TheSignalEngineer

Looking at that in full size it has full lining so is in post-1956 green.

Due to the inclement weather in the Dark Peak, after the weekly shopping expedition I finished of a Plate wagon and a Pipe wagon that were on the workbench then went retro finishing off an Ian Kirk 5-plank open.

Fortunately I have resisted recent opportunities to buy a kit or s/h HD body. At least they didn't scupper me by announcing some banana vans.

See my post #12

See posts around this one. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/112011-coopercraft-its-fate-and-thoughts-on-an-alternative/page-45&do=findComment&comment=2910943

Good news for my projects. I might even get my 94xx finished before they do.

Much the same with us, Snake pass and Cat & Fiddle closed, but fortunately my layout and modelling activities are mainly indoors.

Unless you run in the dark, I regard lights in coaches as a waste of time. In steam days they were usually only turned on for tunnels (if the Guard remembered to do it) and were so dim that in daylight you couldn't tell from outside if they were on or off.

47 pages on the Coopercraft situation in this thread. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/112011-coopercraft-its-fate-and-thoughts-on-an-alternative/?hl=coopercraft. Doubt if we will ever see new production.

Before submitting any signalling plan for approval I would walk the line with one of the local S&T Inspectors and we checked what the available sighting was at the proposed signal positions and the likely type of structure required. I liked to get a quarter of a mile first sight if possible and an uninterrupted view before reaching the AWS. There were often a few tweaks to get off a tight bend or further beyond a bridge. Sometimes in the case of a left-hand bend it was a matter of using a 13' post instead of 11' and using a 2' offset to get the head at minimum clearance from the track. Sadly some signal positioning makes it look as if that sort of thing isn't done these days.

Too close a connection in some posts. Clayton Moore, AKA The Lone Ranger, appeard in a series of films 'Perils of Nyoka' in 1942 in the part of Dr Larry Grayson

I'm no longer involved in the industry but my impression of modern signals is that there is a wide variation in what is acceptable under the current regime. From just after the inception of colour light signals up to the widespread adoption of LEDs there was a clearly defined and very tight specification of how the signal should look, light intensity, colour temperatures, beam spread angle etc. This meant that wherever you saw a signal the perspective you got was the same throughout the system, other than a small number of low speed instances fitted with 'Spreadlite' 20 degree beam lenses. Today it seems that anything goes as long as it is approximately red, yellow and green, doesn't show up very well from a distance in daylight and dazzles at night when close up.

Many years back there used to be a STRAD printer in the window of the Station Inspector's office at Crewe. Very useful for finding out what was approaching and if your train was on time. Also on the back wall was a chalk board listing all locos parked around the station and their next booked working.

I've not had any problems with Halfords acrylics, but I always test on a scrap bit of plastic first when using a new colour.

Go(a)thland a few weeks ago Storming In Through The Rain by Charles Eric Steele, on Flickr Next, Let it Snow

Good to see some new modern stuff, but my wallet has breathed a sigh of relief.

I've had issues with Matt Black drying gloss and Matt Varnish drying white. I gave up buying Humbrol if the tin said Made in China. I don't know what the current production is like.

The very thing, used to be a lot on the Euston-Birmingham-Manchester/Liverpool sets. Big springy cushions and fat armrests, although the latter didn't stay down for very long. Curtains, door blinds and a dimmer switch for the lights. Tickets checked straight out of Euston and no disturbance before Coventry.

Mrs SE accompanied me on a number of railway trips before we were married. I think she was impressed by the regularity I found a declassified Mk1 FK on late night trips back home.

Basing things on medieval county boundaries is a complete farce in the world of today. When WMPTE was set up it couldn't do anything for Tamworth or Lichfield, Redditch or Droitwich, et al because they weren't included in the ficticious West Midlands County. With TfN the same thing will happen with bits of the Northern and TPE areas which don't lie within the administrative counties. Chesterfield is more related to Sheffield than it is to Derby. Parts pf Linclonshire are north of Doncaster but in the East Midlands, as are parts of Northamptonshire to the south of Banbury and Glossop. Glossop and New Mills are much more related to Manchester than Derbyshire, but fares shoot up on crossing the boundary to the extent of a large number of people driving from New Mills to Marple to get the same train at a lower peak time fare.of £6.40 return rather than £10.10. The time has come to end this sort of farce and set up these organisations based on the needs of people to travel for work and leisure based on where the houses and the facilities are, not on the course of some river where land owners came to an agreement over fishing rights in 1458 Edited to correct some boundaries.

If they had they might have got it right as they only seem to make an approximation towards what is available.

There's a book called "Walsall's Engine Shed: Railwaymen's Memories 1877-1968" by Jack Haddock. I don't know if that has any pictures.

Agreed, original post has been edited

Thread drift alert. Is that why it had a GRS Slide Frame? On my previous comment, I think the first Electro-Pneumatic installation in UK was probably Whitechapel on the GER in 1899. The first Crewe All-Electric boxes were done in Basford Hall Yard c1901.

I don't know about the AA1, but Littleton Colliery had an AA3 which I believe is now at the Chasewater Railway