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Post by mrfs42 on Jul 14, 2019 11:37:41 GMT
Yes. It is Dovetail Games Train Simulator 2019. This stock will be released with the Virtual District Line Route which is from Earls Court to Ealing Broadway with extensions to Edgeware Road, Wimbledon, Richmond and Kensington Olympia. You will need Just Trains Marylebone to Aylesbury route and the London to Brighton line as a lot of assets have been used from those routes. Exceptionally late to this party - what assets will be used for the District Line signal heads, please?
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Post by mrfs42 on Jul 13, 2019 23:53:00 GMT
b Perhaps someone has details of the original CLR siding lengths, or of the post-war Central line siding lengths, so that we could compare them. Late to the party as ever, but the pre-war length I have noted for British Museum siding is 627' 6".
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Post by mrfs42 on Feb 1, 2018 0:09:39 GMT
PM me an email address zcap. I've been snowed under drawing other signalling diagrams! I can help.
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 7, 2016 16:53:13 GMT
Unfortunately I don't have the duck that I appeared with in the Bash Mash picture, but I shall have some more.
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 7, 2016 11:28:40 GMT
I've certainly got a little bit of stuff hidden away on this machine, tut - either send me a PM or find me on Facebook (remove the 42) - I only ocasionally pop in here these days and I will have a dig around.
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 7, 2016 11:25:48 GMT
I suspect after an absence of a couple of years myself and angelislington will pop in for a couple of sherbets. Be nice to catch up with old mates.
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Post by mrfs42 on Dec 10, 2015 15:59:30 GMT
Wouldst thy fair lady be joining thee ?? It's possible. I have a wedding to ring for, and then might scoot it into the smoke. I shall have a word...
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Post by mrfs42 on Dec 2, 2015 10:02:01 GMT
Not that I wish to delay or foreshorten any on-train junketings, but is there a suggested ETA at the usual hostelry? I will try and pop in for some sherbettage.
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 2, 2015 13:52:34 GMT
IIRC the Manx crossings have nearly all been automated now.
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Post by mrfs42 on Aug 27, 2015 20:42:18 GMT
Sadly I don't have similar information for the Leytonstone distants, but it gives an idea, I hope? Here: clickety-click you'll need to zoom in.
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Post by mrfs42 on Aug 25, 2015 14:52:42 GMT
Will you be growing marrows in Kent, or bee keeping in Sussex? My cucumbers are coming on a treat. I've currently run out of jars for pickling stuff.
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Post by mrfs42 on Aug 25, 2015 14:26:37 GMT
Yay! Whee! Retirement! Pob lwc to the new bugs. :)l
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Post by mrfs42 on Aug 25, 2015 14:25:24 GMT
Excellent news <puts feet up and pours a large gin>.
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Post by mrfs42 on Feb 6, 2015 16:59:39 GMT
Does anyone have either a signalling diagram or operating instructions for the access into May and Baker's Yard across the District, please? I know it lasted long enough to be catered for in programme machinification of the District in 1960 - but I can't find my diagram at the mo. EDIT: I've found the YP!
Were there any Eastern Region instructions, please?
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 13, 2014 12:03:19 GMT
If needed, I can help with the signalling diagrams. I have various scale plans for the signals. In fact, my signature is based on the signals approaching Highgate High Level!
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Post by mrfs42 on Oct 13, 2014 11:28:40 GMT
Most of the postings on the flickr group 'London Tube' are HDR effect stuff. I hate it, people often take a rubbish shot, overdo the HDR in Photoshop and then call it a work of art. Not for me. Nor me. A good friend on FB comments that just before he's about to have an epileptic event the world goes HDR. For the vast majority of transport based shots HDR is plain wrong, IME.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jul 24, 2014 19:47:24 GMT
I think kinematic envelope changes played a part.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jul 23, 2014 7:06:25 GMT
Could Edgware be down to the old link to Mill Hill East and Finchley Central? Quite likely. I have a scale plan for the 'full' Edgware dating from 1938 and the numbering scheme is quite logical there - I have a vague idea that there was some partial renumbering there. The fan of sidings in the 3x series were originally going to be the sidings between the two main lines from the south, with the depot reversing sidings being 34 and 35, rather than starting at 35. The YP for the introduction of PMs in '67 uses single digits for the platforms - somewhere I've got the 1924 opening notice, if I can find it, I will report back.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jul 22, 2014 23:08:40 GMT
Somewhere - can't immediately find them - I have the scale plans for the extension to Camberwell: two versions IIRC.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jul 22, 2014 22:16:38 GMT
It's a complicated story, and stems back to the 'New Works' period.
Essentially, there were blocks of numbers allocated to fans of sidings and roads. I've got a bit more to come, let me have a look for some examples. (xx.xx is yellow peril reference)
I can only (quickly) find my copies of the Northern Heights scale plans, but the fashion seems to have been at that time (late 30s) that the principal road [1] was numbered 21 and then the numbering went top to bottom on the scale plan for each block then left (up) to right (up) across the drawing in one continuous series.
By the time of the Central extensions (late 40s) the platform roads were not numbered and the sidings started at 21 working generally upwards on the scale plan, but increasing as you got away from the running lines - 48.21 is next to the 'pooter).
I've just found a 1937 (Golders resignalling 37.40) plan with the platform roads numbered 1 to 3, yet a 1940 plan for High Barnet (40.13) that has road numbers starting at 21.
