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Post by arun on Jul 30, 2016 22:25:56 GMT
Thank you DistrictSOM - I had a wander today and saw the typical SR design concrete platelayers hut you mention. Rather interestingly, like many line side inhabitable structures on LT, it was painted a mixture of what seemed to be maroon and red bauxite hence, unless you were looking for it, you'd not notice it easily.
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Post by arun on Jul 25, 2016 14:12:18 GMT
Thank you all - I have just designed some 0gauge ones and wondering if I could justify a home for home for them on an LT layout.
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Post by arun on Jul 23, 2016 20:22:35 GMT
I'm not sure whether this query belongs in this thread. However..
I was reading a "bookazine" on the Southern Region's concrete prefabrication site at Exmouth Junction [Southern Nouveau pub. by Wild Swan] and it transpired that not only did the LNER previously also use concrete line side huts but BR also manufactured them for LT. I can't recall off hand ever seeing such structures on LT surface lines [ballast bins, toolsheds, platelayers' huts etc]. Does anyone know whether any still exist?
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Post by arun on Jun 16, 2016 13:32:51 GMT
Hmm Chris- several reasons for swollen feet and ankles in pregnancy - not all of them very nice. The simplest and most benign is having 25lbs [baby + amniotic fluid + placenta + enlarged uterus] pressing downwards on the pelvic veins and preventing blood and lymph return against gravity - Hence in part also a reason why varicose veins might arise. Other reasons to watch out very carefully for [at ante-natal clinics] are early heart failure decompensation and the nastiest, pre-eclampsia where fluid retention and elevated high blood pressure can cause a dramatic, very sudden kidney failure.
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Post by arun on Jun 16, 2016 12:14:19 GMT
A looks like Clapham junction
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Post by arun on Jun 15, 2016 16:54:52 GMT
Pretty much as Superteacher though these days I regularly go to the Heathrow stations. Back in the '60s I wore out many twin rovers..... Never worked for LT though.
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Post by arun on Jun 15, 2016 10:15:18 GMT
At 3:57-4:04 there is a view northwards across the GE main line platforms to the solitary curved platform with some steam visible. This was where the Stratford-Loughton-Ongar trains left from. In later days c.1961-3 [when unused owing to Epping-Ongar electrification] walking off the end of that platform was also the easiest way to "bunk" Stratford shed! Using the tunnel outside the station always ran a risk of being thrown out.
Arun
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Post by arun on Jun 14, 2016 10:02:46 GMT
The inset looks like the air-raid controllers board at RAF Uxbridge [or possibly even Bentley Priory].
Arun
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Post by arun on May 21, 2016 19:30:13 GMT
Thank you all for the replies.
Arun
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Post by arun on May 20, 2016 15:44:14 GMT
I'm sure there is a very simple answer to this question but it escapes me at the moment. When a train passes a green signal the associated train stop is obviously lowered. By the time the second car had gone by, the signal has usually reverted to red and presumably the associated train stop is now in the up/armed position. The question is, "why don't the rapidly approaching tripcocks on the remaining cars hit the trainstop and activate the emergency brake?"
Arun
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Post by arun on Apr 29, 2016 10:13:59 GMT
In the early 60's - up till 1963-4, the Picc was probably the most interesting and varied of the all the deep tube lines. In rush hours you could find that the next train might be composed of Standard Stock, 1938TS, 1956TS and possibly the odd train of 1959 stock that hadn't found its way to the Central Line. Standard stock was by no means confined to the Aldwych shuttle at that time.
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Post by arun on Apr 13, 2016 12:35:54 GMT
I shall be on the Radley Models stand as usual. I will try to get away to the Red Lion after closing up for the day at the Depot.
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Post by arun on Apr 2, 2016 18:24:22 GMT
Thank you - 583 and 584 still survive lurking somewhere around the LTM Depot I think and both have roller bearing axleboxes. I suppose what I really need is a photograph from that tour which would indicate whether the six Ashford vehicles had oil or roller bearing boxes during that tour.
Hmm
Arun
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Post by arun on Mar 24, 2016 1:18:41 GMT
Not sure whether this belongs in "Historical" or here.
The last six 20T brake vans built by BR at Ashford were delivered to LT and became B580-B585. Previously, two similar brake vans had been borrowed by LT - both fitted with roller bearing axleboxes. As they were intended for use on ballast trains where they would spend a lot of time immobile, LT had one of these loan vehicles retro fitted with oil bearings [the problem being that when roller bearings are kept immobile, their surfaces start pitting].
Does anyone know whether the six permanent LT vehicles were initially delivered with oil or roller bearing axleboxes? The two preserved 20T brake vans [from this batch] which were subsequently used as match brake vans for moving condemned stock to Rotherham and such like were certainly fitted later on with roller bearings [and still had them last time I saw them at LTM Depot].
