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roddy

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  1. No. The felt needs securing properly. Track pins will not stop it from moving with extremes of temperature, or even lifting in a wind and ripping the track out with it.
  2. You will not get booted off Mark. What you could do, is use the OO track as a narrow gauge industrial feeder line to the main line. Something like that anyway.
  3. Great to hear from you again. I have been wondering where you had got to. Good luck getting home, we are living in very strange times. Stay safe Mark and don't be a stranger.
  4. Why don't you just buy decking boards like so many have done? That will do a double track. You need more than that on bends and stations and any yards. This is why you have to have a plan to work to. I can't start buying materials for anything until I know what I want at the end. Your best place to sart is to read, read, and read again, until you know what you want.
  5. You must have used internal blocks. External grade blocks will take all weathers without degrading.
  6. They should stay home and support this. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/greatbritishcampout?fbclid=IwAR1ZDqM4hic0qlsW4qguOvxImOkJSOlgO4zNmKwCd6GJrwa0Z1sKDda9bqc If you have neighbours camping in their gardens, or staying in campervans on their drives, this is what it's all about. Imaginary going away, paying £2 per night as a pitch fee, and all having a great time.
  7. I have tried all sorts of cameras over the years and never really got on with any of them. A month or so ago, I bought this Panasonic FZ82 Bridge Camera with a 60xzoom. Suddenly I can get far far away, and very close up too. Now we are not allowed out!
  8. We are living in strange times. It was a Supermoon last night, and I managed to get a photo. Not bad for hand held. Wherever you are in the world, the same moon is looking down on you. Stay safe please.
  9. I live about ten miles from those bridges Tony. The Swing Bridge is being filmed from what is known as the High Level bridge. It has a lower roadway and upper rail deck. Looking past the Swing Bridge, you see first the Tyne Bridge, and in the distance The Millenium bridge which when it opens is like a blinking eye.
  10. Never mind the photos Tony, the Swing Bridge is permanently manned and does swing. Still fully operational despite the lack of big river traffic that used to be the River Tyne.
  11. Have a look at th swing bridge in Newcastle. Seagoing ships used to pass through here. There are lots of photos on Google. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Newcastle+upon+Tyne/@54.9673077,-1.6073544,237m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x487d857e0c6f64cd:0xbe252b072a76191!8m2!3d54.978252!4d-1.61778
  12. roddy

    Coronavirus

    Isn't there now a plan to prosecute these charlatans?
  13. Please excuse me, but what a pillock that man is. He protests just enough to keep his rubbish in the news for the free advertising. It will be a better way of living, once all of the fools and self entitled have been taken by the virus. Us good folk can live in peace then.
  14. roddy

    Coronavirus

    There have been 3 deaths in this area Mick. We don't normally keep big stocks as we have a good parade of smaller independents nearby which meet most of our needs. So last week when it started to get silly, I did a dash to two supermarkets and got toilet roll and stocked up on some staples. I have something like 9 big supermarkets within 5 miles or so, plus Aldi and Lidl and then B&M etc. All are pretty well wiped out, but by popping between then, I managed to get stuff like tinned fruit, Rice pudding, a bit of pasta, and we now have cupboards up to Christmas levels. The behaviour has been sheer lunacy and greed. I went to Asda last Sunday morning for printer ink. I passed about a dozen packs of 24 toilet rolls. Saw that my ink was not in stock, and in those few seconds the toilet roll was all gone. One man had 4 packs of 24 in his trolley. Disgraceful, just as another man with 4 packs of 24 Rice Pudding. Come on, that is just stockpiling. Toilet Rolls on Ebay are being advertised for as much as £6 a roll would you believe if you include the postage. This is Black Marketeering to my mind and should be punished with a jail sentence. All very well laying aside an hour for old folk, but there is nothing on the shelves, and everybody is allowed in to stampede anyway. It's people that frighten me Mick. I hope Nature is thinning the World's population by 20 or 30%. If I go, then I am not leaving much behind to miss am I? We are teetotal, and don't eat out, so who cares about pubs and clubs and these other places. I have a damned good mind to just get into my old camper van and clear off to the West Coast of Scotland for the duration. Surely that counts as self isolation.
  15. Tyne Dock is as the name suggests, on the River Tyne near Newcastle. Doxfords is on the River Wear in Sunderland. I guess the distance to be 15 miles or so. The line at Hylton was built by Lord Lambton to serve the coal staithes on the Wear from his pits in the Durham coalfield. I imagine that the needs of the shipyards were so great that it was not a problem to stop traffic. All the metal plates came by rail. They too could have been oversized. I don't know. That was the major traffic, but by 1926 obviously passengers were also being carried. The line was closed by Beeching and re opened for the Newcastle/Sunderland Metro line. Hylton being the last station on the southern line. I live close to the next station of Pallion and the Doxford yard, or what is left of it. There is a world of modelling to be had on these lines, and the lines into the yards, plus the staithes.
  16. Here is an unusual load that may interest period modellers. Hylton Station 1926 with J 25 0-6-0 LNER 1724 heading an out of gauge load consisting of bed plates which had been cast at a Tyne Dock foundry for Doxfords Marine Engine Works.
  17. For me, it's all too new Mick. No staining on the brickwork, bridge is too black, copings are too black, andthe road and pathways are too clean. You are a brilliant wagon weatherer Mick. That is what is missing from the bridge. Dirt, moss, and rust.
  18. I would love to use my loft space. There is a huge area up there. Cold dark and dirty pretty much as you describe. I could add a Velux window at the rear of the house with no questions asked or permissions needed, Big problem is that the floor joists were only put in to support the ceiling below, and are nothing more than 3"x2". They need to be 4x2 absolute minimum and 6x2 ideally. That is a lot of faffing about before even starting. The layout of my house means that I could take a proper staircase from the cupboard in the main bedroom, into the attic. What a space with easy access that would be. I don't even have your modern trusses to work in between for my space. Floor to floor uninterupted from front wall to back wall. Headroom becomes an issue obviously, but no trusses really opens the space.
  19. Be fair Mick, today's new sheds are hardly well made, so taking a saw to them is not really any sort of problem is it? I Insulated my Summer house with just a single layer of the polystyrene veneer which comes on a roll. Huge difference in Summer and Winter. I still need to put some laminate flooring in there, so that will also have some polystyrene veneer under it.
  20. Hi Mick, I have just fitted a 5 metre roll of these into my campervan. What a light they give, and at £6 for 5 metres, good value. They are 12 volts, but with many listings you can get the 240 volt transformer to fit them into kitchens or bathrooms. I am delighted with them, and again, only the two wires. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-20M-Waterproof-3528-5050-300-LED-Strip-Lights-DIY-Cool-White-TV-Ribbon-Kitchen/183749322075?hash=item2ac850255b:m:mzy-LwbQUfziZUqVqJ62S4w
  21. But you are a model railwayman looking for a degree of realism in your running, not a model arborealist (Is that even a word?) I stand by my woeds that I have never seen an are of woodland where every one is a fine specimen.
  22. Well I cannot see where more care would produce better trees. You have a good mix of healthy looking lush trees, and poor runty sparse ones. That is exactly how nature is. Your "picture" looks damned good to me.
  23. I can't see it lasting to be honest. Why not use decking boards as others have done. If you need a wider area for a station, use the dearer ply. I understand the budget thing, especially by the time you buy the track and everything else. Buy cheap, buy twice is the saying. You really don't need to do it all in the first year either.
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