2E Sub Shed

Could possibly be an early Athearn F7 Chassis, see Link to diagram, if it is not that exact one, look here under diesel diagrams https://hoseeker.net/athearn.htm

Early Athearn motors can draw high currents and the chassis is live.  

Police have confirmed that the man who fell from the roof of a nightclub and died was not a bouncer.

This seller on eBay makes custom scissors from both Peco & Hornby parts in OO/HO. 

 link to eBay seller page

No connection except he turned up in an eBay search for something else. 

18 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

ISTR reading that the Germans had something like 1000 captured planes and didn't have any qualms about using them. Sometimes they got German markings but not always.

And the Swiss Air Force operated German aircraft.

"Later in the war Swiss Bf 109s were to intercept Allied bombers that strayed into their airspace, forcing them to land and be interned. There were rarely problems, but while escorting a B-24, a USAAF P-51D shot down one Swiss Bf 109 and damaged another. The Swiss tried painting their Bf 109s with loud red and white stripes to emphasize the Swiss cross markings, but this was discontinued because then the Luftwaffe mistook them as Allied aircraft painted in invasion stripes"

Source : https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2017/08/28/the-swiss-air-force-in-world-war-ii/

On 17/02/2022 at 23:51, jcredfer said:

 

Apparently, something related to why the Allied air forces started to wear pedestrian crossing markings across their [otherwise] camouflaged wings, once the US, eventually joined in.

 

 

For D-Day

Members of the Royal Observer Corp were deployed to Allied Merchant Ships including US Ships during the D-Day landings to prevent "friendly-fire" incidents.

Most "incidents" were from Naval vessels.

See https://www.combinedops.com/ROC.htm

There is an image of  ex USA Army US 6169 Vulcan aka 989.04 in the Neville Stead Collection on the website linked below.

Link to copyrighted photo

5 hours ago, Metr0Land said:

Another business killed off by the internet?

Still trading under a different name 

PDERS - history

Now owned by Otis

On 11/02/2022 at 17:14, Dunsignalling said:

The situation described by Shunny is (or used to be) pretty much typical and it wasn't unknown for him to arrange swaps with a similarly afflicted fellow retailer in the North East so the products ended up in outlets where they had some chance of actually being bought.

 

Hornby seemed incapable of comprehending that "local" items sell best in most places, with "Mallard" and "Flying Scotsman" having limited enthusiast appeal in the West Country and the same applying to King Arthurs and T9s in the Newcastle area. 

Was told the same story by another (now sadly closed) retailer who had similar arrangements in place to "relocate" out of area products.  

In connection with workings in Wales of the class 33's I recalled a picture of a Class 33 at Haverfordwest.

I think I have found it - Link to copyright photo

It shows a Class 33 working, according to the caption a Milford Haven - Swansea service in Sept 1983, Is this a fill-in turn, or an extension of the Portsmouth service ? 

42 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

SR crews signed the road to Bristol but not beyond. Bristol-based WR crews were type-trained on SR stock and all those who needed to know were trained that the headcode was a front-of-train marker and double red blanks the rear. Both were accepted in lieu of lamps.  The headcode therefore had to be displayed.

 

Just to add

The Ian Allen book, "Rail Portfolio, The Cromptons" shows on page 49 a Class 33 captioned as "on the 09:15 Bristol-Taunton local at Bridgwater on 29/03/85" displaying "89", further states this was a diagrammed working

Would there also be a relay cabinet near the signal ?

Been around before.

See page 1214 of this thread

Probably not strange, as it is opposite the Harz engine shed at Wernigerode,  theHotel Altora Resturant, has LGB railway that runs from Bar to tables, and carries drinks, Hotel Altora picture gallery

The Home Defence Government South West Region included, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon & Cornwall.  UK Regional Government Structure  http://www.ringbell.co.uk/ukwmo/Page223.htm 

Just to note that the layout at the start of this thread, Box Metals, besides being featured on Carl's site, is also covered in Model Trains International issue 81, and  features in the Preview issue of the Micro Model Railway Dispatch,  announced on RMWeb here last summer,  a-new-e-mag-for-the-micro-layout-enthusiast published last year by Ian Holmes.

