Recent content by K Macdonald

There's mention of it here: https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/colchester-zoo-miniature-railway.806509/ Colchester Zoo certainly did used to have a miniature railway but believe this disappeared around the time the zoo changed hands (mid 1980's..??) Can't remember much about the...

Just today, I was looking at the Didcot Railway Centre on Google Maps. https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6130484,-1.2451553,1168m/data=!3m1!1e3 For modelling, with a bit of poetic license, the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton line still exists...

Is this the kind of thing you mean? Hornby Converter Wagon It has an old-style Hornby coupling at one end, and the "newer" Triang-Hornby style at the other. e.g...

I'm very sorry if you think pointing out the difference between theoretical computer models and empirical evidence is a cheap shot. One of the acknowledged leaders in the actual measurement of real sea levels (not theoretical computer models) is NOAA. See...

While it's true that sea level is rising, the amount it is actually rising by is measured in millimetres per century. Which makes a nonsense of the alarmist tone of John S2's comment. Far more important, by several orders of magnitude, were 1) the height of the waves (in 10's of metres, not...

It's amazing what "facts" can be used (and misused). That fact is, yes, sea levels are rising, or rather (as you say) the southern half of the country is sinking. And it has been since the last Ice Age, c. 11,000 years ago. But the current rate of rising is measured in millimetres per decade...

Quite right, and there are bound to be plenty of NIMBY's on the proposed route who will inevitably moan loudly and at length in the mainstream media about environmental impact, loss of value of their property, etc. Also objecting to planning permission, causing years of public enquiries and...

It appears the Royal Navy didn't want to be left out. A Royal Navy warship torpedo was accidentally fired into a dockyard wharf, it has emerged. HMS Argyll was on a "training exercise" at Devonport dockyard in Plymouth when the torpedo "unexpectedly jettisoned onto the wharf", said the Royal...

A Ministry of Defence investigation is under way after an artillery round went way off course on Army firing ranges just north of Salisbury Plain. The round landed at Patney, near Devizes, 300 metres from the Paddington-Penzance railway line, leaving a crater six feet in diameter and two feet...

On the A38.

On the A38 and M5 yesterday I saw two HS125 coaches being moved by heavy haulage. I guess that's part of rescuing the trapped rolling stock. I was surprised how few trains were in Laira sidings, looks like a lot has already been moved north by road. Where are they moving them to?

Broken link. This might be better: www.networkrail.co.uk/Dawlish

In the DM article, it says "Eric said he would have to steam ahead with the sale regardless of the uncertainty." Ah, it's going to be a SR Heritage Railway? :wink:

Eh? Sorry, I don't quite follow that. A Dawlish Bypass would speed-up travel between Exeter and Newton Abbot (and Torbay beyond it). Why would that be worse for those living in Torbay? --- old post above --- --- new post below --- That very much depends which group of experts you are paying...

The plan for the Bere Alston to Tavistock section is for a single track in place of the original two tracks, with space for a cycle/foot path alongside.