Dungrange Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Does it always run with empty PFA wagons between the KUA and the barrier coaches? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ERIC ALLTORQUE Posted May 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 11, 2022 5 minutes ago, Dungrange said: Does it always run with empty PFA wagons between the KUA and the barrier coaches? Thats the reason i posted it,not seen the PFA,s until i watched this,just so we can model as it runs in real world. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted May 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 11, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Dungrange said: Does it always run with empty PFA wagons between the KUA and the barrier coaches? The Kineton move seems to be the only known working with PFAs. (BICBW) edit: see next post. This has been on before, but this is probably the most unusual consist with a KUA. Edited May 12, 2022 by newbryford 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Bendall Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 PFA(s) tend to feature when the KUAs go to Georgemas to spread the train's weight, as happened on Tuesday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvEMOUu982g&ab_channel=BrandonStone 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted May 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2022 43 minutes ago, Simon Bendall said: PFA(s) tend to feature when the KUAs go to Georgemas to spread the train's weight, as happened on Tuesday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvEMOUu982g&ab_channel=BrandonStone I was searching for ages awhile back to find a KUA/PFA combo to Georgemas. Most seem to show the BSO escort coaches but here's one to save buying them. Eventually found this tonight: (flickrpic) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted May 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2022 10 hours ago, newbryford said: The Kineton move seems to be the only known working with PFAs. (BICBW) edit: see next post. This has been on before, but this is probably the most unusual consist with a KUA. Single Loco as well, would that be if the container was empty? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Bendall Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 48 minutes ago, boxbrownie said: Single Loco as well, would that be if the container was empty? This was a wagon repair trip from the Wabtec workshops at Kilmarnock so yes empty and no requirement for two locos as flask not in use. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nightstar.train Posted June 9, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 9, 2022 On 12/05/2022 at 10:50, boxbrownie said: Single Loco as well, would that be if the container was empty? As i understand it the KUAs never operate loaded without the escort coaches. The waste they carry is a whole different kettle of fish to the standard flasks and must be guarded. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted June 10, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 10, 2022 16 hours ago, nightstar.train said: As i understand it the KUAs never operate loaded without the escort coaches. The waste they carry is a whole different kettle of fish to the standard flasks and must be guarded. That’s what I suspected as in Devonport even tour boats giving sight seeing trips around the docks where the nuclear subs are being decommissioned are always quietly shadowed by a police launch or two. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torbay Express Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 On 10/06/2022 at 12:25, boxbrownie said: That’s what I suspected as in Devonport even tour boats giving sight seeing trips around the docks where the nuclear subs are being decommissioned are always quietly shadowed by a police launch or two. Decommissioned, don't believe the work as actually started - just basic maintenance to keep them safe. Wouldn't be a pretty sight if the subs rusted and reactor fell out the bottom! Remember pacer gearboxes! Wonder if anyone actually thought about decommissioning when they designed them, or whether the thoughts were in 40years time we will be retired and it will be someone else's problem! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted June 13, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Torbay Express said: Decommissioned, don't believe the work as actually started - just basic maintenance to keep them safe. Wouldn't be a pretty sight if the subs rusted and reactor fell out the bottom! Remember pacer gearboxes! Wonder if anyone actually thought about decommissioning when they designed them, or whether the thoughts were in 40years time we will be retired and it will be someone else's problem! One of our neighbours was an design engineer at Devonport and before he moved over two years ago he said that at least two of the subs were “in pieces” and the fuel rods had already gone, I believe if you look on Google Earth Pro you can go through the timeline and see the reduction in sub numbers there. But for sure it has/is a very slow process. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 On 13/06/2022 at 09:37, Torbay Express said: Decommissioned, don't believe the work as actually started - just basic maintenance to keep them safe. Wouldn't be a pretty sight if the subs rusted and reactor fell out the bottom! Indeed. When the USSR collapsed and Ukraine became an independent country in 1991 it became the world's third largest nuclear power - one can't help wondering whether Russia would have risked their invasions had Ukraine not gone for nuclear disarmament. Or whether their Soviet-era weapons would have been neglected and gone the same way as Chernobyl. