TheSignalEngineer

Bulbs working on a nominal 230v AC will have a range of 216.2v to 253v feeding them on the mains given the permitted tolerances. As this is the RMS value the actual peak can be up to approximately 358v.

I did wonder if it had been put on some sort of trailer rather than a steam lorry chassis. A bit like a glorified Shepherds Hut.

If you produced something like that in a BR Works Training School you would probably be told to try again.

I remember them as yard shunters in the West Midlands, much the equivalent of the Steam Braked Jinty. In the late 1950s the local allocations were used for Bushbury yards (2), Bescot (2), and Aston Goods/ Curzon Street (4) on the LNW lines There was also one at Ryecroft but I dont know the purpose of that, possibly the goods depot by Walsall station and the PWay yard. Saltley had a big allocation of 13 , plus 6 08s for Lawley Street, Duddeston Sidings, Washwood Heath, Bromford Bridge and Water Orton. Four, along with 15101 and 15103 were used at Tyseley during the early 1950s, but these were replaced by the first five 08s, 13000-04. The latter were replaced by 13025-29 about a year later.

There's a photo on Colour Rail reputed to be 1966, it has a blue FYE Class 40 in the background so looks correct cate. 12051 at Warrington Arpley with early emblem, wasp stripes and 'British Railways' showing through the worn paintwork. Other pictures on the site have 12055 with wasp stripes and early emblem in 1970, allegedly in green but not really clear enough to tell for certain and 12054 still carrying 'British Railways' in 1957

Bit of a sly company? Registered offices of Regus are in Jersey and Luxembourg. They don't own some of the places trading under their name IIRC, rather preferring to franchise and rake in the fees.

Suppose I could count myself lucky. Never got involved with DJM except for the Beattie via Kernow which although an exquisite little thing can hardly pull itself let alone any stock. The only other thing I considered was the 14xx but was put off by reported problems and missing the one I wanted. The rest of his announcements didn't really interest me and I don't like parting with any money without a confirmed delivery date. In the longer term he is saving me quite a bit of money as I gave up pre-ordering until I have seen a decorated sample and it is on the boat. That gives me time to consider if it's something I really must buy or "Oh, that's nice, I'll have two" then put it in the cupboard only to find three years later and wonder why I bought it.

The address is a converted mill/factory near Macclesfield station. Several other company names are associated with Suite 1A. The contact number on the shop website isn't the area code for Macclesfield.

In the early days of privatisation we were very short staffed and encouraged to use agency staff as Lookout, COSS, etc. I used to go out with my staff to do audits on my projects and on more than one occasion stopped the job from going ahead as I was not satisfied that the person supplied by the agency was competent and had any prior knowledge of what was a quite tricky worksite. On one occasion I turned up for a site survey at 10am and found the Lookout asleep in his van. He had a mattress and sleeping bag on the back and when I questioned him about his working hours it transpired that he hadn't been home for several days and had worked variable shifts in that time, some with only a few hours break between them. I cancelled the job, sent him away and the supplying company found itself in a bit of bother.

One of my 'Three Most Wanted', the Class 11, Johnson 2F and Stanier 2-6-2T is to be produced. For this one it has to be dirty black renumbered to a Bescot one.

Looking at the underneath I'm not sure I would want to try lifting that.

Trouble with a ring is that it's a hole with a bit of metal round it. In this case the livery appears to be unlined black.

I knew we had discussed the 'Elephant Ears' joint before but didn't think it was nearly 3 years ago. This was the thread.

I've spent a lot of time looking at your picture collection on the net but never found the answer. The LMR do seem to have been the most prolific but they did like their named trains. There's a nice picture of a Hymek with some, D7071 I think it was, on Robertcwp's Flickr site. Could well be some more on there.

We used a similar tactic some years ago on Accommodation Crossings. In many cases the land either side if the railway had changed hands over the years, houses had been built on one side etc. There were some where the track had been relaid and the crossing surface not reinstated. We put a cable tie with a label giving the contact address of the Divisional Manager's Operating Superintendent round the gate and post. If the tie was still there and there had been no contact when the next inspection was due, steps were taken to officially abolish the crossing.

Also used on the Midland side of the LMS, I remember one at Kings Heath pre-Saltley PSB. There were several in the platforms at Manchester Piccadilly up to the late 1990s as well. They were a Sykes product IIRC. I have a picture of them dating from the 1920s in a book.

Besides checking the pick-ups are contact correctly especially on curves, clean the inside surface of the wheel tyres. I've had a couple which have been dirty from the factory. Lubricant can also get on them by accident and pick up dirt.

The council's Right of Way index map http://maps.npt.gov.uk/rights_of_way/index.html shows the public footpath finishing on the opposite side of the railway to the road. This would imply that it is not a PROW and Network Rail can do what it likes unless there is some old access agreement lurking in the depths of legal papers somewhere. The Definitive Map is held by the council at Briton Ferry, and can be viewed by appointment. https://www.npt.gov.uk/1550

To get in three arms is as much of a problem as the height. You could use something like this coming into New Street on the Down Midland line http://warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrbns_br1796.htm Not much clearance from the dome of the Crab when pulled off for platform 9. This was later replaced by a colour light. There were some underslung ones at New Street as well following the provision of low canopies on the North Western side when the overall roof was removed. There are pictures on John Turner's (aka 53A Models) Flickr site. Others on there at Hest Bank and Buchanan Street to name but a few.

Looks like a bit of a scrape on the side behind the buffer as well

Two on the Glossop line, Flowery Field and Godley

4 cylinder six-coupled passenger loco? Narrows the field a bit.

We picked up over 40 wagons of scrap between Primrose Hill and Watford Junction after the DC Lines job. I wonder if that signal post on the northern bit is still there. I never managed to get a possession and isolations of the DC and Down Fast to match up so I could take it out.

Fortunately I was out of that sort of job by the time RIMINI arrived. First time I heard that definition was actually from NRs Ops/Engineering Liaison man on a project where I was producing a report for a contractor when it had just been introduced. Although I'm not familiar with the SSOWP I expect it will contain many of the things I had on the site safety cards I had produced for my projects from 1990 onwards. They included access details, line directions and speeds, areas where additional protection was required such as extra lookout, protective speed restriction or possession, emergency contacts, etc.

When doing any inspection or testing of points equipment I always liked to see a train go over them as it gave you far more information about the state of the equipment. You can often hear something starting to work loose before you can see it.