Around 1963-65 my father worked at a feed mill that overlooked Northampton Engine Shed, (not the old midland shed found by a web search but the one in Far Cotton),  many a Saturday Morning waiting for him to finish the half-day was spent by me on an upper floor, looking at loco's on the shed, unfortunately no camera, nor spotting book,  just memories of seeing  bits of the railway which would soon disappear..  The mill even had it's own siding and still had the odd wagon load of feed from BOCM, although later it was not tripped out to the siding and had to be unloaded at the local goods depot and brought back on a lorry. 

3 hours ago, Andy Kirkham said:

Devizes still looked like a main line station but I can imagine that it would have been quite difficult to provide it with a useful train service as, to judge from maps, no obvious traffic flow passed through it. I'm aware that there was at least one Paddington-Bristol service that passed this way on its circuitous route, but were there any other long-distance services? What were the local services and where did they terminate? Patney? Trowbridge? Westbury?

 

 A number of references in the text (although no full timetables) can be found in the following publications, 

GWR to Devizes, by Rod Priddle & David Hyde, published by Millstream Books in 1996 & also A Wiltshire Railway Remembered THE DEVIZES BRANCH by Nigel S.M.Bray published by Picton Publishing in 1984 which contains more train running information.

Examples are :

1908 July, Aug. Sep ThO -

Swindon - Holt - Weymouth and West Bay  Excursions

1925

Autotrain - Devizes to Frome 

1940's

Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads via Newbury, Devizes.

Auto trains from Trowbridge also reversed at Pans Lane Halt 

1950's -

Autotrain - Patney to / from Trowbridge.     

Weston - Super Mare to Reading,     

Newbury to/from Trowbridge 

1961

Direct Bristol Trains ended

1962 

Devizes - Savernake SO afternoon with a 1 hour wait for connection to Newbury

1964

Reading - Devizes - Weymouth Summer SO

April 1966 (year of closure)  (at Patney) 

Patney - Devizes  - Westbury,   

Up, Trowbridge - Reading SX (Paddington SO), 

Devizes  - Newbury  

A friend already has a Smart Meter, but gets calls asking them to have a Smart Meter. Points out that one is already installed, problem is no mobile network coverage so cannot operate.

52 minutes ago, leopardml2341 said:

Is this madness? 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133994661393?hash=item1f32b44611:g:xjQAAOSwlYRh4bBG&autorefresh=true

 

I certainly wouldn't have paid that much.

Bargain Buy against these 2 listings 

Listing One , Listing Two

36 minutes ago, Kylestrome said:

The exploded diagram is as useful as a chocolate teapot.

Useful chocolate teapot 

Bachmann F7 locos, enough versions, that whatever spare you have is the wrong one for the version you have.   

1 hour ago, john new said:

I remember reading in one of IIRC Peter Smith’s books on the S&D of them being accidentally given a banker for Parkestone Bank on a Bournemouth bound train off the  S&D, but the requested banker was supposed to be for the following SW main line train. Seeing it was there, unasked for they deliberately went full blast up th3 bank and left the banker behind! 

Correct it is his story. The incident is in "Mendips Engineman" (P60), the train was  9F hauled, the following train requiring the banker was the "Pines Express" hauled by "an ailing West Country". 

Many years ago, used to hear tales from friends in the TV & Audio Repair trade of the use of WD40 by users in tape recorders and the subsequent arrival in their workshops. Another product used for the wrong purpose.

39 minutes ago, melmerby said:

They have the benefit of time travel............

And alternate universes.

This one ticks a few boxes 

Bachmann Oliver & Toad     "DELUXE BNIP RARE ELECTRIC TRAINS"

The two items can be found for at least £80 less  on a UK website.

Emily and coaches (not "RARE") over 3 times the price on the same UK website.

2 hours ago, Not Jeremy said:

Peter certainly liked to get people in his photographs, here is another favourite of mine, a July 1962 arrival of a Saturday through train at Burnham on Sea.

 

Apparently the  train arrived quite full, an amazing scene when you think of how things are now.

 

Regular passenger trains ceased on the Highbridge - Burnham on Sea section on 29th Oct 1951, although through excursion trains operated until 8th September 1962. (source "Somerset & Dorset Railway" Robin Atthill 1985).

Therefore may explain the passenger loading.