2E Sub Shed

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.

4 minutes ago, Swissrail said:

Why don't people wait until towards the end before bidding? All your doing by bidding early is putting the price up!

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

4 hours ago, jools1959 said:

I've ordered 68619 and I was wondering if they worked with the 57ft Mk1's suburban's that Accurascale are producing in real life?  If not, what would they be seen working in the 1950's?

In "Trains 68 Annual" published  by Ian Allen there is an article "Running a Steam Shed".

On Page 58, the Liverpool Streets Pilot's duties given in May 1958 as,  N.7 to cover West Side Suburban service, and   68619's duties recorded as " to do the shunting, and run the odd trip through the tunnel to New Cross, and also some of the booked trips  to the Southern Region.  

Re substituting for a failed locomotive, the article also recounts a run by 68619 with a picture on page 59, in May 1958, with the 5.29 to Chingford, due to non-availability of the West Side Pilot, so ran with the Quad-Arts on that occasion.

2 minutes ago, jcredfer said:

 

You should have seen it when it was first done, the 5 x outer Mini-roundabouts, slightly further in, to where those white spots are now.  No guide lines like there are now, just a vast open grey tarmac space.....   

 

.....   and fear!!         😱 

 

Until they made one big roundabout out of it, the Magic Roundabout had a little brother in Swindon with 4 exits and 2 railway bridges across it at Bruce Street Bridges  

Hi

Couple of ideas for using corded phones as intercom.

Simple system using two wired phones Simple Intercom

More elegant approach, I have used a pair of LinkSys VOIP adaptors for an internal phone system at home, however uses obsolete unit, most on eBay may be "knock-offs"   Link to "how to"

13 minutes ago, PupCam said:

To go back briefly to the Council Tax debate from a few days ago.    Although we are fortunate to own a detached, notionally 4 bedroom (actually 3 bedrooms and a study) it's not a huge mansion by any stretch of the imagination but a 1970's square box  (as a certain @polybearcould confirm).   Quite how it ended up as Band F with a council tax this year of ~18 Deltics I do not know!   Yep; another rant!

We are in same position, 2 years after purchase and 5 years after extension added to create 4 bed house (and one sale 3 years ago), we opened a missive from up North telling us our home is now re-banded to Band F, and it is nearly the only Band F property in the village. An appeal looms.

Beware of the 

12 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Erm, it's £23.60 on my screen, still OTT mind you, I've never paid more than 5 guineas for any of mine.

 

Mike.

£19.50 as of  12:31 

3 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

Incidentally if you convert a roof space into habitable space it will not immediately affect the rateable value but legally it is required -  I think that hasn't changed but am not sure - that the rateable value is then required to be re-assessed if/when the house is sold.  I see it is now referred to as 'liveable space'

 

Just had a re-banding for Council Tax here, 2 years after moving in,  extension was completed over 5 years ago by owners who sold to the vendor we bought from after a year, so 2 sales since the completion of works. Re-banding done from 350 miles away.

2 hours ago, The Johnster said:

'Sheep are a Borg-like collective intelligence plotting the enslavement and consumption of humanity, lulling us into a false sense of security with lamb chops and their apparent stupidity.  Anyone who doubts this needs only to look into their eyes, their dead, empty, soulless, pitiless, evil eyes.

Sheep, once described  to me by a sheep farmer as woolly things on 4 legs looking for an excuse to drop dead.

5 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

 Disconnecting them doesn't save any money other than a little maintenance and only saves the signalman a little time and effort.  

W.J.Gardner in " Cleaner to Controller" published by Oakwood Press mentions, (on Page 27), that in 1939 he witnessed S&T engineers at work on the goods loop points. He was told by them that as the Summer Timetable had just ended they were disconnecting the FPL equipment.. This was connected in the Summer months to allow passenger trains to use the goods loop which was worked Absolute Block. In the winter the loop was worked under Permissive Block.

Re cost saving, as an  addition he mentions that this disconnection made for fewer lever movements by the Signalman which meant the box did not have to be regraded upwards.

