. 

If people are using this figure in good faith due to  the lack of any guidance from the exhibition manager, then it may be unfair to be critical to them all. 

In my case, I have a vehicle from my employer with personal use permitted, and the only variable cost is fuel, so I am able to charge Inland Revenue Fuel only rate for it. 

If it was Mainline you were after, model shop in Swindon seemed to be able to sell new boxed Mainline well in to 2010's, I was told they bought the entire factory stock at closure, not sure if true.