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Got back today and the SBR is still white so I am going to start again: 20180817_134422-02.jpeg Also, when I touch the ballast I can feel it give way underneath so it has not set hard. That does seem strange. I've not that happen. It can sometimes take a couple or three days to harden off fully, bu...

Interesting, Rod. I hadn't clocked the connection with the Far Twittering and Oystercreek.
Here's the account of my visit to the LMR - http://ngruk.blogspot.com/2013/09/south ... ilway.html

Rik

tom_tom_go wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 16, 2018 12:39 pm

Hi Rik,
Can the time delay be also set on the Rx102's for the Selecta switch?

No, Tom, sorry. You can turn Selecta on and off, but not adjust the time delay which I imagine is 1s.

Rik

Love that fourth photo - looking along the rake towards the loco.

Rik

Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. I was out most of yesterday playing trains at John Wenlock's Clwyd & Dee Railway - very interesting experience. The time delay when switching over from one Rx to another with the Selecta switch is set by default to 1 second. However, each Rx65 can be rep...

I think coal bins are the most wildly mis-modelled feature. Almost every layout I see shows coal bins with their backs to the track at a height level with the bottom of a wagon door. I think this is a self perpetuating error based on what modellers think should happen, not what actually did. I can'...

Very useful, thanks. Looks like another informal set of coal heaps - and this is for a busy coal merchant.
Must be great to have your early interest in railways photographically documented in this way.

Rik

Be interested in any progress you make with magnetic uncoupling, Philip. I did consider it, but wanted some way of delaying the uncouple - achievable with AJs but can't figure a way of doing it with hook and loops.

Rik
PS Sorry to hijack your thread, Tom

Sounds like a really rewarding experience, Jim. As you know, I'm not heavily into live steam, but I can see the attraction of being hauled around by a living, breathing, puffing and wheezing steam loco. I've often wondered how the drivers cope with sitting in the slip stream of the exhaust output. D...

You've not wasted any time, Rod. Looks like you're up and running already.

Rik

Looks good. Really like the look of that lettering.

Rik

During the early years of 20th century North London Railway stored stockpiles of coal like this.... IMG_5636.JPG I'm sure I have seen a picture somewhere of a similar pile of coal painted white, presumably to deter theft during the National strike possibly? Blimey, that's a neat stack - worthy of d...

.......... I suspect you are a book tragic like me, so you probably have 'Branch Line to Southwold' from Middleton Press. In the section describing Southwold station there is an aerial photo showing the coal yard in 1920, it is illustration 99. It shows the coal stored in 'bins' of a sort, basicall...

Can't answer directly Rik, but I've wondered about this myself occasionally. At Marlborough, both the MSWJR and GWR stations didn't have actual coal bins as such, as far as I know, yet both had associated coal merchants, so they must have either dropped it alongside the track or, maybe shovelled it...

I need to make some coal cells at each of my stations. These seem to be called 'staithes' by model suppliers and that's what I used to call them until I read through this archived discussion on RM Web - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13253 There seems to be some disagreement as to ...