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Re: The Great Garden Railway Inspection Reports

Post by markoteal » Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:40 am

Hi - sorry Philip - just seems your message from earlier in the month - I’ll get in touch with Phil - cheers Mark
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Post by Lonsdaler » Fri Aug 28, 2020 6:43 pm

markoteal wrote: Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:40 am Hi - sorry Philip - just seems your message from earlier in the month - I’ll get in touch with Phil - cheers Mark
Hi Philip,
Mark has been in touch. I need to get busy with brooms and paint brushes :? :lol:
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Post by philipy » Fri Aug 28, 2020 7:34 pm

Thanks guys. We are all looking forward with bated breath!!
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Post by Lonsdaler » Sat Aug 29, 2020 3:33 pm

philipy wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 7:34 pm Thanks guys. We are all looking forward with bated breath!!
Oh dear, don't do that, you may turn blue waiting... :lol:
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Post by markoteal » Sat Aug 29, 2020 6:35 pm

Just boxed him up ready for a visit to the post office on Tues - he was asking about whether he needed a mask in his box - never happy that one :D
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Post by Lonsdaler » Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:34 pm

Well, I must admit to being somewhat bemused - haven't really experienced anything like this since my days at Warmington with that man Wilson. I received a telegram from the director of the CHLR telling me to expect imminently the arrival of the Inspector, in his crate. Crate arrived last week, and, well, admittedly there was some confusion, apparently the porter mistook the crate for an item for storage, and err, harrumph when I sorted the whereabouts of the crate - it was gone! :o
And then, whilst trying to sort out this incomprehensible muddle, the following postcard arrived.
Goodness knows when we shall see this fellow. I'm not impressed, as I told Elizabeth only yesterday. Reminds me of old Jones, the butcher. Tut tut.
So, it seems there will be a delay in commencement of our inspection, but we shall be ready. Poised for action. Indeed. Harrumph.
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Post by FWLR » Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:12 am

Brilliant Phil.... :lol:

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Post by BorisSpencer » Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:44 pm

A Morecambe card posted from Mauritius. So easy to confuse the two as holiday destinations.

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Post by Lonsdaler » Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:53 pm

I've had a wonderful break in lovely Moribund with an ex-flame. She was a most generous and talented host, and spared no expense showing me the delights of Moribund - we had many pleasant evenings dancing to the Moribund Midgeley Quartet at the Midland Hotel. Alas, after a lovely two week break, it's time to get back to my day job. It appears that the manager fellow at the Greta and Wenningdale Railway does not understand the operating principles of my crate. It was most fortunate that my friend the good Doctor was willing to equip it with his remarkable T.A.R.D.I.S. technology. It has enabled me to inspect railways from many different eras. Now, I'll adjust the settings, for time and place and....oh dear - my temporal clutch appears to be slipping. Hopefully I'll arrive on 1st October 2020 and not before.


Well this is bizarre - there appears to be no one around, and by the look of the place, there hasn't been for some months. This does not appear to be an operational railway. I'll just check in the station building and see if I can find somebody.
Hmmm, most strange - according to the electronic clock in the waiting area the date is March 2021! The problem with my temporal clutch is worse than I feared. There must be someone around - I'll have a walkabout and see if I can find somebody - I shall of course report back in due course.
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Post by philipy » Fri Mar 19, 2021 8:50 pm

Thanks Phil, a nice start. :D
Glad you are feeling a bit better.
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Post by FWLR » Sat Mar 20, 2021 8:00 am

Didn't know you were poorly Phil. Hope you are feeling much better.

Like the start of you inspection mate. Like those lamps on the station building.

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Post by SimonWood » Sat Mar 20, 2021 8:40 am

Love the crate materialisation. I see the Doctor still hasn't worked out how to rig up a working chameleon circuit though!

The sign-writing is very crisp - how is that achieved?

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Post by Peter Butler » Sat Mar 20, 2021 10:24 am

Great to see you back Phil, sorry to hear you have been unwell.
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Post by ge_rik » Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:50 pm

Great idea to redesignate the crate as a Tardis.
Good to see both you and the inspector back in action, Phil

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Post by Lonsdaler » Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:26 pm

Thank you all for the kind wishes - my unwellness simply has not compared with what so many have and are continuing to go through, but I feel I can now at least function again :oops:
I wasn't too happy with the animated gif for the crates arrival, so I've remastered it as a video, albeit a short one. Do go back and view it - I think it is improved! :lol:
And I am determined to get this inspection done, although it might be in dribs and drabs :thumbup:
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Post by Lonsdaler » Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:32 pm

SimonWood wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 8:40 am Love the crate materialisation. I see the Doctor still hasn't worked out how to rig up a working chameleon circuit though!

The sign-writing is very crisp - how is that achieved?
Is the chameleon circuit the one that was supposed to make the TARDIS blend into it's surroundings? I'm guessing so, but I don't think the INSpector was offered that when his crate was modernised :lol: :lol:
The sign writing is laser printed, onto water resistant durable labels by Avery (iirc). Since the station was placed outside and left there in 2016, I have had to renew it once (early last year) due to sun fade.
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Post by philipy » Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:51 pm

Lonsdaler wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:26 pm
I wasn't too happy with the animated gif for the crates arrival, so I've remastered it as a video, albeit a short one. Do go back and view it - I think it is improved! :lol:
And I am determined to get this inspection done, although it might be in dribs and drabs :thumbup:
I think it's brilluant and I'm glad you mentioned it because tbhI hadn't realised that it was animated before! :oops:

dribs and drabs is good, it will pad the thread out, because I don't think we have anyone else on the list, so if anyone wants an inspection please PM me - don't post on this thread.
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Post by Lonsdaler » Sat Mar 20, 2021 5:34 pm

philipy wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:51 pm I think it's brilliant and I'm glad you mentioned it because tbh I hadn't realised that it was animated before!
Thanks Philip,
That's precisely why I redid it, it didn't seem to continue running as an animated gif.
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Post by Andrew » Sun Mar 21, 2021 1:16 pm

Fantastic stuff!

It's a lovely looking station (the inspector will surely be impressed?!), I look forward to seeing the rest of the line...

Glad you're on the mend,

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Post by SimonWood » Sun Mar 21, 2021 2:57 pm

Lonsdaler wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:32 pm Is the chameleon circuit the one that was supposed to make the TARDIS blend into it's surroundings? I'm guessing so, but I don't think the INSpector was offered that when his crate was modernised :lol: :lol:
Yes, but it got stuck as a police box in the 1960s and the Doctor still doesn't seem to have fixed it, so not surprising she didn't offer it to the inspector... The video is even better with the sound effects... though I thought I heard the cloister bell at the end there, indicating some catastrophic threat to the space-time continuum. Could this be what has caused all the humans to vanish on the Greta and Wenningdale? I hope they haven't been exterminated...
The sign writing is laser printed, onto water resistant durable labels by Avery (iirc). Since the station was placed outside and left there in 2016, I have had to renew it once (early last year) due to sun fade.
I misread that the first time as renew it each year, which seemed reasonable... but once in five years is great. I imagine it wouldn't be nearly as long with an inkjet...but I might experiment.

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