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1 hour ago, Blaine said:
You ok hun? Good thing your not involved in running shows then
That's ok, I don't want to be your friend, but I was about the only person on here expressing concern about corona 18 months ago, which should tell you something.
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21 minutes ago, Garfield said:
What an odd post.
Nothing odd at all, it's time to move on.
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3 hours ago, leslie10646 said:
I've just received an e-mail to say Warley in November has been cancelled.
That's ridiculous. The corona restrictions were too little, too late and are now too much, too long.
Vote with your feet Leslie, let Warley die, get your money back.
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11 hours ago, Mayner said:
The ex-GNR BK 3nd appears to have been re-built by NIR with new windows with rounded corners and new body paneling.
Yes, it looks a bit MPD
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Maybe people are expecting too much, detail and robustness? These things were a one off and they are as they arrived, it's not going to magically get better. I'm sure GM vacuum pipes are available from other sources anyway, maybe 3.5 rather than 4mm but who would notice.
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I'm really tempted to model this, with railcar operated freight and some brutish mineral wagons laid up, maybe a strange-looking industrial shunter pottering about. Does this sound at all familiar?
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Fintona analogues.
GFM Broc, Suisse
BAM Ballens, Suisse
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5 hours ago, jhb171achill said:
The above three are all Interlaken area which is German but the French in this niggled me.
Internet tells me it's a Vevey-Montreux-Chillon tram, runs along Lake Geneva
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vevey–Montreux–Chillon–Villeneuve_tramway
I would guess they travelled between the two areas on the Golden Pass line
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5 hours ago, jhb171achill said:
First two are Jungfrau Bahn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungfrau_Railway
Third is Brienz-Rothorn Bahn
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7 hours ago, jhb171achill said:
That looks a lot like Niesen in the background, the first high ground you see going south on the Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon.
Maybe Emdthal between Spiez and Reichenbach
https://goo.gl/maps/nrD155RETCLW2VFP7
The background is pretty much uniformly high from there on into the Rhône valley, where the forest looks sparser, more Mediterranean.
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The railway closed before I was born but that was certainly the colour of the Lough Swilly buses at that time.
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52 minutes ago, timatheronwood said:
Think of it as a terminus of two routes. Arriving trains can come from either route and leave by either route. It cannot be done with only two points.
It could, but because the conflict has changed orientation, from along a passing loop to across a switchback, two points would allow no simultaneous movement at all.
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Interesting to ponder why a passing loop needs just two points while this, a passing loop folded back upon itself, needs four.
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Four points, but minimally interesting for what it is - a switchback passing place
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An impressionist continental European micro layout (HO, 48 x 5 inches)
Single railcar arrives at the platform across the second set of points, passing wagons unloading along the loop.
Station and goods shed in a single range, weird looking hut, strange lamppost, puzzling signalling...
Based on Fintona, which had a surprisingly continental trackplan...
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Building entrance, corner, converging tracks.
I'm even seeing the track formation right there at the corner
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19 hours ago, Chris_w said:
It’s a mystery
As well as an entrance out of sight to the left, as indicated by the crossways setts, I think we can assume the tracks were further apart before converging to round a corner of some sort to the left
(see 03:22 and 06:10)
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I notice the crossways setts seem to indicate a building entrance, another clue to add to the mystery photo.
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7 hours ago, LARNE CABIN said:
The rod furthest from the running rails is connected to Lever 21, which controls the point giving access to the Short Up Siding with buffer stop (yet to be included).
7 hours ago, LARNE CABIN said:The next rod is connected to Lever 19, which controls the point giving access to the Longer Up Siding
My favourite sidings, seriously, must be something to do with me arriving on the ferry at 9am with no sleep.
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On 6/7/2021 at 1:19 PM, Chris_w said:
Referencing in relation to this photo...
Below looks a lot like the mystery location, it's between the two long sheds on the quay
Below seems to be at the corner just north of the northernmost shed
Both taken from here
https://flickr.com/photos/librariesni/sets/72157632817125623/detail
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10 hours ago, Chris_w said:
I’m working on evolution of track layouts for the CDRJC (and predecessors) and the whole of Derry / Londonderry. I too am having a great deal of trouble locating that mixed gauge photograph.
A particularly clear photograph here
https://www.londonderryport.com/history-of-the-Port
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8 hours ago, Chris_w said:
I’m working on evolution of track layouts for the CDRJC (and predecessors) and the whole of Derry / Londonderry. I too am having a great deal of trouble locating that mixed gauge photograph.
That tower is very distinctive
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Backscenes should be impressionist, and even hills and mountains need only cover a few degrees of arc
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WARLEY 2020
in What's On?
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Do me a favour and delete my account bullyboy, I won't be making the same mistake twice.