Early Risers.

[JohnDMJ]

Picture frame in Landscape mode? Easy changing of background as a bonus too. Or indeed an LCD/LED screen, with a slide show, imitating the old moving back-scenes from Hollywood's early days

 

No, nothing as boring as that! (TIC), just the track diagram with complete (closed loop) rail occupancy indication.

[emt_911]

A long day at the office (at home) but well worth it.

 

Unfortunately I have to be an ER tomorrow to carry out an emergency survey before returning to the keyboard.

 

Night all

[BSW01]

Once again the very exclusive hair dressing salon "Vidal Baboon's" has been open for business and I have been suitably shorn.

 

It's now time for bed, so I'll bid you all goodnight.

[NGT6 1315]

E'ning all (just). Crikey, that was one shift, but first things first…

 

 

 

Training (and now general departmental) Tatra 5001 in the shed at recently renovated Paunsdorf Depot. With Wittenberger Straße Depot having been closed for revenue traffic on Monday – the depot being ideally located very near the city centre but quite old in overall layout, and confined – there needed to be a reassignment of both stock and drivers, so I now have Paunsdorf as my home base, if you will. The depot was not refurbished nearly as extensively as Dölitz, but the workshop area, tram shed and office and social area have visibly received attention. Wittenberger Straße will be converted into the new site of our tram museum, which will gradually happen next year.

 

 

 

Rail grinder 5091 ahead of its demi-brother 5092, which I had posted a photo of yesterday. These cars can operate singly or as a back-to-back MU. They are also used for general route and OHLE inspection work, as well as approval tests on newly built routes or renewed sections of track. Note that 5091 is the only Tatra in our inventory which is not operated by way of pedals, but with a controller handle. You may be able to see how it has been configured with an all-new control desk.

 

I should also mention that roughly 15 years ago (I think), it was considered to actually rebuild all our Tatras with electrically operated single arm pans, which would have been arranged as on 5091 with the knee joint facing backwards. There was at least one car so rebuilt for evaluation, but no additional cars were so converted.

 

 

 

2108-918 at Paunsdorf-Nord. This type of formation with one motor car and a trailer still isn't my favourite, and probably will never be.

 

 

 

 

As night fell, rain started to do the same!

 

 

 

Funnily, I already had 1327-1307 yesterday. However, I wasn't to keep it for the rest of my shift as en route, I was blocked by a RTA in which the Line 4 service ahead of me had been involved. The route was closed for about one hour, so I was asked to put 1327-1307 off the route at Central Station West and walk down to the station…

 

 

 

…where I took over 1335-1325 which had been sortied in my timetable slot as a standby set, and which I thus took "home" to Paunsdorf.

 

 

 

As numerous NGT8s seem to be unavailable at this time, our panoramic formation had to be sortied on Line 8 today, but had long returned by the time I did so. 

 

 

See you tomorrow. Nite-y…

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[Barry O]

Dom

 

it seems that a standard tram design appeared across the world at one time:

 

http://By Liamdavies - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25271071

 

and the little Royal purple one on the right hand side of this photograph

 

ie leeds 602 from 1953

 

Baz

 

PS we would like to see all of the Leeds trams back in Leeds and away from Crich. where 602 is really unloved!.

Edited October 21, 2016 by Barry O

[lightengine]

 

Right, so that concludes another episode of the Uninvited and Inappropriate Relationship Counselling and Advise Hotline

 

Is that a Dutch helpline? Did little Dutch boys used to get referred to it when their fingers got caught in dykes.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[lightengine]

My wife just showed me this on Facebook. I cried with laughter.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154811349734271&id=660474270

[laurenceb]

Night all

[Horsetan]

Is that a Dutch helpline? Did little Dutch boys used to get referred to it when their fingers got caught in dykes.

 

If anyone has been affected by the issues in this thread, counselling is available here

[southern42]

' Night all and nos da.

[emt_911]

Morning all. Too dark outside for a weather report.

 

Today is definitely going to be a lots of coffee day thanks to not being able to sleep well last night.

 

Hopefully the survey will be quick and I can return to the keyboard ready for an early finish.

 

Have a good day everyone

[Gwiwer]

Morning all.  I have to apologise for the continued absence and stress this is caused by an insufficiency of waking time.  Sharon is away on academic business in Canberra all week and due back tomorrow 5pm; I am on late shift so not home until turned midnight meaning that we shall be as ships in the night with different sleeping patterns.  She also claims to have far too much on her plate.  We await the Good People of the UK Department of Rubber-Stamping granting her visa.  Once that is done the need to achieve stuff here cranks up by another notch.

 

Provisional quotes obtained for shipping contents of home from A to B (once we know where exactly B is, that is) and a quote from a specialist business to have the cat flown over too.  All affordable.  Not cheap but within the ballpark we had discussed.  

 

Typical Spring here.  Warm and sunny one minute, cold and wet the next.   Attending the Palace in between sorting everything into "Keep", "Not keep" and "Undecided".   I may yet be able to keep the greater part of the model collection though a few items have already found new homes.

 

Thoughts with friends here.  Best wishes to all.  I'll pop in when I can and am only ever a message away by PM.

