The Night Mail

[jamie92208]

3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

BBC Breakfast weather reports show wind speeds of up to 3500 mph in the London area.

 

Has PB been on the beanz again?

And the much talked about Nottingham had a max temperature of over 400 degrees C. 

 

Jamie

[GMKAT7]

Good afternoon Jamie,

 

Not that warm at our end of the A52 😅

 

Although the 5776 mph winds have not shown up either 😂

 

Cheers, Nigel.

[DaveF]

The Swiss crocodile is back in normal service today hauling a rake of aggregate wagons, a typical duty in their final years in service.

 

Behind it are two more (slightly out of focus) crocodiles, this time Arnold models.

 

All being well overhead masts will be installed soon, the platform surface in the foreground will also be glued down so it will lie flat - unlike some real Swiss stations around the period of the layout.

 

The photo shows the limitation of using a phone in a north facing room on a dull day.

 

David

[Tony_S]

3 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Sherry suggests Wagamama.

My nieces like Wagamama.

We once went to a Japanese restaurant in Westcliff with Matthew. The menu was definitely Japanese style food but the staff were not. Matthew said they were not speaking Japanese, and were Chinese people pretending to be Japanese. 

[Oldddudders]

1 minute ago, Tony_S said:

My nieces like Wagamama.

We once went to a Japanese restaurant in Westcliff with Matthew. The menu was definitely Japanese style food but the staff were not. Matthew said they were not speaking Japanese, and were Chinese people pretending to be Japanese. 

Sherry's Aussie nephew likes Wagamama so the family went there. Whatever Sherry chose suited her very well, but some other members of the party didn't fare so well. 

[DenysW]

4 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

the much talked about Nottingham had a max temperature of over 400 degrees C. 

Derby didn't look dreary today (viewed only from Raynesway/Spondon) and Leicester was seasonal: even the school cycling lessons on my street didn't trigger showers.

[rockershovel]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

My nieces like Wagamama.

We once went to a Japanese restaurant in Westcliff with Matthew. The menu was definitely Japanese style food but the staff were not. Matthew said they were not speaking Japanese, and were Chinese people pretending to be Japanese. 

Auriental, as the late Pterry described it. 

[br2975]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

My nieces like Wagamama.

We once went to a Japanese restaurant in Westcliff with Matthew. The menu was definitely Japanese style food but the staff were not. Matthew said they were not speaking Japanese, and were Chinese people pretending to be Japanese. 

.

I've only sampled Wagamama once, at Cribb's Causeway, Brizzle - it was a treat from my son, for taking him to a business meeting in Avonmouth.

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Junior is also fluent in Japanese, which was wasted as the staff at Wagamama bore a striking resemblance to Adge Cutler when they spoke.

[AndyID]

12 hours ago, polybear said:

 

And no Bears....😢

 

ION....

 

Bear just experienced a feeling of deja vu whilst reading page 2181....having just read 2180......

 

 

 

Some Yogi Berra quotes:

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

It ain't over till it's over.

It's like déjà vu all over again.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

[Hroth]

4 hours ago, DaveF said:

The Swiss crocodile is back in normal service today hauling a rake of aggregate wagons, a typical duty in their final years in service.

 

Behind it are two more (slightly out of focus) crocodiles, this time Arnold models.

 

All being well overhead masts will be installed soon, the platform surface in the foreground will also be glued down so it will lie flat - unlike some real Swiss stations around the period of the layout.

 

The photo shows the limitation of using a phone in a north facing room on a dull day.

 

David

 

Nice!

I've always fancied a Kroc, but they wouldn't look good on a GWR branch line.  Likewise the Pennsylvanian GG1....

 

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

Nice!

I've always fancied a Kroc, but they wouldn't look good on a GWR branch line.  Likewise the Pennsylvanian GG1....

 

 

Such a deal....

https://mrmuffinstrains.com/products/l-2533060

[Oldddudders]

22 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

Such a deal....

https://mrmuffinstrains.com/products/l-2533060

But how many people want a Penn Central one? 

[Dave Hunt]

21 hours ago, Northmoor said:

..... but then I used to wander round parts of Toxteth carrying a camera and didn't feel worried either.  The national media had a lot to answer for.