While stocks last at Model Junction Slough

Athearn R-T-R bell

Pack of 6 

Please note that there is limited parking adjacent to the hall.

Other options are ; Pay and Display Car Park in Church Street Car Park or free subject to space further down Byes Close at EX10 9PY

Please see club website.

1 hour ago, Halvarras said:

On one of the 1973 walks into town I called into Halfords to purchase a plastic toolbox, as all of my modelling materials were in a cardboard shoebox at the time which was proving impractical - and 50 years later most of my modelling tools are still in this same toolbox! I had to replace the carrying handle and hinges decades ago but it's made from hard plastic with rivetted metal struts - I've looked for a replacement but it appears they just don't make them like that anymore so it looks likely to outlast me!

I probably have same model of toolbox, same age, had new handle last year and new catch this year other wise still in use.

38 minutes ago, friscopete said:

I thought the Observer corps just looked out for enemy bombers

In the 1980's my role involved working alongside the ROC, a longer serving colleague mentioned that when he started in late 60's there were still ROC members wearing the "Seaborne" shoulder flash having served on ships during the D-Day landings. 

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

But if you took an expensive classic car such as a VW samba bus or Chevrolet nomad and made it look like it had been sitting under a tree for the last fifty years, that would be "Rat look" or "Oily rag" and thus be terribly fashionable, darling....

Already been done

Patina Paint – the Porsche innovation giving your car the lived-in look    Link

At Swindon Club, (where I was a member , until relocating), , they use "old" weightlifting weights with a length of plastic conduit stuck into them and then tie "hazard tape" between them. 

Picture

Storage is a few "heavy boxes" and some bundles of approx 1 metre poles. 

In ability to place small children on these against solid barriers was one reason given by the clubs exhibition manager  for this approach. 

Stability may be helped by fact there is carpet is on the floor in hall at Steam. 

16 minutes ago, Gilbert said:

.any guesses where this is?

Swindon Works "R" Shop. now "Steam, the Museum of the Great Western Railway" at Swindon ?

Not to be confused with the GWR Museum

17 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Other listings on ebay are the most obvious place to look up prices, and it's easy to fall into the trap of not checking whether these other listings actually sell - and trying to see prices realised on ebay is a lot more work.

It is only a couple of button presses to see "completed listings", which is how I get a value for items I list. And it is interesting how many "best offers" seem to be taken for the higher priced items.

6 hours ago, D860 VICTORIOUS said:

 

I'm fairly sure the 43's were not used on the Waterloo-Exeter route to simplify crew training/knowledge.

The fact that only "42's" were used Waterloo - Exeter, is stated in "Hydraulic V Electric" by David N. Clough, although  he does not state the reason.

On 22/01/2023 at 16:14, Wellyboots said:

Other traffic would include military traffic to Marchwood and Andover, 

 

Also in early 1980's, I recall seeing military traffic being loaded/unloaded at Wool, nearest railhead for Bovington 

4 hours ago, rogerzilla said:

There are issues with modern buildings and one bridge but the local council is supportive of a southern extension of GWSR to Cheltenham town, so it cam take race day traffic to the existing Race Course station.

Additionally when the Cotswold redoubling occurred at Honybourne, passive accommodation for the GWSR was made with a platform & a new bridge with space for  the GWSR to put a track through.

On 22/12/2022 at 00:16, Michael Hodgson said:

 

Should probably be listed under "Prototype for everything" thread!

 

Limerick Junction

Trains on the main Cork-Dublin route used to have to reverse into the platform (both directions) before 1967

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Junction_railway_station

 

 

 

Also reversal into the platform was required at Dorchester South for London Bound trains until 1970

Dorchester South - Wikipedia

1st Question        Are you using DC or DCC ? 

2nd Question       One engine in steam or multiple loco operation ? 

If you want someone else to do the planning. amongst other companies that will create a bespoke package for you.

https://www.greatrail.com/tailormade/

Just make sure you have slack in  train transfer times and can move quickly for late platform changes, DB was not at its best last year when we passed through to/from Austria.