The Great Garden Railway Inspection Reports
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:37 am
Ok folks, time to get the GRF Line Inspections underweigh again. The previous Inspector seems to have retired but we have been fortunate to recruit Mr I. N. Spectre who comes to us highly recommended. He has written his own introduction which he will post on here in due course.
The way this will work in practice is as follows: I have made a list of those members/lines who have asked for an Inspection visit, below. This list is simply more or less in order of application (subject to a couple of requests for delay) and the list will remain open-ended, so anyone can be added at any time by simply sending me a PM.
I will post the inspector to the first name on the list, which is Rik's Peckforton. When he has completed the Inspection and reports, Rik will contact the next name on the list by PM ( not openly on this forum please) to get a postal address to be able to send the Inspector on. This will avoid names and addresses being spread widely around the 'net, data protection, etc. This procedure will then be repeated until we get to the end of the list. If for some reason this breaks down at any point, please get back to me so that I can rearrange things and keep it rolling.
Ideally, we would like each visit to be for no more than one month on site before being passed on, and shorter is fine. However, clearly come winter this may not be practical. An answer to that could lie in the southern hemisphere, since I notice that none of our Antipodean members have put themsleves in the firing line, so far?
Having seen an advance copy of Mr Spectre's introduction letter, I know that he has mentioned that I have promised him some complimentary Forum luggage - what he doesn't yet know is that this is in the form of a travelling trunk to put him in, not hand luggage for him to carry! This is a lightweight ABS box, so hopefully this will avoid damage in the post which I believe the previous inspector suffered from.
It occurs to me that this trunk could also do duty as a 'vehicle' to emulate the graffiteed box van which travelled round the world on a another forum, as Rik mentioned previously. I'm quite happy for the trunk to be embellished with painted labels/ID's for each line he visits ( like old fashioned travelling trunk labels), but please keep them small to allow as many as possible to be fitted on.
In terms of posting his reports, the previous inspector had his own forum ID and folks submitted his reports as 'him'. Quite rightly Tom doesn't want to allow the passing on of account details this time around, so each participant will need to post in this thread using their own ID but please try pretend that you are Mr Spectre and word things accordingly. Keep this thread for Mr Spectre's reports and allied subjects only - please don't go wandering off on your own holiday reminiscences, etc!
So, currently visits are planned to:
Screen Name - Railway Name
ge-rik - Peckforton Light Railway
angr607 - Billington Light Railway
Gralyn - Overdale Valley Light Railway.
Irish Peter - Far End Tramway
Keith S - TBC
Peter Butler - Brockhampton and Umbridge Railway
E.V. - Small Balcony Garden Railway
FWLR - Fairy Wood light Railway
RobRossington - Charlwood Light Railway
CSL - Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
philipy - Elderbury & District light Railway
Big Jim - Pentremogan Mountain Railway
markoteal - The Castle Hill Light Railway
Andrew -The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
jim@NAL - North Avenue Line
The way this will work in practice is as follows: I have made a list of those members/lines who have asked for an Inspection visit, below. This list is simply more or less in order of application (subject to a couple of requests for delay) and the list will remain open-ended, so anyone can be added at any time by simply sending me a PM.
I will post the inspector to the first name on the list, which is Rik's Peckforton. When he has completed the Inspection and reports, Rik will contact the next name on the list by PM ( not openly on this forum please) to get a postal address to be able to send the Inspector on. This will avoid names and addresses being spread widely around the 'net, data protection, etc. This procedure will then be repeated until we get to the end of the list. If for some reason this breaks down at any point, please get back to me so that I can rearrange things and keep it rolling.
Ideally, we would like each visit to be for no more than one month on site before being passed on, and shorter is fine. However, clearly come winter this may not be practical. An answer to that could lie in the southern hemisphere, since I notice that none of our Antipodean members have put themsleves in the firing line, so far?
Having seen an advance copy of Mr Spectre's introduction letter, I know that he has mentioned that I have promised him some complimentary Forum luggage - what he doesn't yet know is that this is in the form of a travelling trunk to put him in, not hand luggage for him to carry! This is a lightweight ABS box, so hopefully this will avoid damage in the post which I believe the previous inspector suffered from.
It occurs to me that this trunk could also do duty as a 'vehicle' to emulate the graffiteed box van which travelled round the world on a another forum, as Rik mentioned previously. I'm quite happy for the trunk to be embellished with painted labels/ID's for each line he visits ( like old fashioned travelling trunk labels), but please keep them small to allow as many as possible to be fitted on.
In terms of posting his reports, the previous inspector had his own forum ID and folks submitted his reports as 'him'. Quite rightly Tom doesn't want to allow the passing on of account details this time around, so each participant will need to post in this thread using their own ID but please try pretend that you are Mr Spectre and word things accordingly. Keep this thread for Mr Spectre's reports and allied subjects only - please don't go wandering off on your own holiday reminiscences, etc!
So, currently visits are planned to:
Screen Name - Railway Name
ge-rik - Peckforton Light Railway
angr607 - Billington Light Railway
Gralyn - Overdale Valley Light Railway.
Irish Peter - Far End Tramway
Keith S - TBC
Peter Butler - Brockhampton and Umbridge Railway
E.V. - Small Balcony Garden Railway
FWLR - Fairy Wood light Railway
RobRossington - Charlwood Light Railway
CSL - Clatterbach Valley Light Railway
philipy - Elderbury & District light Railway
Big Jim - Pentremogan Mountain Railway
markoteal - The Castle Hill Light Railway
Andrew -The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
jim@NAL - North Avenue Line