RMweb Premium Popular Post Gwiwer Posted April 29, 2015 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2015 (edited) Gentlemen. "Boghouses" has finally completed its travels. Whilst at Taunton it was merely enjoying a pit-stop half way in it global jaunts and has now returned down under. A small amount of making good is required but considering the feat achieved that is very small indeed. While it might not have been the finest example of modelling on offer at Taunton I think it stood with the best and the rest and was certainly no disgrace. I've paid more to see less. In neither direction was I asked any questions at any time about the contents of my baggage. Frankly I am surprised but then there is nothing, including the transformer, which is prohibited and they might have seen even stranger things. The basic tool kit which accompanied us was also not queried despite containing sharp blades among other items. I did manage to sneak a couple of pots of Railmatch back with all the gubbins which considering the uproar sometimes associated with such things is also no mean feat. The world-wide portable layout has completed its international travels and will now be cared for with a view to being offered for local shows back in Australia. Thank you all again for the chance to show a small sample of my work and to have created something of a distance record for safe transport of a working layout. Edited April 29, 2015 by Gwiwer 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Copleston Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 The world-wide portable layout has completed its international travels and will now be cared for with a view to being offered for local shows back in Australia. Thank you all again for the chance to show a small sample of my work and to have created something of a distance record for safe transport of a working layout. Well done, Rick! This MUST be a record. Really good to chat with you last Sunday. Glad you and the layout made it back safely. See you in Taunton next year with another well-travelled offering... !!! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren01 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 This is the second year i have missed this, Next year i will come along!, spotted my 700 having a test run with DLT, WHOO!!! Glad everyone had a very good day, see you next year. Darren Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted April 30, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30, 2015 See you in Taunton next year with another well-travelled offering... !!! There is just an outside chance of that ..... I have already accepted a photographic commission for mid-May 2016 but have yet to confirm my leave roster which runs 12 months ahead. So maybe - just maybe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted February 9, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 9, 2016 Sorry to arouse the slumbering but ......... I have become aware that an O-gauge layout, "Arakoola", based in New South Wales, is being shipped over for exhibition at Telford later this year. It's an amazing layout and a herculean (and costly) task to do such a thing. They have also filed for a world record for farthest-travelled model railway. In view of the fact that Boghouses has travelled farther by at least 1500 miles I have today formally lodged a counter-claim to this record with Guinness World Records and await the outcome. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted February 9, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 9, 2016 I did feel annoyed that someone made the claim hence my post to you elsewhere. Don 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted February 9, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 9, 2016 Much appreciated thanks Don. I didn't set out to create a record. The possibility occurred to me during the construction process and in discussion with other modellers. Since Boghouses appeared at Staplegrove the potential for a world record has been quietly acknowledged by a number of us both here and on other forums. We'll see what the Guinness people have to say. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 9, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 9, 2016 Much appreciated thanks Don. I didn't set out to create a record. The possibility occurred to me during the construction process and in discussion with other modellers. Since Boghouses appeared at Staplegrove the potential for a world record has been quietly acknowledged by a number of us both here and on other forums. We'll see what the Guinness people have to say. Without knowing exactly where you are Rick (I know you are not far from PCM) and also not knowing exactly where Arakoola is based (somewhere in Greater Sydney?), running some lat and long coordinates through a great circle calculator I found on the web shows it to be a close-run thing (see http://williams.best.vwh.net/gccalc.htm) but I reckon you've got your nose in front. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted February 9, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 9, 2016 (edited) Without knowing exactly where you are Rick (I know you are not far from PCM) and also not knowing exactly where Arakoola is based (somewhere in Greater Sydney?), running some lat and long coordinates through a great circle calculator I found on the web shows it to be a close-run thing (see http://williams.best.vwh.net/gccalc.htm) but I reckon you've got your nose in front. Yes it could be a close thing depending upon how one calculates distance. I used the IATA air-miles calculator as I have no other realistic way to calculate the exact flight paths taken. Between home and airport here and between airport and the various points en route in the UK I used Google Maps. I'm not far from P.C.M as you say. About 25 kms or 13 miles closer to yourself and the UK. I don't think there's much chance of Llanbourne being exhibited back in the UK but I believe it was shipped out as personal possessions though from a town closer to his port of departure so for A-to-B total I'd still claim the record Edit : I've had a chance to play with the link above and a couple of others to cross-check, using exact latitude and longitude for my home and the RMW/SWAG venue, and I come up with a "true distance" figure by this means of 17150.2kms or just over 10656½ miles each way for Boghouses. That ignores the additional 145 miles each way to and from Penzance which the layout travelled between arrival in the UK and exhibition at Taunton and the slight deviation via the Sussex coast which was also taken but is probably inconsequential. I too do not know exactly where Arakoola is based but working on the assumption that it is in the Sydney area which is around 980kms / 609 miles north of here and that Telford is also a shorter distance away than Taunton by a few miles I'm still happy. Edited February 9, 2016 by Gwiwer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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