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TheSignalEngineer

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  1. Attleborough - the one near Norwich Next
  2. I had several instances where staff under my control did things they shouldn't have. Twice BTP were involved but as I took appropriate disciplinary action immediately, much quicker than they could act, they did not instigate any further action.
  3. There's a shot of one at about 3:53 in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j9TGR69hTM
  4. Nearly 48 hours and no takers. Must be getting the hang of this The East-West route was originally two branches from the north-south route.
  5. Wonder if i could get away with one being on loan to the Mid Cornwall Railway?
  6. A little further back and from a lower angle, Austin No.3 https://www.flickr.com/photos/glevumblues/6499917791
  7. Visited that box a few times. I believe Austin No.1 was a Kitson built Manning Wardle desigh. It is preserved. In the 1950s they had a USA tank amongst others.
  8. He probably will, he has already been working in the computer suite at school. Still, come Armageddon I will build a battery and use my variable resistor controller to run my Hornby Dublo locos when all of the DCC chips have been fried.
  9. Agreed Ian. I don't do DCC and my 'guest operator' at home is my 4-year-old grandson. He can handle DC quite happily, as can his younger brother on their Thomas layout. Whilst DCC may be taking things to a new level with sound etc, (I say taking as I don't regard it as having got there yet), it is no good if it makes the hobby unaffordable at the entry level. Edit for typos
  10. A disused East-West route and a current line crossing, although that was not the original configuration when the second line was built.
  11. OMG you're making me feel old. I just realised I saw my first one over 60 years ago. Recently my Dad was telling my Grandson about seeing Coronation on the Coronation Scot at Glasgow when travelling to the Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park in the summer of 1938.
  12. Not my region or timescale, but a welcome development. Maybe we will see one or two of my hit-list items later. I will be interested to see what they mean as to the programme for future releases, hopefully some correct period stock to go with the locos. Perhaps Taff will enlighten us at the Toy Fair in February.
  13. But the LSWR did loan a few Radials out to the Highland during WW1.
  14. More like the curves on the Lyme Regis Branch
  15. R3240 Class 700 0-6-0 30693 in BR early crest
  16. Just had a message from Hattons to say the one I am interested in is expected in March 2015
  17. Spotting them without trains is not easy, because in those days there wasn't much electrical stuff associated with signalling. There's a DJ Norton picture of Grand Junction taken from the flyover at Proof House in which there are at least six signal posts in the foreground and only one cupboard in view. That was at an 80-lever box with several hundred train and shunt movements per day. Have you considered Ratio LNW wooden posts adapted to take LMS/BR arms? It was quite a common refit in the West Midlands.
  18. I'm going back to the long gone lines with this one. I remember camping by the building at the cutting in 1986. The old track bed was a flat pitch but a bit difficult to get the pegs in.
  19. Tofthill, to the east of Perth. Slightly different edition of map. Roadside phones have gone and there are more buildings now.
  20. Hi Clive I haven't got the drawings of the cupboards but I know someone who may be able to get some as I will need them myself soon. I will look out the trunking details and pm you the files. As the cupboards were not on a power supply, using dry cells to run the circuits, they could be dotted around the layout. I will look at the probable places and mark them on the drawing. Regarding Keith's comments, with the difficulty in fitting FPL bars and the bridges I would probably stick with the track circuits. The only one which looks really superfluous is TC6. The joint between TC4 and TC6 would have probably been opposite the mid point of the slip in TC5.
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