I'm 99% sure that 2x numbers came in when numerical route indicators came into use, rather than separate signals - that's the difference between the '37 and '40 plans above. However East Finchley (39.23) is numbered the opposite way round - the numbers increase towards the running line.
There's a lot more to it than that, but I think that's the basics. It's certainly a question I've asked myself, but can't find the answer I wrote.
[1] NB and EB, I think. I have got a note of that somewhere. I was whichever road the signal numbers increased in the direction of travel.
I can have a look through the paper copies, if you like - 48.21 is the only paper one I have to hand as it's not yet made it into the huge box of perils. However, I'm off in the Middle Lands for a bit, so it won't be immediate.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jun 10, 2014 13:04:11 GMT
Excellent work there; I am mightily impressed.
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Post by mrfs42 on Feb 16, 2014 12:51:36 GMT
Gate thyristors or similar in the traction package.
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Post by mrfs42 on Feb 6, 2014 14:28:19 GMT
I will say that the Forum Staff are watching this thread - your respectful suggestion has been noted. However, it would be welcomed if people turned more towards the rail part of the discussion and didn't focus on the personalities.
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Post by mrfs42 on Feb 6, 2014 12:37:09 GMT
These strikes are absolute PR heaven to a Tory government looking for any reason to stomp on a Union before the next round of "cuts". Its the early 80's in microcosm, with Crow as Scargill, Bo-Jo as Maggie, Millband as Kinnock and Cameron? Well. We need a Gordon the Gopher I suppose. He's a nice shiny cover story, but deep down the Tories haven't changed at all. In the end nobody wins, except those in power. You end up with the Tories PR creating an environment where workers rights end up being reduced, and its not only accepted, but applauded by the majority with the Union looking a bit silly on the sidelines. It stops mattering whether the strikers are in the right or not, people just see the PR spin on the chaos and think there must be another way. And that's the thing, with the Tories in power you have to find another way, because they will not let strikers win. You just know, sickening as it is, that there's a Tory Malcolm Tucker sitting poring over every news channel or feed, searching anywhere for an ambulance in London, stuck in traffic, that just couldn't get to where it needed to go. Up against people who'll use that you've no chance. I think the moderators need to shelve this thread, I thought there was a rule about too much politicking and there's too much of that here. Bash both sides or bash neither, just to even things up you can blame Labour just as much as the Tories for so much spin and deception, it goes with the territory and the electorate win with neither. At the moment, the thread is civil and balanced enough. It remains. Although, it is treading a fine line.
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Post by mrfs42 on Feb 6, 2014 0:05:10 GMT
I don't recall anything on A60 stock to assist failed 1962 stock. That would be an unlikely scenario - the only place they might get together is round the back at Ruislip depot! During the entire lifetime of the A60 stock the Piccadilly has only operated Standard, 1938, 1959 and 1973 stock (apart from a single 3-car 1962 stock unit for the Aldwych shuttle) Don't forget that the A stock was tested on the Central Line and was a feature of Central Line WTTs for a good number of issues.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jan 29, 2014 9:06:17 GMT
AFAIK, the points were removed in the mid-90s.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jan 23, 2014 17:20:01 GMT
TfL Press Office have now confirmed it is concrete. What a *magnificent* cock-up.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jan 8, 2014 19:30:38 GMT
Nope. Gate will remain shut.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jan 8, 2014 11:03:45 GMT
Although we're now getting well off-topic...
Having looked a bit further into this - the CSLR and Bakerloo contemporary goods traffic was printed papers and small parcels - nothing larger than that - however, deeper research into WTT appendices may bear fruit, I've only quickly skimmed over what I can find.
Looking at what signalling information I can find for Finsbury Park (GNP&B) when the frame on the Picc. side was installed on 15/12/1906 it only had 15 levers. Fortunately contemporary plans and locking tables survive and although there are a lot of spare levers at Finsbury Park it seems very unlikely that another connection, save another scissors crossing was factored into the design - UndergrounD EP frames are *usually* very predictable in their design and the apportionment of the spares at FPk Picc make it look as if a 'mirror image' of the existing provision could have been provided if the line were ever to be extended.
If, as you say (and my very fleeting memory), places the 'milk connections' at the northern end of FPk Picc then there just isn't the provision in the lever frame unless there was some very unusual jiggery-pokery with the levers as installed. Certainly looking at the Westinghouse paperwork - and given that the lead time between ordering and commissioning a frame is of the order of six months, it would appear that the decision not to interlock the extra siding i.e. the 'milk connection' had been made by mid-summer 1906, possibly even earlier as the six-month lead time stems from when Westinghouse were not on major contracts - I susepct that the orders for the frames may even have been placed in 1905 or 1904.
Now, I'm not saying that you're wrong, far from it: but based on the evidence I have milk traffic on the GNP&B seems unlikely beyond the speculative stage when getting parliamentary authority.
Is there anyway that I could see the deposited plans for Finsbury Park GNP&B, please: that might confirm or deny my thoughts based on the frame interlocking.
Where would the spoil from construction have debouched at this end of the Picc.?
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Post by mrfs42 on Jan 8, 2014 1:17:27 GMT
It was for a parcels/goods lift. I think the easiest way of seeing what I briefly saw at Acton in thousands of other drawings is by looking in the House of Lords Records Office. There should be copies of deposited plans for works around the Canonbury Curve area, and in one of those threre is a goods shaft drawn on the surface. The Acton copies are uncatalogued loose photocopies and I could tell you where they were about three years ago to within about a yard or so. I don't know the present position so the HLRO is probably a better bet.
Edit: Beer.
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