Recent content by 33EJB

There was a rake or two sitting in Frethun yesterday evening, coupled up to a rake of steel wagons for waiting for customs inspection before transfer to Dollands moor.

That's the crux of it, you can just follow the TVM, the only time fog plays a part is if you have to stop at a marker, but you'll have plenty of warning via TVM combined with an idea of where you are and if it's an expected slowing sequence and you just bring it down to a crawl for the last...

To be honest I wasn't really bothered about the railway connection. I just wanted a dated automatic watch with easily readable minutes, the ball perfectly needs that criteria. I have a citizen Eco drive with the minutes marked at the 5, 10, 15.... Positions rather than the hour and it's not bad...

No I completely agree. The model I'm actually looking at is the ball trainmaster 60 seconds. http://www.ballwatch.com/global/index.php?option=com_collections&task=detail&id=616&lang= I spent ages looking at pilots watches which nearly fit the bill, but then by chance came across the Ball...

You could be carrying them for a shooting trip - ie grouse, pheasant, dear, clay pigeon shooting etc. Providing you declare them to the operator it shouldn't be a problem. I mean you can wander around an airport with one so i don't see a train being any different. Obviously in compliance with...

The specifically marked 'Anti-magnetic', watches have a soft iron casing within the main case apparently. So this acts as a faraday cage, they also have a second iron disc behind the stainless steel rear cover. I would assume they put something behind the face too. Ball make some 'engineer's...

Apparently the springs in them can become magnetised, and the coils stick together, which throws the watch out. Easily cured with a demagnetiser, but i don't want to be doing that every time i key up. I can't find anything that says how quickly watches can be magnetised. Quartz is always going...

One for any fellow drivers on here, probably more freight than passenger. Does any one wear a mechanical watch to work? I'm looking at buying one rather than quartz, but reading on the subject they can be affected by magnetic fields. There are i would think some fairly substantial magnetic...