2E Sub Shed

Seen in Switzerland 2 weeks ago and reminded me of this thread

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Could you fix a vertical support to the shed to get the required height ?

See https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/118557-id-coal-train-south-eastern-division-late-70s-early-80s/ According to Dover Museum Webpage BR was a customer up to end of BR Steam and and by 1975 most Kent coal was used as a coking blend for the steel industry

When I lived in Swindon, on our side of town you had the option of the relay south of Swindon in the direction of Marlborough as well for HTV / BBC west

However "9" was also the access code for a number of local exchanges from your own, rather than use an STD code, , some years before I arrived to live in a ruarl area, calls to the next town were prefixed with "9", I assume that at level, given the volume of calls it would have been possible to "block" 999 traffic.

Hi Not seeing the item described, I would guess that one way of doing this would be that, the microswitch at one end operated a "latching relay" (google it for more info), and at the other end ,that microswitch broke the supply to the relay to allow it to fall back to a rest state,. The relay being a multi-pole relay and a pair of DP contacts (i.e a DPDT Switch action), being used reversing the traction supply polarity from the controller to make the loco change direction. However you would still need a separate power supply for the relay

Many years ago when taking my late father to Northampton General Hospital I noticed that some of the Fire Safety Signage was English/Welsh bi-lingual.

Look here https://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/events/exhibitions

WD 40 make a number of products, make sure it is the CONTACT CLEANER that you use. the WD 40 lubricant is not suitable, having seen its effects some years ago on cassette recorder mechanisms, (nasty dried out mess), where users had tried a "quick fix", before bringing it in for repair.

Followed today on way back home from SWAG 23.

Once the impulse purchase on a day out is made at a Heritage Railway, (and how many have that level of discretionary spending power ?), how likely is someone to travel back to the railway to buy extra items ? Much more likely to look on-line, a search for "Hornby" will show the Hornby direct sales site, than try to look up "local model shop" which again if they did may not be "local".

I will have a number of Bachmann OO Wagons to place on the Bring & Buy, including Presflo's and TTA's (subject to remembering to bring them).

I once did 12 hour shift pattern - 4 days on 4 days off and then 4 nights on followed by 4 days off an so on. Was pretty standard in the telecoms world for NMC's (Network Monitoring Centres). Also had a 90 min drive each way to the location. Hardest part was to get a good rest in between night shifts, given most of the world wants to go about it's business, and not quietly. Big light left on on the sky was solved by blackout linings on curtains. I only did it for a short period, but there are numerous studies relating to reduced life expectancy for long-term shift workers.

If you did provide them, based on experience they would be occupied by the same small group of people week after week who would drink your free coffee, spend very little, and distract you from running your business while occupying space you could devote to more display of stock, and time you give to walk in customers.

Amusing statement of condition in listing title, rather than madness eBay Item

Chris Leigh did a prototype feature on Banana Vans in Model Rail Issue 203, (December 2014), might find some information there, my copy is not to hand.

Bodmin & Wenford Steam Railway - Bodmin General Station - Platform 1 - Thursday 6th April 2023

In contracting circles there used to be a story about a contractor at a certain company which had two sites located some distance apart, each hosting a different project which never interacted. It was alleged that the individual went into site A and left a coat and then proceeded to site B and left another coat and spent parts of the day at each site, hence having two contracts and two income streams.

Described by Iain in "Model Railroader's How to Guide - Shelf Layouts for Model Railroads" Kalmbach Books 2009 in some detail. (Also has section on foam core baseboards) Also covered by Lance Mindheim in "How to build a Switching Layout"

I had success in tracking down a back copy of a MTI issue with the Rother Valley Railway who have a second hand magazine sales site https://www.rvr.org.uk/shop.html

The Rother Valley Railway also sell secondhand magazines on line - Magazine shop Link Had success finding a copy of Model Trains International from them, although not listed.

As a seller I want them to bid early and put the price up!