RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted May 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2020 Useful gadgets that work with the phone, I have a Sony Cybershot that I can take the shot from my Androind phone. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted May 24, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 24, 2020 Early morning train already with many a passenger..... 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 23 hours ago, KNP said: In order to get you the pictures I am pushing the envelope! The tripod is just beyond stable so is leaning slightly on the back scene. This is where remote control from the iPhone is at its most useful The things I do for you lot?!?!? We are all very grateful. 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted May 25, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 25, 2020 (edited) In 2008 when this layout started I had two GWR loco's, Prairie 4550 and Pannier 4612 was has subsequently been renumbered to 8752. These two chugged away for many a year as the sole motive power for this layout then in March 2017 the 48xx arrived (after a protracted wait). Then it increased again on in October 2017 with the addition of the Railcar No. 8 And since then the motive fleet has steadily increased. May 2019 Rolling on to now Four are static models, the King, Hall, Mogul and one of the Deans Goods (under loading gauge). The rest work!!! I suspect there might be a few more added as they catch my eye. Edited March 25 by KNP 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted May 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 25, 2020 All that glorious power, and yet the crate is still on the lorry. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Stubby47 said: All that glorious power, and yet the crate is still on the lorry. I know...…….one day...one day we'll know the answer. Perhaps it is full of resin? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Aaah yes lad those old photos are grand, but the door was still on the engine shed back then. You may worry about the contents of the crate, but have you considered it might be the replacement hinges that got lost. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said: Aaah yes lad those old photos are grand, but the door was still on the engine shed back then. You may worry about the contents of the crate, but have you considered it might be the replacement hinges that got lost. Hmmmm I don't think it is the hinges as I haven't made them yet! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted May 25, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 25, 2020 (edited) Short goods heading west...... Edited March 25 by KNP 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted May 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 25, 2020 6 hours ago, KNP said: I suspect there might be a few more added as they catch my eye. They appear to be thinking that there's safety in numbers. They'll change their collective mind when the diesel-hydraulics appear, you mark my words. 1 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 9 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said: They appear to be thinking that there's safety in numbers. They'll change their collective mind when the diesel-hydraulics appear, you mark my words. Very true, you'll need to motorise the rest of the locos for towing failed Warships / Westerns and their trains 1 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Banger Blue Posted May 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2020 6 hours ago, KNP said: Shed Chargehand: “......ere, Bert! Ring that new controller at Swindon and ask him politely, what the bloomin’ heck are we supposed to be doing with all these Locos and remind him we ain’t St Phillips F...’ing Marsh!” 2 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Cleaner / lighter up: "Two engines a day they told me when I started. I'm b###ered if I'm raking ash out of that lot!" 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallpaul69 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 22 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Cleaner / lighter up: "Two engines a day they told me when I started. I'm b###ered if I'm raking ash out of that lot!" But don't they represent lots of opportunities for him to become a passed Cleaner, then he can get to fire them, as all the firemen will be driving until the recruitment drive produces results? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Or he could be one of the smart / lucky ones. Get a job as a trainee fireman, knowing that you will be called up for military service in a couple of years. Instead of waiting for the letter, volunteer for the right regiment and get sent to Germany. Decide to stay on a few years to get your papers for driver/instructor on steam, diesel and electric traction. Demobbed and back in the UK, return to British Railways and skip half a lifetime of shovelling ash and saying Yessir! My late father's older cousin did exactly that. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted May 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2020 I hope that the viaduct is cleared for double red locos, otherwise someone will be for tea and biscuits. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Siberian Snooper said: I hope that the viaduct is cleared for double red locos, otherwise someone will be for tea and biscuits. The viaduct was, has and is being fully inspected and discovered to be a very high quality of plastic and well within structural tolerances so long as only one loco at a time crossed at no more than 15 mph. I can confirm they have all indeed left and the station has now gone very quiet. Edited May 25, 2020 by KNP 5 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted May 26, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2020 Getting closer, better get off the line.....! 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2020 Not with a red tail light? 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted May 26, 2020 Author Share Posted May 26, 2020 1 minute ago, Stubby47 said: Not with a red tail light? Well spotted. Couldn't be bothered to change it as it is held in place with a tiny piece of Blu Tack ... So the photographer is safe or has been run over before taking the picture! 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2020 2 hours ago, KNP said: Getting closer, better get off the line.....! That's such a good pic. Like the ground level view, and the way you've placed the auto train to conceal where the main line disappears. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted May 26, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2020 The road to nowhere...…! Those poor old passengers where sitting there for at least 20 mins before they released there was all the noise and shaking but no actual progress. No 8 hadn't run for quite a while so was running lumpy but a quick blast in either direction loosened it up..... 18 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted May 26, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2020 My new gadget arrived that allows me to fix my iPhone to the tripod with plenty of adjustment. All for less than a fiver... And the picture it took, well needs a bit of attention but here it is..... Foggy day to me! 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 47 minutes ago, KNP said: The road to nowhere...…! Those poor old passengers where sitting there for at least 20 mins before they released there was all the noise and shaking but no actual progress. No 8 hadn't run for quite a while so was running lumpy but a quick blast in either direction loosened it up..... Looks like someone's nicked the wheels and left it on bricks! 2 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2020 (edited) On 25/05/2020 at 17:43, MrWolf said: Or he could be one of the smart / lucky ones. Get a job as a trainee fireman, knowing that you will be called up for military service in a couple of years. Instead of waiting for the letter, volunteer for the right regiment and get sent to Germany. Decide to stay on a few years to get your papers for driver/instructor on steam, diesel and electric traction. Demobbed and back in the UK, return to British Railways and skip half a lifetime of shovelling ash and saying Yessir! My late father's older cousin did exactly that. This is the 30s, isn’t it. If he passes out as a fireman, he’ll have to move somewhere to get a job as one as it’s dead men’s shoes at LM. St Phillip’s Marsh, or Taunton are favourites, and he’ll have to get digs, easy enough for a young bloke. This puts him in a good position for the upcoming war; a reserved occupation and a shortage of loco crews means he can go through passed fireman, and on to driver before the war ends. A tough life, he’s worked hard and had to move to one of the big war sheds, Westbury, Banbury, Severn Tunnel and the like, living in grim railway barracks and ‘hot bunking’. But he’ll be stuck there for years waiting to come home, and will only be able to do so by applying for vacancies in the firing links, a drop in pay. Nationalisation will mean a wider field of lack of opportunity, but he can always get a motorman’s job on the Southern Region. The London Weighting is inadequate, but there’s all the overtime anyone could want, if you can put up with the pressure and exhaustion. He might be lucky and get back home or at least close by the early 60s, but just as the diesels appear and his work becomes cleaner and less strenuous, Beeching comes along and, if he’s not made redundant or has to go back firing again, those dead men’s shoes come back to haunt him. No wonder by the time I meet him in the early 70s in the mess room at Bath Road, or the Staff Club at Temple Meads, there is an air of depression, resignation, and bitterness about him. He’s given his life to a job that has treated him with contempt, he is working for a railway that is a national media joke, and here’s this hippy Canton guard annoying him. Kids terday, don’t know they born, never had to prep a clapped out 43 at 2am on a freezing morning in a blackout... He never knew how much I sympathised with him. Edited May 26, 2020 by The Johnster 13 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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