TheSignalEngineer

Thinking from the point of view of mixing paints at junior school. Red plus green equals brown. More of the former you get a red-brown shade and more of the latter a green-brown.

I've checked the bombing records for the area and there was a High Explosive bomb hit just about there c1940, possibly in the raid where an Engine Cleaner got the George Medal for repeatedly taking a loco through the fires to pull out wagons. I think the bank was finally repaired a few weeks after that picture was taken when we were upgrading the line for diversion of the Snow Hill services to New Street in 1966/7.

What type of light are you looking at the coaches in? Different colour temperatures will make paints apparently change shade. Fluorescent lights and some energy saving ones can give a picture a decidedly green tint.

Tie plate is an Americanism for the plate which goes under flat bottom rail. It only carries one rail, whereas in UK terminology the soleplate goes under both rails and holds them a fixed distance apart. Just to confuse matters in the USA a tie plate was sometimes referred to as a soleplate.

Nice ones Clive. My BS was done the same as yours. A second one was in progress when Hornby announced their P3 version so it became a Pull-Push instead. The all Second was made up of bits I had in the box. It isn't quite right but afterwards I came to the same option as yours, so will build a better one when I have the bits to hand. Will the Compo get done? Time and availability of bits will tell. Eric

A bit of fence between the railway and canal at Bournville A class 27 at Bournville by geoff7918, on Flickr More at Bordesley 48646 at Lawden Road (pjs,0605) by geoff7918, on Flickr A lot will depend on company, era and surrounding area.

Dedication. To think that I gave up on my design for the DapFix LMS P2 suburban compo as it needed 9 pieces each side, and my all 3rd has a coupe of compartment spacings wrong because I couldn't be bothered to make more cuts. A bit difficult to pick out when running on the layout so am I bovvered? Well, possibly, might make another and sell the first one.

Being very aware of costs, a fence next to a loco shed would sometimes be made from second hand sleepers mounted vertically with about 6' above ground. Not only used at loco sheds and they last ed a long time if not disturbed. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4747528 Javis have done something like this but they are pairly easy to make using balsa wood. Quite prototypical as can be seen in this photo of Coventry No.1 Signal Box https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrcov582.htm New Street also had one completely devoid of a stop block as there wasn't room for one, albeit opposite one of the stabling roads. https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrbns_str1778.htm An alternative is to use a sleeper built ballast filled stop block like the Peco one. I have done that on a siding on my layout where the branch line crosses behind it. An alternative stop block would be the one in this picture of Grand Junction, encased in a concrete block when a driver in Banbury Street yard misread the signal and ended up with two wheels overhanging the pub in Lawley Street. https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrbhm_sa2320b.htm

From the end of Teignmouth Pier, 1984

Just re-read the thread. I think Pig Lane really captured the feel of a small depot of the type built in the early 1960s. Hard to believe those nice locos were built in the days when RTR diesel modelling was not far removed the Triang Hymek era

There was a previous thread which may have some useful links

My 14xx is a modified Airfix body on a Dapol chassis which I think is basically the same as Hornby still produce. I've just tried it with a random selection of Airfix/Dapol/Mainline stock all with replacement wheels. It runs from anywhere on the layout with 3 coaches and will take 4 as long as you are careful if it is starting with the train on one of the fiddle yard curves about 24 inch radius.

Not sure if it's still the same but a lot of New Mills residents used to drive to Marple to benefit from cheaper fares.

I thought the biggest rift was between Teignmouth and Shaldon residents.

My son was in London doing an MSc in Transport Planning around the time of Privatisation. One project the Department had involved him in interviewing passengers at Waterloo coinciding with the fiacso of SWT increasing the number of trains and getting rid of lots of drivers. Fortunately he stands about 6'6" tall and is built like a brick outhouse. He needed to be, standing on the concourse asking passengers about the quality of the service whilst wearing an SWT sweatshirt.

I suppose that the lineside signalling equipment in areas with Solid State Interlocking is effectively an industrial grade DCC system albeit with a bit more message security.

Nah, just put a 9f with 50 wagons of coal up behind the broken thingy and it would soon have cleared the way.

Great service from Bachmann. A while ago I bought a second hand N class for a future project. When working on it I found that the loco to tender coupling was damaged and there was a screw missing. Left message via website on Tuesday evening, reply with price on Wednesday, so ordered by phone. Delivered Thursday, fitted on Friday.

...and the last road project the Department for Daft Ideas came up with to protect the Peak National Park would have cost about £3bn.

Biggest things ever allocated to Fratton were Moguls and 4-4-0s. 34019 was allocated to 70D for about 18 months in the mid 1960s

Thinking back to the West Country holiday trains, I remember c1963 travelling from Taunton to Birmingham Snow Hill in a Gresley Compo which had 'For the use of Passengers Travelling 2nd class' stickers on. The compartment was still intact with LNER carpet, lamps, mirror and pictures, 15 years after Nationalisation.

The first one looks like a Porthole SK. There was often a good assortment of stock on trains to the South Coast especially in holiday times when it would be possible to see Maunsells with Staniers, Gresleys and Thompsons as strengtheners.

When a lot of the WR trains were changed to Mk1 stock they seemed to get quite a few Thompsons which were sometimes in the normal formation but also as dated strengtheners. A few used to appear on the Snow Hill line. I remember a picture of one on the Down Cornishman in the West Country at a time when the regular coaches were all Choc and Cream.

Not this morning, accident on Mottram Moor, traffic blocking back to Hyde eastbound and Dinting Arches westbound. (No 'h' in Tintwistle by the way)

Probably not. The DfT roads people whatever they were called at the time were determined to get a link from the Denton and Hyde Bypass (aka M67) to the Stocksbridge Bypass section of the A616 and J35A of the M1. I even have some official maps on proposed routes for the next section somewhere showing an option to cross the A57 at Woolley Bridge, follow the old Waterside Branch from Pear Tree Crossing to Tintwistle Bridge then climb past Padfield. This would then need a completely new road to the south of the Longdendale Reservoirs up to Woodhead. Only decent alignment available? Yes, lets concrete over the railway. It was never built as even the road-centric Ministry couldn't fiddle the sums enough to get it past the pipe-dream stage.