I can't quite get my head around that statement..!
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- Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:58 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Roundhouse Palmerston
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2443
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:38 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Roundhouse Millie being dropped
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3654
Re: Roundhouse Millie being dropped
Anyone else misinterpret the thread title?
Anyway...
Presumably the aim is to standardise the Basic Range - Bertie, Sammie and Jennie are technically pretty similar, are they not? There are cost advantages in that.
I'm guessing there'll be a side tank variant to come.
Anyway...
Presumably the aim is to standardise the Basic Range - Bertie, Sammie and Jennie are technically pretty similar, are they not? There are cost advantages in that.
I'm guessing there'll be a side tank variant to come.
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:28 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Live steam at a bargain price...?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 30865
Re: Live steam at a bargain price...?
That rather misses the point of my post, which was that even if a "purchaser" is refunded, as far as I can see money is still given to the scammers, therefore encouraging more scams to be created.dewintondave wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 10:45 pm
I'd be happy for PayPal not to refund these greedy folks, they need to learn their lesson
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 3:23 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Live steam at a bargain price...?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 30865
Re: Live steam at a bargain price...?
... the possibility that I'll have to ask PayPal for my money back is pretty high, but what's life without a little risk? Come to think of it, assuming the money is reclaimed from PayPal, does PayPal take the hit/reclaim the loss from an insurance policy? Or to put it another way, does legitimate b...
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 7:11 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Live steam at a bargain price...?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 30865
Re: Live steam at a bargain price...?
These scammers prey on the greedy. I don't have a problem with that :D I do. Because there's a very fine line between 'being greedy' and 'looking for a bargain'. And because it's putting money into the black market. And because it encourages more scams. And because not all* scams are obvious. *Or i...
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:34 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Live steam at a bargain price...?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 30865
Re: Live steam at a bargain price...?
Scam appears confirmed over in the '16mm garden Railway' Facebook group*. (*Not to be confused with the 16mm Association Facebook group, of course, where at least one other person has stated they've also placed an order.) Someone has received something rather different from advertised, but has state...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 3:17 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Live steam at a bargain price...?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 30865
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:29 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: electro-diesel time travel
- Replies: 30
- Views: 18102
Re: Semi-scale BR: electro-diesel time travel
I like to imagine the BBC dramatisation of that first meeting, where somebody seriously pitches the idea of providing motive power — for a prestige, revitalised service for which the Scottish government is coughing up enormous sums — by refurbishing 50 year old, essentially third-rail electric loco...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:17 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Live steam at a bargain price...?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 30865
Re: Live steam at a bargain price...?
... the possibility that I'll have to ask PayPal for my money back is pretty high, but what's life without a little risk? The thing for me is this: assuming it is a scam (which I confirm I do assume), it's not so much about people who can afford a one-off loss of fifty quid taking a bit of risk, bu...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:17 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Live steam at a bargain price...?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 30865
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:16 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Trying to get the various gauges and scales straight...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5966
Re: Trying to get the various gauges and scales straight...
Do you mean the "X millimetres to one foot" thing? I think that's a uniquely British way of talking about scale - elsewhere the rather more obvious "1:XX" format is usually used.yellow_cad wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:29 pm The fact that inch and metric are used does not help the situation.
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:14 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Trying to get the various gauges and scales straight...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5966
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:53 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Trying to get the various gauges and scales straight...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5966
Re: Trying to get the various gauges and scales straight...
... by right every scale should be using its own gauge which is in fact also the correct scale, but many scales "borrow" a gauge to simplify things, and scales have developed because of the track sizes available. I think you mean that every scale "should" use a specific gauge fo...
- Tue Jul 21, 2020 4:34 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
- Replies: 85
- Views: 43738
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:55 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
- Replies: 85
- Views: 43738
Re: Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
An attempt at rescuing the embankment from the buttercups (compare with 16th June last year, and then with the first post in this thread)...
... and an improvement below the line (compare to 22nd September last year)...
... and an improvement below the line (compare to 22nd September last year)...
- Sat May 30, 2020 11:56 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
- Replies: 85
- Views: 43738
Re: Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
The station platform is multi-purpose!
- Sat May 30, 2020 12:20 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
- Replies: 85
- Views: 43738
Re: Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
Thanks for the positive comments! I didn't manage any decent still photos of the Mamod really (and the fire was out and steam exhausted by the time I took the one above, not that taking pictures was the aim of the exercise) and I do feel a bit in awe of the achievements of some who post here... But ...
- Wed May 27, 2020 11:20 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
- Replies: 85
- Views: 43738
Re: Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
And we have managed some running, including steam and the smell of burning meths! OK, it's not the most accomplished bit of railway modelling (or indeed photography) ever, but it happened and it was good. New Binnie skips in action too, and a trial of a new location for the signalbox. IMG_20200525_1...
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:15 pm
- Forum: Mamods & MSS
- Topic: New Mamod Hunslet?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14742
Re: New Mamod Hunslet?
And the standard black version has now made it on to the Mamod website.
- Thu Feb 06, 2020 9:55 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: The Great Garden Railway Inspection Reports
- Replies: 335
- Views: 201879