sir douglas

yes a very good film, tom. i watched it only last month

Regards, Sam.

Just been up to trhe Heath Common vintage vehicle rally, and here is my flickr album for today.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/59562189@N03/sets/72157645249074727

And here are 3 of those photos for you.

Regards, Sam.

there are 2 articles on the electrification of the Morecambe & Heysham line in "The Engineer"

12th July 1908, page 10*

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/b/ba/Er19080612a.pdf

19th July 1908, page 8*

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/b/b2/Er19080619a.pdf

* = the page number of the PDF file are different to the actual magazine page number, as the issues were split up into weekly files.

I remember this in Railway magazine, which i can only remember vaguely.

its been going on over a year, theres a lot of legal and police issues involved, and the owner of the loco isnt allowed to move it because of rent problems with the land that it was on, half of it was illegally scrapped.

Regards, Sam.

Such an amazing story, thank you for sharing it Jamie.

my dad has a 3 rail OO A4 hiding somewhere (I'm guessing somewhere like the loft at my grandparents/his parents) from his childhood. He hid it from the dangerous hands of children like me, i have never seen it yet, but as I'm now an adult, i suppose it could emerge one day, I'll never know until i see it.

Regards, Sam.

Motown record's, 1980 20th anniversary album

just been laughing so hard i couldnt breathe for a moment, when i realised something,

when i write "Regards, Sam" at the end of every post, what if i accidentally typed a T instead of a G, and posted it without noticing my typo.

Re*ards, Sam.

ive not seen cramps that long before.

Regards, Sam.

you could hang over the layout from a rope like on those spy films

regards, Sam.

taken june 2011

taken about a year ago

(EDIT: there not mine, i just took photos of them)

Although i havent been down there for a few years, i used to love going down into the cutting of the midland mainline at Kirkthorpe (just south of Goosehill Jnc), and sit in the only remaining gang hut for miles, and watch a kingfisher going about his business on the flooded track bed.

The temperature in the cutting never seemed to change no matter how hot the day actually was, so when you have spent a few hours down there and you dont know what its like out there, you get hit by the heat when you come from out of the trees (it happened to me once).

here are photos by me, and Bing maps aerial view screenshots

regards, Sam

just caught up with the thread,

In regards to Jamie's post in January (post 35), I remember coming across this a few years ago online, the Kirkgate parcels:

http://www.lmsca.org.uk/stock/br-ccts.php

how long has that carraige been there at the west end of Huddersfield:

(top right of this pic)

http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/gallery/v/Yorkshire/huddersfield/aa04631b.jpg.html

great thread guys, theres a right kink in the track on the viaduct

SNV31416.jpg

 

sorry for going back a few pages but ive just caught up with the thread

... and the girl Growler.....

im sorry,but this is too funny, do you know what a growler is slang for (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)

this video of the first part of the dismantling covers the same days work as the time lapse video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg6wkulsj5U#t=31

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TM3BK9ajVA

the dismantling has begun.

as to the posts above, I would like to see the replica to have the original curved buffer beams.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Ffestiniog_PDold_3.jpg

http://dams.llgc.org.uk/behaviour/llgc-id:1123318/fedora-bdef:image/reference

found this one while looking through some australian model engineer society websites.  scroll down to the last photo after the videos :-)

http://www.gmes.org.au/photos.htm

it's these detailed descriptions of your work that will probably inspire someone or help them with what they can do on their layout.

Regards, Sam.

Ossett tram depot still stands, with a 3-way point still set into the cobbles in front

http://www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/west-yorkshire/ossett/pictures/1000655-old-tram-depot-disused/

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/866009

.. well I thought it did until I saw this further down the page on a google image search

http://www.phpbb88.com/ossett/viewtopic.php?p=420&sid=8aa188b4fa1cbb78c0b682af5469eba2&mforum=ossett

I never knew about that bridge under Normanton shed, I now live right next to wakefield shed so its always nice to see pics of it that I haven't seen on the net loads of times.

Regards, Sam.

is your model of Penmaenmawr going to include the derelict transfer sidings with the narrow gauge granite quarry railway, and the remains of De Winton engine "Watkin" sat on the wharf?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/train-pix/5589795621/

in issue No 70 of Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling Review, a simplex brochure including a plan for a 48 bhp is illustrated in an article for a 16mm model.

it states the gauge varies from 1'6" to 3'3" (1 metre) but the loco width is only stated at 4', this could be because it was common for simplex to build them as inside framed once you get over about 3ft gauge, I think that ay bigger and you will end up with something more like the ones discussed here:

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/70917-standard-gauge-tin-turtle/

and is it a straight frame or a bow frame that is mentioned?

A bord na mona simplex with inside frame:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8506/8541022572_515746fe70_o.jpg

But ive just done a google search and most of the bord a mona simplex's are outside framed.

I'm just making simple guess's and surmises, I hope someone of superior wisdom will share it.

regards, Sam.

(EDIT: I meant inside frame not outside)

An update, welsh pony will now be dismantled to start on the restoration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNzs87kzqFI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBdKlufv4nU&feature=youtu.be

has Hunslet "Picton" been mentioned here yet, or the Hunslet 05's built to replace it.

Kitson, Thompson & Hewitson of Leeds built the Fairy queen in 1855 for the East Indian railway company, on the 13th of jan 1998, Guineess world records awarded it with the title of the worlds oldest regularly operational engine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fairy_queen_(locomotive)

Talltim's link has just reminded me of a Garrett that was fully enclosed, it was on the Belgium tramways, but the only photo I can find is of a model

http://users.powernet.co.uk/hamilton/bgpix/tram.jpg