Interesting pictures...

[Galteemore]

Who knew the 800 class got to Portrush - painted black ? 

[airfixfan]

Only the clock tower is slightly accuarate!

[Horsetan]

11 hours ago, airfixfan said:

Only the clock tower is slightly accuarate!

The smokebox door hinges are on the wrong side of the door ring....

....and the outside motion looks pretty half-hearted as well. 

[Broithe]

We had a forty foot straight on a layout once, in a carport with a polycarbonate roof and the ends closed in - we had considerable expansion/contraction issues, until we fitted Fleischmann joints with most of an inch of movement

I was reminded of it by this photo of the current heat expansion issue that the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway has.

They have run trains over that, apparently - gently, and with trackside personnel monitoring the progress to detect derailments...

 

As far as the layout was concerned, I remain convinced that the principal effect was actually the baseboard contracting, as the humidity was driven out, rather than the rails expanding in the high temperatures, although that would add a bit to the problem. The expansion of the metal was predictable to a fair degree of accuracy and was nowhere near enough to account for the total dimensional changes that we got.

[Horsetan]

11 hours ago, Broithe said:

We had a forty foot straight on a layout once, in a carport with a polycarbonate roof and the ends closed in - we had considerable expansion/contraction issues, until we fitted Fleischmann joints with most of an inch of movement

I was reminded of it by this photo of the current heat expansion issue that the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway has.

They have run trains over that, apparently - gently, and with trackside personnel monitoring the progress to detect derailments.....

This must be on the single-line Dungeness section. Presumably the service is less intensive than for the rest of the line!

[Branchline121]

Not sure if this was posted here before but 43028 of British Rail was put into a one-off mock Irish Rail livery in 1997, to haul boat trains from Holyhead. Seemingly it didn’t last long, but it’s interesting to see nonetheless.

 

[spudfan]

New paint job for the railway bridge at Crumlin (County Antrim not Dublin 12).Taken by my daughter. Maybe should have posted it in the "What's happening on the network" section.

Edited 16 hours ago by spudfan

[jhb171achill]

21 minutes ago, spudfan said:

New paint job for the railway bridge at Crumlin (County Antrim not Dublin 12).Taken by my daughter. Maybe should have posted it in the "What's happening on the network" section.

Doubtless an antidote to the "twalf"!