[chrisf]

Good morning one and all

 

I don't think I got annoyed about anything yesterday.  This is fine as far as it goes but it does make it a bit difficult finding inspirational material at this time of the morning.  Cue signs of relief?  There was no postal delivery but three comics came the previous day and I have not finished reading them yet.  The run of 'Yes Prime Minister' on BBC2 has now finished so that is one less thing to make me chuckle - or, at times, guffaw.  The transitional episode 'Party Games' was not shown but it was not of the standard length so that would explain it.  Even the ironing is up to date.  This cannot last.

 

Today I must do a fodder run to which ought to be added a greetings card for a pair of new parents and a trip to a cash machine for topping up the wallet.  Then what?  Not m*d*ll*ing, surely?  Something is bound to happen to thwart that ambition.  It always does.

 

Aha!  I have remembered something.  A discussion began here yesterday about the festive season.  That is something which I prefer to avoid.  To an extent I acknowledge its influence by sending seasonal greetings cards to about 70 people from my past and present, enclosing in most cases a round robin letter which some recipients are kind enough to call entertaining.  I saw some nice cards in Oxfam a week or so back and bought some.  The cards are entrusted to the mail service at the beginning of December and apart from selecting and delivering a gift for a friend, that is it.  I avoid the British experience or, as I prefer to think of it, endurance test, by clearing off to Switzerland and leaving it behind.  Yes, folks, I am firmly of the humbug persuasion.

 

On that happy note, best wishes to all travellers and to the ailing, recovering, supporting, grieving, missing and depressed

 

Chris

[TheQ]

Lying here contemplating getting up to make breakfast, I have to take SWMBO out to find an open bank. We've lost 2 banks and a couple of building societies in the last couple of years from the nearest town and the branch in the next town isn't open on a Saturday. So it's a 45 mile round trip to the bank and a day off work.

 

The forecast has changed over the week, on Monday it shew a wind of up to 28 mph for Sunday which is a bit strong for the Tri_Icicle race. Today it shows 6 mph wind for Sunday which at the starting the trees is too little ....

http://www.sfsc.co.uk/Tri-Icicle.htm

[Barry O]

Hey up!

 

I think I have survived yesterday... Just!

 

Shopping followed by some parcelling and posting of same to be undertaken. I must also finish my preparation for some indoor cricket umpiring tomorrow.

 

Have a good day and Rick I hope it all goes well.

 

Baz

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Still a bit dark here but dry and a fine day with chance of sunny spells is expected.

My back much better is and I made the mistake of mentioning that fact to The Boss. "Oh good, that means you  can help with the housework."

Never mind, there's never much to do with just the two of us here most of the time. Later on I shall pick up my trusty little paint brush (which is becoming smaller with every stroke) and continue simulating rust on the track followed by sleeper grime. This will take a few more hours yet but I did stock up yesterday with liquid pain relief for later.

Have a good one,

Bob.

[grandadbob]

Having  put my specs on I have now stopped wondering why a 28mph wind is too strong for a tricycle race. 

Edited October 21, 2016 by grandadbob

[roundhouse]

Morning from a strike free commute. Back to just the usual five minutes or so late departure.

 

Last night nearly all my Revolution N scale tankers we put into he stock box. That's when I relaised that I only bead 20 of the old Farish ones, so now need to find another slot for the last of the 21 new tanks.. doh!

 

Hoping for POETs today.

 

Layout to load tonight but luckily it's not along journey to Beckenham

[TheQ]

Having  put my specs on I have now stopped wondering why a 28mph wind is too strong for a tricycle race. 

Luckily I don't need the specs for sailing, i sail in a Yeoman ( see picture) we held our nationals in 40 mph winds a couple of years ago, so our boat can take 28 mph, but many of the traditional broads boats would break and the dinghies would be upside down.

 

The picture was taken during normal club racing, not this long distance race, our start line is just off of the right of the picture and we'll set off, heading on down river away from the camera if the forecast is right, in similar conditions to the photo.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone

 

It's Friday and it's POETS day, the sun is shining and it's dry too, it's all bound to go pear shaped now.

My first site visit will be in Shevington, then it's off to the orifice where I have to visit the site attached to it and then put in my mileage claim.

 

Back later.

[jamie92208]

Morning all from a brightish looking village. Good to hear from Rick but I don't envy the workload they are both under at the moment. The household is up and about, the cats are fed and I've breakfasted. Various things to look forward to today. Mark, my co-conspirator in the North British 6 wheelers is coming over then I'm taking a friend to a job interview. Then an evening at the club to look forward to.

 

Can I echo Baz' comment about Leeds Trams. It's a shame that the excellent collection that exists can't be displayed in their home city. There was a plan to try and retain the final section of the Temple Newsam section as a museum but it was beyond the resources of the group of schoolboys and students who set up the Leeds Tramway Historical Society. Having spent 8 years restoring the last remaining Leeds horse tram to running order I have some interest in this subject.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

Edited October 21, 2016 by jamie92208

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

Pre holiday pottering today. Robbie goes to kennels. We are then going to Enfield for lunch with MiL.

Packing is complete apart from things like phone chargers and camera stuff.

Tony

[Happy Hippo]

Today is to be spent taking various bits of china for a valuation.

 

This has nothing to do with my gradually expanding 7 mm empire.