Proceedings of the Castle Aching Parish Council, 1905

[Hroth]

29 minutes ago, teaky said:

It will drag on until 5th September unless one of the remaining two drops out.

 

Speaking of The Hustings, it seems that La Truss is now chanelling Gordon Gekko...

 

Profit is not Evil

 

 

[Edwardian]

Went here today ....

 

 

Deutshe Bahn Museum, Nuremberg.

 

First exhibit was this, a South Hetton colliery chaldron!

 

 

Which made me feel like coals on the way to Newcastle.

 

There is much to see, including Adler and a Crampton, and Bismarck and Ludwig II's carriages, plus a wealth of models and a model railway. Recommended for any passing that way.

 

 

[alastairq]

On a topical note, I predict we will see model railway suppliers complaining that sales of green flock have crashed....

[Nearholmer]

Faded Fields

Many is the too oft exhibited layout

where once-dyed sawdust,

now long dead,

does some interminable want of rain suggest.

 

Gaunt and shrunken Merit cows,

long dry of milk for want of better feed,

look longingly at flocks of tiny ewes

whose flock is flocculent, full,

and perhaps just a little too viridian to be true.

 

While here the plastic ploughboy

wends his weary way,

past small grey analogies in card

of tombs around a well-worn Airfix church,

the rugged elms and yew-trees greatly cowed,

since last a measureless tea-mug rested there.

 

Back, back along the strip-lit valley comes

the last slow train of eventide,

back down the track to scratch-built terminus

which was in former years it’s own God’s pride,

Lovingly created for his then tiny son,

The man who ceased to visit once his mother’s life was done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2022 by Nearholmer

[Hroth]

3 hours ago, alastairq said:

On a topical note, I predict we will see model railway suppliers complaining that sales of green flock have crashed....

 

But that box of old green flock thats  faded to brown in the back of the store room will now become eminently saleable...

[alastairq]

Woodlands Scenics dead trees, anyone?

Noch stalks?

 

I always admired G Iliffe Stokes' trees.....nought but dried branches with nary a sniff of pretend foliage.

[Andy Hayter]

On 07/08/2022 at 12:22, Andy Hayter said:

@Nearholmer You have missed out Scotland, where my relatives, living in the west, have commented that so far summer has exhibited itself on just one Tuesday, 3 weeks ago.  Every other day it has rained - not that that is a concept that I am familiar with being on "red alert - crisis" for a number of weeks. 

 

Promised rain tomorrow.  I hope it arrives even though it will wreck the first car boot sale here in 4 years,  It might mitigate the impacts of this -

 

 

[Edwardian]

8 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

Faded Fields

Many is the too oft exhibited layout

where once-dyed sawdust,

now long dead,

does some interminable want of rain suggest.

 

Gaunt and shrunken Merit cows,

long dry of milk for want of better feed,

look longingly at flocks of tiny ewes

whose flock is flocculent, full,

and perhaps just a little too viridian to be true.

 

While here the plastic ploughboy

wends his weary way,

past small grey analogies in card

of tombs around a well-worn Airfix church,

the rugged elms and yew-trees greatly cowed,

since last a measureless tea-mug rested there.

 

Back, back along the strip-lit valley comes

the last slow train of eventide,

back down the track to scratch-built terminus

which was in former years it’s own God’s pride,

Lovingly created for his then tiny son,

The man who ceased to visit once his mother’s life was done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, we were in need of a cheer up, so thanks for that.

 

Meanwhile, back in Bavaria ....

 

This is Adler, or at least a replica of it, and there seems to be some doubt as to what exactly she should look like, as we are used to in the case of some of our early locos.

 

 

If I understood the German correctly, she was a Robert Stephenson & Co product of 1835 that ran on the Ludwigsbahn between Nuremberg and Fürth and was the first passenger railway in Germany.

 

Here is a model of the original Nuremberg station.

 

 

Opening day

 

 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2022 by Edwardian
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[Northroader]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!! The West Norfolk Railway gets new rolling stock!!!

[Edwardian]

11 minutes ago, Northroader said:

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!! The West Norfolk Railway gets new rolling stock!!!

 

I'd settle for it getting any rolling stock at this point!

[ardbealach]

59 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

 

Well, we were in need of a cheer up, so thanks for that.

 

Meanwhile, back in Bavaria ....

 

This is Adler, or at least a replica of it, and there seems to be some doubt as to what exactly she should look like, as we are used to in the case of some of our early locos.

 

 

If I understood the German correctly, she was a Robert Stephenson & Co product of 1835 that ran on the Ludwigsbahn between Nuremberg and Fürth and was the first passenger railway in Germany.

 

Here is a model of the original Nuremberg station.

 

 

 

Opening day

 

Is the large driving wheel flangeless to help it go round corners? (Alisdair)

 

59 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Hroth]

11 hours ago, alastairq said:

Woodlands Scenics dead trees, anyone?

