Recent content by leezer3

I'm sure the 37 at the NNR was much closer to the £35k figure when it was done recently, although I might be mis-remembering.... That was by Heritage Painting.

https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/gunnislake-branch-line-in-devon-and-cornwall-reopens-a-day-early-following-emergency-repairs You've copy+pasted the wrong link.

If you want a blunt assessment, those screaming about secrecy are just as bad as those who've posted the log in question. Neither is interesting or helpful in the slightest. Onto topic (.....) it seems to me that this is another major bogie freight wagon derailment, of which we seem to have...

The inspector is making it up as he goes along.... Complain to the company (Northern?) in question.

No, definitely not. It's a repaint of a Tri-ang Nellie: http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_details.asp?itemid=483 The model is painted in a reasonable approximation of LBSC livery, as applied to a Terrier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LB%26SCR_A1_class Wadhurst I'm presuming is to match the...

Passes have been withdrawn I'm afraid. I believe this is in line with wider HRA guidance.

And therin lies the problem. Unfortunately, the union situation on the modern railway is totally and irretrievably broken, and this is classically symptomatic of it. Whilst unions are inherently a good thing, sometimes there comes a point where they do more harm than good.

I was under the impression that the current Heritage Railways Association guidance was against issuing passes to 'pure' amatuer photographers. The NNR certainly used to issue them on a similar scheme but then withdrew these and restricted to working members, and as I remember the communications...

Knew the chap in question- Was the treasurer of our model railway club at the time.

If you want to start on small-scale hydro plants as opposed to the classic coal burners, there's also one at Morewelham ;) Mary Tavy is 2.6mwh, Morewllham 640kwh Probably more in Cornwall somewhere, but I'd have to think / look things up.....

Yep, within half a mile or so, 39mwh Closed 18th March 1974 (same date as Newton Abbot- 35mwh there though) Exeter closed 1955 basically when the National Grid came into being. No mwh figure I can see, so it would have been pretty smallish.

Definitely. That would be Plymouth 'B' opened 1951 on the banks of the Plym. Closed 1981, demolished 1992.

Whilst not a developer for RAIL Simulator, I've been maintaining OpenBVE for the past 10 years, so I've got a pretty good idea of the internals. Any simulator is at heart a bunch of compromises heaped upon compromises. Physics simulation is generally provided by a bunch of magic numbers, and I...

It's even the same loco ;) No. 7 on both and the general fittings etc. match nicely.

Calstock is almost certainly a replica. In the Wessex Trains era, all the signs were replaced with Tamar Valley Line branded things (IIRC a purplish bottom stripe + Calstock Viaduct in a roundel) and as far as I remember Calstock had this. Before that IIRC it was regional railways blue / white...