 

From the age of 3 to 7 I lived in Toxteth and it was fine. Princes Park was lovely then and had a really nice boating lake.

 

Dave

[AndyID]

19 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

But how many people want a Penn Central one? 

 

The fancy colors will cost you a few hundred more sir.

[Dave Hunt]

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

Nice!

I've always fancied a Kroc, but they wouldn't look good on a GWR branch line.  

 

 

I've always had a soft spot for the Swiss Krocs ever since I was a kid and used to drool over the goodies in Wally Hatton's shop window in Smithdown Road in Liverpool. One of them was a 7mm (IIRC) Kroc and as soon as I saw it I thought, "I want one," but it never happened.

 

Dave

Edited Thursday at 20:31 by Dave Hunt
The auto thingy put an apostrophe in Krocs

[Northmoor]

7 hours ago, GMKAT7 said:

Good afternoon Jamie,

 

Not that warm at our end of the A52 😅

 

Although the 5776 mph winds have not shown up either 😂

 

Cheers, Nigel.

I believe the record was somewhere in Cornwall with wind speeds of about 16,400mph (so if you stood still, you'd be doing about Mach 21.5).

[Northmoor]

Just been called outside by our son who said the sky was red.  He's not wrong, despite the amount of urban glow we have, the Aurora Borealis is clearly visible in Surrey tonight.

[PhilJ W]

4 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

Nice!

I've always fancied a Kroc, but they wouldn't look good on a GWR branch line.  Likewise the Pennsylvanian GG1....

 

In fact there was a diesel locomotive designed for the GWR that had the appearance of one half of a croc with a boxy main body and a low extension at one end for the compressor. It was an 0-4-4 wheel arrangement. Unfortunately it never left the drawing board.

[Chris Snowdon]

10 hours ago, DaveF said:

The Swiss crocodile is back in normal service today hauling a rake of aggregate wagons, a typical duty in their final years in service.

 

Behind it are two more (slightly out of focus) crocodiles, this time Arnold models.

 

All being well overhead masts will be installed soon, the platform surface in the foreground will also be glued down so it will lie flat - unlike some real Swiss stations around the period of the layout.

 

The photo shows the limitation of using a phone in a north facing room on a dull day.

 

David

Looks fantastic.  Never owned a Swiss Croc, but can boast about seeing one parked up in a siding on my first trip to CH.  Have ever since spent much time not buying a model one, which is the nearest I have come to "self restraint" in 25 years.  Somewhere, I have drawings for the German "KEL" Croc (E.93/94?) and will find time to scratchbuild one day (Raven Pacific remains top of list)

[Chris Snowdon]

1 hour ago, Northmoor said:

Just been called outside by our son who said the sky was red.  He's not wrong, despite the amount of urban glow we have, the Aurora Borealis is clearly visible in Surrey tonight.

I don't doubt you and I envy you.  Despite the urban glow we might cast over you, any of us here in SW15 can't see any damned thing in the sky due to the LED streetlights.  Only the late-arrivals into LHR.

[Chris Snowdon]

4 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

Such a deal....

https://mrmuffinstrains.com/products/l-2533060

%^$£"$&*%&???  HOW MUCH???

[J. S. Bach]

7 hours ago, Hroth said:

Nice!

I've always fancied a Kroc, but they wouldn't look good on a GWR branch line.  Likewise the Pennsylvanian GG1....

Better yet, MU the G with the croc! 😉

 

[iL Dottore]

Currently on the Ōzora limited express (Sapporo to Kushiro) which is a KiHa 261 series tilting DMU running on 1m track (actually 1067mm to be pedantic)). The ride is surprisingly uneven (but still miles better than my last UK TOC ride on Southern) - possibly due to narrow gauge track or due to it being a DMU?

The interesting thing is that the train doesn't have that "narrow gauge look" that seems to be the hallmark of many European metre gauge railways.

Green Class (aka First Class) has very comfortable leather and wood reclining seats in a 2-1 configuration:

[J. S. Bach]

5 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

But how many people want a Penn Central one? 

Me, me, me, me, and a friend also wants one!

[BR60103]

18 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Lorry/truck. Lastkraftwagen. 

Ja, das ist in mein Langenscheidts.

 

It's only been 61 years since I took German.