Noch stalks?

 

I always admired G Iliffe Stokes' trees.....nought but dried branches with nary a sniff of pretend foliage.

 

Use Twiglets!

 

And if you feel peckish while operating the layout, you can snack off them!

 

[monkeysarefun]

17 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

Faded Fields

Many is the too oft exhibited layout

where once-dyed sawdust,

now long dead,

does some interminable want of rain suggest.

 

Gaunt and shrunken Merit cows,

long dry of milk for want of better feed,

look longingly at flocks of tiny ewes

whose flock is flocculent, full,

and perhaps just a little too viridian to be true.

 

While here the plastic ploughboy

wends his weary way,

past small grey analogies in card

of tombs around a well-worn Airfix church,

the rugged elms and yew-trees greatly cowed,

since last a measureless tea-mug rested there.

 

Back, back along the strip-lit valley comes

the last slow train of eventide,

back down the track to scratch-built terminus

which was in former years it’s own God’s pride,

Lovingly created for his then tiny son,

The man who ceased to visit once his mother’s life was done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeez that last line drew a cloud across the sunshine of my Sunday morning!

 

(As all proper poems should, of course.)

Edited August 14, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[Edwardian]

4 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Jeez that last line drew a cloud across the sunshine of my Sunday morning!

 

(As all proper poems should, of course.)

 

It was very good indeed, it was just that I wasn't quite prepared for the concluding existential horror of death and abandonment.

 

And now, in lighter vein, this is what happens when you let Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen loose on a tramcar.

 

[alastairq]

9 hours ago, Hroth said:

Use Twiglets!

 

I really like Twiglets.

[Have they got shorter over the years?]

 

Now, for a newzzy item that tickled my sensitivities..for once....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62532840

 

Whilst I am aware gloff is open to all walks of life [and d'eath?]..., there is an element of well-off exclusivity around much of it.

[Ian Simpson]

5 minutes ago, alastairq said:

 

I really like Twiglets.

[Have they got shorter over the years?]

 

 

Or have we got bigger?

[Hroth]

29 minutes ago, alastairq said:

 

I really like Twiglets.

[Have they got shorter over the years?]

 

 

Possibly a measure to reduce the average salt content per twiglet to appease the "healthy eating" lobby.

 

[Hroth]

28 minutes ago, Ian Simpson said:

 

Or have we got bigger?

 

Its like Curleywurlys, I'm sure they were bigger back in the 70s...

 

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

Its like Curleywurlys, I'm sure they were bigger back in the 70s...

 

Maybe you are standing  further away.

[Edwardian]

7 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Maybe you are standing  further away.

 

 

 

[Edwardian]

One of my favourite discoveries, it made me think how much our Annie would enjoy this. We are all pretty familiar with the English and French Cramptons, but it seems they were popular in Southern Germany too.

 

 

Phoenix is a Baden State Railways Crampton built at Karlsruhe in 1863. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[wessy]

14 hours ago, Edwardian said:

 

It was very good indeed, it was just that I wasn't quite prepared for the concluding existential horror of death and abandonment.

 

And now, in lighter vein, this is what happens when you let Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen loose on a tramcar.

 

The interior is almost restrained in comparison. My memory suggests that is was a royal carriage. I too have been to this museum. There is a splendid collection of rolling stock and some superb models. The whole place has the feel of a proper museum rather than a visitor experience. Its about half a mile from the station so is easy to find if you are ever in Nurnberg.

[Nearholmer]

I'm sure we've previously tried to persuade Edwardian to obtain the Maerklin models of King Ludwig's train to run on CA.

 

Its just occured to me that these are the ultimate camping coaches, in the sense of camping it up. The interiors were 'gorgeous', all based on the decorations at Versaille. 

[Edwardian]

1 hour ago, wessy said:

The interior is almost restrained in comparison. My memory suggests that is was a royal carriage. I too have been to this museum. There is a splendid collection of rolling stock and some superb models. The whole place has the feel of a proper museum rather than a visitor experience. Its about half a mile from the station so is easy to find if you are ever in Nurnberg.

 

Ah, but memory is tricky, as I have often found. That's the Terrassenwagen, or terrace wagon, which can be best understood as a garden terrace with gazebo or summer house on wheels, hence the garden furniture.

 

 

 

Next to it is the previously pictured Salonwagen

 

 

This may be best understood as a baroque palace on wheels, and has an interior to match ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 14, 2022 by Edwardian

[Annie]

7 hours ago, Edwardian said:

One of my favourite discoveries, it made me think how much our Annie would enjoy this. We are all pretty familiar with the English and French Cramptons, but it seems they were popular in Southern Germany too.

 

 

Phoenix is a Baden State Railways Crampton built at Karlsruhe in 1863. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Completely delightful.  Thank you for posting these wonderful pictures.