RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said: Just think of all those panniers and 16 ton mineral wagons you could be shunting back and forth. Aye.... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 27, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2022 Having taken a digital protractor to various signal box roof profiles and I find that each manufacturer decided on a different angle! They also use different width planks.... And don't start me off on the windows! 3 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 43 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: Having taken a digital protractor to various signal box roof profiles and I find that each manufacturer decided on a different angle! They also use different width planks.... And don't start me off on the windows! Well then if that's the case it won't matter what angle the roof pitch is or the window frames as you'll be able to simply say that its simply reproducing what's there. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 Had a mooch down to Royal Ramsey, didn't go along the prom as I didn't want my car covered in salt, but it is fair to say the sea is full. Well, the harbour is anyway. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 21 hours ago, jamie92208 said: He's been stirring it up on another thread as well. The one about the propsed GWR 1930's electrification. . As The Hippo knows, the RMwebber, of whose name we do not speak, but to whom we refer by only his code name, 'sh!stirrer" is a former clubmate of yours truly. . With 'he who shall nt be named' as my subject matter - I could be busier on lecture tours and after dinner speeches than Tony Blair. 5 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: I gave up wildly complicated (imo) plans quite some time ago, purely working on the principle that less is less to go wrong. . And that is why, with the BR (WR) Efflew Valley Branch, yours truly has (i) returned to DC (analogue) (ii) used wire in tube to operate my turnouts, and (iii) employed "C.2" working as well. . . Edited December 27, 2022 by br2975 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 1 hour ago, br2975 said: . And that is why, with the BR (WR) Efflew Valley Branch, yours truly has (i) returned to DC (analogue) (ii) used wire in tube to operate my turnouts, and (iii) employed "C.2" working as well. . . But what we really want to know is do you give a flying **** about correct operation or the finer details? Not my words........ 😁 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 24 minutes ago, newbryford said: But what we really want to know is do you give a flying **** about correct operation or the finer details? Not my words........ 😁 But can we make the coal gradually disappear from the tende of the steam engines as they go round. Jamie 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 A busy day today in "Chrimbo Limbo" Golf was played. Chuckin' it darn at 8.30am, but stopped by 9 and on the tee for 9.30. There was a bit of wind-chill, but great to be outdoors and the rain re-started as we finished the last hole - good timing there. It was the annual 3-club competition - up to 14 can normally be carried [*]. One of which must be a putter if the normal greens are in use, so effectively 2 plus 1. I managed 4th place and the entry fee is bring-a-prize - so everyone "wins". And the usual prize table consists of spare alcohol....... it has been passed onto Junior NB for a party she has gone to tonight. [*] the 3-club comp often turns in better scores than when we're allowed to use up to 14 - which makes one wonder why we carry a full bag! A bit of retail therapy for Mrs NB, fish and chips at the Bispham kitchen and a drive down Blackpool Prom whilst the illuminations are still - er - illuminated. Finishing off with more shed time - getting more stuff ready for Glasgow in a few weeks. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 Just now, jamie92208 said: But can we make the coal gradually disappear from the tende of the steam engines as they go round. Jamie No, but we can make pffft-kher-chuff noises like Ivor The Engine................... 2 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, newbryford said: No, but we can make pffft-kher-chuff noises like Ivor The Engine................... Don't forget the clanging of the bell as well. Chuff chuffs wouldn't be chuff chuffs without a bit of clanging. Edited December 27, 2022 by Winslow Boy 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Send help I'm currently pinned to the sofa as DD has decided that lying across me is the most comfyist place to be. I might be some time as negotiations are stalled. 1 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 4 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said: Don't forget the clanging Oh go on then.... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 1 hour ago, jamie92208 said: But can we make the coal gradually disappear from the tende of the steam engines as they go round. Some years ago when I was chairman of the S7 Group one of the members, who was a real PITA, contacted me to say that in his opinion the use of Dingham and similar auto couplings should be 'banned' (!??) from use by S7 modellers as they were non-scale. After several unsuccessful attempts to make him see sense he insisted that the subject be raised at the Group AGM where, unsurprisingly, the vote went against him. Undeterred he still tried to insist that I should unilaterally have the use of Dinghams banned so in the end I told him that I would do so if he could convince me that all his models were true scale in all respects such as the correct position of reach rods and reversing links for the direction of travel, connection of heat and vacuum pipes, brakes engaging wheels when trains slowed down and some other details. I never heard from him again and the following year end he failed to renew his membership, much to the relief of the committee. He would have got on well with a certain RMWebber I feel. Dave 3 1 2 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 1 hour ago, newbryford said: Oh go on then.... Ah, proper TV matched only by the Magic Roundabout. Dave 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 31 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: Ah, proper TV matched only by the Magic Roundabout. Dave Wasn't Dougal accused with being a long haired , drug taking , hippie? 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 10 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: Having taken a digital protractor to various signal box roof profiles and I find that each manufacturer decided on a different angle! They also use different width planks.... And don't start me off on the windows! Similar in many respects to sheds. 😁 Andy 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 27, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2022 39 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: He would have got on well with a certain RMWebber I feel. Yes, as one of my more active targets... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 27, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2022 1 minute ago, SM42 said: Similar in many respects to sheds. 😁 Andy Don't mention the sheds war...... I think you may have got away with it! 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 1 minute ago, Happy Hippo said: Don't mention the sheds war...... I think you may have got away with it! Actung. Actung Don't tell them your name SM42. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 27, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2022 3 hours ago, br2975 said: (iii) employed "C.2" working as well. After he realised how many signals he'd need after I'd drawn up the proposed signal diagram.🤣 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted December 28, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2022 Night Owl from the Piedmont. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlington_Shed Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 2 hours ago, Winslow Boy said: Wasn't Dougal accused with being a long haired , drug taking , hippie? My recollection is that Dylan, the rabbit, was accused of those crimes: 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 22 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Looks fine. Just one thing. The goods yard on the right. That would be mostly unsignalled. If that's the case then you should probably have a trap point of some kind at the left hand end of the headshunt where it joins the platform road. Jamie Thanks Jamie. Is that at the lower left end of the double-slip? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted December 28, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2022 1 hour ago, AndyID said: Thanks Jamie. Is that at the lower left end of the double-slip? No I was thinking at the left hand end of thecbranch platform where what looksclike a loop joins the branch line. That would be the headshunt to allow you to shunt the two soidings at theclower right. You would need ground signals for the other two exits from that line onto the running lines. They only fully signalled passenger lines and anything allowing moves onto them. Hope this makes sense. Jamie 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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