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Post by Sir haydn » Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:47 am

Just woke up this morning to a good 3 inches on the ground thats a good 6-7ft in 16mm scale! there will be photos of the clearing operations later!
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Post by 90733 » Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:50 am

Cool :D, we finally have snow here to, and it's my birthday, first time I remeber it snowing of my birthday :D Snowy railway pics here we come :D
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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:03 am

Seeing all the pictures of snow on here I'm very tempted to go home tomorrow and run Edrig in it, I have about the same amount there! :D

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Post by SLRmidge » Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:03 am

You'll need a snowplough for that lot! :lol:
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Post by MDLR » Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:45 am

90733 wrote:Cool, we finally have snow here to, and it's my birthday
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Post by Sir haydn » Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:16 am

Well part of the track is now clear :D Had fun in the snow was a little cold though!

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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:52 pm

Lovely photos! Arg I really want to go home to play trains in the snow now! :evil:

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Post by taliesin001 » Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:10 pm

I agree, some lovely pics. I like your snowplough too

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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Sat Nov 27, 2010 6:22 pm

Brilliant! Looks smashing fun, I've been driving 5 inch and on the 45mm track at IMES all day, we have just had a light dusting all day.
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Post by laalratty » Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:34 pm

Nice pics, was a good dusting of snow here but alas I had to go up to Ulverston to run on the indoor layout. I'm hoping for more snow this week...
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Post by Pendo Pilot » Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:51 pm

We had enough to test the snowplough land in the night. However woke up to find my daughters eyelid infection had got worse so off to Doctors & then 9 hours in hospital while they attempted to attach an IV drip to her. Just returned home with her to monitor her here instead. Best laid plans & all that & after all it's just a hobby, I know what comes first in my life.
Thanks Matt for the pics though, even if I couldnt play today at least I can see the pics of your snow instead & lovely they are indeed.
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Post by grumpfuttock » Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:43 am

Hmmm. a nice snow plow you have there, and a beatiful loco to go with it. :)

We have more than enough of the silly soft stuff here, ½ a metre fell from the skies a couple of days ago, luckily though it was blowing a near gale from the east and the snow was the dry kind, so most of it tended to be blown past our property without settling, and was seen heading towards the North Sea and merry old England, the rest formed drifts in odd places of the garden.
At the time of writing this, we are having a blizzard of the wet kind of snow and gale force winds.... brrrrrr... I am dreading looking out the window in the morning. The authorities here are warning of chaos tomorrow.
I guess I will have to be out with the shovel yet again :(

Some weather experts here have been warning us for a few weeks that we are in for the worst winter for one thousand years !It has certainly started snowing here extremely early. Last winter was the worst I've ever seen here, with snow drifting higher than the tops of our doors in just one night ! The authorities here only have enough money to pay for 5 more days of snow ploughing, the outlook is bleak !
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Post by Pendo Pilot » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:17 am

grumpfuttock:44517 wrote:What happened to global warming ?
If you get rid of the media catchphrase "Global Warming" & instead replace it with the actual term that is "Climate change" then it makes a hell of a lot more sense. Really suprised that a civilised country like Denmark is as useless as the UK to deal with weather conditions. Not that it makes any difference to me as starting work at 3am means I am out before the snowploughs & gritters anyway.
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Post by Narrow Minded » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:26 am

starting work at 3am
Have a good one Shane! We're just back home having finished our weekend "shift" - no snow in Newton Abbot, Rochester or south Birmingham but plenty here! :D
(Doubt I'll get to play out in it tomorrow though, SWMBO has other "plans" :cry: )

The only drawback to the snow is that I picked up the buildings that I won on eBay while on my travels, and I won't be able to "plant" 'em until it clears :roll:
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Post by Pendo Pilot » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:47 am

Lol Greg,
Not on at 3am....errr today (as in a few minutes). RD off monday so doing hospital stuff. 3Am tuesday.
Scarlett at 89.8 at the moment, 90 means hospital....Hmmm.
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Post by SillyBilly » Mon Nov 29, 2010 7:46 pm

I wish we'd had this sort of weather when I was at primary school, I could have enjoyed it proper then.

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Post by laalratty » Mon Nov 29, 2010 8:56 pm

SillyBilly:44540 wrote:I wish we'd had this sort of weather when I was at primary school, I could have enjoyed it proper then.
I think that goes for all of us between 13 and 25...
Imagine being in primary school now....
"What the hell is that?"
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Post by StoneRoad » Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:36 pm

Without giving too much away!

I did have weather like this whe I was at primary school - but we just had to keep our coats on....

no namby-pamby days off from snow, or anything else....

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Post by Pendo Pilot » Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:01 am

Ok what is it with this hobby!!

It's 2am & I have just been out in the garden with my IP Jessie & my own brew snowplough as it's snowing like mad here. Works great by the way but only minor depth of snow so far about half an inch over railhead..... But still it's 2am...Hmmm I think I've lost the plot!

Waiting for daylight to hopefully plough with steam.......... :roll: :roll: :twisted:
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Post by Narrow Minded » Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:33 am

:lol: :lol: Once bitten.......................................... :lol: :lol:
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