Were the roller bearings fitted as part of the conversion to match wagons or did they have them fitted earlier or later?
Arun
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Post by arun on Feb 8, 2016 1:24:38 GMT
The lit up building in A looks like the Royal Masonic Hospital so that would make A Covent Garden
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Post by arun on Jan 27, 2016 9:47:06 GMT
This is very interesting. It is a very different style of reporting from that which you might see today on either national or regional news. Simple reporting of facts with an interview with someone who knows what he is talking about! No suggestion that the interviewer is trying to put words into the interviewee's mouth. A lost age!
Arun
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Post by arun on Jan 25, 2016 15:18:08 GMT
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Post by arun on Jan 22, 2016 11:00:48 GMT
Superman carrying his own and Lois Lanes's lunches whilst being stalked by the banana that has fallen out of one of the boxes?
Arun
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Post by arun on Jan 18, 2016 12:11:57 GMT
Also on display on the Radley Models stand will be the new 1931 Standard Stock trailer - seen here dressed up as 7132. There are no plans at present to replace the 00scale trailer using the 3D file used to create this 7mm scale one. The next 7mm tube car will be the 1938DM once I can work out a way of incorporating the Branchlines North Yard motor gearbox into the cosmetic bogie frame.
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Post by arun on Jan 11, 2016 12:22:39 GMT
Possibly not a long shot - I recall reading recently that the Kent coal field was actually, if not quite discovered by, certainly intensively dug and run by companies owned by the LC&DR and SECR.
Arun
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Post by arun on Jan 7, 2016 11:41:11 GMT
PatrickB - I would say that you might need to be careful what you wish for - The whole length of Lea Bridge Road from just about Argall Way westwards to where the land rises approaching Clapton Road is part of the flood plain of the River Lea. Merely channelling parts of the Lea navigation between concrete runways and spills has not changed that one iota. Apart from a period from the end of WW2 to around 1956 when Millfields was temporarily filled with prefabs to house Blitz survivors, the area has long been know to be unsuitable for housing. Indeed, this area extends North beyond Coppermill Junction. The area might look initially attractive to developers but there are good reasons why its alternative names include Walthamstow Marsh and Hackney Marsh!
Arun
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Post by arun on Jan 6, 2016 0:48:29 GMT
inset 2 - Fountains Abbey I believe
Arun
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Post by arun on Jan 2, 2016 11:06:00 GMT
+1
Arun - and a Happy New Year
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Post by arun on Dec 14, 2015 16:17:35 GMT
Thank you for clearing that up
Arun
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Post by arun on Dec 14, 2015 15:30:58 GMT
What is slightly strange about this competition setup is that normally I browse the site without logging in - I tend to only log in if I have something to contribute. It seems that I can enter this quiz [and be acknowledged as having entered] whilst not logged in to the main site. Is there a sneaky backdoor into the District Dave site? I suspect that some of the queries from people who aren't sure which days they have entered might well be from people who have responded but don't recall logging in.
Arun
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Post by arun on Dec 14, 2015 11:18:52 GMT
For drawings [as built] of many different types of SS and TS [as well as LT buses, trams and trolleybuses], try www.terryrusselltrams.co.uk. Available in 4/7 and 10mm to foot scales. The website itself is well worth a rummage. They are the drawings that I use as the basis [where applicable] for most of the 7mm stuff that I build - In the main, they are simplified copies of LT GAs. There are A60 drawings in the series - I have a set and they are entirely adequate to produce 7mm models. Arun
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Post by arun on Nov 30, 2015 7:41:56 GMT
insert A 2- Hill's Column Shrewsbury and insert A4 new WTC New York - I think
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Post by arun on Nov 18, 2015 9:23:22 GMT
Thank you for that Chris - It will be interesting to go to a lecture at the school I left in 1970!
Arun
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Post by arun on Nov 14, 2015 21:33:58 GMT
Inset 3 in C is the korean war memorial ouside the Ministry of defence in Whitehall. I thought I did rather well the first time around to identify a Portland stone building by one window!
Roger Wright who owns the EOR and the London Bus & Truck Co did buy 2xRLH in May last year but they were from Oregon or California I think rather than Canada. I see the Rt in the picture has his company's fleetname on it so presumably located somewhere between Coopersale and Ongar.
Arun
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Post by arun on Nov 13, 2015 17:28:18 GMT
Thinking about the window vis. in the Portland stone building in C/inset3, the building looks like the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall. For more detail on the RT in inset 2, it is a later bodied one without the cowling around the front overhang. No roof box so that additionally excludes the 3RT3 type. The paint scheme is post-1955 i.e. no cream window surrounds on the upper deck and pre-1971 as RTs after that date were being painted with pale grey/off-white replacing the Chiswick Cream colour. However, that just refers to the paint scheme - Given the barely vis. vehicle in the background this is probably a preserved specimen.
Arun
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