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Accurascale Fran Posted June 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2022 29 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said: Indeed. When the USSR collapsed and Ukraine became an independent country in 1991 it became the world's third largest nuclear power - one can't help wondering whether Russia would have risked their invasions had Ukraine not gone for nuclear disarmament. Or whether their Soviet-era weapons would have been neglected and gone the same way as Chernobyl. Funnily enough I was browsing yesterday eBay last night and came across this... Would've been a 'glowing' prop on our stand for the KUA launch! Cheers! Fran 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torbay Express Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 10 minutes ago, Accurascale Fran said: Funnily enough I was browsing yesterday eBay last night and came across this... Would've been a 'glowing' prop on our stand for the KUA launch! Cheers! Fran That's it Fran, you keep spending the bosses money on stage props..... Trouble is with Russia, never know where it has come from or whether it's been used! Customs may have been interested, especially if a radiation detector went off! Besides the roof don't slide to put anything in. Actually if you had used it at Alexandra Palace, you may have avoided Covid? Or were you going to use it as a load to see what a Deltic would pull? A certain Margate company, has a subsidiary that does/did radioactive paint - you could only stock a certain number of tins at a time! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 36 minutes ago, Accurascale Fran said: Funnily enough I was browsing yesterday eBay last night and came across this... Would've been a 'glowing' prop on our stand for the KUA launch! Cheers! Fran We know you how good you Irish are on building sites - you should have the honour of laying the first brick in Ireland's first nuclear power station! I think you should have posted this on the ebay madness thread though. 😁 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted July 19, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19, 2023 (edited) Dapol IDAs and an AS KUA.... (flickr pic) Edited July 19, 2023 by newbryford 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomScrut Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 5 minutes ago, newbryford said: Dapol IDAs and an AS KUA.... (flickr pic) It did go down to Donny on its own too IIRC (with a 66 and 37), so a KUA with a DRS 66 and/or 37 is an appropriate Tyne Valley/Yorkshire ECML prototype in my book. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 On 16/06/2022 at 10:57, Accurascale Fran said: Funnily enough I was browsing yesterday eBay last night and came across this... Would've been a 'glowing' prop on our stand for the KUA launch! Cheers! Fran Back in '87 I attended Mid-Kent College at Rochester as part of my BR Engineering degree. Several of my co-students were guys who worked at Dungeness "B" power station. They told a tale of the Station radiation alarms going off one day in mid '86 and they evacuated etc according to procedure until one enlightened soul interrogated the alarms fully and it was realised that those that had actually gone off were on the OUTSIDE of the station .................................. post Chernobyl fall-out being the reason ☠ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krieghoff Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 On 16/06/2022 at 11:16, Torbay Express said: That's it Fran, you keep spending the bosses money on stage props..... Trouble is with Russia, never know where it has come from or whether it's been used! Customs may have been interested, especially if a radiation detector went off! Besides the roof don't slide to put anything in. Actually if you had used it at Alexandra Palace, you may have avoided Covid? Or were you going to use it as a load to see what a Deltic would pull? A certain Margate company, has a subsidiary that does/did radioactive paint - you could only stock a certain number of tins at a time! Id say MI6 and MI5 might be interested in who buys it as well along with one or two other organisations i had dealings with in the past 🤣👍👍 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torbay Express Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 6 hours ago, Krieghoff said: Id say MI6 and MI5 might be interested in who buys it as well along with one or two other organisations i had dealings with in the past 🤣👍👍 Agreed... I don't think OFSTEAD would be impressed if children were allowed to play with it in a nursery.... In the hobby world was mainly used for radio controlled aircraft......(before all these hi-tec suicide mission drones!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted August 4, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 4, 2023 I've had some time at Missenden during our Summer week and managed to get some weathering done for myself....I bought the KUAs as a potential weathering project and finally got round to doing one of them. Pin wash followed by some air brushing and a few pigments....#2 may be a little dirtier when I get round to it.. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted September 1, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 1, 2023 I was just wondering if there’s ever the possibility of another run of these? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dungrange Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 11 minutes ago, jools1959 said: I was just wondering if there’s ever the possibility of another run of these? Since you can still buy the first run from some model shops, I doubt it. Below was just the first in a list from Google. https://herefordmodels.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=16329 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomScrut Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 8 hours ago, Dungrange said: Since you can still buy the first run from some model shops, I doubt it. Below was just the first in a list from Google. https://herefordmodels.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=16329 And it's not like there's more running numbers to go at! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ERIC ALLTORQUE Posted September 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 2, 2023 10 hours ago, jools1959 said: I was just wondering if there’s ever the possibility of another run of these? Why...........? Lots more to put time in to get a reward rather than these. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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